Official Sammy Hagar/David Lee Roth/Van Halen Thread

[Malcolm]

Sammy Hagar will be hitting the road in the U.S. this summer as part of the Livin' It Up tour. So far only one date has been announced: Friday, June 30 at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. Tickets go on sale this coming Saturday, February 25 at 9:00 a.m. EST via Ticketmaster. More dates will be announced soon.

[Eric]

Michael Anthony recently gave an interview to a Japanese magazine-he says he didn't play on any of the new 3 songs on Best of Both Worlds, didn't really play on much of Van Halen 3-neither did Alex-on Dirty Water Dog Ed played with a drum machine-Alex was going through a divorce at the time-Ed didn't like him promoting his hot sauce, didn't like Sammy selling Cabo Wabo Tequlia at the shows. He also says they tried to reunite with Dave 3 times, but Dave had too much of an ego. Said Gary was a great guy-he felt bad for Gary,-he came in when the band was in shambles. It sounds like the Van Halen we all knew is done-Ed's drinking is worse than ever, why would Sammy even want to go back to this. This is at the Van Halen message boards, I don't know how to link it-anyway, we think things are bad in Guns n Roses land sometimes...lol

[Eric]

It's at a site called vanhalenlinks.com in the fourm section-interesting read.

[Hammy]

This is at the Van Halen message boards, I don't know how to link it-anyway

No worries, i came across the article at knac.com....

From Burrn! Magazine - Japan:

Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony was interviewed in February 2006 for the April issue, which is out now. The Magazine is printed in Japanese but the following are excerpts werre translated by melodicrock.com:

Michael Anthony commenting on -

The Van Halen 2004 reunion tour:
"Well in general the reunion tour was great because it had been since 1998 that we played as Van Halen anywhere and it doesn't take very long for me after we finish a tour, it only takes a matter of weeks before I'm ready to get up and play in front of people again. So in that respect it was great getting out there and playing again and you know it's like when everybody got back together again, from outward appearances everything seemed fine but we had a few bumps because old things came back up again from time to time on the road between Sammy and Eddie so it was a little bit shaky. Actually the tour didn't end with as much fanfare as I would have liked it to or hoped it would but we got through it."

On the new business arrangements within the band for the 2004 re-union:
"I was not going to just sit home and do nothing and that kind of upset the Van Halen brothers for whatever reason I can't understand myself. But basically when this whole reunion thing started Ed really didn't want me to be part of it. I don't know how he was going to call it a reunion (laughs) but I basically had to work out a deal with Irving Azoff's management company in order to be part of this thing. I kind of sucked it up a bit and I made less money but the way I looked at it was, if this possibly was the last tour that Van Halen would ever do then I'd be kicking myself because I wasn't a part of it and I want to be a part of it, even more so than the money so I sucked it all up and came on and did it. I did it for the fans."

On being nicknamed 'Cannonmouth' for his distinct backing vocals:
"They use to call me that in the early days. Basically Eddie's and my voice were actually I think pretty much as signature as Eddie's playing or anything else as far as the sound we had and it's kind of been that way all the way up through the years. Unfortunately though when we did the Van Halen 3 record with Gary Cherone, Ed wanted to sing more and so he sang a lot more of the backgrounds with Gary and I sang a lot less and there was a lot of negative feedback about that."

On making the re-union happen and attempts previously with David Lee Roth:
"I used to needle Sam a bit and say hey, it'd be great (getting back together). We tried to make this thing work with Roth three times and each time it was even worse than the time before. We tried to do a new album with him and his ego just wouldn't let it happen and the third time that we tried to do it with him was more like, let's see if we can just play some dates and just get along with him and he still for some reason couldn't humble himself enough to just being one of the guys again here. Sammy was out here at a relative's wedding I think staying down at the beach and he actually called Al. So Al went down and met with him and they hung out for the whole day and got along great and at that point then it was just kind of like well, let's see what we can do as far as putting Sam and Ed back together. I knew that Al wanted to get out and play again too because he basically had done nothing because the only person that he plays with is Ed. He doesn't get out and jam with anybody else. So one thing led to another and then (laughs) there was my involvement. You know, I'm the guy who kind of helped put this thing together and then Ed didn't even want me to be a part of it (laughs). I thought it was kind of funny."

