Alex Van Halen Takes Shot At Michael Anthony

Alex Van Halen recently revealed what happened after David Lee Roth parted ways with Van Halen.

Alex Van Halen opens up on David Lee Roth

Other than his brother’s death, Van Halen decided to stop the story with the Roth split, leaving out subsequent runs with Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone and even the reunion with Roth that started in 2007.

(Roth and Hagar both wrote memoirs after their respective tenures with the band.) Van Halen cites “limitations to how big the book could be” but also says it the scope of the narrative made sense to him.

“What happened after Dave left is not the same band,” Van Halen explained via Billboard . “I’m not saying it was better or worse or any of that. The fact is Ed and I did our best work whenever we played. We always gave it our best shot. But the magic was in the first years, when we didn’t know what we were doing, when we were willing to try anything.”

It wasn’t surprising that Van Halen was not responsive, either, when Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony reached out about him taking part in some way in their Best of All Worlds tour celebrating Van Halen.

“I’m not interested,” he says. “They’re not doing the band justice. They can do what they want to do. That’s not my business.”

Alex Van Halen has said that those coming to his new memoir, Brothers , for a tell-all will be disappointed. Brothers , publishing October 22 and written with New Yorker staff writer Ariel Levy, acknowledges the s*x and drugs and rock n’ roll. However, the title indicates it’s primarily a chronicle of the drummer’s relationship with his guitar hero brother, who passed way during October 2020 at the age of 65 after a long battle with cancer.

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