Kudos to Van Halen for not flooding the market with unreleased recordings following the death of Eddie Van Halen in 2020. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be any.
Michael Anthony says”We’re starting a bunch of the re-issue stuff with the Sammy (Hagar) years, with all his albums, and the first one that will come out will be the Right Here, Right Now live album that we did in 1992.
“We’re digging back into stuff. There’s a lot more stuff at Ed’s 5150 studio; Wolfie or Alex [Van Halen] will start going through stuff there and see what there is. There’s a ton of stuff.”
He also says there’s lots of concert recordings and video. “I know for a fact all like early tours we used to record every single show. That was just for the band so that we could critique ourselves after every show and and this went on for a few years. Like the first the first few tours we would record almost every show. And I’m sure, somewhere around Eddie’s house, or Wolfgang’s got them now, they’ve got a lot of these tapes.”
Anthony played on every Van Halen except for one, 2012’s A Different Kind of Truth.
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