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VAN HALEN - Eddie’s Drinking Halts Plans For Future Touring [Rock Hard - 05.05.09 14:14:33]
Launch Radio Networks reports:
Last year's VAN HALEN reunion tour thrilled fans around North America, but things were not quite as euphoric inside the band. Bassist Michael Anthony told Launch that guitarist Eddie Van Halen's continued drinking made things a bit erratic and seems to have halted plans for future touring.
"I hate to talk smack about anyone in the band or whatever, but, y'know, Eddie, you know, he's still doing a bit of drinking and everything," he said. "There were nights where it was kind of like a rollercoaster, up or down, and myself, I would have liked to have seen him totally clean up if we were gonna take this further and, like, 'cause, gosh, we could've gone all around the world with it."
Van Halen put three newly recorded songs on its 2004 compilation, Best Of Both Worlds, but no future recordings or tour plans have been set.
Anthony and Van Halen singer SAMMY HAGAR are on the road together with the Cinco de Mayo tour, which features Hagar and his WABORITAS, as well as LOS TRES GUSANOS, a side band Hagar and Anthony put together with Waboritas drummer David Lauser.
The Cinco de Mayo tour arrives tomorrow (Tuesday, May 10) in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Launch Radio Networks reports:
Last year's VAN HALEN reunion tour thrilled fans around North America, but things were not quite as euphoric inside the band. Bassist Michael Anthony told Launch that guitarist Eddie Van Halen's continued drinking made things a bit erratic and seems to have halted plans for future touring.
"I hate to talk smack about anyone in the band or whatever, but, y'know, Eddie, you know, he's still doing a bit of drinking and everything," he said. "There were nights where it was kind of like a rollercoaster, up or down, and myself, I would have liked to have seen him totally clean up if we were gonna take this further and, like, 'cause, gosh, we could've gone all around the world with it."
Van Halen put three newly recorded songs on its 2004 compilation, Best Of Both Worlds, but no future recordings or tour plans have been set.
Anthony and Van Halen singer SAMMY HAGAR are on the road together with the Cinco de Mayo tour, which features Hagar and his WABORITAS, as well as LOS TRES GUSANOS, a side band Hagar and Anthony put together with Waboritas drummer David Lauser.
The Cinco de Mayo tour arrives tomorrow (Tuesday, May 10) in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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