During a new episode of “Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk” on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk (Ch. 103), Sammy Hagar revealed he’d like to help sift through Van Halen’s vault of unreleased songs – which he said features “probably a lot of Eddie [Van Halen’s]” music – and work on anything that’s unfinished. But he doesn’t want to get fans “too freaking excited” about that happening because he doesn’t think Alex Van Halen is interested in opening the vault.

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Sammy Hagar: ‘I don’t think Alex Van Halen is user-friendly’

“I don’t think Alex is user-friendly,” Hagar said. “I don’t know why, but he’s just not.”

However, Hagar believes Eddie Van Halen’s son, Wolf, is receptive to releasing the music.

“If Al were user friendly, I would get with Al, and Wolfie and go in there, go through it, pick the pieces I could make a song out of, and write the lyrics and melody and make a song out of it, and piece it together. And yeah, get Mikey on board and go in there and we can have a Van Halen record. I guarantee you Eddie’s got a ton of stuff.”

Sammy continued: “But Alex would have to be involved. And of course Wolfie would be user friendly; Wolfie’s got no angst against nobody. He should be the happiest kid in the world right now, I’m so happy for him right now I can’t tell ya.”

Sammy Hagar on Joe Satriani and ‘Best Of All Worlds’ Tour

Additionally, during the show, Hagar talked about his “Best Of All Worlds” tour, saying guitar great Joe Satriani has been ‘doing Eddie Van Halen right’ at concerts. The tour has included a 21-song setlist featuring many Van Halen hits, as well as Satriani songs.

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How to Listen

“Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk” airs Tuesday-Friday 3-5pm ET and Monday 5-8pm ET on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk (Ch. 103). Stream previous episodes on the SiriusXM app. Plus, listen to new episodes of Eddie’s weekly podcast, “The Eddie Trunk Podcast,” anywhere you get your podcasts.