“He stopped writing, I think, because he just ran out. He had used that guitar neck up. He did everything and anything that neck could do”: Sammy Hagar explains Eddie Van Halen's lost years

Sammy Hagar in 2025.

Sammy Hagar claims that he helped Eddie Van Halen become a better musician when they were together in Van Halen — and says that Eddie didn’t make new music in the 2000s because he was “dried up”.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Hagar says that Van Halen fans have misunderstood the creative dynamic between himself and EVH.