Van Halen The Disastrous 2004 Reunion Tour With Sammy Hagar

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Today we take a look at the disastrous 2004 Van Halen Reunion With Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony. It was pretty apparent from the interviews and concert footage that Eddie Van Halen was struggling during those times, and it was no surprise things fell apart.

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what's going on my fellow rock n' rollers? it should have been one of the biggest tours of the decade but it ended in disaster, almost a decade after Sammy Hagar left Van Halen in the
mid 90s, the bed once again hooked up with the singer to mount an eighty-date summer tour in 2004. Hagar would be pretty blunt about the tour telling Sally Steel in 2012, "what happened in
that reunion tour in '04 was some of the most miserable, backstabbing, dark crap I've ever been involved with my whole life." it was pretty obvious to the people who attended the shows or even if you watch the clips on YouTube, guitarist Eddie Van Halen wasn't his usual self.

Hagar would claim that the guitarist was struggling with addiction, revealing in his memoir, Red: my uncensored life in rock, that the guitarist was unkempt, hunched over, frighteningly skinny, drinking wine straight out of a bottle and missing part of his tongue after a cancer scare and several of his teeth. As the tour wore on, Hagar's relationship with the guitarist would continue to deteriorate. prior to the ill-fated reunion happening, hagar would appear on fox television and revealed how the whole tour began with a phone call to Eddie's brother drummer Alex Van
Halen. Hagar would say, "I've been saying this for a hundred years,

I'm going to give Alex a call one of these days now." Hagar would make the call while he was vacationing in Southern California with his family and he would claim it was like a complete love fest. it was just, 'wow, I really missed this friendship', he'd say. it wasn't long after that phone call that Hagar stopped by Eddie's 5150 studios just to have a short chat. He was shocked to see the shape Eddie van Halen was in. Recalling, "he looked like he hadn't bathed in a week. He was missing a number of teeth and the ones they had left were black. his boots were so worn out, he had gaffers tape wrapped around them and his big toe stuck out. He walked up to me, hunched over like a little old man, a cigarette in his mouth. he had a third of his tongue removed because of cancer and he spoke with a slight lisp.

Despite the shape that Eddie was in, Hagar would soon find himself jamming with the guitarist and next up Hagar would help write and record three songs for a 2004 van Halen greatest hits compilation that would hit number three on the Billboard charts. The effort to record new songs was not an easy one and almost fell apart. Hagar would reveal in his book saying, "he had turned into the weirdest F I'd ever seen. crude, rude and unkempt. I should have walked but Eddie's got a very charming cunning side to him where you feel like he's got a good heart. he's going to come through, he's going to clean up and we're going to get this thing done." Hagar would also claim that Eddie would just keep disappearing at times and he wouldn't know when the guitarist would show up. In an interview with the Minneapolis Star.

in 2004, Hagar would be a little more positive on writing new material with his bandmates saying, "ed and al started playing me some music that they had been working on and it was just extremely inspiring. we said, 'here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna pretend like it never happened. we're gonna rise above it", he'd say. Shortly after the trio of songs were recorded, a summer tour was announced. an argument erupted between the newly reformed band over who would play bass.

Eddie and Alex didn't want Michael Anthony to play bass as it appeared the brothers were upset with Anthony over the fact that he still remained friends and performed with Sammy following his initial departure from the band. Hagar stood his ground and claimed there would be no reunion involving him if Anthony wasn't brought back into the fold. while Michael Anthony would be part of the reunion tour, he would have to give in to some pretty ridiculous demands from the van halen brothers including taking a pay cut and signing away a portion of his rights to the van halen name and logo. not exactly a great way to start off a reunion tour. Anthony would recall in 2009, "when we did the 2004 reunion, Eddie didn't even want me to be a part of it because he was so torqued up that I was still buddies with Sammy. 'why can't I be buddies with Sammy and still play in van Halen', he would ask. With those guys, it was a cut-and-dried situation. you're in or you're out." Anthony would reveal in a separate interview

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