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Van Halen Rising: How A Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal sat on my Kindle for years. Finally, I decided it was time. Good book!
I had started listening through the early VH albums again, and thought if I was going in, I was going all in. This is something I just go with now, these mild obsessions. I go all the way in on something
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