DAVID LEE ROTH Blasts SAMMY HAGAR Over His 'Constant Spew Of Diarrhea Vitriol'
@JoeEDangerously I guess Diamond Dave did say something after all
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Dave needs to say it to Sammy’s FACE!
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I’m on Dave’s side now. Used to be on Sammy’s side on a lot of things but Sammy brings up shit unprovoked in interviews now and it saddens me because I think it’s beneath him to be jealous that Dave sold more albums with Van Halen.
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Thanks Taft!
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When it comes to siding with any member of the Mighty Van Halen, I will always side with Team Michael Anthony. The worst thing he ever said was Dave is a crazy guy. Never dissed the brothers despite getting cut out of royalties. Unsure if they ever adhered to it, but to cut MA out while AVH didn’t contribute music and lyrics is crappy. Having the name VH saved AVH.
Between Dave and Sammy, Team Dave all the way. And I do like Van Hagar. Sammy’s bad math and justifying Van Hagar was more popular is what gets me. Sure, you had more #1 albums. But you didn’t sell more.
The brothers lost a lot of respect when they blamed Roth for the MTV VMAs in 96. Always making Dave to be the bad guy while recording with him and leading him in while they had Cherone waiting in the wings. Dave was the bad guy when he quit. The brothers couldn’t stand Roth. They should have been elated. But they get Sammy and they talk shit. The actions never matched the words.
I could go on and on about VH.
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But then Eddie and Sammy had their own World War III
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EVH said Sammy quit and that “his work ethic sucked”
Sammy said he was fired on Fathers Day or Mother’s Day by a drunk EVH. Sammy also just had a new born kid with the new wife, so I will side with Sammy as to what happened. Sammy is a hard working guy. This was shortly after Cabo Wabo opened a few years earlier and I think the tequila was taking off. Sammy is still going strong today, so his work ethic doesn’t suck.
I think the VH brothers were bent out of shape for not sticking with the Cabo Wabo thing. They wanted out. Sammy bought them out and it took off.
Plus the VH brothers were probably jealous of Sammy getting along with MA so well.
Then the 2004 Reunion happens and EVH is looking rough. All method out. Sammy’s been book details that it was not a good time. AVH was in the middle of a divorce and needed the money, so he trotted EVH out there to make a few bucks.
If the VH brothers had more than three ounces of business sense instead of one, they would have reunited with Roth in 1996 while the iron was white hot. 1996 was the year of big reunions. KISS. Sex Pistols. But no, they blamed Roth for making it about him and disrespecting Beck at the VMAs. I think Beck would have given up the award to see VH reunite. The celebs in the audience knew it should happen.
after those VMAs and it came out the bothers used Roth and they told Roth “baby steps” and AVH also said, “ we don’t want to rip off the fans”. The fans wanted to be ripped off with a Roth reunion!! But no. We got VH3, which is not great album. And it was announced that EVH did the drumming and not AVH as AVH was too drunk most of the time. The VH3 show was great. Saw it at the Gorge. They played old stuff as that what the fans wanted and Cherone delivered.That is when we got to see EVHs work ethic go from zilch to nada. Eddie Van Halen became Eddie Van Heineken and lots of meth.
I am looking forward to AVHs book that comes out in October. Just so many sides to this band’s history.
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This conversation has always been easy for me. That is to say, I don't have any interest in the music post 1984.
But those first 6 albums are all timers!
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Based on what I read in Sammy's autobiography, I think EVH was clinically insane.
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They were the American version of Led Zeppelin from 78-84. They couldn’t be touched. If they just would have stuck it out, who knows what they would become. Grunge didn’t kill them off like it did other bands, but I skipped the FUCK tour. I appreciate the Van Hagar years and the Cherone tour, but there was a reason why they reunited with Roth for three tours from 2008 on. Thats what the people wanted.
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EVH wasn’t the brightest guy in some respects. Noel Monk’s book alluded to that. There is a story about EVH and Fred Durst that is pretty nuts as well. Some say EVH drove a tank. I doubt that. I think it may have been a jeep that could mount a machine gun from it. It seems like the brothers didn’t care about the business side. But it was the business and money they made from it that allowed them to be musicians, which was what they looked at themselves as. And as much as they say Roth was a pain to be around, the brothers were drunk almost all the time. I don’t blame Roth for quitting.
Another great book is by Greg Renoff. The early days of VH. The Gene Simmons demos. Bill Aucoin turning them down. Warner signing them soon after. If not for Roth, the VH brothers would not be where they are today. Roth had the vision, the salesmanship to push VH. The videos are legendary.
These are the reasons I am Team Roth. Or Team Sammy when it comes to him butting heads with the brothers.
