{"id":30003,"date":"2024-07-26T00:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-anthony-on-why-gary-cherone-wasnt-a-good-fit-for-van-halen\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:04:15","slug":"michael-anthony-on-why-gary-cherone-wasnt-a-good-fit-for-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-anthony-on-why-gary-cherone-wasnt-a-good-fit-for-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Anthony on why Gary Cherone wasn\u2019t a \u201cgood fit\u201d for Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-25\/Getty_VanHalenGaryCherone_072524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Al Pereira\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> had plenty of success with both <strong>David Lee Roth<\/strong> and <strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong> as their frontmen, they couldn\u2019t produce the same magic when <strong>Extreme<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Gary Cherone<\/strong> took over the gig. And bassist\u00a0<strong>Michael Anthony<\/strong> is opening up about why it didn\u2019t work out.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It was an interesting time, because the band was really going through a lot personally,\u201d Anthony told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-guitar.com\/news\/interviews\/michael_anthony_explains_why_gary_cherone_wasnt_a_good_fit_for_van_halen_reveals_details_behind_unreleased_songs_from_that_era.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Ultimate Guitar.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cAnd as far as musically, I personally didn&#8217;t think that Gary was a really good fit for Van Halen. I mean, I really love him in Extreme, but I just didn&#8217;t really see the fit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Van Halen released one album, 1998\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Van Halen III<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, with Cherone, and also went on tour with him, which Anthony describes as a good experience because Cherone &#8220;was open to doing any of the Van Halen stuff.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;In fact, he suggested doing the Roth era stuff, the Hagar era stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd he wanted to play it all, which was really great because we ended up on that tour playing a lot of the older Van Halen stuff that we hadn&#8217;t played for years when Sammy was in the band.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony says there\u2019s some Cherone material in the vault that\u2019s never been released,\u00a0but it doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s expecting any of it to ever come out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;But as far as the other music goes, that&#8217;s shelved and that&#8217;s up to <strong>Wolfgang <\/strong>(<strong>Van Halen<\/strong>),\u201d he says. \u201cI don&#8217;t think any of that will really see the light of day because it was something that was a work in progress and never completed.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anthony is currently out on tour with Sammy Hagar on his The Best of All Worlds Tour. The trek hits Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Friday. A complete list of all dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrocker.com\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>redrocker.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Pereira\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images While Van Halen had plenty of success with both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar as their frontmen, they couldn\u2019t produce the same magic when Extreme\u2019s Gary Cherone took over the gig. 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