"And then it’s the old trick, ‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!’And that means, ‘Okay, I’ll listen to you, but then I’m gonna make it mine. "If Dave came in with a song, I would respect how they heard it," he continued. Otherwise we would never have gotten anything done.”Īs a drummer, Alex says he made a point of accepting directions from Roth, before turning his parts into whatever he thought they should be So having that strange chemistry is what made it work, oddly enough.
Ed and I were coming from Cream, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. "One of the things that made everything work was that we came from opposite ends of the spectrum," Alex explained. Alex says it made having a producer an invaluable addition to the early Van Halen sessions. The differences led to great music, but also plenty of well-documented battles between the brothers and Roth. Whereas the Van Halens were dedicated rockers, serious about their musicianship, Roth was more of an entertainer who would have been just as comfortable on a talk show as on a stadium tour. He acknowledged the "strange chemistry" between musicians from opposing schools of thought. Alex Van Halen discussed his band's unconventional relationship with frontman and co-founder David Lee Roth in a newly published interview, given prior to Eddie Van Halen's death this past October.Īlex described the Van Halen brothers' relationship to Roth in a conversation with Modern Drummer.
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