Sammy Hagar calls Alex Van Halen’s oversight of ‘Van Hagar’ era ‘blasphemous’ in new memoir

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Hagar, who was Van Halen’s frontman from 1985 to 1996 and 2003 to 2005, took to social media to share his thoughts on his former bandmate’s recent book, calling his absence from the band ” Blasphemy”.

Published in October, brother Focusing primarily on the California veteran’s first 12 years effectively blocks the story of Van Halen after lead singer David Lee Roth left, and ignores not only Hagar’s time as lead singer, but also the makeshift lineup that featured Gary Cherone, as well as Their final reunion with Roth.

“What happened after Dave left was that it wasn’t the same band anymore,” Alex Van Halen told us advertising billboard October. “I’m not saying it’s better or worse or anything. The fact is, Ed and I tried our best every time we played. We always gave it our best. But the magic was those first few years when we No idea what we were doing, but we were willing to try anything.

Earlier this week, Hagar shared a 1991 photo of himself and guitarist Eddie Van Halen on Instagram and began responding to comments on the post, including one that suggested “most purists think VH ended with DLR.”

“It may have [ended]my friend, but we went on to sell over 50 million records [a] Album No. 1 [then] For an entire decade, every building and stadium in the world was sold out. “This has never happened again.”

IVan Halen achieved some of their biggest successes with their albums 1984It featured the Hot 100 single “Jump,” which eventually reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and became the highest-charting album of Roth’s era. Their next album was 1986’s 5150their first album to feature Hagar on vocals, and the first of four consecutive No. 1 albums released with Hagar at the helm.

Chagall went on to respond, arguing that Alex Van Halen was doing both the band and his late brother a disservice by excluding that era from his memoirs.

“Alex doesn’t do justice to his brother’s musical legacy, he doesn’t acknowledge all the No. 1 albums and some of the great music that Eddie and I wrote together – not Alex – but Eddie and I wrote it together,” Hagar continued. “Don’t admit it [those] A decade of music career is a blasphemy against his brother’s musicianship, songwriting and legacy.

Despite Chagall’s harsh words for Alex Van Halen’s book, he recently told rolling stones This is “in [his] Bucket List” suggests that he and his former bandmates will be able to reconcile at some point.

“I know he probably couldn’t have told the entire era in one book. It might have been a Bible, a dictionary, so maybe he had plans for a second volume,” Hagar said.

“But I want to be friends. I don’t want to play in a band with Al. That’s not what I’m asking for. I can see he’s not capable of that. If he was, I’d love to play with him, but this isn’t it What I want. I just want to be friends again.