⭐SAMMY HAGAR: 'ALEX VAN HALEN And I Don't Talk' 

Does everybody realize how blessed we were to see Van Halen since the 70's ? Wow

I saw Van Halen in 1982, 1984, 1986 & 2004. Twice with Roth, twice with Hagar. EVH will forever be my guitar god. Let the man rest in peace and let Wolfie get on with his own life & career. Losing your father is tough enough without everybody with a microphone asking you about a tribute to your dad. Van Halen's legacy is set in stone. We have the memories of going to the concerts and buying the albums. That is more than enough for me. Peace.

It just seems like both Eddie and Alex had a hard time getting along with a lot of people. The band had 3 different singers overall. The band is done, and it's time to let it go. Their legacy is set.

I have a Van Halen Tribute everyday!

Hagar has a lot of class. Sammy also has a lot of class to say that a tribute needs to have David Lee Roth included as well. Respect.

Let it go Trunk … Wolfie already killed 2 birds with 1 stone … the kid made pops and Taylor proud

I am just glad VanHalen as a whole career gave us some unforgettable and deeply impactfull music. The background of our youth. We are very blessed to have enjoyed their talents.

For me, as a 65 yr old hard rock guitarist, we are not likely to see another Edward Van Halen. His loss, to me, is immeasurable. He represents a complete paradigm shift in how the instrument is played. Artists like that just don't come along very often. I would rank him higher even than Hendrix as far as his innovation and inventiveness. His fingerprints are all over modern music. His influence on other musicians reaches past the horizon. He died much too young. The loss still stings a little. RIP Edward Van Halen, for you have surely earned it.

We need a Van Halen tribute now like a fish needs a bicycle. Eddie's body of work, invention, and legacy are sealed.

I saw them in 1979 at the Cape cod coliseum and they blew my mind!!! Best band ever.

I saw them in 1978 they blew everyone away best ever ❤

Hey Sammy just incase you or the rest of the band members may come across this. I saw you guys 3 times in the nineties. I grew up as a little kid wanting to be as talented as Eddie on guitar. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the great music and personal memories.

There should be no tribute or anything, Eddie was an amazing musician and his music lives on only because of his talent and musicianship. let this whole thing rest and let the Van halen legacy rest with Wolfie. I'm totally pleased with what Alex and Wolfies decisions are. If there is no answer then so be it. We need to stop trying to want a tribute and just be happy to know that Van Halen was the greatest band around. Eddie Rocks!!!!!

Alex might just be thinking "it's not VH without Eddie". That's understandable.

I absolutely love Sammy Hagar. He's such a genuine guy.

As a huge VH fan of DLR yrs that's basically my favorite Rock band. I personally don't need the closure. I seen it live 4x. Twice with Dave, twice with Sam. It's over, I get it.

I would love to see Alex and Mike and Sammy and Wolfy go on tour.

Can we please just let this go now? It's been too long since Edward's passing (two full years now). To me, the window of appropriateness, paying tribute and respect has closed. It doesn't really matter who, how or why it didn't happen.

Honestly, Wolf's participation in Taylor's tribute, showing us all that he CAN play his dad's songs note for note, with the same feel, and with THAT smile on his face, was the only tribute we needed. The legacy is there, and that one performance is the single thing Eddie would be the most proud about, more than any star-filled 3 hour tribute. And I'm sure his dad would be also proud that he chose to follow his own path.

Never bought any Van Hager stufff but liked some tunes. Sammy, fan since Montrose in '73. Well spoken here.

Wolf is a living Tribute to his Dad in everything he does... A Tribute would be Cool but if it's going to divide people even more just let it be, It doesn't have to be planned out, Just start a Tribute show and play with whoever shows up! Less Dramatic.... Organic! Just do it...

Great Interview!! Haven't listened to Eddie Trunk before...Love Sammy and his Opened Air Voice and opinion on EVH and VH

Van halen, we're amazing with Sammy Hagar !!,

So Sad Life is Way to Short...for the Love of God Somebody please get the ball rolling...Eddie Van Halen has left us his musical legacy. It would be a great thing to see a well coordinated tribute show with All the members of Van Halen! 🤘🏻🎸😎

I've known of Sammy from the first days of Montrose . It's never going to be the same. Live an let live. .

Sometimes you just have to leave things alone. Van Halen has met it’s ending but will never be forgotten. Eddie absolutely deserves a tribute to what he brought to music but heh let’s admit that things don’t always turn out how we want in life.

