With KISS bassist Gene Simmons recently restating his claim that he once had to talk Eddie Van Halen out of leaving VAN HALEN and joining KISS in 1982, the Van Halen News Desk has dug up a rare interview in which Eddie addressed the rumor. According to The Pulse Of Radio, in the 1995 interview, Alan K. Stout of The Times Leader asked Eddie if the story was true. He replied, “Not that I know of, unless I was so ****** up, I don’t remember… They might have just asked me in passing, and I just kind of laughed it off, probably… If it happened, I’m sure I would have remembered.”
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