Sammy Hagar claims Alex Van Halen is “offended” as a result of “I am out doing it” and “he cannot”

Sammy Hagar has questioned if jealousy is the explanation why Alex Van Halen hasn’t spoken to him in 21 years.

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In 2022, Hagar stated the drummer had  completely cut him off, including that “Alex has acquired a stick up his ass about one thing with me nonetheless.” Notably, Van Halen additionally left particulars of Hagar’s years in Van Halen out of latest memoir, Brothers, whose narrative ends earlier than the departure of vocalist David Lee Roth.

Now, Hagar has spoken to Rolling Stone about their ongoing feud. “I dreamt about Alex the opposite night time, man. It was loopy. And it was so friggin’ actual,” he stated. “I used to be saying, ‘What are you pissed off at me about, man? What the fuck? Now simply inform me what your drawback is. What did I do? Simply inform me.’”

The interviewer questioned if it associated to Hagar detailing “the worst interval of Eddie’s life” in his personal 2011 memoir, Pink: My Uncensored Life in Rock, however Hagar dismissed this.

“I don’t assume that’s it. And I’ve had this dialog with just a few individuals, together with [former Van Halen manager] Irving Azoff. I’ve requested him, ‘What’s the issue?’ And a few individuals have stated to me, ‘Oh, Cabo Wabo. At one time, Van Halen, if you constructed it, you guys had been all companions in that. After which they didn’t need it anymore when it was dropping cash, they usually gave it to you, and also you turned it round and made lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on it. And so they’re offended. Alex is offended about that.’”

He added, “To that I stated, ‘How the fuck may they be offended about that? They gave me the rattling factor, they walked out on me, left me with it. And so they made me indemnify them in case I acquired sued and misplaced every little thing. They made me log off large time.’ And I’m going, ‘I hope it’s not that.’”

Later, Hagar questioned if it was associated to the truth that Van Halen has been comparatively inactive in music whereas he himself continues to tour.

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“I believe Al’s offended as a result of I’m out doing it, and [bassist] Mike [Anthony] and I are out doing it, and he can’t,” he suggests. “He’s not a singer. He’s not a guitar participant. He isn't actually a band chief. And he looks like he doesn’t wish to play drums or can’t play drums anymore, and he can’t go write a brand new file. Alex wasn’t the songwriter within the band. He was the drummer. Eddie and I wrote the songs. Dave and Eddie wrote the songs, and so we are able to exit and do them.”

He continued: “I believe that actually bothers him that Mike and I are nonetheless on the market doing it. I'd really feel dangerous. If I put myself in his footwear, I'd really feel horrible if I couldn’t do it anymore. However I’m the happiest man out of all of them. That pisses individuals off in itself. Being too blissful, individuals don’t like that.”

The interviewer countered with the suggestion that Van Halen’s well being might be in charge, in addition to the problem of taking part in with out his brother following Eddie’s loss of life in 2020.

“Yeah, I’d say so. And I’m okay with it. Al, you’re fantastic. Simply depart me alone. I’ll depart you alone. All the things’s good. I’m making you cash, by the way in which, Al. I’m on the market promoting Van Halen information and retaining the identify alive, retaining the music alive.”

Hagar not too long ago launched a brand new single, ‘Encore, Thank You, Goodnight’, which features a guitar lick that the late Eddie Van Halen confirmed him in a dream.