Originally Posted by
Terry
I find it is poetic justice that Hagar went ahead with that 2004 tour knowing how fucked up Ed was, took the money, waited 4 years, took some more money to tell his story about how him doing the 2004 tour knowing how fucked up Ed was and taking the money wasn't his fault, then got to sit back and watch Dave rejoin the band and go onto three financially/commercially successful tours with Van Halen in 10,000 seater + venues while Hagar was relegated to playing much smaller venues with The Circle.
To top it all off, Hagar started repeatedly making louder and louder public noises in the press and on social media about how he was up for another Van Halen tour, and then Eddie passed away and now the lasting memory of Roth is that he started the band with the Van Halens and ended the band with the Van Halens, with by far more albums sold than Hagar's time with the group and people by and large considering Roth's time with the group THE definitive Van Halen music. And the lasting memory of Hagar is he came into the band after it was already successful, helped steer the band into shitty ballad terrain, sold half the records that had been sold with Dave and ended his stint with the band doing a shitty tour most folks consider the low point of Van Halen's career (even including the Cherone period).