“Don’t f**king tell him!” David Lee Roth mocks Sammy Hagar by claiming Eddie Van Halen’s ghost has visited him too
When former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar claimed that the late, great Eddie Van Halen had visited him in a dream and they’d written a song together, it certainly led to a lot of raised eyebrows around the music world. And it seems that David Lee Roth was similarly unimpressed.
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Hagar released the song, Encore, Thank You, Goodnight, back in April, having first claimed back in 2022 that he’d been visited by Van Halen in a dream during which they composed the song together, “I remembered it. I got up in the morning and I wrote the song,” he told Ultimate Classic Rock. “I used the fuckin’ lick that he showed me in the song.”
Now it seems that Hagar’s precursor in Van Halen, David Lee Roth, is not entirely buying the Red Rocker’s story however – certainly if his remarks to the audience at concert at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom last week was anything to go by.
“One of my esteemed colleagues, he’s a contemporary, he’s got a great voice, he’s got a great catalogue,” Hagar told the crowd in a video posted by a fan on YouTube. “You all know Sammy Hagar, right? He’s got a great voice. And Sammy, aloud, he described to the media about six weeks ago that the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited him and graced him with a song that he memorised and then went home and recorded. It’s on the internet.”
There’s few things more reliable than Van Halen members throwing shade at one another, and Hagar described Roth as “fake” during an interview earlier this year. DLR’s clapback, however, was pretty withering.
“I don’t know what the odds are, but last night the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited me at the fucking hotel room,” he joked. “I was watching the weather report and he came in and he was laughing. His fucking ghost was laughing.
“I said, ‘What did you do now?’ He said, ‘Dave, Dave… Dave, you know that song I gave Hagar?’ I said, ‘What now?’ He said, ‘It’s actually [1968 Iron Butterfly proto-metal hit] In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida backwards. Don’t fucking tell him.’”
Hagar claims that Encore, Thank You, Goodnight is a tribute to his relationship with Van Halen – it features Joe Satriani on guitar, Jason Bonham on drums and fellow ex-Van Halen man Michael Anthony on bass.
“It’s not meant to be anything more than a thank-you – with love, with respect, and with one hell of a guitar solo,” he said – but it’s not the only surprising claim he’s made about Van Halen recently.
Back in June, Hagar claimed that the last time he spoke to Eddie before his passing, the guitarist claimed that he’d primarily been playing cello – though in this case he does have EVH’s backing, who posted in 2017 that the instrument was his favourite after guitar and piano.
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