Crazy From The Heat (book)

Crazy from the Heat is the autobiography of Van Halen lead vocalist and successful solo artist David Lee Roth. The book published in 1998 shares its name with Roth's debut release as a solo artist 1985's Crazy from the Heat EP. The cover of the book shows Roth returning to the scene where the artwork for the EP was taken and striking a different pose, this time with a woman in his arms.

The book tells of Roth's experiences not only as a member of Van Halen and a solo musician but also about his childhood, rock climbing hobby and between recording/touring experiences. The book also features some of Roth's poetry which had never been officially published before. The book was a US bestseller.

David Lee Roth
Former guitarists
  • Steve Vai
  • Jason Becker
  • Steve Hunter
  • Joe Holmes
  • John 5
  • Terry Kilgore
  • Rocket Ritchotte
  • Mike Hartman
  • Bart Walsh
  • Brian Young
  • Toshi Hiketa
Former bassists
  • Billy Sheehan
  • Matt Bissonette
  • Steve Hunter
  • B'urbon Bob
  • Marco Mendoza
  • James LoMenzo
  • Todd Jensen
Former drummers
  • Gregg Bissonette
  • Ron Wikso
  • Ray Luzier
  • Pat Torpey
  • Jimmy DeGrasso
Former keyboardists
  • Brett Tuggle
EPs
  • Crazy from the Heat
Albums
  • Eat 'Em and Smile
  • Skyscraper
  • A Little Ain't Enough
  • Your Filthy Little Mouth
  • DLR Band
  • Diamond Dave
Compilations
  • The Best
Songs
  • "California Girls"
  • "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"
  • "Yankee Rose"
  • "That's Life"
  • "Tobacco Road"
  • "Just Like Paradise"
Related articles
  • Discography
  • Crazy from the Heat
  • The David Lee Roth Show
  • Van Halen
  • Manny Roth
  • Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen (tribute album)


Famous quotes containing the words crazy and/or heat:

    What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    For it is wretchedness that endures, shedding its cancerous light on all it approaches:
    Words spoken in the heat of passion, that might have been retracted in good time,
    All good intentions, all that was arguable.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)