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The music still bounces off the laboratory walls; it's just that now it's played closer to a doctor's office level, per Mindy's request. Growing up happens to the best of us. Sammy Hagar turns 60 this October. But don't think for a second that Mindy and Jerry aren't enjoying their second act. For starters, they both had love come walking in.14 Jerry got married for a third time, moved back home to St. Louis, and has a young daughter, Katie. It's only a temporary domestication, he says, because if the rumors are true, Van Halen will be going out on tour this fall after Eddie gets out of rehab.

As for Mindy, well…"I swore off men in the music industry," she says, "but at least he is a drummer and only works a couple hours a day so it's a lot more user friendly." Her boyfriend of many years was based in Vegas, hitting the skins as a member of the Blue Man Group band, but he recently joined the touring edition and is headed out on the road. What's a corporate president gonna do?

It's fortunate for the Harveys' sake that Alex Van Halen doesn't charge royalties--though it goes without saying that he gets first crack at all new models. "Ultimate Ears is a dream come true," says Mindy. "I love watching the little rock-and-roll company Jerry and I started take off."

And in the end, on dreams we will depend. 'Cause that's what love is made of.15

Patrick J. Sauer is a regular contributor to Inc. He saw Van Halen at the Metra in Billings, Montana, in 1986.

1 If not, we suggest putting on "Unchained," track 5 on Fair Warning.

2 Roth famously quit the band in 1985 after years of in-fighting and was replaced by Sammy Hagar, who in turn split from Van Halen, twice. The 33-year soap opera didn't keep the band from becoming a 2007 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but it did keep every founding member from attending the ceremony except for bassist Michael Anthony…who was replaced in the band last year by Eddie's son Wolfgang.

3 Worshipped by synthesizer disciples everywhere, "Jump" is the only Van Halen song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

4 Journey still uses Ultimate Ears. Steve Perry, no longer a member of the band, does not.

5 There is no other kind of bass solo.

6 The first track off Van Halen's diamond-certified (10 million-plus in sales) self-titled debut album, Runnin' With the Devil, introduced the band as a bunch of hell-raisers with an affinity for the sounds of freight trains and foghorns.

7 See Behind the Music: Motley Crue.

8 The troubled former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots now fronts supergroup Velvet Revolver, the band that was chosen to cover Van Halen cuts at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. David Lee Roth was reportedly upset that he wouldn't be allowed to sing his own songs; he skipped the ceremony altogether.

9 "Right Now," track 9 off For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, was famous for two things: a video that featured cryptic messages such as "Right now, God is killing moms and dogs because he has to," and for being used in the ads for Crystal Pepsi, which, right now, is not available at your local grocery store.

10 "Eruption," the virtuoso Eddie Van Halen solo on the debut album, popularized the two-handed "finger-tapping" technique, to the delight of guitar gods and geeks everywhere.

11 Track 6 off of OU812.

12 Alex and Eddie Van Halen came out of seclusion in June 2006 to join Chesney on stage for "Jump" and "You Really Got Me."

13 Your 13-year-old daughter loves them.

14 The power ballad "Love Walks In" is track 7 on 5150, the first Sammy Hagar-led Van Halen album. It is named for the California police code for a crazy person.

15 Amen, Van Halen. Amen.

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