Alex Van Halen
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"Alexander Arthur" ""Alex"" "Van Halen" is a Dutch people/Dutch-born United States/American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie Van Halen/Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar. After spending time playing Eddie's drum kit, Alex became more skillful at the drums than Eddie.

In 1974, the Van Halen brothers, David Lee Roth, and Michael Anthony (musician)/Michael Anthony formed a band, simply called Van Halen. They were signed to Warner Brothers in 1977 and released their first album in 1978. The two brothers are the only members of Van Halen who have been in the band for its entire duration.

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Some things are impossible.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.