Newest interview with Sammy about Van Halen

[driver67]

Ok buddies , this is DLR Forum.
I like CVH !
Sammy Van Halen was never the same!!!!

But! Here in this interview you can find some interesting parts about Van Halen and Eddie and the whole story around.

And....NO(!) Bad words about Dave.........


But Eddie..... sorry its awesome!



Take a look its worth the time!

Here!!!!

[frets5150]

Re: Newest interview with Sammy about Van Halen

[driver67]

@frets5150

you mean???????

[Fat Wolfie]

- Ok, so jumping to Van Halen then. Do you get tired of being asked about the band in I guess every interview, being that everything is kinda on hold?

- No I don't get tired of it. The truth of the matter is, Van Halen – one of the greatest rock n roll bands in history –

- Absolutely.

- No question about it. My era…Dave era….all of it together it fucking….you can't get much more rock n roll history than that.
It's a shame that it is not functional anymore. The last tour was really….I spearheaded that; I really wanted that to happen. I said this has to happen.
I heard Eddie had been sick with cancer and I said, you know…if this guy dies and we never do this, it's gonna be a shame for everybody. For the fans, for the band, just for rock n roll and history.
So I pushed for it to happen and it really wasn't a good time.
I wish I would have waited or tried to do it sooner. I don't know which would have been worse or which would have been better.
But if it had of gone great, then Van Halen could have been together again and I could have had my band on the side.
But as it turned out, my band is my band now and Van Halen is my side project.
And unless something really changes, it's going to stay that way.

- Yep.

- And not because that's exactly what I want, it's just not user friendly. It's not any fun to be around Eddie, he's not a fun guy to be around. He's just really angry and I don't know why.
Cause, it's like 'Hey dude, what's your problem? You've got everything anyone could want...', but he wants more. He doesn't want to share the spotlight…he doesn't want to share the creativity anymore. He doesn't want to be a band; he wants to be a solo artist. And he used to say that about me and here I am a fucking solo artist!
But I keep saying he is the one that wants to be a solo artist. He wishes that he and his brother could just go out by themselves and not have to deal with other people so that he can just do what ever he wants.

- Well, that's where I get confused. Why doesn't he do that then…why don't both of the brothers just get out there and do that?

- Well…first of all – in the band Van Halen, Eddie always did whatever he wanted, I did what I wanted, Alex did what he wanted and Mikey did what he wanted.
But then Eddie started saying, no no, I want Alex to do what I want him to do.
You know, on that Gary Cherone trip, he played drums on a few songs.
C'mon! Fucking do a solo album! Not this when you have a drummer like Alex Van Halen.
And he sang lead on a song. My God! Am I gonna let this guy sing? That'd be like me saying 'Eddie, I'm going to play lead guitar on that song instead of you.'
It's not going to be as good, you know, but he just wants to do everything and tell everyone what to do and he's fucking crazy. So it's not very easy to say 'oh, that's a good idea'.
If it was a good idea that'd be easy, but if it's just some harebrained cockamamie thing that he doesn't even remember what he said 5 minutes later…I'm not going to sit in the studio all night trying to do Eddie's solo trip with my voice.
It was tough.
Those last three songs we recorded – I could have recorded three albums in that amount of time.

- Yeah, I was going to say that while they are ok songs….they sounded labored. They didn't flow or have that spontaneous Van Halen vibe.

Man, it was hoarse brother. I went in and Eddie had spent 3 weeks on a guitar part and I'd come in and do my vocal in 2 hours. And it would be done.
Now, you can make fun of me all you want and say 'Yeah, you should have spent more time on your vocals…they could have been better – fuck you!'

- Hahaha.

It was as good as it could be though. Especially under those circumstances, I just tried not to be around the guy.
He was miserable.
Thank God for the producer, he really made things bearable. He kept it together.
That tour would never have happened if it wasn't for Glen Ballard. He got me in and out before Eddie and me would get in a fight. And then the tour – same thing.
Two airplanes and all that. If someone could really see what went on behind the scenes, not what happened on stage….and sometimes that wasn't so hot either.
But you would go – 'Oh, I understand why Sammy doesn't want to do it.'
Plus, if they want to do it – if Ed wants to do it or Alex wants to do it. If Ed wants to do it, all he has to do is call us up and say 'Hey, I'm sorry about what happened before, let's try this again.'
I'd give it a try, but it would have to be a little bit different.

