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| Roth returning for Van Halen tour |  David Lee Roth left the band more than 20 years ago |
Original Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth is reuniting with the rock group for a North American tour, according to the band's official website. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen said: "I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen." Roth last performed live with the band in 1984 before he was replaced a year later by Sammy Hagar. The rock act, whose biggest hit was Jump, are to be inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month. Radio host Roth briefly reformed with Van Halen in 1996, resulting in two new songs on a greatest hits compilation, but no concert tour.  Van Halen's 1988 line-up with Roth's replacement Sammy Hagar (bottom left) |
The band's original bassist, Michael Anthony, will not be taking part in the reunion tour, expected to visit 40 locations during the summer. Last year he was replaced in the line-up by Eddie Van Halen's teenage son, Wolfgang. Van Halen released their self-titled debut album in 1978 and became one of the most influential rock bands of the 1980s, selling an estimated 75 million albums worldwide. Roth went on to have a solo musical career, and in 2006 became a radio host in the US, temporarily replacing "shock jock" Howard Stern after his move to a satellite-based radio station. Despite their success in the US, Van Halen failed to score a chart-topping record in the UK, with 2004's Very Best of Van Halen their last chart hit. Roth and his replacement Hagar embarked on a Heavyweights of Rock and Roll tour together in 2002, but neither of the Van Halen brothers were involved in the project. |
you know, you know, if a feller named Monroe never fathered bluegrass
he would still be unrecognised as the grand wizard of speed metal 
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| | | Posted 06/02/2007 16:38:40 | |
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| YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!
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| slart (06/02/2007)
YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES! I suspect non of that shit will be going down slart, they must be aged 84 to a man now.
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| East Stand Massive (06/02/2007)
slart (06/02/2007)
YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!
I suspect none of that shit will be going down slart, they must be aged84 to a man now.
Well, Eddie has gone through hip replacement ops and tongue cancer since 1984 - and he still smokes!
I saw DLR a few years back. He can still leap around though he looked like he had to shoe-horn himself into his leather strides.
And he was wearing a wig.
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| | | Posted 06/02/2007 19:45:39 | |
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| I'm tempted to say what I really think of these wrinkly rockers but I dont want to get into anymore arguments. So I wont. 
Yes, all right.. Christ Almighty! It's like walking down a corridor and answering the door in Nazi Germany! |
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| | Van Halen rock ass!!! This is fucking brilliant news!! I also saw Diamond Dave on his last tour, and he was absolutely wankered. He had some kind of rubber/sharkskin all-in-one affair on. Been looking for one since. No joy. He can still do all the big jumping kicks. Even when pissed. Love how Eddie's called his kid Wolfgang. 
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