Sammy is the a true gentlemen. True professional a true rockstar

Was lucky enough to be 13 when 1984 came out. We jammed JUMP every morning at our junior high school busstop and that record was my second major rock and roll concert at Hampton Coliseum (Aerosmith and Tex Nugent were my first).

As close as Al and Eddie were it's hard to muster up the energy to pull something off close to the caliber that it deserves

Sammy is an all around cool Dude, who wouldn't want to hang out with him...

Maybe that's because Alex became such a huge fan of his book "Red"

Always been a Sammy fan as well as VH, was lucky enough to see Sammy shortly after the Van Hagar split and if you closed your eyes you wouldn't had known it wasn't a van hagar show , Sammy's definitely a better guitarist/ artist then Joan Jett 😂 and montrose was hard rock at its best ..

Alex, if you ever read this, I want you to know that the fans are still mourning with you. I cried the day your brother died. A one-night-only celebration of the music of Van Halen might help us all heal a bit, together. The fans are still here and we still love Van Halen. That did not end when Ed passed!

I’m a huge VH fan but I don’t care about any kind of tribute show. IMO the best way to honor their legacy is a remix/remaster of every album (even VH III), unreleased tracks from the vault and live recordings/dvds from every tour.

Alex and Wolf need to get a tribute going, invite Sam, Mike, and Roth. Whoever shows up shows up. Have Justin Hawkins on standby if a singer doesn’t show up. One last show to properly honor Eddie Van Halen.

I love Van Halen, it’s engraved in my dna somehow, my only problem with a tribute is: nobody can play like Eddie Van Halen.

Can't imagine how cool this show would be, think of the all the great guitar players that would love to do this.

From what I've heard Alex is not really interested in playing without his brother.....I totally understand that. When you get to that legend level and have financial security there is no reason to play any gig you don't want to play. People always talk about what an ass axl rose can be.....well he really doesn't HAVE to do anything. Stephen Stills said "I don't do things that don't make me smile...."

Man.. it was sooooo good in this interview to see Sammy's heart... ❤️ jessenashvillejames 👍

SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide} and oo wee cool talks..!! LOVE YOU ALL.!

Al doesn’t owe anybody a damn thing.

If it doesn't happen, it would be a shame, but so be it. That Sammy and Ed made peace gives me solace. Long Live Edward Van Halen.

Well said Sammy .

Years ago I met Eddie at a meeting ..he was really chill and talked and laughed for a couple minutes like anyone might..

I thought Al loved playing music live. Even if he doesn't do this, I wish he'd do a drumming clinic and record it. Talk about drums, how he came up with his sound, why he plays like he does etc. We never got that from Bonham.

He waxes poetic on being this honest person, but sales don’t lie, from Guitar World: Roth absolutely wins the Van Halen commerce battle with 57 million sales worldwide to Hagar's 27 million worldwide sales. So adding another 20 million in sales is a nice bit of revisionist history on his part to say the least. Good on Alex, he doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone. If you weren’t fortunate enough to catch Van Halen when they were active it’s your loss. I didn’t catch The Doors either.

Let's just be happy that there was a Van Halen.

People that hold bitterness will never be ready.

Eddie deserves some kind of send off - sad that that things don’t line up to have a tribute send off but until then I’ve seen every tour since ‘81 WDFA all the way through till’ their last tour in 2015 including the Us Festival - such great memories

As a fan it's a big shame to see a group of guys who were so successful for so long end up like this ! Good luck Sammy, Mike you two have been the bomb. 👋

It’s amazing they had bands as long as they did twos company especially brothers and threes a crowd

EVH definitely deserves a tribute concert. I hope all in involved in the VH camp can look past whatever BS and pay tribute to one of the greatest guitarists and band in R&R history.

Rock band = more intense than any relationship.

No disrespect to Taylor but it is a damn shame that EVH, one of the most influential musicians of modern music, hasn't had a tribute, whereas a relatively less impactful drummer had an amazingly executed and heartfelt tribute within a matter of months of passing away.

Eddy will always be a virtuoso in my book man and Alex had huge influence on my life my and my drumming it was magic and the brothers knew that

The Circle with Sammy Hagar is a great GREAT show! If you have a chance go see them. You will have the time of your life. I promise.

His little brother passed away, maybe he needs more time. Its cool take as much time as you need Al. If it happens thats awesome, if not thats awesome to because we had them when they were the greatest.

Always liked Van Halen, didn't love em until Sammy joined, something about Eddie's playing on 5150 and even more on OU812 was just magical, it hit me right in the heart, still does! Sammy's vocals were the icing on the cake!

