During a recent episode of SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk“, bassist Michael Anthony talked about the Van Halen tribute concert, saying there were discussions with David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen about taking part in the tribute.
Regarding this subject, Anthony said:
“I haven’t spoken to him in a little while, but I have spoken with Alex on occasion. And for the most part, we don’t even speak that much about music, more about just family, how we’re doing, and stuff like that. I know it still pains him a lot as far as Eddie [Van Halen; late Van Halen guitarist and Alex‘s brother] goes and will probably for the rest of his life.
”But I spoke with him and Dave last year about a possible something, but Dave just starts going [talking really fast] And I’m, like, ‘Okay.’ And we basically just had kind of a conference call about having a conference call to discuss it, and then that other call didn’t happen for whatever reason on their end.
”I told them that I’d obviously be interested. And it would be more like a celebration of the music rather than putting together something and calling it Van Halen because that just wouldn’t be right at this point.”
#ICYMI on #TrunkNation – @EddieTrunk spoke to #MichaelAnthony about the #CHLA charity walk and then got into the rumored @VanHalen tribute tour clarifying what conversations are actually happening. Catch the replay at 10pET or anytime on the @SIRIUSXM app: https://t.co/Sbdq09EEUi pic.twitter.com/XasLwpJIK6
— Trunk Nation on SXM Faction Talk Channel 103 (@TrunkNationSXM) June 3, 2022