On the 2004 tour and tensions within the band:
"We got along great. Obviously there was tension between the brothers, basically Ed and Sammy's tequila thing because he was never happy about that, the whole Cabo Wabo thing. And a lot of these arenas that we were playing in sold Cabo Wabo and even though that really had nothing to do with Sammy because he sells to people and then the buildings, the venues buys the stuff and Sammy doesn't sell to them. So I think Ed would get a little put off when he'd see a lot of Cabo Wabo banners up around the arenas and sometimes that would even create some tension onstage and offstage. There were nights where you know you have that after the show flight on the jet and things would sometimes be a little tense on that plane and without getting into any great detail there came a point to where we actually split it up and we traveled on two different jets; Eddie and Al would fly on one jet and Sammy and I would fly on another. This was only to keep the peace and that sucks just like anything else that even turns into a big business you know, sports or anything. A lot of times you almost lose the reason in the first place of why you got into doing it you know, making music and getting laid (laughs) and it all turns into big business. It got to the point to where I couldn't even see this thing going on much longer without either somebody blowing up on somebody or whatever. So Sammy finally said, I'm not doing any more dates because this is just not working.

When we first started out I was fully ready to do it because I thought we were going to go to Japan, Europe, South America, you know, do the thing that we should have done, like, big band reunites but unfortunately that wasn't going to be.

[Ed] did not want Sammy doing any promoting of his stuff at all using the Van Halen name but a lot of that you don't have any control over. I came out with a hot sauce about the same time we were putting the tour together and the local radio station here in Los Angeles KLOS, they would talk about the tour and then they would talk about my hot sauce. Well the brothers caught wind of that and they thought that I had my people, as they would say "my people", calling the radio station and telling them to pump my hot sauce on Van Halen's dime here or whatever and they finally asked me to have my people "cease and desist", I remember that distinctly. But I didn't have a damn thing to do with that and I have no control over what the radio station said. In fact, gee isn't this one of the benefits that you're supposed to reap from all these years of success, that you can be able to go off and do something like that and promote something? They went on and they (the brothers) had their lawyers call every radio station that we were going to play at in every city and told them specifically they were not to mention Cabo Tequila or my Mad Anthony's Hot Sauce in the same sentence with Van Halen!"

On Eddie's son Wolfgang joining the band on tour:
"Oh it was great. I think he has grown up to be a great kid. I think he's a great player and he jumped up there on the drums a few times during sound check and shit the kid can play drums too you know!"

On recording/filming the tour for possible CD/DVD release:
Well we did video every night for the screens up onstage but no, there was no actual film crew or anything brought in.We had always talked about doing a thing and Sammy did his called The Long Road To Cabo and I was on a pretty major part of that. JH: Oh is that the one where they left your ass at the hotel (laughs)? "Yeah and as much as some people thought that we planned that out, they left me at the hotel and one of the camera guys just happened to be back that night because he wasn't going to the show and I called him up and told him to get his camera and his ass over here to my room, we've got to video all this because they have fuckin' left me here."

But you know, that would have been great to have something like that happen with Van Halen you know; have the cameras following us around onstage, backstage, days off, whatever. Just witnessing the way that Sammy did it, it could have been huge if we did it because people love to see that kind of shit. Aerosmith, everybody has done that kind of thing.

On Van Halen's failure to be nominated for the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame:
"I would have thought that we would have been nominated, voted in and inducted the first year that we were eligible, which would have been like 3 years ago or something like that. But for whatever reasons they have, maybe a lot of the people that vote you in are looking at the drama that this band has gone through and figured well, they don't deserve it yet. I don't know, but that's the only thing that I can come up with. Other than that it's like I have no idea. But I tell you it would be one damn interesting show when they ask us to get together and play for the induction ceremony. I know Dave; he'll be there a week ahead of the show just waiting."

