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Sammy Hagar has responded to Alex Van Halen skipping over the “Van Hagar” era in his memoir, calling the lack of recognition a “blasphemy” against Eddie’s legacy.

Hagar’s comments came via an otherwise innocuous Instagram post in which the Red Rocker nostalgically reflected on his time with Van Halen. In the original post, which features a 1991 photo of Hagar and Eddie on their way to the stage, Hagar joked about her fashion choices at the time before taking on a more serious tone as commenters began comparing the David Lee Roth years to Van’s Compare Hagar.

“No disrespect to Alex, but it’s okay to like VH with Sammy even if he doesn’t like it anymore,” one commenter wrote, prompting another to write, “Most purists believe VH ended with DLR.”

Here Hagar intervened.

“It could have ended, my friend, but instead we sold over 50 million records for (a) No. 1 album that sold out every building and stadium in the world for an entire decade,” commented Hagar. “That never happened again.”

Then Hagar addressed the absence of Van Halen’s post-DLR era in Alex’s new memoir: brothers (buy here).

“Alex is not doing his brother’s musical legacy justice by not acknowledging all of the No. 1 albums and some great music that Eddie and I wrote together – not Alex – but Eddie and I wrote together,” Hagar wrote . “To not recognize these 10 years of music is a blasphemy to his brother’s musicianship, songwriting and legacy.”

Alex’s book does not mention the Hagar years, but ended shortly before DLR’s first exit from the band in 1985. Alex later explained the omission in an interview with billboard.

“What happened after Dave left is not the same band. … The magic was in the first few years,” he said, “when we didn’t know what we were doing; when we were willing to try anything.”

Alex claimed in a recent interview with the Bringing It Back to The Beatles podcast that “the original band was the driving force.”

“That’s why the book ends in 1984, because that was true rock and roll,” he said. “After that it became a lot more – I don’t know; I can’t explain it. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good. We always did our best in everything we did, but it wasn’t the same.”

You can see Sammy Hagar’s Instagram post and Alex Van Halen’s recent video interview below.

Sammy Hagar: Alex Van Halen not recognizing “Van Hagar” is “blasphemy” for Eddie’s legacy
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