- There were a lot of reports of Eddie drinking heavily on tour.

He was pretty out of it the whole tour. There were nights when I didn't even know what song he was playing. Nobody else did either. We just stayed on the same song while he stumbled around the neck of the guitar.
And he is the most brilliant guitar player in rock history. Certainly one of them…right up there with Jimmy [Page], I don't care what anyone says.
I think Eddie is as innovative as Jimmy or anyone else and together we wrote some of the greatest songs in rock history and with Dave they wrote some of the greatest songs in rock history.
So it's all been done. I don't want to go out there and bury the goose. I would sooner leave it alone and say let this thing go down as one of the greatest thing.
I don't want to keep going out there and butchering it.
But I wish we had of hit Australia.

[Sarge's Little Helper]

- Ok, so jumping to Van Halen then. Do you get tired of being asked about the band in I guess every interview, being that everything is kinda on hold?

- No I don't get tired of it. The truth of the matter is, Van Halen – one of the greatest rock n roll bands in history –

- Absolutely.

- No question about it. My era…Dave era….all of it together it fucking….you can't get much more rock n roll history than that.
It's a shame that it is not functional anymore. The last tour was really….I spearheaded that; I really wanted that to happen. I said this has to happen.
I heard Eddie had been sick with cancer and I said, you know…if this guy dies and we never do this, it's gonna be a shame for everybody. For the fans, for the band, just for rock n roll and history.
So I pushed for it to happen and it really wasn't a good time.
I wish I would have waited or tried to do it sooner. I don't know which would have been worse or which would have been better.
But if it had of gone great, then Van Halen could have been together again and I could have had my band on the side.
But as it turned out, my band is my band now and Van Halen is my side project.
And unless something really changes, it's going to stay that way.

- Yep.

- And not because that's exactly what I want, it's just not user friendly. It's not any fun to be around Eddie, he's not a fun guy to be around. He's just really angry and I don't know why.
Cause, it's like 'Hey dude, what's your problem? You've got everything anyone could want...', but he wants more. He doesn't want to share the spotlight…he doesn't want to share the creativity anymore. He doesn't want to be a band; he wants to be a solo artist. And he used to say that about me and here I am a fucking solo artist!
But I keep saying he is the one that wants to be a solo artist. He wishes that he and his brother could just go out by themselves and not have to deal with other people so that he can just do what ever he wants.

- Well, that's where I get confused. Why doesn't he do that then…why don't both of the brothers just get out there and do that?

- Well…first of all – in the band Van Halen, Eddie always did whatever he wanted, I did what I wanted, Alex did what he wanted and Mikey did what he wanted.
But then Eddie started saying, no no, I want Alex to do what I want him to do.
You know, on that Gary Cherone trip, he played drums on a few songs.
C'mon! Fucking do a solo album! Not this when you have a drummer like Alex Van Halen.
And he sang lead on a song. My God! Am I gonna let this guy sing? That'd be like me saying 'Eddie, I'm going to play lead guitar on that song instead of you.'
It's not going to be as good, you know, but he just wants to do everything and tell everyone what to do and he's fucking crazy. So it's not very easy to say 'oh, that's a good idea'.
If it was a good idea that'd be easy, but if it's just some harebrained cockamamie thing that he doesn't even remember what he said 5 minutes later…I'm not going to sit in the studio all night trying to do Eddie's solo trip with my voice.
It was tough.
Those last three songs we recorded – I could have recorded three albums in that amount of time.

- Yeah, I was going to say that while they are ok songs….they sounded labored. They didn't flow or have that spontaneous Van Halen vibe.

Man, it was hoarse brother. I went in and Eddie had spent 3 weeks on a guitar part and I'd come in and do my vocal in 2 hours. And it would be done.
Now, you can make fun of me all you want and say 'Yeah, you should have spent more time on your vocals…they could have been better – fuck you!'

