Tragic Details About Van Halen

According to The Pulse of Radio (via Blabbermouth), Michael Anthony's relationship with Eddie Van Halen started to suffer in the late '90s, when the band parted with Sammy Hagar and briefly reunited with David Lee Roth. Hagar had started a new band called Planet Us and had asked Anthony if he'd like to join. Van Halen took that to mean that the bassist had quit. "Eddie felt that I was a traitor," Anthony said. Flash forward to 2004 when Van Halen wanted to tour with Hagar, and they asked Anthony to get the jilted singer to sign on. However, if Anthony wanted to be a part of it, he'd have to sign away his legal rights to the Van Halen band name and take a pay cut. 

Three years later, Van Halen hit the road again, this time with Roth ... and without Anthony. "I found out about that tour like everybody else did — in the press," Anthony told Music Radar. And Van Halen's new bass player was Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's teenage son. On top of that, Eddie Van Halen refuted Anthony's version of events to Rolling Stone, saying, "When Hagar left the band, Mike went with him. Then when we get back together with Dave, and all of a sudden, he wants back in. It's like, 'No dude, you quit the band.'" Responding to that quote in Music Radar, Anthony clearly stated, "I never quit Van Halen." Of course, no matter what Anthony or Van Halen say, it seems like these musicians will continue to feud, which just adds to their larger-than-life legend.

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