NITA STRAUSS, RON "BUMBLEFOOT" THAL, MICHAEL STARR And JASON HOOK Pay Tribute To EDDIE VAN HALEN On Shiprocked Cruise 2022 (Video)

January 30, 2022, 2 years ago

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NITA STRAUSS, RON "BUMBLEFOOT" THAL, MICHAEL STARR And JASON HOOK Pay Tribute To EDDIE VAN HALEN On Shiprocked Cruise 2022 (Video)

This year's ShipRocked cruise set sail from Galveston, Texas on January 22nd, making stops in Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico before returning home on January 27th. Check out the clip below featuring Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss, vocalist, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Steel Panther vocalist Michael Starr, and ex-Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook paying tribute to Eddie Van Halen with the all-star band, The Stowaways.

In a new interview with USA Today, Valerie Bertinelli discusses her new book, Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today (available now). Among the collection of essays, Bertinelli gives insight into her relationship with her ex-husband, late Van Halen guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen.

The new book also served as a vessel for Bertinelli's anguish after the death of Van Halen. Bertinelli began writing the book just weeks after the guitarist died, on October 6, 2020, after a long battle with cancer.

"I wasn't expecting to write a book about grief when I started it, but I was in the thick of it," she says. "It actually ended up being very cathartic to write about it."

Bertinelli writes of the "instantaneous and mutual" attraction the two experienced upon meeting backstage at a Van Halen concert and the enduring love they shared, even after they separated in 2001 after 20 years of marriage. 

"Ed and I grew even closer together," she reveals in Enough Already. "We couldn’t live with each other, but we found it impossible to live completely apart."

Read the complete interview at USA Today.


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