Was Sibling Rivalry Behind ‘Awkward’ Van Halen Musical Moments?
Jason Bonham admits that he’s requested his present bandmates about sure “awkward” moments in Van Halen’s music.
He got here throughout these “weird” constructions in a few of the band’s tracks whereas getting ready for the continued tribute tour with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani, dubbed “Best of All Worlds.”
Bonham says Anthony, Van Halen’s former bassist, informed him the preparations had been a results of Eddie and Alex Van Halen being brothers.
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“Me and Joe were talking about this,” Bonham mentioned on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. “There’s the way they play certain parts as if they’re having a go at each other. It’s as if one of them is making it so awkward that the other one feels awkward doing it.”
So, “there was definitely some weird stuff that goes on where I’m going, ‘That’s not natural … to push there,’” Bonham added. “And Mike would say, ‘It’s Eddie screwing with Alex. … He’s making him play something that’s weird.’”
Bonham added that it had been an “eye-opening experience” to “really dig in there and go, ‘Hold on – why, why does it push there? It’s not meant to. That doesn’t feel right!’ And it’s the brothers. … That’s all [Anthony] says: ‘It’s the brothers. It’s their thing. It’s just the way they were.’”
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Is a Book Deal Behind Alex Van Halen’s Silence?
Meanwhile, Hagar beforehand reported that he tried a number of occasions to make contact with Alex Van Halen, in hopes that he’d participate within the Best of All Worlds tour. He’s now speculating {that a} e-book deal is behind Van Halen’s silence.
“I’ve asked him to meet me under any conditions – any circumstances, anytime, anyplace, anywhere,” Hagar says in a brand new interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It’s not like, ‘Well, let me think about it.’ It’s like, no answer – zero.”
Hagar confirmed that Van Halen might have taken any position he appreciated: “Just play a couple of songs, or if you want to be the drummer the whole night, or be the executive producer. What do you want to do?”
Van Halen’s Brothers is ready for publication in October. “I’m sure when he made his book deal, they said, ‘You cannot talk to [David Lee Roth], and you cannot talk to Hagar,” he added. “I guarantee you, that that was part of the deal.”
Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham Live in 2024
Hagar and Anthony revisit their Van Halen years with assist from their associates.
Gallery Credit: Matthew Wilkening
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