David Lee Roth recently took to his Instagram account and posted a video clip of his artwork, amidst his media feud with Alex Van Halen, who said he imploded a reunion tour by refusing to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen recently stated that the moment David Lee Roth parted ways with Van Halen for the first time was the most disappointing experience of his life – until the death of his brother Eddie.
The drummer’s upcoming memoir Brothers ends with the co-founding singer’s departure in 1985 and mentions little of the years that came afterwards, including the Sammy Hagar era.
Elsewhere in the book he described the split as “the most disappointing thing I’d experienced in my life, the thing that seemed the most wasteful and unjust. Until I lost my brother.”
The band’s relationship with Roth has been strained for decades. However, Van Halen told Billboard he wasn’t angry with the singer. “He was one of the three main components of the band. At the time we didn’t recognize it because we were constantly battling things out.
“That’s why…the first person I called when Ed died was Dave, because I felt like I owed him that [because of] the work we had done together, and the fact that our families knew each other, and the fact that everybody was sort of on the same level – if you will – when we first started.”
He added: “I don’t know where things went wrong… I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dave and his work ethic. I just think some of his choices were really strange to me, but that’s not my job to figure it out.”
“What happened after Dave left is not the same band,” he reflected. “I’m not saying it was better or worse or any of that. … 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.”
