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Sammy Hagar<\/a> and Michael Anthony<\/a>\u00a0opened up about the difficult birth of Van Halen<\/a>‘s\u00a0Balance<\/a><\/em> in a new social media post, with Hagar saying the process “wasn’t fun.”<\/p>\n The 1995 album was Hagar’s last with the group, and found the band clashing over creative and personal differences while also trying to adjust to a post-grunge landscape.<\/p>\n Read More: The Album After Grunge Hit – How 16 Rock Stars Changed Their Sound<\/a><\/p>\n Opening up the album and looking at the individual pictures of the band members on Balance<\/em>‘s inner sleeve, Hagar commented: “Look – four pissed off people! You know it’s so crazy, because to go into the studio and not want to be there, it was tough.”<\/p>\n “It was a little more work than the other ones,” Anthony noted. “There was… a lot of seriousness.” The duo put most of the blame on Eddie Van Halen<\/a>, saying the guitarist put them “under a microscope” while they were trying to record their parts.<\/p>\n “It really would piss me off,” Hagar noted, “I’m siting in there waiting for Ed to stop complaining about stuff he hasn’t even heard yet. So [producer] Bruce [Fairbairn] said ‘f— this, come on we’re going to Canada.’ “<\/p>\n Hagar wound up recording his vocal parts at a vocal booth in Bryan Adams<\/a>‘ home, and says the Van Halen brothers (Eddie and drumming brother Alex) had no choice to admit that he had done well when they heard the results: “I remember Ed looking at Al going, ‘yeah…this is pretty good, we can’t poke holes in this.”<\/p>\nVan Halen’s Expanded ‘Balance’ Reissue Includes New Live Tracks<\/h3>\n