[Hammy]

On the last time he saw David Lee Roth:
"It was when him and Sammy toured together, what is that, four years ago now? He would kind of pull his hat down and just walk by me because I tell you one of the first shows that I did with those guys I forget where we were at but I had a few drinks and I went into Dave's dressing room after the show and I just unloaded on him, on what was his problem that we could not make this reunion work? And all he kept saying was, you're right, you're right. I told him, look at them out there; when you go out there and this is the beginning of the tour and he actually impressed me at the beginning of the tour but as the tour went on boy by the last show they didn't even do the last show of the tour that I was out there because they couldn't do it; Dave just started pulling shenanigans left and right. Most nights Sammy and I would pound on his door and say come on out and numerous times invited him to come out onstage and do an encore, all three of us together but it never happened."

On recording a new album with Roth:
"We were going to do videos for the songs [on the Best Of Volume 1] and everything but Roth was really trying to take control and we finally just said, let's not even do the videos for these songs because he's going to kill the whole thing and so it fell apart. But yeah, before that tour yeah, we tried to make it work. We went into the studio and it was kind of funny because we first got together in the studio and we were all in the one room together and we did Hot For Teacher, Mean Street and a few other songs and it's the weirdest thing because once we started playing it was like, son of a bitch, there it is, that's the magic! It was like a big d?j? vu because it was the original band playing again and it sounded pretty fuckin' good too!

But then of course the longer we spent in the studio, you know we had two or three different producers in there trying to work with us and Dave would just come in with tapes of the Chemical Brothers, all different kinds of weird stuff and say hey, let's do a song like this and Ed was having a hard time dealing with him, a real hard time dealing with him and Al was saying, well, let's do a couple of things that Roth likes to do and then let's just do our thing. I don't know if we had a complete album's worth of stuff but we were pretty damn close and unfortunately, there you go with Dave again and we just couldn't finish it and all those old reasons why he left the band in the first place they started surfacing you know. He went right back to his old ways.

I mean even if you just wanted to look at it purely look at it from a money standpoint that guy was hurting for money. And it was like Dave, I mean he couldn't even put his ego aside if he wanted to go out and make $50 million and you know you've got a pretty large ego when you're going to give that all up even just because you don't get your way on something. I couldn't understand it."

On those new tunes:
"For the most part it was actually pretty good. I don't think Ed would ever let it out though. I've got some demo stuff at home, they didn't even really want me to take any stuff home but I ended up with some stuff at home anyway. I'd never do anything behind the other guys' backs with any of it so it'll just sit in my box in the archives and maybe one of my grandkids or grandkid's boyfriends will put something out one day (laughs) or steal it (laughs)."

On the Best Of Both Worlds Compilation and those 3 new songs:
"You know when we did the Best Of Both Worlds we had problems with Roth because of what he wanted and didn't want on the CD, how much he wanted to get paid and so on. So there was a point to where we were just going to say okay Dave, if that's the way you want it, we had some live versions of some of the old Van Halen songs and we were just going to tell Dave, okay if that's the way you want it we won't even put you on this record, you won't make a dime off it! I mean he was being difficult on that thing and what we wanted to do was the one disc with Sammy and the other disc with Dave plus the three new songs and Dave was even making that difficult but in the end he folded. I think he was just trying to pull a power play. Bad stuff (laughs).

I knew that we weren't going to do a whole new album with Sammy on this reunion thing. The time that it was taking in the studio to do these three songs it would have taken us a couple of years to do an entire album. And like I said, once it started to get put together Irving Azoff really pushed it, speeded us along to get us out there and so it just turned out to be well, let's just do these three songs. And to tell you the truth and I'll say this for the record: I didn't play bass on any of those three songs on there. I wasn't even in the band yet when those three songs were done.

I came aboard and I sang backgrounds on them but the music was already done and I wasn't even back in the band as far as the reunion part of it yet when the music was done. So that was kind of tough for me but it's like hey, it is what it is and I don't think Ed really talked about it much but if anybody asks me I'm not embarrassed to say that I didn't play bass on them because I wasn't part of the band at that point."

