{"id":30929,"date":"2024-11-25T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halen-i-just-want-to-be-friends-again\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:02:25","slug":"sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halen-i-just-want-to-be-friends-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halen-i-just-want-to-be-friends-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Hagar on Alex Van Halen: &#8216;I just want to be friends again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-25\/Getty_SammyHagar_112524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong> has shared how he\u2019s feeling after his former <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> bandmate <strong>Alex Van Halen<\/strong> released his memoir,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Brothers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, and didn\u2019t even include him in Van Halen\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alex\u2019s book suggests that Van Halen ended when <strong>David Lee Roth<\/strong> left\u00a0the band and steered clear of mentioning Hagar\u2019s name in interviews, which Sammy tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sammy-hagar-wants-peace-with-alex-van-halen-book-1235172676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> is just \u201csad.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Why he left me out,\u00a0\u00a0I would like to hear him explain that someday, because I don\u2019t get it completely,&#8221;\u00a0Hagar said.\u00a0\u201cI know that he\u2019s bitter about some things, whatever that is. &#8230; It\u2019s like, &#8216;If you don\u2019t want that era, that even gives me more justification to say I own it then.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Hagar would like to bury the hatchet, telling the mag it\u2019s on his \u201cbucket list\u201d to make peace with Alex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI will not take this to my grave, and I don\u2019t want Al taking it to his grave,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve put the olive branch out there many times, and I just put it out again to (manager) <strong>Irving Azoff<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI want to be friends, though,\u201d he adds. \u201cI don\u2019t want to play in a band with Al. I\u2019m not asking for that. I can see that he\u2019s not capable of doing that. If he was, I\u2019d be happy to play with him, but it\u2019s not what I\u2019m looking for. I just want to friends again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic Sammy Hagar has shared how he\u2019s feeling after his former Van Halen bandmate Alex Van Halen released his memoir,\u00a0Brothers, and didn\u2019t even include him in Van Halen\u2019s history. 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