Sammy Hagar would work on new Van Halen tracks 'if I got the call'

Sammy Hagar says it would be 'a dream come true' for Van Halen fans if he and David Lee Roth helped finish new, unreleased Van Halen tracks.

As Alex Van Halen works on unreleased tracks created by his brother, the late guitarist Eddie Van Halen, one of the band's former front men Sammy Hagar thinks there's a way the music can achieve the best of both worlds.

A guitar virtuoso who co-founded the band with his drumming brother and singer David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen died of cancer in 2020. Alex Van Halen first dropped some unreleased music created with his brother with the audiobook version of his memoir "Brothers," released in October 2024.

More recently, Alex Van Halen has said there's enough unreleased material recorded while his brother was alive to create a final Van Halen album. Currently, he is working with Steve Lukather, co-founder of the band Toto and a friend of Eddie Van Halen, on helping finishing the album. Also a music producer and arranger, Lukather has said he is not playing on the tracks.

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Eddie's son, Wolfgang Van Halen, supplied bass guitar, Alex Van Halen told American Songwriter recently. “The drums are already recorded. The drums, the guitar and the bass are already in there.”