Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony lately confirmed that he does “little or no” social media these days. In a brand new interview with “THAT Rocks!”, the weekly YouTube collection hosted by Eddie Trunk, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, Anthony mentioned:

“I do some little bit of Instagramming and no matter, however… [otherwise] no… I don’t prefer to get entangled within the drama. And that was actually exhausting in sure occasions in Van Halen. As a result of, consider me… It’s form of humorous, as a result of I take a look at TV and I’m watching issues like ‘Behind The Music’ [specials] with different bands, and I’m going, ‘Oh my God. Have a look at all of the shit they went by means of.’ After which I sit again and I’m going, ‘Oh my God. We’ve bought in all probability essentially the most drama out of anyone.’”

Talking about Van Halen’s touring days with the band’s authentic singer David Lee Roth, Michael mentioned:

“There was all the time drama on the Roth excursions… There have been occasions… God, I neglect which tour it was. I’ll simply offer you an actual fast story — not a lot drama, however simply the way it was with Dave on tour. We had been staying someplace within the Midwest, and Dave… After this, all of us form of got here to the conclusion that he was bipolar. ‘Trigger he could be nice, after which impulsively he would simply form of freak out or no matter. And one evening… We had an evening off, and all people was… no matter we had been doing. It was, like, round midnight, one within the morning, and everybody was just about again on the lodge.

And I hear all this commotion out within the corridor and pounding and screaming, and I’m going, ‘What the hell is occurring?’ So I put my shorts on and I’m going strolling down the corridor. And our safety guys have gotten Roth in a strait jacket. Our safety guys carried a strait jacket on tour; I gained’t get into that a part of it. However they used to hold a strait jacket on tour, and Roth was simply, like, screaming bare, sitting in one among our safety guys’ rooms, carrying this strait jacket.”

Anthony added:

“Dave, he preferred to drink Jack Daniel’s, however he couldn’t deal with it like I can deal with it. Dave’d have slightly little bit of Jack Daniel’s and he’d get slightly loopy. And I suppose they discovered him wandering round outdoors the lodge bare. And this was only one evening out of seven nights per week being on tour.”