{"id":29653,"date":"2024-06-04T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-anthony-surprised-by-alex-van-halens-instrument-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T00:02:25","slug":"michael-anthony-surprised-by-alex-van-halens-instrument-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-anthony-surprised-by-alex-van-halens-instrument-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Anthony surprised by Alex Van Halen\u2019s instrument auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-03\/Getty_MichaelAnthony_060324.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Scott Legato\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In May, <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> co-founder and drummer <strong>Alex Van Halen<\/strong> announced he was auctioning off his personal collection of instruments and memorabilia, and the news was a surprise to his former bandmate <strong>Michael Anthony<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a new interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-guitar.com\/news\/interviews\/michael_anthony_weighs_in_on_alex_van_halens_decision_to_quit_music_he_continues_to_grieve_over_eddies_passing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Ultimate Guitar<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Anthony says he hasn\u2019t talked to Alex in a while, although he tried to reach out via text on\u00a0Alex&#8217;s birthday\u00a0in May, but didn\u2019t get a response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As for the auction, he shared,\u00a0\u201cSomebody had sent me the link to it, and it appears like he&#8217;s selling everything right down to his last drumstick.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony believes Alex&#8217;s grief over the\u00a0October 2020 passing of his brother and bandmate\u00a0<strong>Eddie Van Halen\u00a0<\/strong>could be the reason behind the sale.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I never really knew Alex to be a person to go out and jam with other people or other bands. Unless Eddie was a part of it,\u201d Anthony says. \u201cMaybe he feels that &#8230; Since his brother&#8217;s gone, he doesn&#8217;t feel the desire to go out and play anymore. But I can only speculate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony describes\u00a0the auction as \u201cpretty sad,\u201d because he believes it rules out any chance of a future Van Halen tribute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alex is also set to release a new memoir, titled <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Brothers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, and Anthony says he is interested in reading it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnd knowing Alex, he&#8217;ll probably speak about the band and everything,\u201d Anthony says. \u201cBut I think that he might be focusing more on just his and Eddie&#8217;s relationship growing up and moving here with their family to the States. And just the relationship that he had with his brother.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bidding on The Alex Van Halen Collection at Backstage Auctions runs through June 9. More info can be found at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstageauctions.com\/catalog\/auction.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1 s2\"><strong>backstageauctions.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Brothers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is due out Oct. 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Legato\/Getty Images In May, Van Halen co-founder and drummer Alex Van Halen announced he was auctioning off his personal collection of instruments and memorabilia, and the news was a surprise to his former bandmate Michael Anthony. In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, Anthony says he hasn\u2019t talked to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-anthony-surprised-by-alex-van-halens-instrument-auction\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}