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Michael Anthony has opened up about his relationship with former Van Halen bandmate David Lee Roth. While the bassist insists he has nothing against the singer, he describes the frontman as “kind of a crazy guy.”

In July, Anthony will head out on the “Best of All Worlds” tour alongside Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Jason Bonham. The all-star outfit will be performing Van Halen songs from all eras of the band on the North American outing.

A couple years ago, a different tour honoring the late Eddie Van Halen was being planned that would have seen Anthony and Satriani playing alongside Roth and Alex Van Halen, with ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted also reported to be involved. That outing never materialized, and Anthony reveals he hasn’t spoken with Roth since.

In a Q&A at the Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp last month in a video just posted on YouTube (transcribed by Blabbermouth), Anthony discussed the planned tribute tour, as well as his current relationship with Roth.

“I haven’t spoken with Dave in quite some time,” said Anthony. “The last time I actually spoke with him was when [there was talk] about a possible reunion thing. It’s really crazy because I hadn’t heard anything about Jason Newsted coming into the fold. And I got a call from Alex and Dave from [manager] Irving Azoff’s office some years back asking about my thoughts on doing a reunion, a tour. And Joe Satriani was gonna be the guitar player. And that was probably the last time I talked to Dave. That was — God, I don’t know — about a few years ago now. I forget — something like that.”

The bassist continued, “Dave’s kind of a crazy guy. It’s hard to explain Dave. We don’t have enough time. But, no, other than that, no. I mean, I don’t have anything against Dave. And I’ve said this in the past to different people, whatever, that if the chance ever came up or whatever, I would definitely be willing to jam with him or whatever. In fact, I think the last time he did his last [residency] shows at the House Of Blues in Vegas some years back. I was actually gonna come to one of those shows and surprise him and come up and jump on stage, but, unfortunately, we were playing a gig somewhere else — Sammy and I were.”

As far as the “Best of All Worlds” tour, Anthony remarked, “Well, Sammy and I figured it’s 20 years ago this year that we did the last Van Halen reunion. And Sammy and I were talking about it. We’re always reminiscing and stuff like that, and we thought, ‘Gosh, 20 years.’ And who knows what’s happening now? We obviously can’t wait much longer. Sammy’s an old man now. But we didn’t wanna wait any longer.”

He added, “And with Ed, unfortunately, passing away the other year. And Alex, he’s still pretty much — I know he still grieves and stuff like that. And he doesn’t really get out; he doesn’t get out and play. And so Sammy and I wanted to get the music out to everybody. And we thought what a better way… Let’s get together and take it and play it. Someone’s gotta play it.”

The “Best of All Worlds” tour kicks off July 13th in West Palm Beach, Florida, and runs through an August 31st show in St. Louis, with tickets available here.

Hagar extended an invite to Roth to make a guest appearance on the tour, but that seems unlikely after a new war of words broke out between the long-feuding Van Halen frontmen. Roth even went so far as to say that “Sammy Hagar was abducted by aliens and he was sex probed.”

Check out the aforementioned Q&A with Michael Anthony below, and see where he ranks on our recent list of the 100 Greatest Bassists of All Time.

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Valerie Bertinelli loves to share how proud she is of all the things her son Wolfgang "Wolfie" Van Halen has accomplished. But Valerie wishes one important person were here to see Wolfie's recent achievements, and it's someone who meant a lot to her family.

While promoting her new cookbook Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share, the Food Network alum appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the project and whip up some recipes for the audience. As she stood alongside Lara Spencer during the April 3 taping, the subject quickly switched to Valerie singing high praise for all of Wolfie's success as a musician. This led Lara to ask Valerie how she thinks her late ex-husband Eddie Van Halen would feel about their son, given how he was once a member of the legendary rock band Van Halen. Upon hearing the question, Valerie shared how Eddie would likely hold the same amount of love she has for Wolfie.

"How proud would his dad be of what he's done?" Lara asked Valerie in a clip posted on GMA's TikTok.

"Oh, so proud," Valerie replied. "I do wish Ed were here just so we could go, 'Look, look at our kid. That's so cool!'"

As fans may remember, Valerie and Eddie were married in 1981 and welcomed Wolfie a decade later in 1991. The couple later divorced in 2007, but maintained a long-standing friendship until Eddie's death in October 2020.

While Valerie and Wolfie have both experienced ups and downs in their lives, neither are letting Eddie be forgotten. As Wolfie explained to People in an article published on April 4, he got into music because of seeing his dad perform.

"The reason I do what I do is because of my dad," he said. "So if I didn't [salute him on stage] or at least think about him throughout the process, I'd be doing a disservice to my existence. I think it's very important to establish that to thank my dad every night, every time I'm on stage. Just to thank my father and to know that he's always there with me every night."

Clearly, Eddie's talent has rubbed off on Woflie, as he's now the frontman of his own band, called Mammoth WVH. He also was a part of the team that got nominated for Best Original Song at the 2024 Oscars, thanks to his work on the nominated song "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie.

