Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar shared that he would like to reconcile with his former bandmate Alex Van Halen amid their long-term estrangement.

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 77-year-old musician expressed hope that he and 71-year-old Alex could mend their relationship before they die.

“It’s on my bucket list that I don’t take this to my grave, and I don’t want Al to take it to his grave,” Hagar said. “I’ve extended the olive branch there many times, and I just presented it again to Van Halen manager Irving Azoff.

Sammy Hagar, left, wants to “be friends again” with Alex Van Halen. (Getty)

Hagar became Van Halen’s new frontman in 1985, when he replaced original vocalist David Lee Roth and joined Alex, the band’s drummer, Alex’s brother and guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and bassist/vocalist Michael Anthony.

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After producing four multi-platinum albums, Hagar’s stint with Van Halen ended with a split in 1995. The Cabo Wabo founder briefly reunited with Van Halen in 2004, but left the band after the end of their successful summer tour.

Hagar’s second departure led to a long estrangement between Eddie and Alex. However, Hagar and Eddie reconciled in the months before the Van Halen founder died of lung cancer in October 2020.

Hagar, center, became Van Halen’s new frontman in 1985, when he replaced original singer David Lee Roth. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

While speaking to Rolling Stone, Hagar explained that he didn’t believe he and Alex would make music together again.

“But I do want to be friends,” he said. “I don’t want to be in a band with Al. I’m not asking for that. I can see that he’s not capable of that. If he were, I’d love to play with him, but that’s not the case.” what i’m looking for. I just want to be friends again.”

During a July interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, Hagar revealed that Alex was unresponsive when he and Anthony tried to talk to him several times before the two embarked on their “Best of All Worlds” tour.

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The tour, which featured hits from Van Halen’s catalog, ended in August but will return for a Las Vegas residency during the nine-show residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in spring 2025.

“We’ve already contacted him 10 times before this tour, every way possible. Email, text, phone call, message on machine, okay? No response. No response,” Hagar told the outlet.

“I mean, we’ve made every offer to get together, just talk or have breakfast or lunch or dinner,” he added. “Go to the studio and play. Come to my house, or I’ll come to your house. Go horseback riding, sit on the beach. What do you want to do? Let’s just do something. Let’s get together. And nothing.”

Hagar left the band twice after falling out with Eddie and Alex. (Paul Natkin/WireImage)

In October, Alex told Billboard that he was “not interested” in being involved with the tour.

“They’re not doing the band justice,” he said. ‘They can do whatever they want to do. That’s none of my business.’

While speaking with Rolling Stone, Hagar shared his reaction to Alex’s new memoir “Brothers.” In the book, Alex does not mention Hagar by name, other than to say, “We’ve had a lot of other singers over the years.”

“The heart and soul, the creativity and the magic were Dave, Ed, Mike and me,” he told Rolling Stone in an October interview.

In “Brothers”, Alex left the Van Hagar era behind entirely and ended the band’s story in 1984, prior to Roth’s departure.

Hagar told Rolling Stone that he thought the criticism was “sad.”

“I haven’t read the whole book, but I’ve seen all the excerpts and I’ve heard some interviews,” the Red Rocker said.

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The musician said he didn’t want to take their feud “to my grave.” (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images))

He continued: “It breaks my heart because when I think about what Alex is going through, losing his brother, never having played with anyone else in his life, and then his health… When I saw how rickety he is, I realized: ” No, I wonder if he doesn’t answer my call when I say, ‘Do you want to play with us?’ ‘He can’t.'”

During his October interview with Rolling Stone, Alex said his mobility was limited due to a spinal cord injury he suffered in 2022.

“That breaks my heart because I can only put myself in those shoes and say, ‘What if I couldn’t sing and perform anymore?'” Hagar said of Alex’s health issues. “The thing I’ve done all my life, the thing I’ve dedicated my life to, the thing that made me rich and famous and gave me the best life on earth, and suddenly I can’t do that anymore? for starters, I would feel like I was robbing the fans. If you put yourself in his shoes, I’m like, ‘Okay, I feel sorry for him.’

He continued: “Why he left me out, I’d like to hear him explain it one day, because I don’t really understand it. I know he’s bitter about some things, whatever that is… It’s something like, ‘If you don’t,’ I don’t want that era, that gives me even more justification to say I own it then,’ because no one else can do it, and he can’t even do it without me.

“It makes it easier for Mike and I,” Hagar added. “We sit there and say, ‘Okay, I think we own this,’ and we have an obligation to get this to the fans to keep this music alive, alive, alive.

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However, Hagar praised Alex’s memoir and wondered if the drummer had plans for a sequel.

‘I want to give him a little more appreciation for that book. The way he wrote it is soulful and moving,” Hagar said. ‘I mean, about their youth. It’s like a love letter to his brother, and that touches me.”

‘I want to give him some love for that. I understand that he probably couldn’t have covered the entire era in one book. It would have been the Bible, the dictionary, so maybe he has plans for a Part 2. Who knows?”