Good friend/hotrodder/fertilizer junkie, Aaron Grote posted this up on a certain social media website that shall remain nameless (rhymes with shmace-shmook): a pic of him with legendary Van Halen Jack Daniel’s-bass player, Michael Anthony.
A little backstory: You’ve seen Aaron’s stuff here, here and here and his Hemi-powered bubbletop, dubbed “Atomic Punk” is truly indicative of his talent and personality.
If you’re anything like a growing majority of us, you grew up being slain by Van Halen’s self-titled very first studio album in early ‘78. DLR and the boys had us at “…my love is rotten to the core.” Changed our lives forever, dig? So when Aaron set about putting his bubbletop together, “Atomic Punk” was a fitting soundtrack and, ultimately, the car’s moniker.
Then, at this year’s GNRS –– holy of holies –– Aaron runs into none other than MICHAEL FREAKIN’ ANTHONY. Yep. Magical moment, really. Gives the ax-man an “Atomic Punk” tee-shirt, asks him for a pic, ends up with this shot. Grote’s caption for the pic: “I gave Michael Anthony an Atomic Punk Shirt…..he could care less.” You never want to meet your heroes, man. Trust us on that one. But that’s OK –– the Playboy Mansion girls sure dug the car!