On the difference between Roth and Hagar:
"There was magic with both of them. Once Hagar joined the band he brought a new level of musicianship to the band and like Eddie always use to say, he could play anything that he wanted now because Sammy could sing anything. He (Sammy) definitely had a better range. When Sammy joined the band that's when I really had to start working on the backgrounds; the background vocals were a little bit more, uh, not tougher but with Dave there was never any problem singing backgrounds because he didn't have a huge range like Sammy did. I think and there was still magic with Dave too because I mean a lot that we did back then was really cutting edge from Ed's guitar playing to all these little clones that Dave spawned...they were all there because all these guys wanted to be him."

On the new side-band The Other Half:
"This stems from the fact that the Van Halen brothers, namely Ed, do not want to go out and play Van Halen right now or anytime soon. Sammy and I last year on his birthday decided one night that we were going to play because normally it's Sammy's band that plays and I get up there and jam with him and we do some Van Halen stuff and it's all fine. But last year we decided one night that the whole show will be nothing but Van Halen; I'm going to get up there, Sammy and his guitarist Vic Johnson and drummer Dave Lauser and we're going to do a Van Halen set. And somehow we came up with this thing calling us The Other Half and the show came off, I mean people loved it! And it came off so great that we started thinking well God, and I go on the Internet everyday and I'm checking out what fans are saying and try to keep in touch with what's going on as much as I can with our fan base and people do want to hear the music. There were a lot of great comments that came from us doing that thing down there and we were like, hey you know, we want to go out and we want to play the stuff and the fans want to hear it. So we're going to go out this summer, we're putting together the thing that we're calling The Other Half and we're going to play Van Halen and do it right, do a nice production and not me just jamming with his band; you know, we're going to go and play it and the only reason is because the brothers aren't wanting to go out and play it for the fans. Now if they want to come out and play, they're invited! If they want to come out and do it and do Van Halen and do it the right way and have fun, let's go, let's do it, I'm ready right now. But the interest is really there and Sammy and I want to go out and we want to play these songs.

The Wabos will open the show and we're going to put together a good production, the lights, sound, everything will all be put together really nice and we will play all Van Halen material. Right now we're actually talking about me opening up the set with my solo and if we do that then we'll probably have to go into Runnin' With The Devil or something and I'll sing that. So we'll do a little bit more classic Van Halen, I'm digging right now to see if we can pull a couple of more obscure ones out of the hat and I'm going to sing them so I'll be doing more lead vocals, which is great."

On the current status of Van Halen:
"Well never say never but we're currently in a state of limbo. After the reunion tour ended so abruptly we all went into our own corners and truthfully Ed doesn't want to tour right now or maybe ever again. I don't know what he's thinking at this point. So I would say that we're on a temporary hiatus that possibly could become permanent, you never know. With that said I realize that's not much of an answer but that's really where things are right now and tomorrow it could all change again."

Reading all that Roth & the Van Halen Brothers come across as real assholes (there are 2 sides to every story though....)

Good to see Hagar & Anthony will be touring playin' all the old songs, i hope they make it over here, since the 2004 Van Halen tour did not even make Europe......

[Malcolm]

VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony has uploaded a "mini photo gallery" from the rehearsal sessions of his THE OTHER HALF project as they rehearse for their upcoming summer tour. The band's lineup is completed by Sammy Hagar, Vic Johnson (guitar) and David Lauser (drums).

Hi kids, what the %&*@$! is up? This is the first post to my new blog (what the hell does blog mean anyway?) What a great time being down at the Cabo Wabo for Sammy's 'Are We Having Any Fun Yet?' boat cruise bash. The WABOS were on fire and THE OTHER HALF was officially in the house!

"I'm in the San Fran area and we just wrapped up rehearsals for THE OTHER HALF tour. Everybody is smokin' and the set list is on fire! Vic and Bro are kicking ass!!! I'm excited as hell for the first show in Lake Tahoe. We've got a few surprises in store ? some songs we haven't played in quite some time and I'm really looking forward to rockin' with all of our fans this summer.

"It feels like such a long time since the last VAN HALEN tour ended. Sammy and I can't wait to get out there again and party with each and every one of you crazy mofos!!!!!

