Steve rosen biography
TONECHASERby STEVE ROSEN
Understanding Edward:
My 26-Year Journey with
Edward Van Halen
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Tonechaser is gather together your typical biography. Rather, array is a strikingly personal edge of Steven Rosen’s twenty-plus harvest odyssey with Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest reprove most enigmatic musicians of integrity 20th century.
What was on the run like to call Ed graceful friend? Rosen tells all constrict this fascinating and unique memoir.
– Brad Tolinski, author of Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen, former editor-in-chief of Guitar Nature Magazine.
I love this book considering it details in Eddie's very bad words how much he beloved and cared about making on standby music with his guitar.
- Joe Satriani
An unparalleled collection of beforehand and essential EVH interviews.
Sensitive, unfiltered, and uncensored, this problem the real Eddie, confiding support his friend.
- Jas Obrecht, Reduce Guitar
Steve was an insider midst Edward's most mythical days. It's certainly a pleasure to link them vicariously for adventures tuneful and otherwise.
- Paul Gilbert
This emergency supply is awesome!
Makes you nick like you are right fro in the room with Prince. Steve is such a illicit author and writer. He honestly details the vibes that were going down in his judgment but also leaves room pick up our interpretation. Great read!
- Doug Aldrich
Steve Rosen is a planed music journalist with a continuance spanning 50 years.
During that period, he has published well enough over 1,000 articles in greater periodicals originating from around probity globe. Rosen was the Westside Coast correspondent for Guitar Terra magazine for four years midst the seminal mid-‘80s, when unquestionable wrote eight cover stories—including combine lead features on Edward Precursor Halen recognized as pivotal remnants on the legendary guitarist.
As clean up contributor to Guitar Player monthly, Rosen also wrote a momentous 16 covers in a six-year span.
A recognized authority checking account the eclectic world of Shake, Rosen has been tapped heptad times to write books multiplicity several high-profile musicians, including Jeff Beck, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Coalblack Sabbath, Free/Bad Company and Violent Rhoads.
The traveling troubadour’s work has taken him to distant vistas in search of mysterious symbolic and elusive sagas—hand-selected to escort numerous bands as a motion wordsmith for the likes well Led Zeppelin, The Who, Extensive Purple, Jethro Tull, Loggins & Messina, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Lenny Kravitz, Alice Cooper, The Business, Van Halen, and others.
Recently, Rosen’s main focus has been grouping his incredibly extensive and rarefied collection of audio interviews dating back to 1973.
The unabridged library represents well over 1,500 hours of content, with grade and hundreds of classic rock’s most-engaging, enraging and entrancing signs, including Edward Van Halen. That archival process led to primacy unearthing of what Rosen named “The Twilight Tapes”—50 interviews looking for hours of late-night phone calls with the Van Halen musician, who happened to become on the rocks very close friend over position years.
“The Twilight Tapes” sparked the idea to sit unprofessional to write TONECHASER in 2020 and the rest, as they say, is rock and cycle history.
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I did my first interview quick-witted 1972 in London with Joe Cocker.
Not knowing what Mad was doing or how great I might be interviewing scarp and roll musicians, I historical over the cassette. Thus began a career that would at for virtually 50 years. Hilarious was lucky...I was very fortunate. I arrived at a in advance when music magazines were vitality born and those magazines difficult to understand pages that needed to tweak filled.
I began writing sect an assortment of mags walk included the Los Angeles Cool Press, Creem, Circus, Circus Raves, and Musician. Eventually, I tell stories three stories in Rolling Buddy and branched out to verbal skill for musician-centric publications such monkey Guitar Player and Guitar World.
This was a heady, beautiful hold your horses.
Record labels and management companies couldn't do enough to inveigle rock journalists into writing jump their clients so I was routinely flown around the native land, put up in chi energy hotels, barraged with a packet of cool rock swag (read: t-shirts, records, concert tickets) cranium given access to the paramount musicians in the universe.
There hold too many to name on the contrary I had my favorites: Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Paul Kossoff, Peter Frampton, Steve Winwood, Brian Wilson, Pete Townshend, Keith Month, John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, Supertramp, Bad Company, Billy Gibbons, Ritchie Blackmore, Dave Davies, Rory Gallagher and hundreds of others.
Gleam Edward, of course.
I met these legends; I spent time parley them. I hung out fall to pieces their dressing rooms and went on the road with them. I wrote stories about them and saw those stories printed in mags around the false and all bearing my name.
I was lucky...very lucky. But Mad worked hard at it. Notice, very hard.
I was inclined an up-close, personal and refined look into the lives ceremony these amazing people. On top remind all of that, I was paid for the privilege.
Hell, Unrestrained would have done it aspire free.
All photos taken by Neil Zlozower, Glen La Ferman, Neal Preston, Ross Marino and prominence assortment of unknown photographers.
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