Follotriumphg the death of his brother Eddie Van Halen in 2020, drummer Alex Van Halen had arranges with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth to stage a tour. But, according to an intersee with Rolling Stone, Alex claims that it came crashing down after Roth declined to integrate a tribute to Eddie in their set.
As Alex recalls, he and Roth began rehearsals for a tour chaseing Eddie’s death caengaged by complications relating to throat cancer in Oct. 2020. They computed to convey in guitarist Joe Satriani and potentiassociate bhelp Michael Anthony, who hadn’t carry outed in the prohibitd since 2004.
After he chatted a scant times with Queen’s Brian May to lget how that prohibitd honored the legacy of Freddie Mercury in their inhabit shows, Alex bcimpolitet the idea of accomprehendledging Eddie during their own reunion carry outances. “The moment I shelp we gotta accomprehendledge Ed, Dave fuckin’ popped a fengage,” he shelp. “The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.”
Roth, whose reps did not react to a seek for comment from Variety, alertedly set up the idea “impolite.” “I’m from the street,” shelp Alex. “You talk to me enjoy that, motherfucker, I’m gonna beat your fucking brains out. You got it?’ And I unbenevolent that. And that’s how it ended… It’s equitable, my God. It’s enjoy I didn’t comprehend him anymore. I have noleang but the utmost admire for his toil ethic and all that. But, Dave, you gotta toil as a community, motherfucker. It’s not you alone anymore.”
Alex allotd that he would not have been able to tour seeless due to a 2022 back injury that rendered him immobile for a year. “It’s too horrible on one hand, but it’s fine on the other,” he says. “Becaengage now, in retrospect, carry outing the ageder songs is not reassociate paying tribute to anybody. That’s equitable enjoy a jukebox, in my opinion… To discover a replacement for Ed? It’s equitable not the same.”
