Noel Monk helped stage-manage Woodstock, served as Bill Graham's right-hand man at the legendary Fillmore East, and worked with rock musicians including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, and the Sex Pistols. He is also the author of 12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America, and he lives in Colorado. An award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Joe Layden has written more than thirty books, including The Last Great Fight, which was named one of the best sports books of 2007 by Sports Illustrated and the American Library Association. He is also the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers There and Back Again and The Rock Says. . . . He lives in upstate New York.
"More than an insider's story about VH; Monk also shares
fascinating firsthand information about how the music industry
operated at that time...An absolute must-read for VH fans and fans
of rock music memoirs." -- Library Journal
"Too bad the title The Dirt was already taken. Noel Monk - who went
from being Van Halen's road manager to their business manager
during their Diamond Dave prime - holds nothing back...Monk paints
a convincing picture of a brilliant, substance-addled young band
that wasn't built to last." -- Rolling Stone
"The Van Halen book you've been waiting for...brutally honest and
at times shocking...Van Halen fans will be discussing and debating
it with the same attention to detail as Eddie's finger-tapping work
on 'Eruption.'" -- Houston Press
"There's plenty of sex and drugs here, along with the absurdities
of the hard-rock life." -- New York Times Book Review
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