Sammy Hagar Reveals More Details of Eddie Van Halen Reunion Call - Ultimate Classic Rock

Speaking to Angi Taylor on Chicago's 95.5 FM (embedded below), Hagar said, "When I called him, after years of not speaking, back in February, I think, or January, whatever it was — before COVID — he said, 'What took you so long?' [Laughs] It put the biggest smile on my face.

"Butt now, looking back, if we wouldn't have come to terms with that feud we were having after the [2004] reunion tour," Hagar said, "I wouldn't have been able to come to grips with it.

In his note to Stern, Hagar wrote that he and Van Halen "had been texting, and it's been a love fest since we started communicating earlier this year