Michael Anthony

[Seshmeister]

A bit hypocritical of Eddie to feel that way, considering that same arrangement allowed his brother - who also didn't write jack shit - to share a quarter of the publishing royalties. Everyone knows that all Van Halen songs were written by Dave & Eddie and all Van Hagar songs were by Sam & Eddie. And neither Sobolewski or Alex were even present for half of VDIII, so they obviously didn't write any of that shit either.

Also no one fucking forced him, it was an arrangement among the band. There are plenty of fucking legends that ended up with nothing from their music career.

It's also spectacularly pathetic to sit there being fucking twisted and angry about the thought that you should have $87 million in the bank rather than $80 million.

It's a good window into the kind of person he is I suspect...

It's also ironic now that writing royalties are worth little due to the internet that MA becomes of value to them as an extra draw to hugely lucrative live shows.

[kwame k]

Never listened to the album and only heard a few songs off of it.........wouldn't surprise me if Ed played drums on a few tunes, either.