![]() User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. The iconic VAN HALEN axeman passed away from complications due to cancer, his son confirmed.īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. There was even talk about bringing back Gary Cherone, who sang with VAN HALEN on one poorly received album, 1998's "Van Halen III".Įddie died at St. In November 2020, Eddie's son Wolfgang revealed that his father had contemplated a "kitchen-sink tour" that would have included Anthony, as well as vocal turns from both Hagar and Roth. In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, Eddie questioned an "embellished" portion of "Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock" that painted the guitarist as a "very angry drunk" during the group's 2004 reunion tour. He told an interviewer in 2012: "What happened on that reunion tour in '04 was some of the most miserable, back-stabbing dark crap I've ever been involved with my whole life." In his autobiography, "Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock", Hagar slammed Eddie, saying the guitarist was unkempt, hunched over, frighteningly skinny, drinking wine straight out of a bottle, missing part of his tongue (after a cancer scare) and several teeth. In exchange for taking part in the tour, Anthony reportedly had to agree to take a pay cut and sign away his rights to the band name and logo. Sammy, Eddie, Alex Van Halen and Michael Anthony last teamed up in 2004 for a U.S. Hagar replaced David Lee Roth in VAN HALEN in 1985 and recorded four studio albums with the band - "5150", "OU812", "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" and "Balance" - all of which topped the U.S. I'd be going, 'This guy is making me mad.' " "That's the thing that used to make me mad, 'cause he could drink as much as he wanted, do anything he wanted and come out there and still play good. He's had cancer and hip surgery and all these things for years I guess he'd battled it almost 20 years."Īccording to Sammy, Eddie never allowed his health or substance abuse issues to significantly affect his live performance. That Dutch blood or whatever it is, he hung in there a long time. "But I'll tell you what: that guy was made out of something special, man. You're making me nervous.' And about a day later, he'd get back and say, 'Dude, I was in the hospital.' I'd say, 'Oh, god.' It was funny. I would send him a text and say, 'Word man…' - I used to call him 'Word Man - 'Word man, where are you, man? I'm trying to get a hold of you. "And then when I started talking to him, I would send him a call and he wouldn't answer. "I don't think anyone realized how sick he was," Sammy continued. ![]() But I think Wolfie said it in some interviews how everybody was planning on doing that, and it would have been the greatest thing that ever happened to VAN HALEN. Of course we wouldn't wanna announce anything like that. We were talking about going out and touring with the whole gang one time for the big time in '22 that was the plan. We were talking about writing music again. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "The whole year, of 2020, in the early parts, around January, Eddie and I connected and we started talking again. The only person who wore a bustier in the ’90s that I could appreciate was Perry Farrell.In a new interview with KUSI's Paul Rudy, Sammy Hagar spoke how he mended his relationship with the late Eddie Van Halen prior to the legendary VAN HALEN guitarist's October 2020 passing. ![]() It sounds so trite, but before then it was bustiers. They could have an opinion and be respected. “But I’m circling back to say that one thing that I appreciated was that in Seattle and the alternative crowd, the girls could wear their combat boots and sweaters, and their hair looked like Cat Power‘s and not Heather Locklear’s, nothing against her. Guns N’ Roses came out and, thank God, at least had some teeth. “Girls, Girls, Girls” and Motley Crue: you. ![]() The metal bands that, I’m trying to be nice, I despised. I’d end up being at shows that I wouldn’t have chosen to go to, bands that monopolized late-’80s MTV. “You know, I used to work in San Diego loading gear at a club. ![]() In a recent interview with The New York Times, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder talked about the late ’80s and early ’90s, being asked if the alt-culture explosion from those times could be still felt today. ![]()
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