“Eddie was in bad shape – we did 80 shows and had to pull the plug because it was just too much work,” he said. Two years later, Hagar reunited with Van Halen for a tour, but Eddie Van Halen was dealing with health issues. “I remember the first show I played, Sammy said, ‘Yeah, I think Dave is going to come out and join us,’ and Dave never came out of his dressing room and he became a recluse and I never really saw him.” “It started out going well and then it didn’t go too well,” he said of the 2002 tour. “I didn’t want to be the bass player everyone forgot about.”Īnthony played with various bands and eventually reunited with former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar and even original lead singer David Lee Roth for a short-lived tour. “I couldn’t just sit on my hands and do nothing because my last name isn’t Van Halen,” Anthony said in a recent telephone interview. When Michael Anthony, longtime bassist and back-up vocalist for rock icons Van Halen left the band in the late ’90s, he faced some uncertainties except one: he would continue to play music.
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