It wasn’t all about David Lee Roth, y’know. With Sammy Hagar as frontman, the ‘Van Hagar’ incarnation of Van Halen eclipsed the 1974-85 DLR era in terms of sales. The Collection II covers the four ...
Adrian Borromeo, UCR / Warner Bros. But after Sammy Hagar replaced Roth in 1985, everything Van Halen did felt laborious. They could still shred circles around their contemporaries, but now they ...
Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, and Eddie Van Halen in 1978. (Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns) “If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your ...