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In 2009, former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony reunited for a brand new band, Chickenfoot, also featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and guitarist Joe Satriani. As the band explained to Classic Rock that year, they were ready to bring back the party vibes with their self-titled debut album.

“I’m jazzed to be playing with these guys. I’ve recorded an album with Andy Johns, who’s produced my favourite ever bands. I’m playing with guitar god Joe Satriani and Hall Of Famers Mike Anthony and Sammy Hagar. And I’m just a schmo from Detroit who makes a racket.”

The ‘schmo’ in question is none other than Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith who makes up one quarter (or should that be a drumstick?) of Chickenfoot, the supergroup du jour who are already creating a lot of excitement with the announcement of an album in April and a European tour this summer.

With so much promise and such a stellar cast, do they actually live up to the hype? The name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue with ease or conjure up visions of a union between some of rock’s mightiest behemoths.

“Chickenfoot was just supposed to be a bullshit name that we used for a while,” reveals former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony. “And then rumours spread about the band and we thought, fuck it. Let’s just call it Chickenfoot. It all comes down to the music anyway.”

“That’s right,” concurs Will Ferrell lookalike Smith. “And let’s get one thing straight: we’re not a supergroup.We like hanging out together, and the music is a bonus. We just happen to be in other groups.”

CR caught up with the band ‘hanging out together’ at Sammy Hagar’s recording studio (which seems to double up as a garage for his vast collection of vintage sports cars) located on an anonymous industrial estate just outside San Francisco. While Hagar, Anthony and Satriani live close by, Smith has flown in from LA and is a day late, having very recently become a father.

“You were fired yesterday,” jokes Satriani.

“You can just take a walk around the block and get fired from this band!” Smith complains.

“We should exclusively play the Chad Smith catalogue!” retorts Satriani.

Smith: “I was going to bring that up. Question: Why did the drummer get sacked from the band? Answer: He said: ‘Hey, guys, I’ve got a few songs I want to try out.”

This is kind of banter carries on relentlessly throughout the day as the band members flit in and out of photo shoots and management conferences while CR tries to collar them. Which is what you’d expect from a collective with such high-profile party animal credentials; even the usually more introspective Satriani has been seized by the levity of the occasion.

“Make sure you run this by Gene Simmons,” he tells his manager when he’s given a copy of Chickenfoot’s new logo. “Remember: Kiss own everything.”

Chickenfoot’s origins came about when Hagar left Van Halen for the last time in 2005 and formed his own band The Waboritas, whose shows featured a segment where Hagar and Anthony would play under the guise of The Other Half (as in the other half of VH) featuring special guests. This eventually developed into regular jam sessions at Hagar’s Cabo Wabo club in Mexico, where Smith owns a holiday home.

“Sammy invited me to play at the club on New Year’s Eve,” the drummer explained. “I told him that I didn’t know much Van Halen but I knew and loved the first Montrose album. He said: ‘Great! We’ll do the whole album!’”

Instantly bonded by their love of classic rock music (Smith is also a huge fan of this esteemed magazine) and besieged by requests from fans wanting to know when the band were going to tour and record, Hagar decided that if they were going to take this venture seriously then they would have to expand the line-up.

“I can just about carry off playing guitar in a jam band scenario,” the frontman and tequila entrepreneur explains, “but to do it properly we needed a guitarist. And as far as I’m concerned Joe Satriani is the best guitar player in the world.”

The band made their official debut just over a year ago in Las Vegas at a Hagar concert, where they played a short set of covers (including Led Zeppelin’s Rock And Roll and Traffic’s Dear Mr. Fantasy).

Satriani had played with Hagar in a project called Planet US in 2003, and when the two men got together in the studio there was an immediate rapport. “We wrote eight songs in two days,” Hagar recalls. “And then when we all got together and wrote more songs it turned into a band.”

They hired producer Andy Johns (whose illustrious CV includes Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Free and Jimi Hendrix) for the album, but he got seriously ill halfway through recording process and Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith) took over. The final result is as confident, energetic and musical as one would expect from such an elite corps of players. And you won’t be surprised to learn that Hagar agrees.

“This is the best record I’ve ever done in my life,” he enthuses. “I feel like everything I did – working in Montrose, Van Halen and then going solo – happened so I could be who I am right now with this band.”

We’re given an exclusive preview of three tracks from the band’s self-titled debut. Soap On A Rope and Sexy Little Thing have the humour and loose, spontaneous feel of prime VH, with the unashamed unbridled energy of Montrose. Avenida Revolucion is an epic anthem about a dividing road on the Mexican/American border – a contentious subject close to Hagar’s heart.

“That’s a very political song. But I live on the Californian border and in Mexico as well, and I’m telling you, it’s a problem. You drive down Avenida Revolucion: for miles and miles it’s wall-to-wall flowers, crosses and messages for people who’ve been killed. It’s a mess.”

