David Lee Roth and the Van Halen camp haven’t at all times seen eye to eye, however the singer just lately provided some touching remarks whereas reflecting on his longtime bandmate, the late Eddie Van Halen.

Roth opened up about his working relationship with the guitar legend on his The Roth Present podcast earlier this week. DLR famously left Van Halen in 1985 to pursue a profitable solo profession, and a number of failed makes an attempt to patch issues up would ultimately give approach to Roth rejoining the band in 2007. Roth and Eddie Van Halen gave the impression to be on good phrases when Eddie handed away in 2020.

“My pricey departed Ed,” Roth stated on his podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “Boy, I miss him. I had a ball with Ed. Walt Disney as soon as stated, ‘You realize what? My love affair with Mickey Mouse was higher than any love affair with a lady I ever had.’ I’ve gotta inform ya: enjoying with Ed, writing songs with Ed, presenting these songs with Ed was higher than any love affair I ever had. And a few of these songs, I believe, may final without end — or till the final syllable of time, like Shakespeare stated. They grew to become anthems. The place are they enjoying ‘Soar’ proper now?”

Satirically, it’s lengthy been rumored that Eddie’s use of synths on “Soar” partly led to DLR’s exit from Van Halen in 1985. Eddie would then faucet Sammy Hagar to steer the band right into a extra industrial rock path, whereas DLR embraced the glam-metal craze that was starting to blow up within the mid-’80s.

Roth mirrored: “I keep in mind when he performed [‘Jump’] on the keyboard downstairs. I stated, ‘No.’ Effectively, we mirror the occasions, and the occasions at the moment was guitars, guitars, guitars; and ‘Soar’ was a type of hybrids.”

DLR final carried out with Van Halen in 2015, and followers stay interested by a potential reunion tribute tour that includes all three of the band’s vocalists. Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted spilled the beans when he revealed that he had been contacted to take part in a hypothetical tribute tour alongside Joe Satriani. The mission by no means got here to fruition, nonetheless.

Extra just lately, Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen implied that DLR was the explanation the tour was nixed. In the meantime, Roth hinted that he’s probably not retiring and the Van Halen tribute may occur. He’s since launched a brand new model of “Panama,” including additional gasoline to the hypothesis.

You possibly can hear Roth’s full remarks on Eddie Van Halen through his podcast beneath.