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Breadcrumb Trail LinksMusicCelebrityMammoth WVH frontman suggests Roth insulted him because 'my dad isn't here to be a target' Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 08, 2024  •  Last updated 35 minutes ago  •  3 minute read Singer David Lee Roth and Wolfgang Van Halen perform at their dress rehearsal for family and friends at the Forum on Feb. 8, 2012 in Inglewood, California. Photo by Kevin Winter /Getty ImagesArticle contentWolfgang Van Halen is firing back at David Lee Roth…

Van Halen's new memoir, Brothers, due Oct. 22, will tell the story behind one of the closest family partnerships in rock Eddie and Alex Van Halen had the closest musical relationship imaginable, playing together for nearly six decades — even in Van Halen’s most fallow periods, when the band was between singers, the brothers would rehearse at Eddie’s 5150 Studios to rehearse just about every day. Alex, Van Halen’s drummer, has been almost entirely silent since Eddie’s death from cancer in October…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksMusicCelebrity'He’s complaining the entire tour like I’m not paying enough attention to him on stage' Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Jan 26, 2024  •  Last updated 2 hours ago  •  4 minute read Singer David Lee Roth and Wolfgang Van Halen perform at their dress rehearsal for family and friends at the Forum on Feb. 8, 2012 in Inglewood, California. Photo by Kevin Winter /Getty ImagesArticle contentVan Halen’s David Lee Roth ain’t talking about love when…

Van Halen ended as a band with the 2020 passing of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, but tensions between the surviving members appear to be very much alive. Singer David Lee Roth launched a broadside on YouTube Wednesday (Jan. 24) against Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, who played bass with the band from 2007 to 2015 and is currently finding success with his own band, Wolfgang WVH. In his video, Roth repeatedly calls Wolfgang “this fucking kid,” as well as a “schlemiel” (“fool” in Yiddish), mocks him for benefiting…

When Mick Jagger needed a guitarist back in 1988 who could effortlessly play parts originated by Keith Richards, Brian Jones, and Mick Taylor, he called up Joe Satriani. Five years later, when Deep Purple needed to airlift in a guitarist at the last second after Ritchie Blackmore quit the band, they also went with Satriani. And when Alex Van Halen wanted someone that could somehow stand in for his brother Eddie Van Halen on a possible 2022 tribute tour with David Lee Roth, he too reached out to Satch. The Van…

Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony are teaming up with guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Jason Bonham for a summer tour that will focus largely on the music of Van Halen. They’re calling it The Best of All Worlds. Loverboy is opening up. “It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played these songs with Van Halen on the 04’ Best of Both Worlds Tour,” Hagar said in a statement. “With Joe on board, we can take a deeper dive into those years. We’re going to touch on some hits from my entire career,…

Sammy Hagar recently said he and his former bandmate Eddie Van Halen had “buried the hatchet” in text conversations, months before Van Halen’s death in 2020. Van Halen famously expelled Hagar from the band in 1996 after creative differences drove a wedge between them. Hagar re-joined the band from 2003 to 2005, but even while touring together, they continued to publicly feud and their friendship seemed to have never recuperated. However, in an interview with Fox News last week, the “I Can’t Drive 55” rocker shared more…