VAN HALEN: Dress Rehearsal Report Posted Online

[BARE BONE]

MelodicRock.com has posted an first-hand report from a fan that attended VAN HALEN's final dress rehearsal for their upcoming tour on Tuesday (June 1) at Sony studios in Los Angeles. Rob Golenberg's review of the "show" reads as follows:

"Just got home from the VAN HALEN dress rehearsal at Sony studios in LA. What a show. They did the whole show and it rocked. Set is cool. Opened with 'Jump' and did a total of five [David Lee Roth]-era tunes (including 'Somebody Get Me A Doctor'). During Eddie's solo, [son] Wolfgang comes out and plays with him. Two-hour show which will not disappoint! A must-see when they go out."

VAN HALEN's reunion tour with Sammy Hagar gets underway June 11 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The group's first new material since 1998's "Van Halen III" will come in the shape of the upcoming "Best of Both Worlds" retrospective, due July 20 via Warner Bros.

[kennyboy]

Somebody Get Me A Doctor

!?!?!

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Spam's really gonna butcher that one.

[POJO_Risin]

I can't believe they are playing Roth tunes...

figures it's opening here in North Carolina...

2 hour show...I'd rather see Wolfgang out there by himself playing the harp...

[knuckleboner]

man, that's gotta just KILL sammy that after 8 years, the so-called reunion of van hagar has to open up with a dave tune.

[famac]

The set list is full of Sammy pop-rock tripe

[lztom]

It's Michael Anthony who sings SGMAD. Mercifully, it looks like they've chosen not to butcher any new classic Van Halen; its the usual spudnuts collection.
It's funny how the Van Hagar tools claim both eras are equally good but are then openly salivating at the prospect of ONE classic VH tune being played. Nobody's bemoaning the lack on 'In and Out' or 'Black and Blue'.

[ZahZoo]

Originally posted by kennyboy
Somebody Get Me A Doctor

!?!?!

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Spam's really gonna butcher that one.

Actually Michael sings lead vocals on that one and he does a damn good job of it. There's a video clip of him singing it on the III tour and it actually sounded better than Dave did back in the day.

[lztom]

Who in their fucking right mind wants to see Edward's chubby son on stage????

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by ZahZoo
Actually Michael sings lead vocals on that one and he does a damn good job of it. There's a video clip of him singing it on the III tour and it actually sounded better than Dave did back in the day.

Yeah right...

I have the clip...

[DLR_EngineRoom]

Originally posted by BARE BONE
MelodicRock.com has posted an first-hand report from a fan that attended VAN HALEN's final dress rehearsal for their upcoming tour on Tuesday (June 1) at Sony studios in Los Angeles. Rob Golenberg's review of the "show" reads as follows:

"Just got home from the VAN HALEN dress rehearsal at Sony studios in LA. What a show. They did the whole show and it rocked. Set is cool. Opened with 'Jump' and did a total of five [David Lee Roth]-era tunes (including 'Somebody Get Me A Doctor'). During Eddie's solo, [son] Wolfgang comes out and plays with him. Two-hour show which will not disappoint! A must-see when they go out."

VAN HALEN's reunion tour with Sammy Hagar gets underway June 11 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The group's first new material since 1998's "Van Halen III" will come in the shape of the upcoming "Best of Both Worlds" retrospective, due July 20 via Warner Bros.

The very LEAST they could do was have Michael Anthony do lead vocals on ALL Roth songs. But then again, that would require the VH Bros. to behaving reasonable, something they haven't done since 1985.

[Don Corleone]

During Eddie's solo, [son] Wolfgang comes out and plays with him.

Michael's Jacksons influence lives

[Sarge]

Sammy opening with Jump..
That guy cannot escape Roth's shadow.

I bet if a condition of the reunion was for him to sing only Roth era songs for the reunion tour he would have bit.

Dave will never sing any of Sammy's songs..
But Sammy will always have to sing Dave songs..

[POJO_Risin]

And give me a break about Michael Anthony sounding better than Dave back in the day...that's total horseshit...

don't give Michael credit for anything more than he is...a brown-nosin', coat riding, decent bass player...who sings like he has no balls...and should be a backround singer...

anything more than that is...well...

uncivilized...

Sammy's a bitch...by the way...

[lms]

I think Dave would sing Spammy songs just to show folks how it is done.

They would not let Mike sing all classic VH songs cause that would be giving him too much open attention-couldn't do that,lessens controlability.

Wolfgang might be of the slightest bit of interest. The hope of the future?

[FORD]

Originally posted by ZahZoo
Actually Michael sings lead vocals on that one and he does a damn good job of it. There's a video clip of him singing it on the III tour and it actually sounded better than Dave did back in the day.

Now I would agree that Mikey did a good job and it was the highlight of the VDIII tour. But better than Dave? Not a chance