Latest / Classic Metal Show / Is Alex Van Halen's $475 Signed Book Really Worth It?
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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody.
- 0:01SPEAKER_00: I am Ron Bumblefootfall, and you are watching CMS-TV.
- 0:21SPEAKER_02: Well, since we're spending money uselessly, let's do one more and we'll get out of here.
- 0:27SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 0:28SPEAKER_02: Alex Van Halen has a new book coming.
- 0:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's going to be in competition with the CMS book.
- 0:35SPEAKER_02: I think he might win.
- 0:38SPEAKER_02: Just a hunch, but I think he might beat us.
- 0:40SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 0:41SPEAKER_03: I think you're selling
- 0:43SPEAKER_02: us short.
- 0:44SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you what,
- 0:45SPEAKER_02: for the cost of his book, we should sell ours 10 to 1 of his fucking shit book.
- 0:50SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 0:52SPEAKER_02: So here it is.
- 0:53SPEAKER_02: Van Halen, they're including...
- 0:55SPEAKER_02: An unreleased demo of some shitty song that wasn't good enough to make any of
- 1:01SPEAKER_02: the records because it was recorded before the records.
- 1:04SPEAKER_03: Wasn't that a Motley song, Glitter?
- 1:06SPEAKER_03: Yeah, a really bad one.
- 1:09SPEAKER_03: Glitter!
- 1:11SPEAKER_03: A 1974 demo song called Glitter?
- 1:13SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 1:15SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 1:17SPEAKER_02: That's the draw to this book.
- 1:19SPEAKER_03: What, you got a CD with a single song on it?
- 1:23SPEAKER_03: Yes.
- 1:24SPEAKER_02: With the 1984
- 1:26SPEAKER_03: logo on it too.
- 1:29SPEAKER_02: It makes no sense.
- 1:31SPEAKER_03: So how long will it take before that song is out there on the internet somewhere?
- 1:37SPEAKER_02: I would imagine probably within an hour of the book going on sale.
- 1:41SPEAKER_03: Of course.
- 1:43SPEAKER_02: So anyways, getting ready to release this book.
- 1:48SPEAKER_02: I just want to, I'll go right to it.
- 1:51SPEAKER_02: Here's the sales page for the book.
- 1:55SPEAKER_02: Here's Alex signing them.
- 1:57SPEAKER_02: $1,500 signed.
- 2:00SPEAKER_02: Publication price $385,
- 2:02SPEAKER_02: whatever this is,
- 2:04SPEAKER_02: which the translation is about $475
- 2:10SPEAKER_02: for a book with one fucking song attached
- 2:14SPEAKER_03: to it.
- 2:15SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 2:16SPEAKER_03: So you could get a Motley signed album cover for $1,500.
- 2:22SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
- 2:24SPEAKER_03: Or you can get an Alex Van Halen signed book for how much?
- 2:29SPEAKER_03: $4.75.
- 2:30SPEAKER_03: You get three of them.
- 2:31SPEAKER_03: Same money.
- 2:33SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 2:34SPEAKER_02: Get three of those books.
- 2:35SPEAKER_02: Give two away for Christmas presents.
- 2:37SPEAKER_03: All right, so those signatures are worth $500 a pop.
- 2:42SPEAKER_03: Apparently.
- 2:42SPEAKER_03: Right, because for the Motley,
- 2:44SPEAKER_03: it's $1,500 for the three remaining members of Motley, or $500 for an Alex.
- 2:53SPEAKER_03: So now we know the value of a Rockstar autograph, which is $500.
- 2:58SPEAKER_02: $500.
- 2:59SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 3:00SPEAKER_02: Here's the part I wanted you to see the most, though.
- 3:03SPEAKER_02: This little line right here.
- 3:06SPEAKER_02: You can make payments to buy this book.
- 3:10SPEAKER_02: Well, Motley had that too.
- 3:11SPEAKER_03: I saw that over there.
- 3:14SPEAKER_03: They had a, it's like 45 bucks a month or some shit.
- 3:18SPEAKER_02: This is 113.85 a month.
- 3:23SPEAKER_02: So you can keep your cable on or your, your internet bill, or you can buy Alex Van Halen's book.
- 3:34SPEAKER_03: Are you fucking kidding me with this?
- 3:38SPEAKER_02: But we're not supposed to call them out for ripping off their fans.
- 3:42SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 3:44SPEAKER_02: And obviously, it's because Alex Van Halen needs the money.
