Eddie Van Halen has invited Patty Smyth (Scandal) to join the band after David Lee Roth left.
In a chat with Stereogum. , Smyth talked about the reason she declined the invitation to join Van Halen:
“They were heavy drinkers. I don’t drink. I never saw myself living in L.A. I was, like, ‘I’m from New York. We don’t move to L.A.’
“It’s all semantics because if [Eddie] had said to me, ‘Let’s make a record,’ then I would have said yes to that. But joining the band — to me then, ‘Oh god, they fight all the time, him and his brother, and I don’t want to get into a volatile situation.’
And I was probably heavily hormoned out because I was eight months pregnant, so there was a state of mind that I was in of how I need to take care of myself.
But I regretted turning him down. For a long time, I regretted it. When you start to have regrets, I was, like, ‘Oh, man. I would’ve made so much money.’
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VH would have tanked with a female singer
I agree I liked scandal but Sammy was a much better fit
I think Van Halen should retire. D.L.Roth is not the same singer and Eddie is to saick to be himself.
I wish she would have done it, it would have been interesting. I wonder if it would have been like a flash/metal Pretenders?
super glad she didn’t. that would have been the end of Van Halen’s relevance. Hagar was a much better choice. no comparison.
An album would have been interesting.
Bull crap they would’ve been great with a female singer.
I thought Gary Charone from Extreme was going to be a great fit, but it didn’t work at all. An album with Patty would have been interesting, but I doubt it would have been as good as 5150 with Sammy.
It would have been awesome! Having a female singer would have matched all those wussy ballads Eddie was writing. It also would have revolutionized rock and roll to have a band at the top of their popularity join with a female singer. The only thing I don’t like is that Patty Smyth regrets not making all that money, rather than the interesting art she could have made.
Nonetheless, Eddie Van Halen was determined to destroy the band after 1985 and it is exactly what he did on and on and on…forever.
At least she’s keeping it real.. I don’t think it would have been all that great to be honest. But u never know