It looks as if 2024 being the yr of drama between the surviving members of Van Halen over the enduring legacy of the late, nice Eddie Van Halen was nonetheless cooking proper till the very finish of the yr.

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This week, it’s the flip of former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar to weigh in, because the Purple Rocker began tearing up the feedback of a 29 December submit on Instagram throwing shade at his former bandmate Alex Van Halen over the latter’s a lot publicised ebook, Brothers.

After posting an image of Hagar and EVH backstage throughout their pomp with the caption, “Strolling to the stage within the good previous days. I wanted to see this picture immediately to shut out this yr,” varied commenters began weighing in with some variation of the concept that Van Halen had ended as an fascinating band when Hagar changed David Lee Roth in 1985.

That is an impression that has been furthered by Alex selecting to finish Brothers on the end result of Roth’s time within the band – though Alex claims that he was shocked by the “vitriol” DLR has in the direction of his brother nonetheless. Hagar even claimed that Alex wouldn’t converse to him due to the ebook at one level.

Regardless of Hagar claiming that it was on his “bucket listing” to bury the hatchet with Alex just some months in the past, it appears that evidently the drummer’s resolution to behave as if Van Halen was over after 1985 continues to rankle.

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“It may have [ended], my pal,” he responded to at least one commenter. “However as a substitute we went on to promote over 50 million information for [a] No. 1 album [and] offered out each constructing and stadium on the planet for an entire decade. That by no means occurred once more.”

He then went on to deal with Alex Van Halen immediately, accusing him of disrespecting the good music that Hagar and Eddie Van Halen made collectively – with the allusion that his lack of songwriting involvement on this period being the trigger.

“Alex is just not doing his brother’s musical legacy justice by not acknowledging all of the No. 1 albums and a few nice music Eddie and I wrote collectively — not Alex — however Eddie and I wrote collectively,” Hagar continued. “To not acknowledge 10 years of music is blasphemy to his brother’s musicianship, songwriting and legacy.”

Hagar spent a lot of 2024 placing his personal spin on the Van Halen legacy with the Finest Of All Worlds tour – a tribute tour that featured Joe Satriani on guitar, the addition of which triggered Hagar to comment that he was taking part in some Van Halen songs higher than Van Halen had on their remaining tour.

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