- 3:48SPEAKER_02: He didn't make any money in Van Halen.
- 3:52SPEAKER_02: Right?
- 3:52SPEAKER_02: He was almost destitute while he was in Van Halen.
- 3:56SPEAKER_02: Probably working for Burritos.
- 3:58SPEAKER_03: I think he was homeless.
- 4:00SPEAKER_02: You think he was?
- 4:01SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 4:02SPEAKER_03: I think he was surviving on those hot dogs.
- 4:05SPEAKER_03: Yeah, those pinkies hot dogs or whatever.
- 4:08SPEAKER_03: Pinkies hot dogs that David Lee Roth was bragging about.
- 4:14SPEAKER_02: I mean, are you kidding me?
- 4:17SPEAKER_02: Does this guy really need?
- 4:19SPEAKER_02: And here he is signing them.
- 4:22SPEAKER_02: So he's aware what they're selling for.
- 4:26SPEAKER_02: This is not a distributor.
- 4:27SPEAKER_02: This is him.
- 4:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's got stacks of them right there.
- 4:35Come on.
- 4:37SPEAKER_02: Where's the line?
- 4:38SPEAKER_02: Is there no line for any of these fucking guys?
- 4:41SPEAKER_02: What is Alex Van Halen?
- 4:43SPEAKER_02: I got to look this up.
- 4:46SPEAKER_02: What is Alex Van Halen's net worth?
- 4:51SPEAKER_03: Don't tell me.
- 4:52SPEAKER_03: I'm going to guess it's $500 million.
- 4:56SPEAKER_02: This number, if this number's right, this is sad.
- 5:00SPEAKER_02: This can't be right.
- 5:02SPEAKER_02: That's in a couple places, though.
- 5:05SPEAKER_02: Well, you're way, way off.
- 5:09SPEAKER_02: How can this be right?
- 5:12SPEAKER_02: 200 million?
- 5:13SPEAKER_02: Not even close.
- 5:15SPEAKER_02: 150?
- 5:15SPEAKER_02: Not even close.
- 5:16SPEAKER_02: 100 million?
- 5:17SPEAKER_02: Less.
- 5:17SPEAKER_02: 50 million?
- 5:18SPEAKER_02: 95.
- 5:18SPEAKER_02: 95 million?
- 5:25SPEAKER_03: But still at $95 million.
- 5:27SPEAKER_02: That's a lot of money, but I mean, he was the drummer in Van Halen for the whole run.
- 5:34SPEAKER_02: Van Halen made billions of dollars.
- 5:37SPEAKER_02: Billions.
- 5:39SPEAKER_03: Can you look up what Eddie's worth was or is or his estate was worth or whatever it is?
- 5:49SPEAKER_02: $100 million.
- 5:50SPEAKER_02: How can that be?
- 5:51SPEAKER_03: That can't be.
- 5:52SPEAKER_03: How about David Lee Roth?
- 5:54SPEAKER_03: Can you look him up?
- 5:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 5:57SPEAKER_03: See what he's worth.
- 6:05SPEAKER_03: 60.
- 6:07SPEAKER_03: So he's significantly less than Alex and Eddie.
- 6:14SPEAKER_03: Did these guys just sign horrendous deals?
- 6:16SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 6:18SPEAKER_03: But still, that's a lot of money.
- 6:19SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's a lot of money,
- 6:21SPEAKER_03: but dude, Van Halen was the biggest band in the rock world for fucking 30 years.
- 6:26SPEAKER_03: I agree.
- 6:27SPEAKER_03: I mean, like a Gene Simmons or a Paul Stanley, they're both worth like 500 million.
- 6:35SPEAKER_02: I'm looking up some, I'm going to try apples to apples a little bit.
- 6:38SPEAKER_02: I'm going to go with Don Henley.
- 6:40SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 6:40SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 6:43SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's worth $250 million.
- 6:47SPEAKER_02: Were the Eagles that much bigger than Van Halen?
- 6:51SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 6:53SPEAKER_03: I mean, that greatest hits, that Eagles' greatest hits, that was massive.
- 6:58SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was massive.
- 7:00SPEAKER_02: Shit, let me look up Darius Rucker.
- 7:06SPEAKER_02: Now I'm just going with anybody that has a diamond record.
- 7:09SPEAKER_02: He's only worth $12 million.
- 7:14SPEAKER_02: Those numbers do not feel right to me.
