Everybody Wants Some, an unauthorized Van Halen bio due out in August, reveals, among other things, precisely how David Lee Roth got some from female groupies. According to an excerpt cited by the New York Post, pre-show Roth would hand out backstage passes marked with individual security guards' initials. Then, during a show, Roth from the stage would single out hotties in the crowd. Depending on whose initialed pass said lass would show up wearing backstage, Roth would pay that guard $100 the next morning at breakfast. Writes author Ian Christie, "As far as intimacy went, it was a little like the invention of the drive-through window at McDonald's." Ah, but were billions served? (Actually, don't answer that.)
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In a statement to fans posted on Van Halen's website, guitarist Eddie Van Halen says that he has decided to enter rehab and seek treatment, for unspecified reasons. "At the moment, I do not feel that I can give you my best," he shares. "That's why I have decided to... work on myself, so that I can deliver the 110 percent that I feel I owe you." It is not known, says the AP, whether Eddie will be on hand Monday for the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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This summer, David Lee Roth is going on tour with Van Halen for the first time since 1984, Billboard reports. "I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen," guitarist Eddie Van Halen said in a statement. Uh-huh. And isn't there anything at all that you'd like to say to Valerie Bertinelli?
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