"I hope you'll check in with me and my blog regularly as I'll be posting often about what's happening on and off stage throughout the summer tour."

[mrlee]

sorry just listening to some van halen DLR era of course, damn its so good. I also watched on youtube hot for the teacher live at donnington monsters of rock cause my parents went there lmao and have pics so i wanted to see if it was the same one....

anyways what a awesome band they used to be, its a shame they got into drinking too much and there egos went sky high 

[Malcolm]

Former VAN HALEN frontman David Lee Roth will reportedly be embarking on an extensive U.S. tour ? consisting of 30 dates or so ? beginning in late June. So far the following dates have been released:

Jun. 28 - House of Blues ? Chicago, IL
Jun. 30 - Summer Celebration - Muskegon, MI
Jul. 01 - Summerfest - Milwaukee, WI

[Malcolm]

After recently getting bounced from what was to be a years-long gig as the morning-radio replacement for Howard Stern, rocker David Lee Roth (tickets | music) is bypassing the unemployment line in favor of a summer tour.

So far, Roth has mapped a route through 20 US cities for a run that kicks off June 28 in Chicago and is scheduled to stretch at least into late August. Venues have not yet been confirmed, with the exception of the Chicago show, which will take place at House of Blues. Details are included below.

June 2006
28 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
30 - Muskegon, MI

July 2006
1 - Milwaukee, WI
3 - Niles, OH
5 - Baltimore, MD
7 - Washington, DC
13 - NYC
15 - Atlantic City, NJ
20 - Cabazon, CA
21 - San Diego, CA
22 - Las Vegas, NV
25, 26 - Anahiem, CA
27 - Los Angeles, CA

August 2006
3 - Orlando, FL
4 - St. Petersburg, FL
5 - Mobile, AL
16 - St. Charles, MO
17 - Oshkosh, WI
19 - Detroit, MI
20 - Cleveland, OH

[Malcolm]

According to Danny Glessner of the San Antonio Express-News, many reports from VAN HALEN's 2004 reunion tour suggested guitar legend Eddie Van Halen was out of sorts due to a storm of recent troubles including cancer, divorce and reports of heavy drinking. Whatever the problems, the tour was not resting well with VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony, whose loyalty to Sammy Hagar strained his relations with the Van Halen brothers.

"I've always tried to skate around these questions," Anthony told the San Antonio Express-News. "But the fact of the matter is when we did the tour in 2004, Ed didn't want me there because of my relationship with Sammy. I sucked it up and took less pay, because I thought if it was the last time VAN HALEN went out and toured, and I wasn't part of it, I would really be upset.

"To sign on to do the tour, they made me relinquish any rights and claims I had to the (VAN HALEN) name, the logo, whatever. At this point, there is basically nothing going on as far as VAN HALEN goes. It's tough to say that, but I'm not going to sugarcoat anything any more."

Hagar said he is in the same boat as Anthony when it comes to forecasting the future.

"I wish Alex was my brother and I've said that to him many times," Hagar said regarding the VAN HALEN drummer. "Ed and Al are tight as hell and you ain't going to get between them. When you're with them, you're an outsider so Mike and I were always buddying up when Ed and Al would start speaking (their native) Dutch and smoking cigarettes and getting in fistfights (laughs).

"I don't have a lot of faith in another VAN HALEN reunion. I'd be totally willing if everything was cool, but I'll tell you straight up, everything's not cool."

[Malcolm]

Eddie and Alex Van Halen joined country artist Kenny Chesney on stage during his Saturday, June 17 appearance at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA. They reportedly performed two songs ? "Jump" and "You Really Got Me" ? with Kenny handling the lead vocals in the former and lead guitarist Clayton Mitchell singing the latter.

[Malcolm]

Sammy Hagar has turned the act of making concertgoers feel like they're partying with him and his band into an art form, as he and his group, The Wabos, demonstrated during their Wednesday (6/28) performance at the Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center.

Despite Mother Nature's efforts to put a damper on things by blanketing the amphitheater grounds with fog and rain, Hagar and company still managed to give fans a taste of what it's like to see them play live at Hagar's nightclub in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, a joint dubbed the Cabo Wabo Cantina.

