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OCT 23 :: For the love of god, can't somebody in the U.S. government or CIA force Van Halen to make up with former frontman David Lee Roth instead of touring around with yelping windbag Jimmy Buffett, er, we mean Sammy Hagar. Sure, it made for some good Pepsi commercials back in the day, but come on. Van Halen drags their decrepit bodies sans Roth into the PNE Coliseum Saturday. For tickets call 604-280-4444.
It's a burning question that tears families apart and sends nations into civil war: Sammy Hagar or David Lee Roth? OK, maybe not, but Toronto's Ron Sexsmith, 40 this year, has more of an opinion on the subject of Van Halen than you'd guess. "I recently was at a festival in Sweden and hanging out with Justin (Hawkins), the singer from the Darkness. He recognized me and came up and said, 'Some of me girlfriends have yeh records.' We were talking all night about all this stuff. I love Van Halen in the David Lee Roth period, the first two records, songs like Ain't Talking 'Bout Love. David Lee Roth had an excellent thing going."
Because Van Halen's coming to town Monday, there's talk in the air about pure, cocaine-sniffing, hotel-room-trashing rock stars, and how their age has truly eclipsed. Even on Sammy Hagar's latest DVD, you can sense the final overtures of those days, as the occasional sad porn star, wrestler or topless boob-job shows up onstage with a sagging Jimmy Buffet.
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