 The “no, YOU are” back-and-forth between former Van Halen bandmates Van Halen and Michael Anthony is picking up — bass player Anthony is giving the verbal eye-roll to the guitar great’s claims he quit the band. Anthony has formed the band Chickenfoot with another Halen alum, Sammy Hagar, but he hasn’t moved on emotionally; he’s angry at comments Van Halen made about replacing Anthony with his son Wolfgang, just 15 at the time. Van Halen told Rolling Stone that Anthony left Van Halen of his own accord; when he asked to participate in the band’s recent reunion, he wasn’t welcome. Van Halen remarked, “Everyone who quits the band always claims they got fired by me. Hey, I’m not the bad guy here. When Hagar left the band, Mike went with him. “Then, when we get back together… all of a sudden, he wants back in. It’s like, ‘No, dude, you quit the band.’” There’s two sides to every story, and then there’s the jump. Anthony remembers his departure differently, telling MusicRadar.com, “I never quit. I never once said, ‘I’m out of here.’ It never happened. “That’s the weird thing right now, for Eddie to be trying to paint himself as ‘not the bad guy’… Why would I have quit Van Halen?” Good point — it’s not like Chickenfoot is tearing up the Billboard charts as far as we know. And we saw the Halen reunion tour, and Wolfgang did just fine up there. With that said, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s ever left Van Halen and felt good about it; it seems like there’s always the estrangement and the bitter remarks and then the eventual rapprochement. Ironic that a band considered legendarily bad-ass has this kind of girls’-school catfighting problem. |
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