** spoiler alert ** Well I'll start off by saying it was impressive how Sammy Hagar rose from very poor and humble beginnings and made put himself on the map with his musical talents. He came from a poor family and had an abusive, alcoholic father that took has frustrations out on his mother and she was finally able to leave him. Hagar remains very loyal to his mother throughout her life as well as his siblings.The book shows how well he did after he started making good money and how made even better money investing in projects outside of music starting with his apartment investments in his hometown of Fontana, Calif. to mountain bike shops in the early 80s before it took off, to the Cabo Wabo restaurants and tequila company, his rum company and his line of airport bar and grills that donate a lot of their profits to charity. But after awhile it seems like it gets to the point of bragging about how much better he is with his money compared to his contemporaries and seems to be flaunting his rich life style with his sports cars, mansions in Maui and Cabo and his exotic vacations.It's also admirable the way he helped his first wife through her mental illness although he did lead the your typical rockstar life so he wasn't that best family man until he met his second wife. But I give him credit from learning from his early mistakes in that situation. Seems like he's a much better family man in his second marriage.It was fun reading about the hard rock music scene in the early 70s through his tours with Van Halen to his current gigs. If you're novice about record contracts dealing with managers in the music industry this book is an eye opener. His rise started with Montrose, and then he had solid solo career. It does however sound like if you do some factchecking, he's embellishing his personal stock during his VOA years before he got in Van Halen. He made it sound like was on par with Van Halen on concert scene. He was a solid B-lister maybe fringe A-lister before Eddie Van Halen gave him a call. He was definitely on the map with hits like Heavy Metal, Three Lock Box and I Can't Drive 55 and solid arena-rock act but he wasn't quite the main act in major stadium tours outside the Bay Area yet. He also flat out lied about Standing Hampton, VOA and the Montrose debut album being Platinum before he was in Van Halen. None of these were Platinum until he was a member of Van Halen. Also he said I never said Goodbye was Platinum and it's Gold to this day.Then of course there was the Van Halen era. My biggest problem here was there was just too much one-sided dirty laundry being aired out. Let's face it the Van Halen brothers are rockstars and lead the rockstar lives. While I can see going into some detail like maybe the disastrous 04 problems. But it seemed like he went into too many details about each little episode. To me he also came across a bit condescending and judgmental about the way Eddie and Alex lived and carried themselves even finiancially. When he first got in the band, he seemed to place himself on a bit of a pedestal above Van Halen and seemed to think it would have been over Van Halen if he didn't come along. I think it was kind thought it was funny how he looked down on Jon Bon Jovi because of the type of music his band was putting out when ironically that was the direction Van Halen was going with Hagar. But it was fun reading about the 5150 studio recording adventures and on the road with the biggest rock band in the world.According to Hagar tensions really started raising between him and the VH brothers after their live album was released in 93. Then he said Eddie Van Halen was power hungry and controlling the whole band. The first spit happened when the VH brothers were doing a greatest hits album, Hagar didn't want to take the time to record some new songs for the album. Hagar refused to make the time and then of course the VH brothers call on their old friend David Lee Roth to do the songs. After that the fired Roth and brought in Gary Cherone to lead VH.After that Hagar took some time off and worked on some solo projects and formed a few bands and even did a tour with David Lee Roth in which they constantly butted heads. This seems to be a one-sided account with Roth being the cause of all of the tension on the tour.Then in 04 it was back to VH. Part of the stipulation of Hagar coming back is the group had to take back bass player Michael Anthony. Also Hagar couldn't wear any clothing promoting his tequila company. So Hagar got a tattoo of his tequila company on his arm. The tour was a complete mess mainly because of Eddie Van Halen was a drunk mess for all of the tour. Hagar and Eddie Van Halen were bumping heads constantly on the tour and it even got to the point where they were flying in separate planes. The concert ended up being a disaster and one of the worst tours in the band's history. As much as Hagar tries to be in the complete right about the situation him trying to constantly promote his brand during the tour and Eddie Van Halen was rightfully mad about that.After they parted for last time there was one more chance for a brief reunion when Van Halen was going to be inducted into the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Hame. Hagar still had the same manager as VH. And got wind that the HOF only wanted the original lineup of VH which of course infuriated Hagar, so he insisted on being there and then of course the brothers didn't want anything to do with Hagar so it ended up being just Hagar and Micheal Anthony at the induction ceremony.From there Hagar did a few more solo projects and formed his own super group Chickenfoot. And of course there seemed to be some bitterness got back together in 08 without and Michael Anthony and of course with David Lee Roth in 07. But "clearly" he has moved on and is happy as the book ends.Decent overall story side from the embellishments, and him never being the cause of tension in parting ways with Montrose and Van Halen and of course even some the tails were true he probably should have left some of the dirty laundry in the locker room here. Seems like he was always trying to make himself the better person even if it meant belittling the other guy in a passive aggressive manner. I think if you're a Van Halen fan even not a fan of the Hagar era it's a page turner and worth the read just has to be taken with a grain of salt in certain parts. Think overall Hagar is decent performer but needs to move on from the Van Halen years and just enjoy his current music situation and lifestyle. 2.5/5