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Sammy Hagar<\/strong> has talked at length about his failed attempts to get in contact with his former bandmate\u00a0Alex Van Halen<\/strong>. Now he thinks he may know why the drummer is ghosting him.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the <\/em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Hagar, who’s currently out on his Best of Both Worlds Tour, says, “I reached out to Alex a dozen times, before this tour was announced, and got no response. I mean, I\u2019ve asked him to meet me under any conditions, any circumstances, anytime, anyplace, anywhere. It\u2019s not like, \u2018Well, let me think about it.\u2019 It\u2019s like, no answer. Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hagar, he wants to offer Alex a spotlight during the tour to “just play a couple of songs” or, if he wants to, “be the drummer the whole night” \u2014 or, he laughs, “be the executive producer. What do you want to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

But Sammy is now floating the idea that Alex is ignoring him because he’s going to put out his autobiography, called Brothers<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,<\/em> this fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure when he made his book deal, they said, \u2018You cannot talk to Dave<\/strong> [Lee Roth<\/strong>], and you cannot talk to Hagar,\u201d says the Red Rocker. \u201cI guarantee you, that that was part of the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Sammy is soldiering on with his current lineup: Joe Satriani<\/strong> on guitar, Jason Bonham<\/strong> on drums, Van Halen<\/strong>‘s Michael Anthony<\/strong> on bass and keyboardist Rai Thistlethwayte<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of putting together guys who maybe have not played together before \u2014 Joe and Mike and I have not played together with Jason before \u2014 is a revelation,\u201d says Hagar.<\/p>\n

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