- 7:16SPEAKER_02: Do they to you?
- 7:17SPEAKER_03: Well, again,
- 7:18SPEAKER_03: I don't know where they compile these numbers from or where they get them from,
- 7:22SPEAKER_03: how the internet gets these numbers.
- 7:27SPEAKER_02: It's just crazy.
- 7:29SPEAKER_02: I would have thought like you, half a billion dollars.
- 7:31SPEAKER_03: I would have thought, you know, Alex Van Halen was worth at least $500 million.
- 7:37SPEAKER_02: Steven Tyler.
- 7:40SPEAKER_02: Steven Tyler's net worth.
- 7:42SPEAKER_02: He's worth $150.
- 7:43SPEAKER_02: That's it?
- 7:44SPEAKER_03: That's it.
- 7:45SPEAKER_02: Maybe
- 7:50SPEAKER_03: none of these guys were getting paid back in the day, apparently.
- 7:54SPEAKER_03: Over a 60-year career in Aerosmith, $150 million?
- 8:00SPEAKER_03: Well, they did do a lot of blow.
- 8:02SPEAKER_03: I understand that.
- 8:03SPEAKER_03: I get that.
- 8:04SPEAKER_03: But holy shit.
- 8:07SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
- 8:09SPEAKER_02: I guess these guys just didn't make a whole lot of money.
- 8:11SPEAKER_03: We'll put in Gene Simmons.
- 8:14SPEAKER_02: I know he made money.
- 8:17SPEAKER_02: He's got to be worth like 700 million or something.
- 8:22SPEAKER_02: Gene Simmons.
- 8:24SPEAKER_02: Nope, 400.
- 8:29SPEAKER_02: That even feels low, doesn't it?
- 8:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it does.
- 8:32SPEAKER_03: Because I'm thinking he was closer to, you know, 700 to 800 million.
- 8:38SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I would have thought so, but he doesn't have any divorces or anything, I don't think.
- 8:43SPEAKER_03: No, because he's never married until he married Shannon Tweed.
- 8:47SPEAKER_02: No, and he's going to keep her.
- 8:49SPEAKER_02: He'll keep her in a kiss casket until she actually does die.
- 8:54SPEAKER_02: He'll never let her go.
- 8:55SPEAKER_02: Do you think there'd be a harder rock star than Gene Simmons to get fucking alimony out of?
- 9:04SPEAKER_03: Can you imagine
- 9:04SPEAKER_02: that fight?
- 9:06SPEAKER_03: Well, he is Jewish, so I'm sure he would fight to the death.
- 9:09SPEAKER_02: All right, now.
- 9:11SPEAKER_03: But it's true.
- 9:13SPEAKER_03: That's not a secret.
- 9:15SPEAKER_03: And that's not a slam.
- 9:16SPEAKER_03: That's just a fact.
- 9:17SPEAKER_02: That's a slam.
- 9:18SPEAKER_03: Are you kidding?
- 9:20SPEAKER_02: That's fact.
- 9:22SPEAKER_03: How is that not a slam?
- 9:24SPEAKER_03: Or how is that a slam?
- 9:25SPEAKER_03: Because you're putting him in a box and saying all Jewish guys are cheap.
- 9:29SPEAKER_03: I'm saying that they have a sense about money about them.
- 9:34SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 9:36SPEAKER_03: That's what they're known for.
- 9:39SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying that that's not stereotypically true.
- 9:43SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying each guy's different.
- 9:45SPEAKER_02: Gene, I guess, does fit that bill.
- 9:47SPEAKER_02: Lord knows all.
- 9:49SPEAKER_02: We've heard the stories about him charging $10 for towels.
- 9:53SPEAKER_02: When they were on the fucking, you know,
- 9:56SPEAKER_03: the all-night tour.
- 9:57SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean,
- 9:59SPEAKER_03: even Don tells the story how he got charged $20 for two extra meal tickets
- 10:06SPEAKER_03: when they were on the tour with him.
- 10:08SPEAKER_03: And Chris didn't even pay for the meals.
- 10:11SPEAKER_03: It was just part of the rider.
- 10:12SPEAKER_03: It was just part of the deal.
- 10:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 10:14SPEAKER_03: So he deducted $20 out of their paycheck.
- 10:19SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
- 10:20SPEAKER_03: You know, they were getting, I think their opening slot was like $7,000 or some shit like that.