I went to see Phil Collins on his last tour. I wish I didn’t. It made me feel old as hell. Sometimes you can’t turn back time . My Van Halen is best kept in my head with a cassette or CD playing in the background.

Sammy your a good guy thank you for all you do do rock on

Hard to imagine what Alex feels losing Ed on top of being stubborn as Sammy describes. He might have lost a lot of motivation to even play drums without Ed around

Why trust Sammy with anything personal or important? He'd just tell everyone

Great editing.

Greetings from Jundiaí, Brazil 🙏🙏🙏 I was in the United States back in 2010 during my 2-month student exchange program in Springfield, Illinois. During that time, I met a gentleman who worked as a security guard for the band during their 2004 tour. He told me terrible stories about what happened behind the scenes. According to him, there was always a bunch of rifts, strife, verbal altercations, fights, threats and too much confusion during that whole tour. He said it seemed like a battlefield, a warzone and he thought that a tragedy was about to start. In order to try to diminish the war zone, Eddie & Alex + Sammy & Mike had to sleep in different hotels, be chartered by different vans, travel on separate flights, their meals at different restaurants, dress up in different dressing rooms and get on and off stage from different sides and when their apart was unavoidable, Eddie & Alex just spoke in dutch ir order to ignore Sammy & Mike. That's very sad to know that.

It’s heartbreaking that this has not come together for the greatest guitar player ever!!!! It just feels so not normal that Eddie is gone ! Times where I just don’t want to believe it , but I know it’s reality ! I just miss that rockin and wild band not making albums and not out on the road! I’ll celebrate you forever Eddie in playing your music and having the posters on the walls! Space ace Ron⚡️⚡️⚡️

Yeah, that time has LONG passed to do a tribute show for Edward. But Wolf certainly paid tribute to his pop on both Taylor Hawkins tributes and does every time he plays his own music. Rest in peace, Edward. You are sorely missed!

Van Halen set it's legacy in stone let us just enjoy what music they put out there for the fans there will never be another van Halen so R.I.H Eddie and let's just keep the music alive which it will never die .

That is exactly why we went to see them in Connecticut when they came to Bridgeport!!, And let me tell you something,it was a fucking awesome show!! Some friends and I we’re sitting around the fire drinking some beers and we were all talking about how there will be no more great music coming from Edward Van Halen!!, We all grew up on VanHalen and they are absolutely the number one fucking band around Eddie is the greatest guitar player ever!! so if they did a tribute night concert I would absolutely go no matter where it is ,So if Alex has a stick up his ass he needs to pull it out get over it and salute his brother and his band!!.,

Sammy’s Right!!!! Wolfie is carrying the torch for the VH legacy now!!!!!! As for Alex, he lost his brother so it’s understandable where he’s coming from!!!!!:/ I really really HOPE that they do a tribute thing to honor Eddie!!!!! As for Diamond Dave……..Love him!!!!! But SAMMY and Dave are like Oil and Water!!!!!!:/:/

We all know Eddie deserves a tribute. IMO Eddie would say if you want me have a tribute Wolfgang is already doing it now because he’s blazing a trail and kicking ass. RIP EVH ✌🏻♥️ r&r

WVH is a musical force unto himself.

Honestly he just lost his brother even though it was like a year ago sometimes we all grieve differently and Sammy should respect that

Before I write this I have to say Van Halen will always be my favorite band. I’ve seen them 20 times through the years. My son is named after them (Halen). A fitting tribute for this band is turmoil, verbal wars, and bad blood. That’s what tore this band apart along with Roth’s ego. Us fans were robbed of music bc of different lead singer’s and inner band fighting. Ed and Al treated M. Anthony bad. Since 1995 two studio albums and a best of. I know you have to throw Ed’s health in there. Every band has problems but Van Halen’s problems were at a another level. Hopefully Wolfie will unlock the Van Halen vault someday and let us hear some unreleased material. Hopefully. I miss you Ed. 🎸☝🏽😔

We need a van Halen tribute show on VH1

I saw them in 1995 and David in 1986,fabulous but it's over for me,Without Ed,no VH

Both the surviving Van Halen's and Dave are still very close. You would know that if you listened to Rogan. If they don't feel the need to "do a show" for Eddie, then Ican respect that decision. If Hagar can't, then it's not about Edward, it's about Hagar.

Closets thing was Taylor Hawkins tribute when WVH played cpl VH tunes. I'm good....RIP VH.

We have had the reunion tour,the Sam and Dave tour,the mini tribute at the Taylor Hawkins tribute show.we’ve got decades of music and memories as their legacy,and as a bonus we have the chance to watch his gifted son Wolfgang become his own artist. That’s tribute enough in my opinion,kick back,set the volume on 11 and fire one up. That’s the only tribute we need now.

