Alex Van Halen claims Van Halen singer David Lee Roth as soon as requested Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos.

The drummer, who co-founded Van Halen with Eddie in 1972, makes the declare in his new memoir Brothers.

“He [Roth] couldn’t deal with the truth that Eddie was getting extra consideration than he was,” Alex writes, per Final Basic Rock. “He stored asking Eddie to play fewer guitar solos. Dave was satisfied he was going to be a film star.”

The assertion is one in every of quite a few bombshell revelations Alex has made each in his ebook, which got here out on 22 October by way of HarperCollins, and through interviews to put it up for sale.

In a current dialog with Rolling Stone, the drummer stated that he requested Queen’s Brian Might for recommendation on hold Van Halen going after Eddie died of issues from throat most cancers in 2020, aged 65. Nevertheless, Roth put paid to any reunion plans, allegedly attributable to him not desirous to pay overt tribute to Eddie throughout exhibits.

“The factor that broke the camel’s again, and I could be trustworthy about this now,” Alex remembered, “was I stated, ‘Dave, sooner or later, we have now to have a really overt – not a bowing – however an acknowledgement of Ed within the gig. Should you have a look at how Queen does it, they present previous footage.’ And the second I stated we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave fuckin’ popped a fuse… The vitriol that got here out was unbelievable.”

Throughout the identical Rolling Stone interview, the drummer additionally revealed that each Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Cornell had been in rivalry to hitch Van Halen at sure factors. Ozzy confirmed that he was within the working within the early 2000s by way of an e mail to the journal.

“Sure, we had been discussing it,” he stated. “It’s one thing that if it had come to fruition, would have been phenomenal.”

Ozzy added: “Eddie and Alex had been nice pals of mine for a really very long time and it’s a remorse of mine that we by no means received it collectively. The Osbournes [the MTV reality series starring Ozzy’s family] received in the best way of making new music at the moment, sadly.”