SAMMY HAGAR Says EDDIE VAN HALEN Owes Him An Apology - "I’m Still Disappointed That They Have Not Reached Out To Be Friends"
June 6, 2012, 12 years ago
SAMMY HAGAR (CHICKENFOOT, ex-VAN HALEN, MONTROSE) spoke with Sally Steele from Vegas Rocks! Magazine recently about his current relationship with his former bandmates in VAN HALEN.
“I could get along with Alex," Hagar explains. "I got along at one time with Eddie amazingly. Obviously Mike and I are dearest friends on the planet, but Ed and I man … he turned on me. I don't even want to get into it. It was a horrible, horrible ending to a beautiful, beautiful story, and I’m still disappointed that they have not reached out to be friends, especially Alex, because Alex and I didn’t have a problem. Of course he sides with his brother, so I understand that."
When asked if he might make amends with Eddie Van Halen, Hagar says: "I can’t see why we wouldn’t and I can’t see why we shouldn’t, but I don’t know. It’s not my goal. I’m not out there wasting energy on that. As far as I’m concerned, he owes me an apology. As far as I’m concerned, if he wanted to be friends, he should reach back out to me because what happened on that reunion tour in ’04 was some of the most miserable, back-stabbing dark crap I’ve ever been involved with my whole life and I would never go through that again with anybody or for any amount of money or any amount of fame and fortune or nothing. Until he comes around and says 'I'm sorry, I was an asshole, I want to be friends once again,' I'd be there in a second. But for me to reach out it would be stupid."
Check out the interview below:
