Sammy Hagar represented a new direction for Van Halen. When he joined, the band began a new era, but it wouldn't have happened if not for a mechanic.

Van Halen's Sammy Hagar shared that he wants to mend his friendship with his former bandmate Alex Van Halen amid their longtime estrangement.

Alex interestingly details his early childhood with Eddie and his parents, their immigration to the United States, scraping by as a family, and both of their growing musical aptitudes, taking after their jazz musician father.

There’s never been another band quite like Van Halen, and there almost certainly never will be again. They embodied so many of the contradictions of post-’60s hard rock, playing proudly dumb songs