- Hahaha.

It was as good as it could be though. Especially under those circumstances, I just tried not to be around the guy.
He was miserable.
Thank God for the producer, he really made things bearable. He kept it together.
That tour would never have happened if it wasn't for Glen Ballard. He got me in and out before Eddie and me would get in a fight. And then the tour – same thing.
Two airplanes and all that. If someone could really see what went on behind the scenes, not what happened on stage….and sometimes that wasn't so hot either.
But you would go – 'Oh, I understand why Sammy doesn't want to do it.'
Plus, if they want to do it – if Ed wants to do it or Alex wants to do it. If Ed wants to do it, all he has to do is call us up and say 'Hey, I'm sorry about what happened before, let's try this again.'
I'd give it a try, but it would have to be a little bit different.

- There were a lot of reports of Eddie drinking heavily on tour.

He was pretty out of it the whole tour. There were nights when I didn't even know what song he was playing. Nobody else did either. We just stayed on the same song while he stumbled around the neck of the guitar.
And he is the most brilliant guitar player in rock history. Certainly one of them…right up there with Jimmy [Page], I don't care what anyone says.
I think Eddie is as innovative as Jimmy or anyone else and together we wrote some of the greatest songs in rock history and with Dave they wrote some of the greatest songs in rock history.
So it's all been done. I don't want to go out there and bury the goose. I would sooner leave it alone and say let this thing go down as one of the greatest thing.
I don't want to keep going out there and butchering it.
But I wish we had of hit Australia.

Oops. I wasn't paying attention. Tell me again what is going on.

[Fat Wolfie]

I was cutting/pasting as I read it, and of course Spammy did badmouth DLR. Check the last part of the interview.

[col5150]

i hate to say it but old clown shoes did actually make sense to me on two things, firstly Eddie needs to get out and do his own solo record and Dave does need to get some new music out there. I for one would be disapointed if dave spent the rest of his career rehashing old vh tunes

[Matt White]

Spam Hagar...who gives 2 shits what that clown has to say aboot ANYTING?!?

[Don Corleone]

Originally posted by Fat Wolfie
I was cutting/pasting as I read it, and of course Spammy did badmouth DLR. Check the last part of the interview.

LOL. It's been a while since anyone argued with the Robot.

It is interesting though how Spam has changed tune in the last 2 weeks or so.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

"But oh no…but I'll tell you …right now, David is more user friendly than Eddie"

Now coming from Sam's piehole, that's saying something....

[Panamark]

It will never cease to amaze me, that Sammy Hagar can even
contimplate that Van Hagar and Van Halen are on the same level.

He alludes to this in that interview.
Interestingly he alludes to Dave being easier to handle that Eddie..

HELLO !!! Our memories are not that short fat fuck. I totally
remember him dissing Dave at the end of the Dave tour....
(support act Sammy)

Now Sammy Disses Eddie...

Sammy, maybe its you dude ???

He also mentions that he might visit Australia..
Why ??? Who cares ??

Well he apparently has a distribution deal with
an Aussie Liquor importer..

So he is coming to Oz because of his booze, not
the popularity of his music....

Rooty Hill RSL might have a gig for him..

[ThrillsNSpills]

Originally posted by Panamark
It will never cease to amaze me, that Sammy Hagar can even
contimplate that Van Hagar and Van Halen are on the same level.

You said a mouthful there bro and it's absolutely correct. And confusing, but Sam said the he and Eddie were on a songwriting level of Page and Plant. (the 2 book chapters)

sounds like he thinks his era was actually better than Roth.

[DlocRoth]

I wouldn't read too much into that.

Every time he mentions how "great" Van Hagar was, he quickly throws Dave's name in the mix too....

Trust, he knows who to thank at the end of the day.

[franksters]

who gives a flying fuck about what that pass due jerk beef with 70% fat thinks of anything... really.

[FORD]

Hell, I'm just surprised his Cheddarness actually took a phone call from Andrew at 7:00 in the fucking morning.