Eddie Van Halen’s ghost has been busy recently, bothering David Lee Roth too

Earlier this week, David Lee Roth made some fun of Sammy Hagar by jokingly implying that he, too, had lately received a visit from Eddie Van Halen‘s ghost. Hagar revealed to UCR in August 2022 that he had a dream in which Van Halen, who passed away in October 2020, came to him and assisted him in writing a new song.

I remembered it. I got up in the morning and I wrote the song. I used the fuckin’ lick that he showed me in the song. The song was “Encore, Thank You, Good Night by Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Kenny Aronoff

Roth said during his performance on Wednesday night in Hampton Beach that the legendary guitarist had recently paid him a visit.

One of my esteemed colleagues, he’s a contemporary, he’s got a great voice, he’s got a great catalog. You all know Sammy Hagar, right? He’s got a great voice. And Sammy, aloud, he described to the media about six weeks ago that the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited him and graced him with a song that he memorized and then went home and recorded. It’s on the Internet. I don’t know what the odds are, but last night the ghost of Eddie Van Halen visited me at the fucking hotel room. I was watching the weather report and he came in and he was laughing. His fucking ghost was laughing.I said, ‘What did you do now?’ He said, ‘Dave, Dave…Dave, you know that song I gave Hagar?’ I said, ‘What now?’ He said, ‘It’s actually [Iron Butterfly’s 1968 hit] ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ backwards. Don’t fucking tell him. And I hugged my brother Ed, and I said, ‘Man, do I fucking miss you.’ And he said, ‘I miss you too, Dave.’ He said, ‘But you know what? You should still go to hell.’ And I said, ‘Save me a seat.’

During a performance of “Dance the Night Away,” Roth concluded the story by stating that he and Van Halen‘s ghost then shared a ghost cigarette.