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Sammy Hagar got an early sign of how contentious his 2004 reunion with Van Halen would be when he was banned from wearing Cabo Wabo clothing onstage. Hagar and his Van Halen bandmates launched the Cabo Wabo cantina in 1990 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after the singer fell in love with the town. Years later, with the club in financial and legal distress, Hagar bought out his bandmates’ interests. He was not only able to turn around the venue’s fortunes but also launched a highly successful tequila brand under the same name. He departed Van Halen in 1996 after a series of escalating creative and c...
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Michael Anthony is gearing up for his summer tour with Sammy Hagar, and he promises that the performances will be “totally live.” The trek, dubbed the Best of All Worlds tour, will see Anthony and Hagar – along with Joe Satriani and drummer Jason Bonham – digging into material from throughout Van Halen’s catalog. “We’re going to play totally live,” Anthony declared during an appearance on Sirius XM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk. “There will be no tapes, no piped in vocals, nothing.” “This is going to be 100%,” the bassist continued, adding that the band may further augment its lineup if the ...
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When Van Halen finished playing a free concert to an estimated 80,000 fans at Dallas’ West End Marketplace on Dec. 4, 1991, all four band members likely breathed a collective sigh of relief, as they had finally fulfilled a promise that frontman Sammy Hagar had made to the city three years earlier. But at what cost? “It almost broke the band up,” Hagar reflected in 2023. “It cost us about $200,000 to come back and do a free show.” Van Halen’s Dallas bargain originated in 1988, when they barreled through the Lone Star State in support of OU812 on the Monsters of Rock Tour, a mammoth road trip fe...
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Michael Anthony has detailed how he was able to finally get closure following the death of Eddie Van Halen. The former bandmates had been estranged for years prior to the guitarist’s passing. Anthony was infamously forced to take a pay cut and sign away his rights to the Van Halen band name before going on tour with the group in 2004. When the band reconvened for a tour, he was replaced by Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen. In a recent conversation with Sally Steele, Anthony admitted that he didn’t see the lineup change coming, but added that he was understanding of the move. “I didn’t see [Eddi...
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Vince Neil revealed the downside to opening for Van Halen with Sammy Hagar during his ‘90s solo period. The singer had split with Motley Crue after being accused of having lost interest in making music. In a recent interview with the Outsider podcast (video below), he was asked if it had been difficult to head out as a solo artist in 1992. “No – it was great!” Neil said. “I opened for Van Halen, my first tour as a solo artist. … It was pretty cool. “Except for, when you open up for Van Halen – because it was Sammy – it was like date night…you’d take your chick to go watch Van Halen. So I when ...
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How much progress had Van Halen made on their seventh studio album before parting ways with David Lee Roth in 1985, and how much of that work made its way onto 5150, the band’s first album with singer Sammy Hagar? Naturally, it depends who you ask. Nobody disputes that the band’s original lineup had begun writing some songs for the follow-up to 1984’s smash hit 1984 before personality conflicts and a dispute over Roth’s 1985 covers EP Crazy From the Heat led to the singer’s departure. The band recruited Hagar, fresh off his own platinum sales success with VOA and the hit single “I Can’t Drive ...
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How much progress had Van Halen made on their seventh studio album before parting ways with David Lee Roth in 1985, and how much of that work made its way onto 5150, the band’s first album with singer Sammy Hagar? Naturally, it depends who you ask. Nobody disputes that the band’s original lineup had begun writing some songs for the follow-up to 1984’s smash hit 1984 before personality conflicts and a dispute over Roth’s 1985 covers EP Crazy From the Heat led to the singer’s departure. The band recruited Hagar, fresh off his own platinum sales success with VOA and the hit single “I Can’t Drive ...
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Michael Anthony has opened up about his relationship with former Van Halen bandmate David Lee Roth. In a video recorded last month but only recently posted online, the bassist admitted he hadn’t spoken with his former frontman in “quite some time.” “The last time I actually spoke with him was when [there was talk] about a possible reunion thing,” Anthony noted (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “It’s really crazy because I hadn’t heard anything about [former Metallica bassist] Jason Newsted coming into the fold [and doing the tour]. And I got a call from Alex [Van Halen] and Dave from [manager]...
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Van Halen 3 producer Mike Post has revealed that Eddie Van Halen had to take over on drums in place of his brother Alex during the recording of the album. The 1998 record was the only Van Halen record to feature Gary Cherone on lead vocals, and was the band’s first commercial failure. Post, who is best known for writing the theme songs to famous TV shows such as Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, agreed to work on the record to help his friend Eddie maintain his sobriety. “I knew the record wasn’t really good,” he admits. “I knew the record was kind of crappy. But it’s the way Ed...
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Eddie Van Halen‘s legendary custom-modded guitar goes by a couple names and, in a new interview, Wolfgang Van Halen sets the record straight on what it is officially called. “Frankenstein” or “Frankenstrat”?Wolfgang guested on the Shred With Shifty podcast. It’s hosted by Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett and, during their conversation, he asks whether the guitar is named “Frankenstein” or “Frankenstrat.” “Officially, on the case, it says Frankenstein,” Wolfgang reveals, “But people call it whatever they want.” He also notes that the official name was not something his father Eddie was all...
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