It's just about (cough) official now...

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by Roth & Roll
That doesn't make any sense. The whole purpose to touring is supposed to be to promote new material.

Not necessarily. Bands, as old as VH, don't tour just to promote new material anymore.

[indeedido]

I don't know what to think or believe any more. The whole thing is making me wonder if I still care. Rumor here, Rumor there. Maybe if something does happen, the album should follow the Fleetwood Mac line and call it Rumors.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by indeedido
I don't know what to think or believe any more. The whole thing is making me wonder if I still care. Rumor here, Rumor there. Maybe if something does happen, the album should follow the Fleetwood Mac line and call it Rumors.

Just enjoy the ride...or whatever it is.

:D

[FORD]

Curious how fast the corporate media (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) have picked up this story, isn't it?

I don't remember that happening in 2004 when they announced the Velveetapalooza tour. :D

[Steve Savicki]

Originally posted by BrownSound1
I've got a 15 year old son who is dying to go see this...I hate for him not to experience at least a portion of what once was.

I say go for it.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Ellyllions

b) hubby refused to play Freebird......:D

Can't you get shot for that down South? I thought it was like the National Anthem

[Rikk]

Y'know, the funniest part of this would be if a bunch of angry fans left this site and the Links and formed a new website...

https://www.michael-anthony-army.com

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by Rikk
Y'know, the funniest part of this would be if a bunch of angry fans left this site and the Links and formed a new website...

www.michael-anthony-army.com

LMAO!!!

That would be beyond pathetic.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by FORD
Curious how fast the corporate media (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) have picked up this story, isn't it?

I don't remember that happening in 2004 when they announced the Velveetapalooza tour. :D

Shit, we've got news coming out of New Zealand and India of all places.

Why?

DAVID LEE ROTH singing for Van Halen again.

[mott98]

Dave holds most of the cards here, but if he demanded Mike back, there would be no tour. We all know he has that much figured out.

Further, Dave has decided two things:

1) He wants this tour -- the money, the return to the spotlight, and to reclaim his place at the front of VH for all of rock history.

2) If Wolfie blows it, then the whole world will not blame Dave, they will blame Ed

Funny that in summer of 1996, Dave wanted to blow into 5150, rev up some of the old tunes, get the pipes in shape, and Ed says "No way. We're not doing an oldies tour, we're working on new material."

Dec 2006, Dave blows into 5150, revs up 14 of the oldies, we get an oldies tour and no new material. Glad to see Ed stood his ground and adhered to his precious principals.

I'm not buying a ticket to this without Michael. There will be enough bootlegs and DVDs I can download for free, without contributing to Ed and Alex's (obviously empty) wallets.

[Vinnie Velvet]

The LA Times posted an article with a little more info, including news of a press conference!

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Van Halen is back -- with David Lee Roth
The band will launch its first tour with its original singer in 20 years this spring.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
January 25, 2007


Give credit (or blame?) to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-David Lee Roth is back with Van Halen and planning to tour.

The mercurial Roth, who officially left Van Halen on April Fool's Day in 1985, will reportedly reunite with his old band mates for a tour that kicks off in North Carolina in early May and includes June stops in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, according to sources in the concert industry.

The band has been planning a splashy press conference in Los Angeles to announce the news, but word leaked out today. There had been intense speculation that the reunion might happen after the announcement this month that the band would be inducted into the Hall of Fame in New York on March 12. That induction ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel could be a study in awkward stage politics now considering that Hagar, the on-again-off-again replacement for Roth is being inducted as well.

Hagar sang with the band on their lucrative tour dates in 2004 and 2005 and told The Times a few weeks ago that he hoped the ceremony would be a good-spirited celebration of the band's legacy. Now, he faces the prospect of playing the rock bridesmaid at the public celebration of his band's rekindled first marriage.

Hagar and Roth have feuded publicly and in 2002 when they turned their public animus into a tour of strange bedfellows, the venture dipped into soap opera almost daily.

It's not technically Roth's first return to the band; he appeared on stage with the band - which is guitar hero Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony - at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1996. They recorded a few songs but then it was all off again.

Roth's return will be met with exultation for fans of the band's edgier and raunchier Sunset Strip metal roots and their remarkable six-album rise the top of rock stardom, which began with "Van Halen" in 1979, an album that has shipped more than 10 million copies to stores, according to Recording Industry Assn. of America.

Hagar's entry into the lineup in 1985 marked a step toward a less aggressive edge and more mainstream sound. Fans have long debated which line-up truly rules and now Roth will get a chance to present his argument on stage for the first time since the Reagan administration.

geoff.boucher@latimes.com

[UKPete]

I'm praying that this is true as I never got to see Ed and Dave play together. I've seen Dave a couple of times in the UK but I'll fly across the pond for this reunion.

Which sites can I buy tickets for this tour when/if it is announced? Any help greatly appreciated as I'm not sure if they will make it to the UK so I'm not taking any chances!

[vhrothfan]

I would buy a ticket. This is VAN HALEN not VAN HAGAR. Dave and Ed co wrote all the CVH and Mike did not contribute anything but backround vocals. Maybe Wolfie can sing those high notes.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by UKPete
I'm praying that this is true as I never got to see Ed and Dave play together. I've seen Dave a couple of times in the UK but I'll fly across the pond for this reunion.

Which sites can I buy tickets for this tour when/if it is announced? Any help greatly appreciated as I'm not sure if they will make it to the UK so I'm not taking any chances!

So far its only 40 dates.

Beyond that, who knows.

[BottomLine65]

It's about fucking god damn time. Wish it was a 100% reunion, but I'll take it! Just can't wait to hear the opening cords to UNCHAINED this summer! FUCK YOU SPAMMY!