Sammy Hagar has not talked to Alex van Halen in over 20 years

Sammy Hagar and Alex van Halen Is still fearing after more than two decades.

Hagar, 77, and the drummer, 53, have not spoken in 21 years, Police stone Reported Tuesday, April 29, along with a new interview with the singer. Van Halen was founded in 1973, with Hagar who came on board in 1985 after the main vocalist David Lee Roth left. Hagar’s first service with the band ended in 1996, but he returned from 2003 to 2005.

Alex suffers from a back injury that has affected his ability to play drums, per another Police stone interview from October 2024. The musician did not mention Hagar by name in his memoir, Brothers.

Hagar told the outlet that he believes that their enmity derives from Alex’s inability to act as he once did.

“He’s not a singer. He’s not a guitar player. He’s not really band leader,” Hagar said. “He seems like he doesn’t want to play drums or can’t play drums anymore, and he can’t write a new record.”

“Alex was not the songwriter in the band. He was the drummer. Eddie and I wrote the songs. Dave and Eddie wrote the songs, and then we can go out and do them,” said Hagar about Alex’s late brother and band co -founder, Eddie van Halen.

Hagar and Eddie had fallen out, but they reconciled before eddie’s death In October 2020.

“And I think it really bothers him that Mike and I’m still out and do,” Hagar said about the band’s bassist, Michael Anthony. “I would feel bad. If I sat in his shoes, I would feel horrible if I couldn’t do it anymore.”

Despite his previous emotions, he also spoke directly to Alex. “Al, you are well. Just leave me. I leave you in peace. All is well,” Hagar told to Police stone.

“I earn you, by the way, al. I am out selling van Halen discs and keeps the name alive, keeps the music alive,” he said, referring to his upcoming Las Vegas residence, Best of all worldsWhich starts on Wednesday, April 30 and contains van Halen songs from Hagar’s era.

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Before his upcoming nine-show residence, Hagar released a new single, “Encore, thank you, good night“On Friday, April 24. He told him Police stone In a previous interview he wrote it after Eddie visited him in a dream.

“He had a guitar around his neck and we had a love party because we had not seen each other in a long time,” he told the outlet. “And he just started playing this riff, and I started singing.”

“This was one hundred percent a communication from it,” he said. “It’s no question about it. I dream of Eddie all the time, quite frankly.”