Van Halen - Sammy Hagar Returns,

[TMR]

VAN HALEN - SAMMY HAGAR RETURNS, TOUR STARTS JUNE 11:
Here it is folks...straight from the pages of USA Today Online:
"Ending months of speculation, Van Halen is confirming a summer reunion tour, with singer Sammy Hagar rejoining the band. They hit the road June 11 in Greensboro, N.C., with dates scheduled through August. Tickets go on sale April 3, and pre-sale tickets will be available through AOL starting Wednesday. A best-of compilation is due in June

[TMR]

Ed was getting lonely and needed alcohol money and SPAM's dick up his ass!

[TMR]

LOVERS are back in bed together......

[Ed Gein]

From Melodicrock.com...via usatoday.

VAN HALEN - SAMMY HAGAR RETURNS, TOUR STARTS JUNE 11:
Here it is folks...straight from the pages of USA Today Online:
"Ending months of speculation, Van Halen is confirming a summer reunion tour, with singer Sammy Hagar rejoining the band. They hit the road June 11 in Greensboro, N.C., with dates scheduled through August. Tickets go on sale April 3, and pre-sale tickets will be available through AOL starting Wednesday. A best-of compilation is due in June.
The return of this lineup, in place from 1985 to 1996, follows prolonged public feuding, the band's brief stint with singer Gary Cherone and Eddie Van Halen's battle with cancer. Van Halen has been inactive since 1999, but Hagar co-headlined a 2002 tour with David Lee Roth, VH's original singer.
Among confirmed dates: June 16 in Philadelphia; June 22 in East Rutherford, N.J.; July 10 in Detroit; July 19 in Chicago; Aug. 1 in Denver; Aug. 5 in Phoenix and Aug. 19 in Los Angeles. See all 29 announced dates at life.usatoday.com [Info not online as yet]; additional shows will be posted at van-halen.com."

Ok - so there are the first official dates and confirmation that Sammy Hagar has returned to the band. But I can't let this go without saying a little something.
Is this the absolute lamest possible way of announcing the re-union?
What happened to fanfare, the pomp, the ceremony - what the hell happened to a press release from the band???
This is a band that has said virtually nothing in years, but announces tour dates via USA Today? Fans have been hanging out for anything official from Van Halen since 2001. They have been hanging on ever rumor, every tidbit of info and since I first announced Hagar was coming back to the band last November, news has been leaking ever increasingly, but still nothing from the guys! If now isn't the time - when is?

[Big Troubles]

They are the drizzling shits. Fuck them.

[TMR]

VAN HALEN went from Greatest Rock Band back in the 70-80's to the RIP OFF BAND off the MILLENIUM>>>>> FUCKERS!

Going on Tour to promote a FUCKING REHASH OF SPAM SONGS.....I Truly wonder of Ed can last a full tour on stage without falling over from the bottle???

FUCK YOU ED!.....LOL

[Big Troubles]

They wont last a summer tour. theres no way. there's no passion there to make good rock n roll. its all about the money now. its a shame too, because they have the god given talent to sound like they used to with the proper singer and they are choosing what will make them less money? A Dave reunion would blast out the stadiums and rock bigger than the Stones coming to your nearest largest venue.

[TMR]

I don't think Ed could keep up with Dave anymore.....lol

Plus now ED gets to spend the SUMMER NIGHTS with SPAM....LOL

[Lou]

I posted this in the other thread, and I'll repost here:

Fuck this band. Really, just fuck this band.

I'm 22 going on 23 next month, I've never seen Eddie live, and guess what on June 16th when Van Hagar comes to Philadelphia I'M NOT GONNA BE THERE EDDIE THROWING AWAY MY MONEY AND SUPPORTING YOUR BULLSHIT.

I just can't enjoy it with Little Fat Sambo singing and the band playing music I hate.

[Big Troubles]

They are gonna look like such hypocrytes. First Dave, then Sam, then Dave, then Gary and now Sam? Is that normal? Its obvious its not the singer that has the problem. These brothers are fucked. And Mikey does what Mikey's told.

[TMR]

Originally posted by Lou
I posted this in the other thread, and I'll repost here:

Fuck this band. Really, just fuck this band.

I'm 22 going on 23 next month, I've never seen Eddie live, and guess what on June 16th when Van Hagar comes to Philadelphia I'M NOT GONNA BE THERE EDDIE THROWING AWAY MY MONEY AND SUPPORTING YOUR BULLSHIT.

I just can't enjoy it with Little Fat Sambo singing and the band playing music I hate.

Agreed.....I"M NOT WASTING MY TIME SEEING THESE FUCKS....VAN HALEN SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lou]

Oh darn, I wish I had shitty-ass AOL too (what a shocker, Time-Warner connected just like BOV2 will be) so I could get in on the pre-sale. Ah what the hell I'll just download AOL now and pay for another ISP for the express purpose of buying Van Hagar tickets in advance. Yippee!!

The only thing we need now is a ceremonial re-opening of the Pasture Dump to get the excitement flowing! Maybe I can brown-nose Brad $tark$ like all the former mods over there will for some backstage passes to meet that fucking fat-ass troll and ask Eddie what his inspiration was for killer songs like "When It's Love" and "Love Walks In."

[Lou]

Hey Eddie I thought you didn't want to do a nostalgia act either. Where's the new material?

EVH

[Mr Ziffel]

Look at it this way, you can pay $85.00 to go see Ed play a solo. Why would anyone pay that kind of money to go see Edward Van Halen play a solo? I'm hearing people say they're going so they can hear Ed play. Well guess what you stupid motherfuckers, you are paying a premium to hear Ed play shitty songs, with an even shittier singer.

[Starwood]

Can't wait to hear to the reviews of the half full arenas packed with Dockers-wearing fat men and their ugly wives.