The effect was created partly by a stage designed to resemble the actual club--complete with a bar--as well as a platform across the rear of the stage that was filled with lucky club patrons/fans who watched the entire show from that vantage point.

A stage is just a stage, however, so it was up to Hagar and his cohorts to turn the night into a party, which they did from the get-go by tearing through a set that, appropriately, began with Hagar's late-'90s hit "Mas Tequila." Throughout the song, Hagar showered those close to the stage with Waboritas--a margarita-like drink made with Hagar's own Cabo Wabo-brand tequila--that were served up by three bikini-clad waitresses who kept the singer well oiled throughout the show, answering the call with a fresh drink in hand every time he hollered "Waitress!"

Now nearing his 60th birthday, Hagar is proving to be the Peter Pan of rock and roll; even close up, the blonde-maned, always-smiling singer looks to be 40-something, maybe 50, and his voice sounds exactly the same now as it did 20 years ago. Of course, it's easier to age well when you're entire life is essentially one big party.

It also doesn't hurt that Hagar, who has had tremendous success as a musician over the past 30-plus years, is now a liquor mogul; during the past decade, he has transformed Cabo Wabo tequila from a specialty served only at his Mexican nightclub into one of the top brands on the market.

In order to keep ticket prices for his current tour reasonable (lawn seats go for as little as $10, and the best seats in the house top out at $50), Hagar's tequila company is underwriting the outing. It's a move that is probably more lucrative in the long run, since each concert is two parts rock show, one part Cabo Wabo tequila commercial. To wit: at the end of "Mas Tequila," a giant pi?ata in the shape of a Cabo Wabo-tequila bottle was lowered from the rafters; Hagar struck it with a guitar to reveal a burst of confetti and a giant faux-worm.

Two things keep the constant Cabo Wabo endorsements from detracting from the performance: one, Hagar really loves the tequila (and for good reason; it's damn delicious); and, two--and most importantly--he puts on a kick-ass rock show.

The first hour comprised cuts culled from throughout Hagar's solo career and his '70s-era stint helming Montrose, including oldies such as "Three Lock Box," "One Way to Rock," "Rock Candy" and his pre-Van Halen signature cut, "I Can't Drive 55," as well as a cover of Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women."

It was the show's second hour, however, that blew the roof off the place.

After a brief intermission, the lights went dark and smoke machines engulfed the entire stage in a thick, white haze. A rumbling, distortion-heavy bass guitar suddenly shook the venue, and Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony emerged from the cloud, sending the audience into a frenzy.

Anthony tore through a solo filled with riffs that had largely been shelved since the early '80s, then raised his instrument over his head in a victory pose as the crowd roared. The bassist--who, much like Hagar, appears to have stopped aging--then lowered the guitar to his upturned face and used his teeth to pluck out the opening bass line to the Van Halen classic "Runnin' With the Devil," which further incited the masses.

Hagar, who has always shied away from David Lee Roth-era Van Halen material, sat back while Anthony sang the song, then joined Anthony, drummer David Lauser and guitarist Victor Johnson--a quartet billed as The Other Half--for a second hour of music comprised entirely of Van Halen cuts.

In addition to expected numbers such as "Why Can't This Be Love," "Finish What Ya Started" and "Right Now," the set also included long-buried gems such as "Good Enough" and "5150," two scorching rockers that elicited roars of approval from the Van Halen fans in attendance--of which there were many.

The Van Halen extravaganza ended with "Best of Both Worlds," one of several cuts that showcased Anthony's upper-register background vocals--which, next to Eddie Van Halen's guitar, are the signature sound of the Van Halen catalog.

The show then closed with a finale befitting of a booze-fueled rock-and-roll party: Hagar's goateed tour manager, who had donned a dozen or so chains, shades and a baseball hat skewed to one side, grabbed the mic and joined the band for a rendition of the Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right (to Party)," a song whose title could easily be considered Hagar's mission statement.

Mission accomplished.

