When Jason Bonham first met Alex Van Halen, issues didn’t go nicely.

Bonham — who’s at present on tour with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony on the Best of All Worlds tour — recalled the incident throughout a current interview with KSHE 95 (audio beneath).

“It’s 40 years since I saw Mike play at Donington,” he stated of his go to to the U.Ok. competition in 1984. “My wife and I went to Donington – Monsters of Rock – AC/DC, Van Halen. And I got to meet Alex that day… Leonard [Haze] from Y&T introduced me. He came up – this is a classic – and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Alex Van Halen!’

“He goes, ‘Hey Leonard!’ [Haze says:] ‘This is Jason Bonham.’ And he goes, ‘So what?’ He just went, ‘So what?’”

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Years later, Jason grow to be mates with Anthony and requested him why Van Halen could have been so dismissive. “I said, ‘Mikey, why was Alex such a dick?’” the drummer recalled. The bassist recommended it might have been payback for the time Van Halen met Jason’s dad, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

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Anthony harked again to the second within the late ‘70s when Van Halen had tried to satisfy the elder Bonham. “He goes, ‘Well, we heard your dad was in (Sunset Strip bar) the Rainbow, and we were playing Gazzarri’s next door. We kind of ran around the Rainbow and tried to say ‘hi’ to him.”

Van Halen was excited to meet his idol, but Bonzo didn’t reciprocate the enthusiasm.

“Alex kind of like jumped over the [barrier] and went to put his hand out… And your dad took a swing at him!’” Anthony defined to Jason. “Maybe that’s why he was a little pissed!”

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