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Robert "Kool" Bell has plenty of reason to celebrate the good times these days.
"Have you heard the news?" he said, calling to talk about Kool and the Gang's upcoming show at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.
A week to the day after they join The Commodores in Mount Pleasant, Bell and his bandmates hit the road with Van Halen on its 40th anniversary reunion tour with David Lee Roth.
"You know there are a lot of people scratching their heads over that one," he said, chuckling. "We were playing the Glastonbury Festival in London – it's a big one, with rockers like U2 and Coldplay – and David Lee Roth saw us there."
It's not such a stretch, he said, as the two groups were working their way up the ranks at the same time. And the tour's titled a reunion celebration, tying into one of Kool and the Gang's biggest hits.
"I've known Eddie Van Halen since back in the '70s," Bell said. "And we have a section of our show, you'll see at Soaring Eagle, where we're doing our Kool Rock, with an AOR (album-oriented rock) feel to it. We're just coming full circle with this tour."
"Have you heard the news?" he said, calling to talk about Kool and the Gang's upcoming show at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.
A week to the day after they join The Commodores in Mount Pleasant, Bell and his bandmates hit the road with Van Halen on its 40th anniversary reunion tour with David Lee Roth.
"You know there are a lot of people scratching their heads over that one," he said, chuckling. "We were playing the Glastonbury Festival in London – it's a big one, with rockers like U2 and Coldplay – and David Lee Roth saw us there."
It's not such a stretch, he said, as the two groups were working their way up the ranks at the same time. And the tour's titled a reunion celebration, tying into one of Kool and the Gang's biggest hits.
"I've known Eddie Van Halen since back in the '70s," Bell said. "And we have a section of our show, you'll see at Soaring Eagle, where we're doing our Kool Rock, with an AOR (album-oriented rock) feel to it. We're just coming full circle with this tour."
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