- 10:26SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 10:27SPEAKER_03: And when he went to get his payout,
- 10:29SPEAKER_03: because Jeff Pilsen and George Lynch brought their significant others or something,
- 10:35SPEAKER_03: and they requested a meal ticket for each one of them, which was $10 a piece.
- 10:41SPEAKER_03: He went to go collect his payout at the end of the night,
- 10:45SPEAKER_03: his settlement at the end of the night.
- 10:48SPEAKER_03: And instead of $7,000, it was $6,980.
- 10:49SPEAKER_03: He took out $20?
- 10:49SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
- 10:50SPEAKER_03: So dumb.
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- 11:35SPEAKER_01: on splatter vinyl.
- 11:37SPEAKER_03: And same way with, you know, Ted Pauly from Danger Danger.
- 11:43SPEAKER_03: He threw a towel out into the audience, and Gene Simmons charged him for that.
- 11:49SPEAKER_02: Charged like $7 or something.
- 11:51SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was like $10 or something.
- 11:54SPEAKER_02: That's just cringey.
- 11:56SPEAKER_03: I noticed he threw a towel out into the audience.
- 11:59SPEAKER_03: That's going to cost you $10.
- 12:02SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's cringeworthy there.
- 12:05SPEAKER_02: That's way too cheap.
- 12:07SPEAKER_02: That's just cheap.
- 12:10SPEAKER_02: That's not good.
- 12:11SPEAKER_02: Budgeting, that's just cheap.
- 12:13SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's just, well, again, that's just wielding power.
- 12:17SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
- 12:18SPEAKER_03: It's just like, well, I have the authority to keep you under my thumb.
- 12:24SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 12:26SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 12:27SPEAKER_02: And the sad part is if Ted didn't pay it, he'd get kicked off the fucking tour.
- 12:31SPEAKER_02: Yeah, pretty much.
- 12:32SPEAKER_02: That sucks.
- 12:34SPEAKER_02: All right, let's get the fuck out of here.
- 12:36SPEAKER_02: I think I'm done.
- 12:37SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 12:38SPEAKER_03: All right, well, it's been a fun and fast show.
- 12:41SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 12:43SPEAKER_03: I apologize.
- 12:44SPEAKER_03: I could not get to everybody's request.
- 12:46SPEAKER_03: There's a couple of requests I did not get to.
- 12:50SPEAKER_03: So do not feel as if I was selecting you and you were left out because that is not the case.
- 12:57SPEAKER_03: That's right.
- 12:59SPEAKER_03: But we still appreciate your patronage.
- 13:01SPEAKER_03: Yes, we do.
- 13:02SPEAKER_03: So I apologize to Winter Steel.
- 13:05SPEAKER_03: I didn't get to his request.
- 13:07SPEAKER_03: Black Angels, and I apologize to, who else did I not get to here?
- 13:16SPEAKER_03: One or two more,
- 13:17SPEAKER_03: but regardless of that,
- 13:18SPEAKER_03: I'm going to leave you with a band called Electric Cowboy,
- 13:26SPEAKER_03: which apparently Shelly Rocks is a big fan of.
- 13:30SPEAKER_03: I like them, too.
- 13:31SPEAKER_02: She turned me on to them.
- 13:32SPEAKER_02: They're good.
- 13:32SPEAKER_03: Well, she says this is her new guilty pleasure.
- 13:35SPEAKER_03: I like them.
- 13:37SPEAKER_03: And again, I don't know anything about them.
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: I've got to learn about them.
- 13:41SPEAKER_02: We played them a couple weeks
- 13:42SPEAKER_03: ago.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: We sampled them, I believe.
- 13:45SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we played that song that starts off as the Backstreet Boys before going crazy.
- 13:50SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's the one that went all angry.
- 13:53SPEAKER_03: All death metal.
- 13:54SPEAKER_02: It went from Backstreet Boys to death metal.
- 13:57SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right, right, right.
- 13:59SPEAKER_03: So Shelly Rock says,
- 14:01SPEAKER_03: please, please, can I hear Electric Callboy Mind Reader from their album Techno?
- 14:10SPEAKER_03: I'd be forever grateful to you.
- 14:12SPEAKER_03: Well, how grateful will you be to be, Shelly, for playing this?
- 14:16SPEAKER_02: All right, don't be trading my $5 for your blowjob.
- 14:21SPEAKER_03: Stop it.
