On a past episode of Talk Is Jericho, legendary Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen shared that there was enough material in the vaults for another “three or four records. I’ve talked about it loosely, and I am rather superstitious, but I can say a couple of things that I’ve mentioned before,” he told Chris Jericho. “We’re gonna go through the ‘vault’ and go through some of the musical ideas that were there.”
He continued: “There was some good stuff in there. And you have to remember, when in the thick of it, sometimes the really great stuff kind of passes you by. And it’s not until you revisit it going, ‘Whoa, I forgot about that. This kicks ass.’ But that takes time. And you wanna do it right. I wanna do it right.”
Alex appeared recently on the “Metal Sticks” podcast with Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, and he revealed that he’s getting set to work on a new album of some sort with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather. “I’m getting ready to do this record with Lukather and a couple of other people,” he said. “It should be exciting.” Alex previously told Dutch newspaper De Telegraff that: “Ed and Steve Lukather were very good friends and they often worked together. There is no one who can do this process with me as well as he can.”
Lukather previously posted on his Instagram to clarify that: “Al asked me to help him go thru a ton of unfinished recordings of Al and Ed writing and recording that never saw the light of day. As of now thats all I got … I will NOT EVER play a guitar note on a VH song ever. The fact that ANYONE would think for even a second that I would play anything on this is ridiculous. I have too much love and respect for that and … I play nothing like Ed.. more as a co-producer or something. I am honored Al would ask me though.”
Check out Alex Van Halen’s full appearance on “Metal Sticks” below.
