Alex Van Halen said David Lee Roth used to tell Eddie Van Halen to play fewer guitar solos. The drummer asserted that Roth’s increasing jealousy over Eddie’s popularity led to the singer quitting the band in 1985.

Alex Van Halen has shared the last track he wrote with late brother Eddie Van Halen.

The Van Halen drummer writes an elegy to modern guitar god Eddie about a brotherhood tested by drug abuse, power trips and all the other common traps that befall megastars who once shared the same bedroom.