Van Halen's reunion tour was canceled because David Lee Roth refused to pay tribute to Eddie

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Van Halen rockers David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen had a fraught relationship for decades, and that's what torpedoed a planned reunion tour following Eddie's death, the band's drummer Alex Van Halen, who's Eddie's brother, told Rolling Stone.

"The thing that broke the camel's back, and I can be honest about this now," Alex explained, "was I said, 'Dave, at some point, we have to have a very overt — not a bowing — but an acknowledgment of Ed in the gig. If you look at how Queen does it, they show old footage.' And the moment I said we gotta acknowledge Ed, Dave f---in' popped a fuse.… The vitriol that came out was unbelievable."

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