I have always been before and after Van Halen a HUGE Sammy Hagar fan. When Sammy joined Van Halen and I heard "Why Can't This Be Love" the first time on the radio I actually jumped out of bed while I was having sex just to listen to what I thought at the time was THE greatest collaboration of 2 world's meshing together. There will never be a beautiful sound as that night I heard that band together and I have to disagree with most of the comments. I really think Al owes it to his brother, his nephew, his family, his friends and more importantly the fans that made him and his brother the icons that will forever be imbedded in our lives. I think it's rather selfish that for 1 night, just 1 night he can't swallow his pride for whatever reason to say I love you Eddie, this is for you.

I think they should compromise and do a Friday night show with Diamond Dave doin the classics and Saturday night show doin the VanHagar years with Sammy,,,and so no pressure on Wolfgang,,he hand picks the guitarists for each of the tunes....

Kinda sad how it all came to an end and that there’s still tension after all these years but I’m just glad it happened man that’s the only peace I need, it happened. RIP Eddie.

Al one of the badesst drummers in rock one of the badesst drum solis of all time

Alex in my opinion,maybe still Having a hard time with Eddies passing on right no kidding,In my opinion this Rock and Roll phenomena is nothing comparing to the love he lives with loosing Eddie in the process

Last time I checked this is still a free country and alix doesn't have to talk to anyone he doesn't want to

It’s over folks. Let it go

A Tribute would be cool to celebrate the music with all members of the band in memory of EVH

The Van Halen brothers had a strange and difficult upbringing. Coming to America and not speaking English, and only having each other for friends at first, that’s definitely part of it. Also, their mother was supposedly mentally ill, somewhat. She was a bit negative and paranoid with them, which I think-combined with Roth being a control freak-made them very distrustful of others. Certainly Dave left them wanting to take over their own band when he left, which also lead to distrust of others. And while I love Ed and Al, they certainly fucked over Michael Anthony as well as ex-manager Noel Monk.

Something like the Foo Fighters tribute would a great event and we all hope it happens.

Well said Eddie

Saw them in Orlando, VanHagar was a great band, also Saw them in Philadelphia Spectrum With David Lee Roth And remember the guy getting stuck on the video Paranoid!

I love Sammy and all, but you can’t write a book that goes into detail about Al’s alcoholism and former financial problems without his consent and then expect him to talkto you. That part of your book wasn’t your story to tell. Maybe he feels betrayed by that.

This whole drama reminds me what happened to Led Zeppelin after Bonzo passed this need to put the band back together for the fans, VH music will live on across America and the world there is no need to slap together what remains of VH

"....it's one side of the deal, y'know! I'll sing my songs!" . The three (completely separate) friends of mine that have actually met Sammy (After gigs) have all said he is the warmest, most appreciative and "normal guy/star" any of them had ever met! It's a shame how things have turned out with VH.

ALEX IS GRIEVING!!!!!!!! GIVE IT TIME!!!!!!!!

sammy didn't steal anthony from vh, eddie had already decided to ax anthony. and eddie allowed himself to be swayed by some new manager telling him that sammy was leading van halen, eddie fell for that. it goes without saying that eddie and alex did not want to lead the band nor make decisions and that's why it seemed that sammy was their leader. sammy has a head for business and he took the steps to keep halen relevant after roth departed. i think that that's what alex is upset at not to mention that sammy offered the group a piece of the cabo cantina in the beginning and they turned it down.....OH WELL!!! alex and dave both need to grow up and suck it up and put together the best damn tribute concert ever. i guarantee that if they do that, wolf would gladly be a part of that.

I think it would do every member of Van Halen; their family, fans and industry to have a tribute show so we can all have closure on Eddie’s monumental legacy. 💀🔥🎸

Sammy said it himself to play a show would be fine but no tour or anything….wow how things have changed,his best of Sammy’s world tour!!!

I don't know what the problem is but everyone needs to swallow their pride and do the tribute to Eddie he deserves it you all need time to heal however long it takes but get your assess together and do it for the fans that is who made you who you are and let Eddie's legacy live on forever

Anything that would be done would be anti climatic it was so powerful and so creative we've got the isolated tracks to live off and whatever comes out of a vault we don't need some old b******* doing a s***** performance I've been living off nearly good enough from the wildlife track that's an awesome track rhythm and lead guitar

January1979 right before the release of VH2 San Jose Civic California....they were Smokin Hot..💥💯%