Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, never one to leave a person wondering what he's really thinking, trashed Van Halen in his latest chat with Rolling Stone.

And not just the reunion tour, which he hated.

It started with that and moved on to Van Halen in general.

Asked which acts he was planning on catching at Lollapalooza, Carney responded with, "I love Black Sabbath, but I don't know if I'd want to watch Black Sabbath without Bill Ward. The band is Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy. I have no interest in seeing bands with partial lineups. I just saw Van Halen without Michael Anthony. I'm not a very big Van Halen fan but it was such a (expletive) bummer. Like what the (expletive) is the point?"

And he's not trashing the abilities of Anthony's replacement, Wolfgang Van Halen.

"I mean, sure, Eddie Van Halen's son is a pretty good bass player," Carney said. "And he's a 20-year-old kid and that's cool, but like, what the (expletive) is that? That's (expletive) retarded. If someone is able to be in a band for 30 years and then people are okay with replacing him with a 17-year-old, they're obviously (expletive) (expletive), right?"

And then, in case it wasn't clear that Carney hated the experience, the writer asked, "Did you enjoy the show at all?," which led to Carney's full review.

"It felt flat," he said. "It didn't sound good. I don't think Dave's voice is really there. Eddie Van Halen's guitar sounded pretty good but I'm not a big fan of that music to begin with. I do like some of the classic Van Halen stuff, but not in the same way that I actually like Black Sabbath stuff. I just think some Van Halen is exceptionally awful."

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