Sammy Hagar mentioned Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang successfully held the band’s legacy on his personal, and accepted that “dysfunction” meant a previously-discussed tribute occasion for the late guitarist may by no means occur.
Stories circulated after former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted mentioned he’d been requested to participate, together with Joe Satriani, however additional feedback from these probably concerned prompt the plan was going nowhere. Wolfgang not too long ago mentioned “everybody” within the Van Halen group was “very dysfunctional,” suggesting a tribute would by no means happen.
In a brand new interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation present, Hagar mentioned he’d been requested by the band’s supervisor, Irving Azoff, if he’d like to participate in an occasion that includes bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Alex Van Halen together with an unnamed movie star guitarist.
“I mentioned, ‘I’ll do something with Al and Mike and play music with individuals, however it’s not gonna be Van Halen,” the singer reported. “There isn’t any Van Halen… Wolfie is Van Halen, okay? And he does not wanna be the Van Halen copy band. I do not blame him; he is doing a terrific job on his personal stuff, and it’s extremely cool when he jams just a little bit right here and there. He’s Van Halen, and if he wished to play guitar with Al and Mikey and myself, I might love to try this.”
Turning to the issues surrounding a possible reunion, Hagar mentioned: “Alex Van Halen and I don’t speak. I reached out to Alex… and he wouldn’t return my name or my electronic mail. And so I mentioned, ‘You already know what? Fuck it. It’s not on the highest of my record, my agenda. I feel Eddie deserves, positively, a tribute… And the entire world would present up and the entire world would do it.”
He additionally confirmed he wasn’t on talking phrases with unique singer David Lee Roth. “He’d wanna do [the tribute show] with out me,” Hagar asserted. “I’m certain that’s a part of the dysfunction that Wolfie’s speaking about. … What do you wanna wager that [Roth] goes, ‘I’ll solely do it if Hagar’s not there.’ And if that had been the case, that’s typical Roth, and that’s a part of the dysfunction. It’s not like he controls it – it’s simply he doesn’t play effectively with others.”
“If Alex got here to me and wished to do it, I’m in,” Hagar repeated. “However Alex has acquired a stick up his ass about one thing with me nonetheless, and he’s gonna take it to his grave, I assume. I do not suppose I made peace with Al. And I don’t suppose I’m going to except he reaches again out to me. I’ve performed it about 5 occasions now.”
Hagar insisted he didn’t know what he did to anger the drummer. “Alex and I truly acquired alongside higher than Ed and I at occasions. By way of the laborious occasions, Alex and I nonetheless acquired alongside. However I don’t know what occurred. Anyone poisoned him. Anyone informed him one thing. Perhaps he nonetheless doesn’t like my e book, which was essentially the most trustworthy factor I’ve ever performed in my life. Some individuals simply don’t suppose that that ought to have been performed.”
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