Sammy Hagar heard about Roth’s departure before it was made public. He’d been tipped the wink by long time Van Halen producer Ted Templeman, who had also worked on Hagar’s last album, VOA. But it ...

As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn’t come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen’s death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, ...