Pre-Van Halen fame, the brothers were scheduled to play a gig at a local park – only to get replaced by Roth’s band at the ...
St. Vincent re-recorded an album in Spanish, David Lee Roth tried the same trick – and it didn’t work out for him ...
Even though both eras of Van Halen occupy two different worlds, Eddie thought that this vocalist was his preferred sound.
Sammy Hagar represented a new direction for Van Halen. When he joined, the band began a new era, but it wouldn't have ...
In Brothers – Alex Van Halen's eulogy to Eddie Van Halen – the Van Halen drummer captures the push-and-pull dynamic between lead singer David Lee Roth and the two brothers. Among other revelations, he ...
"[I thought] everything's going to be great and nothing bad is ever going to happen," Wolfgang says of playing with David Lee ...
Sharing his thoughts about the conflict within the band, Alex admitted that jealousy played an important part in Roth leaving Van Halen. In his book Brothers, the drummer wrote, “He couldn’t ...
Alex Van Halen said David Lee Roth used to tell Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos. The drummer asserted that Roth’s increasing jealousy over Eddie’s popularity led to the singer ...
Van Halen was a band about to splinter, the differences between its lead singer and its guitarist simply too vast to bridge. Those differences actually helped to make 1984, the album the band released ...
A planned Van Halen reunion is now off after lead singer David Lee Roth refused to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen on stage, according to the late guitarist’s brother, Alex. The Van Halen drummer ...
"Dave f—in' popped a fuse!" Van Halen rockers David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen had a fraught relationship for decades, and that's what torpedoed a planned reunion tour following Eddie's death, the ...