Eddie Van Halen’s death had left a huge void in rock, guitar-based music.
His bandmate and friend Sammy Hagar has come out and apologized to everyone for exposing Eddie Van Halen’s ‘dark side’ to everyone.
In a new interview with Brazil’s “Inside With Paulo Baron” Internet show, Sammy Hagar said:
“Oh, yeah. I forgot so many really fun little things, and every now and then I’ll wake up in the morning and have a dream and I’ll wake up and it makes me remember something in the childhood, and I think, ‘Oh, I should have put that in the book. But the f*cking book would have been this big. [Holds hands wide apart.]'”
He continued:
“But more than anything, because of the untimely and tragic death of Eddie Van Halen, I apologize from the bottom of my heart for exposing his dark side to where I don’t think anyone wants to hear that now, and, unfortunately, it’s in the book. And it’s true — it’s all true. It’s not like I have to say, ‘Oh, I was lying’ — no, no, no. If I wrote the book today, I would only put the good of Eddie Van Halen, because he was such a brilliant, genius guitar player and such a great friend and a great partner — until everything went wrong, like everything else.
He concluded:
“Anybody’s that’s been divorced or broke up with your girlfriend or your boyfriend, you know how it goes. Happy endings aren’t always the case in a relationship. [Eddie and I] had a happy ending — thank God — but before that, it wasn’t a happy ending of the band. But thank God we got it back together.”