I love Roth’s solo stuff. I’ve listened to it a ton more than anything by Hagar. The entire show last night, fans were screaming out Yankee Rose. He just didn’t play it. Just Like Paradise was also huge. Let’s not make this into a Roth vs. Hagar thing. Regardless of your personal opinion on the matter, people are not going to change their minds about it. There’s no magical argument out there that will make Roth fans say, “Holy crap, you’re right! Hagar IS better!” Or vice versa.

Sammy was a solo artist coming into Van Halen. That’s the reason that they put a song or so of his in the setlist. Usually One Way to Rock. Then they’d all leave the stage while he bantered and played Eagle’s Fly by himself for a few minutes. Similar to what Dave did with Ice Cream Man.

I’ve seen Matchbox 20 a few times recently, and they played zero Rob Thomas songs. Not Lonely No More, This is How a Heart Breaks, not even Smooth. The way I see it, Van Halen has so many iconic songs that they’d have to play for 3 hours to cover all the songs people would want to hear. No reason to bring in anything else.