The long-running feud between Van Halen frontmen continues on with David Lee Roth now declaring that “Sammy Hagar was abducted by aliens and he was sex probed.”
Diamond Dave delivered the verbal assault on the Red Rocker in a new video dubbed “The Ballad of Popsicle Sam,” in which we hear DLR’s voice over a 25-minute slideshow of new black & white photos of himself.
To backtrack, Hagar claimed in 2011 that he was once abducted by aliens, telling MTV at the time, “Aliens were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren’t even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was like, ‘Fuck, they downloaded something into me!’ Or they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment. ‘See what this guy knows.’”
Now, 13 years later, DLR is poking fun at Hagar’s claims, perhaps upset at some recent comments made by the Red Rocker regarding Roth’s vocal abilities. In an early 2023 interview, Hagar stated, “[Roth] sang so bad last time he was doing shows, it was embarrassing.”
More recently, Hagar extended an invite to DLR to join him onstage during his upcoming summer tour, but quickly walked it back for the most part. “He can come out and sing a song on a show or two if he can remember the words,” clarified Hagar. “He’s not invited on the tour. NOOOO F***king way. [The invitation] was to sing a song with us somewhere … I know better than to have him on tour again. Been there done that.”
