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\n\tFollowing some rehearsals in 2022, Alex said the project fell apart over what he described as Roth\u2019s refusal to include a segment paying homage to the rocker some consider the greatest guitarist of all time. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe thing that broke the camel\u2019s back, and I can be honest about this now, was I said, \u2018Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt \u2014 not a bowing \u2014 but an\u00a0acknowledgment of Ed\u00a0in the gig,\u201d he said of his get-back plans that began to go south when he felt numbness from peripheral neuropathy that he took as an \u201comen from above\u201d that maybe things were not meant to be.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage,\u2019\u201d Alex said of that band\u2019s hat-tipping to late singer Freddie Mercury on their recent tours with replacement singer Adam Lambert. \u201cAnd the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave f\u2013kin\u2019 popped a fuse.\u2026 The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAlex, in his first interview since Eddie\u2019s death, said Roth adamantly refused the idea, finding it \u201coffensive,\u201d for reasons he still cannot understand and which raised his ire. \u201cI\u2019m from the street,\u201d he told the magazine. \u201c\u2018You talk to me like that, motherf\u2013ker, I\u2019m gonna beat your f\u2013king brains out. You got it?\u2019 And I mean that. And that\u2019s how it ended\u2026 It\u2019s just, my God. It\u2019s like I didn\u2019t know him anymore. I have nothing but the utmost respect for his work ethic and all that. But, Dave, you gotta work as a community, motherf\u2013ker. It\u2019s not you alone anymore\u201d; RS<\/em> said Roth declined to comment for the story.<\/p>\n\n\tThe profile also runs down the other A-list rock icons who were discussed as potential frontmen for the band that has had three lead singers over the years. Founding vocalist Roth held the seat from 1974-1985, then again for a brief time in 1996 and once more from 2007-2020, while Sammy Hagar took over from 1985-1996 during the band\u2019s chart peak, and again from 2003-2005, while Extreme\u2019s Gary Cherone briefly kept the mic warm from 1996-1999 between the other two vocalist\u2019s stints.<\/p>\n
\n\tAround 2001, following Cherone\u2019s exit and Hagar\u2019s return, the Van Halens had a chat with Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, manager Sharon Osbourne, as they contemplated a plan to have the metal god take over as vocalist. \u201cWhen you get a dog, you don\u2019t expect it to be a cat,\u201d Alex explained. \u201cWhen you get an Ozzy, you get Ozzy. Play the music, he\u2019ll sing, and it\u2019s gonna be great.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tBut, right before they were slated to get to in the studio, the Osbourne\u2019s began working on their MTV reality show The Osbournes<\/em>, which scotched the plan; Ozzy confirmed the talks and said if it had come to pass it would have been \u201cphenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tVan Halen also noted that the brothers jammed with Soundgarden\u2019s Chris Cornell at one point \u2014 he couldn\u2019t remember when \u2014 and when Eddie stepped out of the room for a bit Alex jammed alone with the singer. \u201cChris was in a very fragile part of his life, so to speak,\u201d he said of the singer who died in 2017 at age 52. \u201cI got behind the drums, and he started playing bass. We played for 45 minutes. This motherf\u2013ker got so into it he started bleeding. I said, \u2018This is the man you want.\u2019 And then he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSaying the demise of the original lineup was the \u201cmost disappointing thing\u201d he\u2019d experienced in his life until Eddie\u2019s death, Alex said, for him, another brick in the wall of their demise was Eddie\u2019s decision in 1982 to play his infamously spiraling guitar solo on Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBeat It.\u201d That led to Roth deciding to strike out on his own as a solo act which began what Alex said was a death spiral for the group. After asking his brother not to take the gig \u2014 suggesting that Jackson guest on a VH album instead \u2014 Eddie did it anyway and in 1984, Jackson\u2019s monumental album Thriller<\/em> blocked VH\u2019s 1984<\/em> album from the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 album chart.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWhy would you lend your talents to Michael Jackson? I just don\u2019t f\u2013king get it,\u201d Alex told RS<\/em> about the feud that went on for years. \u201cAnd the funny part was that Ed fibbed his way out of it by saying, \u2018Oh, who knows that kid anyway?\u2019 You made the mistake! Fess up. Don\u2019t add insult to injury by acting stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAlex Van Halen\u2019s memoir, Brothers<\/em>, is slated for release on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long-standing animus between former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth and band\u2019s late guitar legend Eddie Van Halen was legendary, and apparently permanent. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the band\u2019s retired drummer, Alex Van Halen, revealed that after Eddie\u2019s death in 2020 at 65 due to complications from throat cancer, he approached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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