- 14:21SPEAKER_03: What's in it for me, Shelly?
- 14:24SPEAKER_03: What is in it for me?
- 14:28SPEAKER_03: This band are a current guilty pleasure of mine.
- 14:31SPEAKER_03: So we're going to leave you with some of this electric call boy and satisfy
- 14:40SPEAKER_03: a scratch and itch apparently that Shelly has.
- 14:43SPEAKER_02: There you go.
- 14:44SPEAKER_02: And maybe next week you'll be scratching an itch, right?
- 14:47SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'll have it.
- 14:48SPEAKER_03: Itch to get out again?
- 14:49SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 14:49SPEAKER_02: Because you'll be out at the,
- 14:52SPEAKER_03: where are you going to be?
- 14:54SPEAKER_03: I will be in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday, and I will be in Indianapolis on Sunday.
- 15:01SPEAKER_02: Right on.
- 15:03SPEAKER_02: I will be here, believe it or not.
- 15:06SPEAKER_02: Really?
- 15:06SPEAKER_02: I will be doing a live show.
- 15:08SPEAKER_02: Holy shit.
- 15:09SPEAKER_02: On next Saturday.
- 15:11SPEAKER_02: No way.
- 15:12SPEAKER_02: I am.
- 15:13SPEAKER_02: It's going to be myself and my guy, Matt Hartnett, that I did Aftershocks with.
- 15:18SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 15:19SPEAKER_02: We're going to do that.
- 15:20SPEAKER_02: Jim Florentine's going to stop by.
- 15:22SPEAKER_02: Cause he's got his new stuff to promote that comes out the Friday,
- 15:27SPEAKER_02: like literally the day before.
- 15:29SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 15:29SPEAKER_02: So Jim is going to stop by as well.
- 15:31SPEAKER_02: And we are going to talk about the 10 or 15 concerts he's been to all, all summer long.
- 15:37SPEAKER_02: So we'll be, we'll be shooting the shit with Mr. Florentine.
- 15:42SPEAKER_03: So
- 15:43SPEAKER_02: he actually texted me today.
- 15:44SPEAKER_02: He's like, I don't just want to talk about my special.
- 15:46SPEAKER_02: I want to, I want to talk about all these concerts.
- 15:48SPEAKER_02: I was like, dude, You can come on and talk about whatever the fuck you want.
- 15:53SPEAKER_02: I don't care.
- 15:54SPEAKER_03: It's all good.
- 15:56SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 15:56SPEAKER_03: Well, again,
- 15:57SPEAKER_03: if you're in the Dayton, Ohio,
- 16:00SPEAKER_03: Huber Heights area on Saturday and Indianapolis on Sunday,
- 16:06SPEAKER_03: I will be out there with the Doc and Boys, as we said earlier.
- 16:10SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 16:11SPEAKER_03: And, you know, I'm sorry I'm going to miss the show with Jim Florentine.
- 16:15SPEAKER_03: Well, you have locals.
- 16:16SPEAKER_03: You can catch up.
- 16:18SPEAKER_03: I know, but I'd like to be a part of it, though.
- 16:22SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, Jim will come on again and again and again.
- 16:26SPEAKER_02: He loves us.
- 16:26SPEAKER_02: I'm sure he will.
- 16:27SPEAKER_03: Well, he needs to help us get Kumia on.
- 16:32SPEAKER_03: Kumia, Oakerson.
- 16:34SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 16:35SPEAKER_02: He's in that world.
- 16:36SPEAKER_02: We got to get that going.
- 16:37SPEAKER_02: I know.
- 16:38SPEAKER_03: It's just like, why did Kumia bail on us?
- 16:40SPEAKER_03: That's what I don't understand.
- 16:43SPEAKER_03: It's too good for us, I guess.
- 16:44SPEAKER_03: I guess.
- 16:45SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 16:46SPEAKER_03: Well, we're going to get out of here.
- 16:48SPEAKER_03: Chris is actually going to do a show in my absence.
- 16:51SPEAKER_03: I am.
- 16:51SPEAKER_03: That's a rarity.
- 16:53SPEAKER_03: That is rare.
- 16:54SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 16:55SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm going to leave you with Electric Callboy with Mind Reader for Shelly.
- 17:00SPEAKER_03: So until next Saturday night, this is Neely along with my very good friend.
- 17:06SPEAKER_02: Chris Agin.
- 17:07SPEAKER_03: And we're gone.
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