I would like to enlighten people.
We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
