Alex Van Halen says a blow-up fight with David Lee Roth over paying tribute to late brother Eddie ended reunion tour rehearsals
and discussing his plans to keep Van Halen’s legacy alive. One of those ideas was a Van Halen reunion tour with Alex on drums and original singer David Lee Roth as the frontman. The pair began rehearsing sometime around 2022, but they ended up having a huge falling out over Alex’s ideas to pay tribute to Eddie.
“The thing that broke the camel’s back, and I can be honest about this now, was I said, ‘Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt—not a bowing—but anin the gig. If you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage,'” Alex recalled. “And the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave fuckin’ popped a fuse.… The vitriol that came out was unbelievable.”the vocalist was so against giving Eddie a shining moment. But obviously, his reaction pissed Alex off: “I’m from the street.
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