Van Halen's Sammy Hagar wants to 'be friends again' with Alex Van Halen: 'Will not take this to my grave'

Van Halen's Sammy Hagar shared that helium would similar to reconcile with his erstwhile bandmate Alex Van Halen amid their longtime estrangement.

During a caller interrogation with Rolling Stone, the 77-year-old instrumentalist expressed his anticipation that helium and Alex, 71, could mend their narration earlier they die.

"It’s connected my bucket database that I volition not instrumentality this to my grave, and I don’t privation Al taking it to his grave," Hagar said. "I’ve enactment the olive subdivision retired determination galore times, and I conscionable enactment it retired again to [Van Halen manager] Irving Azoff. 

Sammy Hagar, left, wants to "be friends again" with Alex Van Halen. (Getty)

Hagar became Van Halen's caller frontman successful 1985, erstwhile helium replaced archetypal pb vocalist David Lee Roth, joining Alex, who was the band's drummer, Alex's member and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and bassist/vocalist Michael Anthony. 

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After producing 4 multi-platinum albums, Hagar's stint with Van Halen ended with a divided successful 1995. The Cabo Wabo laminitis concisely reunited with Van Halen successful 2004, but near the set again aft the decision of their palmy summertime tour. 

Hagar's 2nd departure led to a agelong estrangement betwixt Eddie and Alex. However, Hagar and Eddie reconciled successful the months earlier the Van Halen laminitis died owed to lung crab successful October 2020.

Hagar, center, became Van Halen's caller frontman successful 1985, erstwhile helium replaced archetypal pb vocalist David Lee Roth. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

While speaking with Rolling Stone, Hagar explained that helium didn't judge that helium and Alex would make euphony together again.

"I privation to beryllium friends, though," helium said. "I don’t privation to play successful a set with Al. I’m not asking for that. I tin spot that he’s not susceptible of doing that. If helium was, I’d beryllium blessed to play with him, but it’s not what I’m looking for. I conscionable privation to beryllium friends again."

During a July interrogation with Ultimate Classic Rock, Hagar revealed that Alex was not responsive erstwhile helium and Anthony attempted to talk with him respective times earlier the 2 embarked connected their "Best of All Worlds" tour. 

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The tour, which features galore hits from Van Halen's catalog, concluded successful August, but volition instrumentality for a Las Vegas residency astatine the nine-show residency astatine Dolby Live astatine Park MGM successful outpouring 2025.

 "We reached retired to him a twelve times earlier this tour, successful each way. Email, substance message, telephone call, connection connected the machine, OK? No response. No response," Hagar told the outlet.  

"I mean, we made each connection to get unneurotic oregon to conscionable speech oregon to person breakfast, luncheon oregon dinner," helium added. "Go to the workplace and play. Come to my house, oregon I’ll travel to your house. Go thrust horses, spell beryllium connected the beach. What bash you privation to do? Let’s conscionable bash something. Let’s get together. And nothing."

Hagar departed the set doubly aft falling retired with Eddie and Alex. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)

In October, Alex told Billboard that helium was "not interested" successful being progressive with the tour.

"They’re not doing the set justice," helium said. "They tin bash what they privation to do. That’s not my business."

While speaking with Rolling Stone, Hagar shared his absorption to Alex's caller memoir "Brothers." In the book, Alex doesn't notation Hagar by name, speech from noting "We had a batch of different singers implicit the years."

"The bosom and the psyche and the creativity and the magic was Dave, Ed, Mike, and me," helium told Rolling Stone successful an October interview.

In "Brothers," Alex near retired the Van Hagar epoch entirely, concluding the communicative of the set successful 1984 up of Roth's departure.

Hagar told Rolling Stone that helium thought the snub was "sad."

"I haven’t work the full book, but I’ve seen each the excerpts, and I heard immoderate of the interviews," the Red Rocker said. 

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The instrumentalist said helium didn't privation to instrumentality their feud "to my grave." (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images))

He continued, "It breaks my heart, due to the fact that if I deliberation what Alex is going through, losing his brother, ne'er played with anybody other successful his life, and past his health… When I saw however rickety helium is, I realized, "No wonderment he’s not answering my telephone erstwhile I say, ‘Do you privation to spell retired and play with us?'" He can’t.'"

During his October interrogation with Rolling Stone, Alex said his mobility was constricted owed to a spinal wounded that helium suffered successful 2022.

"That breaks my heart, due to the fact that I tin lone enactment myself successful those shoes and say, ‘What if I couldn’t sing and execute anymore?’" Hagar said of Alex's health challenges. "The happening that I did my full life, the happening I devoted my beingness to, the happening that made maine affluent and celebrated and gave maine the astir beauteous beingness connected the planet, and each of a abrupt I can’t bash that anymore? I would consciousness similar I was robbing the fans, to commencement with. When you enactment yourself successful his shoes, I’m saying, ‘Okay, I consciousness atrocious for him.’"

He continued, "Why helium near maine out, I would similar to perceive him explicate that someday, due to the fact that I don’t get it completely. I cognize that he’s bitter astir immoderate things, immoderate that is… It’s like, ‘If you don’t privation that era, that adjacent gives maine much justification to accidental I ain it then,’ due to the fact that nary 1 other tin bash it, and helium can’t bash it adjacent without me. 

"It makes it easier for Mike and I," Hagar added. "We’re sitting determination going, ‘Okay, I conjecture we ain this,’ and we person the work to bring this to the fans to support this euphony alive, support it unrecorded and alive.

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However, Hagar went connected to praise Alex's memoir and pondered if the drummer had plans for a sequel.

"I privation to springiness him immoderate much recognition astir that book. The mode helium wrote it is soulful and touching," Hagar said. "I mean, astir their childhood. It's similar a emotion missive to his brother, and that's touching to me."

"I privation to springiness him immoderate emotion for that. I recognize helium astir apt couldn't person done the full epoch successful 1 book. It would've been the Bible, the dictionary, truthful possibly he's got plans for a Volume 2. Who knows?"