Van Halen: Exuberant California, Zen Rock’n’roll follows one band’s pursuit of the art of artlessness, and explores how they came to characterise ‘Zen California’ ...

'Making unlikely connections between Van Halen and movements as seemingly remote as the Beats and Bebop, Scanlan convincingly makes the case that the relationship between Roth and Eddie Van Halen reveals something of the essence of California . . . it is a tale concerned with the "art of artlessness", and the importance that living in the now had always assumed in the culture of California.' — Dagens Næringsliv's D2 Magazine

Reaktion (UK)
University of Chicago Press (US)