color me not surprised Im just thankful I got to see them live with both DLR and Sammy (before Eddie went psycho) time to hang em up Eddie and Alex, help Wolfie get his own band going and produce and record them...Mike deserted ya for Sammy, adn Eddie cant get along with anyone with a hint of their own ego. Alex just needs to go join Sammy and Mike and have some fun....what he is dealing with now cant be enjoyable.
Back on again? http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003606613 Reunited Van Halen Eyeing Fall Arena Run David Lee Roth July 03, 2007, 10:00 AM ET Ray Waddell, Nashville A proposed summer amphitheater tour by a reunited Van Halen that was derailed when guitarist Eddie Van Halen checked into rehab now looks like it may be resurrected as a fall arena run. Several arena holds are in place in major markets for potential Van Halen dates, Billboard.com has learned. The tour, negotiations for which were first tipped here on Jan. 24, would feature David Lee Roth, Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen's teenage son Wolfgang on bass. Wheels had been in motion for a 40-date, Live Nation-produced amphitheater tour, with original frontman Roth back in the fold for the first time in more than 20 years. Van Halen last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. But the reunion never got off the ground, and Eddie Van Halen entered a rehabilitation facility for undisclosed reasons in March. In the months since, the artist has been seen publicly looking healthy and fit. The buzz surrounding the prospect of a Van Halen tour with Roth seems to point toward a successful trek. "I see it absolutely as an inevitability," Roth told Billboard.com more than a year ago regarding a tour with his ex-bandmates. "To me, it's not rocket surgery. It's very simple to put together. And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam, like what's-her-name says to what's-her-name at the end of the movie 'Chicago' -- 'So what? It's showbiz!'"
What cracked me up during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony last winter -- Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar (I think it was Hagar) saying something like, "WE need to act like mature adults and figure something (a reunion, involving Anthony and DLR) out." No, Sammy. You and Anthony are the only gotdayum adults in the whole mess. EVH's kid is probably more mature than the three "men" standing to his left.
I wonder what bands in 25 years will try to make an unwelcome comeback. I'm thinking Linkin Park, 50 Cent, maybe Fallout Boy. That'd be hilarious.
I saw them in concert in 1984 when I was only 12....it was awesome and my first look at t*** in person when girls were flashing. I had the cool concert t-shirt with the tail in the back that you did not tuck in. Awww the days!!!
I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath in Houston in 1978. They rocked, but we were there to see Sabbath. I think it was VH's first real tour.
this reunion thing seems kind of tragic what with eddie and roth seemingly out of their minds PLUS his freaking kid on bass, but you didn't just kinda group them with fallout boy did you?
After all these years and a lot of albums purchased, I still cannot take DLR seriously. What a jackass. This tour will likely have as much success as DLR's radio talk show. Carry on......
I'd go see them..... for $15. But the thought of paying anything more is insane. You gotta know that their music won't have the same old edge, and Mike will be missed. I betcha it'll be a very disappointing performance.
Despite everything, I can't help but get a little excited every time I see one of these "rumors" pop up again. They really, really need to just have the DLR reunion and get it over with. Who cares if it's a disaster. We need closure. This thing has been going on for more than 10 years now. Just do it already.
Closure is a great way of putting it. The Closure Tour 07-08 would be hilarious. Talk about a band that would have benefitted greatly from a death. Seriously, if Eddie had bought the farm after 1984, that band would be - probably wrongly - mentioned in the same breath as all non-Beatles A-listers - the Who, everyone.
I was at that show too... It was around my 11th birthday. My dad, my brother, and I were in the first or second row of the lower prom (right by the stage with the stripping). We got moved down to the 13th row because some cops didn't like seeing us there during that part of the show. My souvenir was the cap that has the flaps that hang down over your neck.
And to take your logic a step further, what would the world be like today if Jimmy Hendrix were still alive, he had cleaned up, and was starring in some holiday comedy alongside Tim Allen. Don't ask me where that came from.
Hey...I had that shirt also. but unlike you whippersnappers, I was 19 and FULLY able to enjoy the babe-filled frivolity of a in-their-prime VH show. on a serious note.... (and if you had any idea of just how big a VH fan I was, you would realize how seriously sad this makes me to say) I will NOT go see this tour if they do *finally* do it. I have great memories of seeing them live with both singers (as mentioned in the initial round of this thread) and I just know they would only disappoint me. I saw DLR a few years back when he was on the bill with real singers, and he looked horrible and sounded worse. Without Mike (who we all know was very important to the VH sound), and with Eddie and Dave's abilty to coexist fragile in the best of times, I just dont see how a revised VH lineup could be worth watching. now Sammy, otoh, is still a force to be reckoned with live...that man always puts on fantastic shows when he does tour.
It is quite hilarious that all these years people have been waiting for Dave to rejoin the band and then, once it seems this may happen for this next tour, Michael Anthony is history and substitute in Wolfgang. They can never get it just right. It's always something.
