I hate the word maturing, singer David Lee Roth once said. I dont like the word evolving or any of that bullshit. The point is to keep it as simplistic, as unassuming, and as stupid as possible. In keeping with Roths sentiment, Van Halen: Exuberant California, Zen Rocknroll follows the bands pursuit of the art of artlessness, and describes how they characterize what historian Kevin Starr terms Zen California a state of mind and way of being that above all celebrates the now. In rocknroll terms it stands for the unregulated expenditure of energy, for a youthful exuberance that seems destined to extinguish itself.
