Alex Van Halen’s new memoir, “Brothers,” is finally out now, and it sets the record straight about the reports that Van Halen’s rider would demand M&M’s in their dressing rooms, minus the brown ones.
Alex wrote, “I know. We sound like jerks. Like rock star prima donnas looking to make some poor kid sit around picking through candies till he goes blind. But it wasn’t about a power trip, and it wasn’t about some strange aversion to the color brown.”
He explained, “If we see brown M&M’s, we know: we are not in the hands of professionals because it meant that they didn’t read the rider carefully. If they didn’t bother with this, what else didn’t they bother with, what other corners are being cut?”
“Brothers” was released Tuesday and Alex is currently on a book tour supporting the release.