Van Halen feud heats up as Alex Van Halen calls Sammy Hagar a complete idiot

In a Brazil‑based Roadie Crew interview, Alex Van Halen slammed Sammy Hagar, calling him a 'complete idiot' and dismissing Hagar’s 2011 memoir Red. He praised David Lee Roth as a poet and said Van Halen’s best work came with Roth, continuing a decades‑long feud that has included jabs at Hagar’s Best of All Worlds project and renewed tensions over the band’s history.