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SAMMY HAGAR To EDDIE VAN HALEN: 'F**k You. You're A Liar'

 

 

Former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar has branded Eddie Van Halen "a liar" after the legendary VH guitarist claimed in an interview that Eddie had to show ex-VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony "how to play all the parts" to the band's classic songs before they would go on tour.

 

Speaking to Billboard.com, Eddie Van Halen defended his decision to enlist his son Wolfgang to play bass for VAN HALEN following the dismissal of Anthony. He said: "Every note Mike ever played, I had to show him how to play. Before we'd go on tour, he'd come over with a video camera and I'd have to show him how to play all the parts." Van Halen also downplayed the role Anthony's harmonic backing vocals play in creating the group's signature sound. "Mike's voice is like a piccolo trumpet. But he's not a singer. He just has a range from hell," Eddie said. "Mike was just born with a very high voice. I have more soul as a singer than he does. And you know, people always talk about Mike's voice on VAN HALEN songs, but that’s a blend of Mike's voice and my voice. It's not just him."

 

Earlier today, after being told of Eddie's latest comments about Michael Anthony, Hagar released a video message defending the bassist, with whom he currently plays in THE CIRCLE, also featuring Jason Bonham on drums and Vic Johnson on guitar. He said (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's really irritating to see them go after Mikey. Mikey didn't do anything — ever — to VAN HALEN. Mikey was the most loyal guy in the band. He was the first guy there at rehearsal, the last guy to leave, the guy that was… the first guy at the gig, the guy that flew the… carried the banner, the flag, the VH banner… he carried it every night. And the horseman with the flag, the flagman on the horse in the calvary. That was Michael Anthony, okay?! [He was] a hundred percent dedicated. [He] never did anything to hurt those guys. And they try to hurt him again, and again, and again."

 

He continued: "For Eddie to say he had to show [Michael] what to play and had to teach him all those songs, that is the biggest line of bullshit I've ever heard in my life. I was in that band for eleven years, and there was never a video camera involved of Eddie showing him what to play. Eddie would tell him what to play once in a while, and say, 'No, Mike, don't play with that many notes. Just stay on one note — boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom — so that I can f**k up and nobody will know it.' It was that kind of shit. And I am telling you straight up, especially on the '04 reunion tour, if Mike would have played any more than one note, it would have been showing that Eddie wasn't playing the right chords again and again and again; I couldn't sing to 'em, you couldn't play bass to 'em. So… that is a lot of bullshit. And I don't know why they go after him like that. He doesn't deserve it. He's one of the greatest rock and roll bass players ever in the world. Michael Anthony is Top 5 rock and roll bass player in the world. Any bass player will tell you that, any musician will tell you that. Listen to him play on THE CIRCLE. He ain't going 'boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom' unless it was called for. Michael Anthony is a bad m***********. f**k you, Eddie Van Halen, for saying that about Mikey. You're a liar."

 

Anthony, for is part, offered the following rebuttal to Eddie's comments in the Billboard.com interview: "I am proud to say that my bass playing and vocals helped create our sound. I've always chosen to take the high road and stay out of the never-ending mudslinging, because I believe that it ultimately ends up hurting the VAN HALEN fans."

 

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Ed is so full of shite. I don't think MA is a great bass payer but hes damn good and he sings his ass off. If you look at the old VH clips from the original era it doesn't even look like his mike is turned on. The fact that MA is still doing his vocal stuff with Sammy and Ed doesn't even have a mike onstage with Roth says it all.
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Eddie is one of those guys that just can't part as friends. He's lauded as one of the greatest to pick up the instrument. He doesn't need to shit on people. Everyone would be cool with "mike has been a hell of an asset but I have a chance to play in a band with my son and I can't pass that opportunity up. I wish mike the best."
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Eddie is one of those guys that just can't part as friends. He's lauded as one of the greatest to pick up the instrument. He doesn't need to shit on people. Everyone would be cool with "mike has been a hell of an asset but I have a chance to play in a band with my son and I can't pass that opportunity up. I wish mike the best."

 

I mean really, why the sour grapes? He got them out of his band, so he has the last laugh, why rub lemon juice into the open wound.

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Yeah, that's not cool. And as I've said before, micheal Anthony is, IMO, underrated as a player. Eddie held him back big time.

 

Interview with Anthony from 1981 , guitar player magazine...

 

Do the limitations of rock bother you?

 

Sometimes they do. I know I'm making ed sound good. There's a lot of times when I'll get frustrated because I can't play what I want to play. The other guys will say " why don't you just sit back and play this" and I'll grit my teeth and go " okay" ..it's a little restricting playing behind a guitarist like Ed, but it feels good because of who he is.

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If all involved took a lesson or two from Michael on taking the high road, half the news about Van Halen wouldn't even exist. Funny enough, Dave seems to be the most polite member of the band these days.
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Is Eddie Van Halen's ego so large he can't accept the fact that other musicians contributed, in a positive way, to his music?

 

And I try to be one not to judge, but Wolfgang needs to go on a low carb diet!

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If all involved took a lesson or two from Michael on taking the high road, half the news about Van Halen wouldn't even exist. Funny enough, Dave seems to be the most polite member of the band these days.

True, yeah the thing aboot Dave is Im waiting for him to blow Tai Shan up perhaps after Eddie is done mouthing off.

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Dave's done long interviews since returning to VH, and although there's been a bunch of questions which begged for a stab in Eddie and/or Alex' back, I think he's smart enough now to realize that this is his last shot at being a part of something big. The only rough comments he has are towards Sammy.
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Interesting, one could hope Eddie might learn something from Dave but time is running short. I know the following comment is overly simple but you'd think these men in their fifties would have learned to be more like the quiet professionals Rush are.
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His brain is probably pickled from all the booze.

 

I dunno if it's true or not, I'm not a VH expert but one of the guys here could probably confirm this, but I've heard EVH is or at least for a long time was a meth head. alcoholism + meth addiction....eddie's brain is probably pretty f***ed up.

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His brain is probably pickled from all the booze.

 

I dunno if it's true or not, I'm not a VH expert but one of the guys here could probably confirm this, but I've heard EVH is or at least for a long time was a meth head. alcoholism + meth addiction....eddie's brain is probably pretty f***ed up.

 

As are most rock stars. It's funny when certain folks use Rush as the example of rock stardom. If anything, rush are the f***ed up ones for being so god damn normal!

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His brain is probably pickled from all the booze.

 

I dunno if it's true or not, I'm not a VH expert but one of the guys here could probably confirm this, but I've heard EVH is or at least for a long time was a meth head. alcoholism + meth addiction....eddie's brain is probably pretty f***ed up.

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....makes perfect sense now.

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