So fired up with this new project, Hagar has already managed to stir some controversy when during an interview in Toronto he reportedly said that Chickenfoot could – ahem – rival Led Zeppelin. The very mention of this makes him groan loudly and bury his face in his hands: “I’m backing off that statement right now, it was the stupidest thing I ever said,” he admits, and then explains what actually happened.

“As you know, I own a tequila company. And I was spreading the word in Canada. I got real fucked up, and then this guy brings up Chickenfoot. I said: ‘We’re better than Zeppelin,’ or something. What I was trying to say is that this band is like early Zeppelin – it’s got a hard-rock edge to it that’s special. I would never compare anything to Led Zeppelin, they were the greatest band ever.”

In the meantime the band aretalking to record labels and putting together a tour of Europe’s festivals this summer which will include some shows in the UK. This will mark a long-overdue return for Anthony and Hagar. “I feel so guilty I haven’t played there in years,” Hagar confesses. “When I was in Van Halen we’d do 130 dates in the US, and the management would say: ‘Are you ready to do Europe?’ And we’d say: ‘Fuck you. We’re done.’ And when we finally got there we thought we were the biggest band in the world and we ended up supporting Bon Jovi. That broke the band up.”

So, Chickenfoot: musical saviours, or a bunch of old rockers indulging in a mid-life-crisis vanity project? Hagar firmly believes it’s the former, and that the age card works to their advantage.

“I agree it’s hard for old bands to get together and write new material,” he admits. “When I was in Van Halen at the 2004 reunion, I wanted to do a new album but we couldn’t, because we were past it. But I think if you still have it in your heart and mean it, then the more seasoning you have, the better you get. Let’s face it: are you going to pay the same price for some band you’ve never heard of as you would to see the Stones or Zeppelin?”

Originally published in Classic Rock 132

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Michael Starr of Steel Panther appeared on Final Resonance TV's "Van Halen Stories" podcast to share some amazing stories of meeting David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen, seeing the classic Van Halen lineup live, whether he was ever considered for the job as Van Halen front man, and his planned appearance at the failed Eat 'Em and Smile reunion concert in 2015.

Before forming Steel Panther, Starr was an original member of the Van Halen tribute band The Atomic Punks from 1994- 2008. The band was so spot on that Roth himself tapped Punks' guitarist Bart Walsh to join his solo band in 1999. When Walsh left to join DLR, Starr's future Steel Panther bandmate, Satchel, would take over on guitar. Starr talks about The Atomic Punks, Steel Panther and more in the interview with Jeff Goebel above.

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Wolfgang Van Halen pays tribute to his late father at the end of each concert with a touching gesture.

Wolfgang recently talked with PEOPLE about both his dad and mom, Valerie Bertinelli, for a new cover story. Below is an excerpt from the article written by Daniela Avila and Liz McNeil:

Though he's no longer physically with him, Wolfgang Van Halen never forgets to honor his dad onstage.

Speaking to PEOPLE for this week's cover story on mom Valerie Bertinelli, on newsstands Friday, the Mammoth WVH frontman shares why he honors his father's role in his life after every performance.

"The reason I do what I do is because of my dad. So if I didn't at least think about him throughout the process, I'd be doing a disservice to my existence," Wolfgang, 33, tells PEOPLE of why he points to the sky at the end of every concert as a salute to his dad, the late Eddie Van Halen.

He continues, "So I think it's very important to establish that, to thank my dad every night, every time I'm on stage. Just to thank my father and to know that he's always there with me every night."

Eddie died in October 2020 following a years-long battle with throat cancer. He was 65.

Reflecting on his close relationship with Bertinelli, 63, Wolfgang stresses the importance of making their time together count.

“A big thing is that she's the only parent I have, and so I think it's important to be close to your family and to make that time count because it doesn't last forever,” he says. “It's very important to spend every chance you can get with your family. My parents raised me. I wish l could spend more time with my dad, but I can't, but I can spend time with my mom and it's the best. She's the best.”

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1982 Eddie Van Halen defends Diver Down: "They're good f**kin' songs..." (phone interview)

July 30, 1982 — a couple weeks into the tour for Diver Down, Eddie talks to Jas Obrecht for Guitar Player Magazine. Ed talks about the new album and defends all the cover songs ...

"They're good fuckin' songs, why shouldn't they be redone the way we do 'em for a new generation of people" ...

"I don't think any cover tune we've ever done sounds like the original. It takes almost as much time to make a cover tune sound original as it does writing a song. -- so fuck the critics!"

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38 years later, couldn't agree more with Eddie. Diver Down is an amazing Van Halen record on par with the others that gets dogged far too often for the cover tunes. A fun, summertime Van Halen extravaganza. A big part of Van Halen was their fun, party vibe and this is their most fun, party vibe album ever recorded.

- 4 of their coolest original songs (Hang Em High, Secrets!, Little Guitars, The Full Bug)

-3 amazing & innovative Eddie instrumental pieces

- Plus a handful of fun cover tunes that were totally Van Halen-ized including Ed and Al's dad playing on a song and a Van Halen concert staple with "Happy Trails" that was played on every show from 1982-1984.

- The Mighty Van Halen

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