Set list:
Mas Tequila
3 Lock Box
One Way to Rock
Rainy Day Women
Shaka Doobie
Girl Gets Around
Rock Candy
Fall in Love Again
I Love This Bar
Sam I Am
Little White Lies
I Can't Drive 55
Heavy Metal

Intermission

Michael Anthony's bass solo

Runnin' With the Devil
Top of the World
Humans Being
Why Can't This Be Love
Good Enough
5150
Right Now
Finish Whatcha Started
Best of Both Worlds
Fight for Your Right (to Party)

June 2006
30 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Banks Arts Center

July 2006
1 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center
2 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion at Bontage Mountain
4 - Cleveland, OH - Tower City Amphitheatre
5 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
7 - Buffalo, NY - Darien Lake PAC
8 - Auburn Hills, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
9 - Burgettstown, PA - Post Gazette Pavilion
12 - Memphis, TN - Mud Island Amphitheatre
14 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
15 - Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
16 - Bonner Springs, KS - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
18 - Green Bay, WI - Oneida Bingo Casino
20 - Cadott, WI - Rockfest
21 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheatre
22 - Maryland Heights, MO - UMB Pavilion
28, 29 - Las Vegas, NV - Caesar's Palaces
30 - Viejas, CA - Concerts in the Park

August 2006
2 - Temecula, CA - Pechanga Theatre
4 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
5 - Lake Tahoe, NV - Harvey's Outdoor Amphitheatre
8 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre
10 - Sturgis, SD - Glencoe Campground (66th Annual Black Hills Motorcycle Rally)

[Malcolm]

Former VAN HALEN frontman DAVID LEE ROTH has lined up the following dates during the coming months:

Aug. 12 - Sturgis, SD @ The Legendary Buffalo Chips Campground
Aug. 15 - St. Charles, MO @ Ameristar Casino
Aug. 17 - Sault Ste Marie, MI @ Kewadin Casino
Aug. 19 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug. 20 - Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues
Sep. 15 - Indianapolis, IN @ Indiana State Fairgrounds
Sep. 16 - Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods Casino
Sep. 22 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst
Sep. 23 - Sparks, NV @ Nugget
Oct. 06 - Coquitlam, BC, Canada @ Red Robinson Theater
Oct. 07 - Coquitlam, BC, Canada @ Red Robinson Theater
Oct. 18 - Milwaukee, WI @ Potawatomi Casino
Oct. 20 - Little Rock, AR @ Arkansas State Fair
Oct. 21 - Marksville, LA @ Paragon Casino
Oct. 29 - Fresno, CA @ Grizzlies Stadium
Nov. 04 - Tacoma, WA @ Emerald Queen

[jameslofton29]

Oct. 29 - Fresno, CA @ Grizzlies Stadium

That's practically in my backyard. What are his setlists like? Does he play alot of material from his first couple solo albums and of course some VH?

[bazgnr]

Wow.? I had no idea so much behines the scenes stuff had happened with VH over the years, Michael Anthony being "kicked out" or whatever, the friction between Sammy & Eddie, the brothers' dictating product placement (or lack thereof)...sheesh.

Has anyone posted the pics of Eddie that showed up on some blogs a few weeks back?? Where he looked homeless, anorexic, and drunk, with cigarette butts all over his headstock?? Very startling, and a bit sad as well....

http://goldenfiddle.com/image/tid/146

[Butch Français]

my VH fan friend told me Eddie is gonna make the soundtrack for a porn flick or something

[bazgnr]

my VH fan friend told me Eddie is gonna make the soundtrack for a porn flick or something

Again, true.? I'll post the link if I can find it.

[bazgnr]

And here it is:

http://www.spin.com/features/news/2006/07/060727_eddievanhalen/

[Butch Français]

And here it is:

http://www.spin.com/features/news/2006/07/060727_eddievanhalen/

hahha, damn.
I think it's about time Eddie and Alex did a Santana kind of thing.
cut a record with several different singers.
either that or get the hell back together with the Diamond!

[bazgnr]

Eddie's porn songs can be found here in MP3 format to listen to (NSFW):

http://www.flauntingit.com/data/2006/08/30_sacred_sin_eddie_van_halens_porn_tunes.shtml