Daryl Hall Says He Turned Down Van Halen Offer to Replace Roth

Daryl Hall, of the legendary pop rock duo Hall and Oates, has confirmed that he was as soon as requested to probably substitute David Lee Roth in Van Halen after the singer’s mid-’80s departure from the group.

On the time, Corridor and Oates had simply launched their twelfth full size album, Large Bam Growth, which was greeted with continued success on the again of the smash pop hit “Out of Contact.” The duo, who launched their first report in 1972, had been evolving with the occasions and their sound had change into extra experimental by bringing trendy expertise (synthesizers) and recording strategies to the fold.

Van Halen had additionally dabbled on this space, most noticeably on the 1984 hit “Soar” and its iconic opening synth half. After they’d chosen Sammy Hagar as Roth’s substitute, this sound got here to extra prominently outline the group as properly.

However earlier than touchdown Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen evidently had Corridor on an inventory of appropriate successors to “Diamond Dave.”

“Truly, sure,” Corridor instructed Q104.3 when requested if it was true that Eddie had as soon as approached him and gauged his curiosity on fronting Van Halen.

“I knew these guys rather well. We really shared some folks — crew, and issues like that,” Corridor continued, “And Eddie got here to a present with Valerie [Bertinelli, his wife at the time]. This goes again, you realize? And David had simply left the band. And Eddie mentioned, ‘Do you wish to be a part of Van Halen, man?’ He was half joking, however I feel he was severe. I actually do imagine he was severe. And I took it critically. I went, ‘Meh, I feel not. I feel I’ve obtained my very own shit happening.'”

The pop rock singer and songwriters additionally confirmed that Corridor and Oates’ “Kiss On My Listing,” the third single off the duo’s 1980 album Voices had a significant influence on shaping one in all Van Halen’s greatest hit songs — “Soar.”

“That’s appropriate,” Corridor mentioned of his music’s affect on the monitor. “That’s what [Eddie] all the time instructed me. That impressed ‘Soar.'”

In 1985, the identical 12 months Roth and Van Halen cut up, Hagar was welcomed to the band, although as bassist Michael Anthony recalled final 12 months, the group’s label house (Warner Bros.) had hopes of adjusting the band’s title along with the lineup change. Eddie and his drummer brother Alex strongly protested this concept, nevertheless.

Daryl Corridor Interviewed on Q104.3