damn you submitter. making me actually click the link to find out.

Yeah, but halfway through "Hot for Teacher" Roth will start singing songs no one understands and then he'll stop the song completely and start talking to one of the stage hands for 25 minutes.

Van Halen sucked.

All this "Roth vs. Hagar" shiat is missing the point. They were both horrible!

Roth was a prancing, spandex-wearing, egotistical, arrogant, feather boa-wearing, self-masturbatory douchebag.

Hagar was a fast-driving, coke-snorting, sexist, UGLY Eighties hair-metal motherfarker.

The guy from Extreme I won't bother with, because nobody gave a shiat about him anyway.

The cover of Balance was borderline kiddie porn.

The ONLY good thing about Van Halen was Eddie, and he wasted his incredible talent by playing in such a shiatty band.

Also, Randy Rhoads was an even better guitarist than Eddie, but unfortunately Rhoads had to get killed in a plane crash while Eddie got to keep lending his talent to such a shiatty band. And there is no justice in the world.

/never understood people who like Van Halen

I Was kind of hoping for the cancer cure or oil price dropping . . .

They're touring in support of their new album, "Chinese Democracy"

I liked the headline. Different for Fark.

Anyway - I have been playing guitar for 20 years or so and grew up thinking Eddie Van Halen was awesome.

My opinion now - still an awesome player, but an all-around dickface

it will be cancelled after the 3rd show. Over/under?

Wow, I guessed wrong. I would care if this was 15 years ago, but at this point I don't need to watch another washed up rehash of a band digging for just a little more gold.

Eddie Van Halen actually cured cancer according to him

Did he tell Dennis Leary?

I farking hate David Lee Roth. I love Metalocolypse's way of making fun of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hvMDouLNVg

I had my money on the convent...darn!

This could be dangerous. The ugly factor we are speaking of is like two later day stones. That the kind of ugly that could blind an audience. For god's sake folk please wear eye protection if you do go.

So we get to see another group of aging rockers, and gasp in amazement as we see the affects of twenty plus years of partying like a rock star.

/some one post the pic of wasted Eddie please, my fark-fu is weak

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&resnum=0&q=eddie%20van%20h alen&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi

Mike Anthony is the one who's getting the shaft this time. He'd been in the band for over 20 years and got dumped because of nepotism.

You know what would be really cool? If on Van Halen's new tour they opened it at a convent and started out by drowning Paris Hilton in a barrel of oil.

That would be so cool it would probably cure cancer.

all of the "talent" is back --- roth being the origianl voice and you can't really replace the VH brothers at their respective instruments --- anyone could play bass for this band --- he was no entwhistle or claypool ---but i wonder what haoppened to make M. anthony quit?

/don't see this tour lasting long

Paris joined VH after she cured Prancer. Still no hope for oil.

Coming around "state fair" time, I'd wager.

That "fire in the hole" guy, ruined it for me. Eddie is cool to watch, though

In 2005 I went to see Van Halen in Jax,FL. When Hagar started his solo everyone ran for a beer and a bathroom break. Didn't come back till he was finished.

I was kinda hoping for the convent thing, so I'd never have to hear about Paris Hilton again.

Instead, I get Ghey Dave rejoining a meth addict band.

/meh

Van Halen sucked.

All this "Roth vs. Hagar" shiat is missing the point. They were both horrible!

Roth was a prancing, spandex-wearing, egotistical, arrogant, feather boa-wearing, self-masturbatory douchebag.

Hagar was a fast-driving, coke-snorting, sexist, UGLY Eighties hair-metal motherfarker.

The guy from Extreme I won't bother with, because nobody gave a shiat about him anyway.

The cover of Balance was borderline kiddie porn.

The ONLY good thing about Van Halen was Eddie, and he wasted his incredible talent by playing in such a shiatty band.

Also, Randy Rhoads was an even better guitarist than Eddie, but unfortunately Rhoads had to get killed in a plane crash while Eddie got to keep lending his talent to such a shiatty band. And there is no justice in the world.


It's not healthy to keep emotions bottled in. could you PLEASE tell us how you really feel?

/jokes, folks

Big Booper

Here ya go.



/Eddie prefers his meth with extra Imageshack.us goodness

dlr-era vh was the best bar band ever.

I was 10 years old when I saw my first real concert, Van Halen at Brendan Byrne Arena (the meadowlands). A few years back when they were supposedly going to tour with Roth I was psyched as I never really got into Van Hagar. But we all know how that clusterfark went down.

This time around I accept two things: 1) they're not touring until they're on the road and make it through at least half the shows and 2) with only 40 amphitheater shows on the schedule the tickets will be crazy expensive. Personally I don't think they'll even come close to making it through a full 40 shows until they have another falling out.

I think the fact that Wolfgang is going to be playing with them is the coolest farking part of the whole deal.

I still have this bad tase in my mouth....


Oh, it was vomit.

Anyone thinking that this is good news either (a) is brain-damaged from all the drugs they did in the 80's or (b) has not seen David Lee Roth in concert.

Dave sucks in concert. His voice is completely shot.

As for Gary Cherone's time with the band.... while VH3 wasn't a great CD by any stretch of the imagination, the tour was. VH fans owe him a debt of gratitude for finally getting Eddie to play the farking guitar again. You can tell that there were points where during the recording of that album he said "hey Eddie, here's how Nuno (the guitarist from Gary's previous band Extreme) would have played it." There's a lot of Nuno Bettencort riffs on that album.

The album itself would have been better if they had taken the time to write a new album that worked with Cherone's vocal style instead of just having him record the one they had written for Sammy Hagar.

The new Van Halen line-up:

I've had "Ice Cream Man" stuck in my head all morning, singing it in the shower even, and I had no idea why, since I haven't heard that song in years. Now I know. IT WAS A SIGN!

Beetlejuice and Richard O'Brien are in VH now?

I dunno. Eddie was a wetbrained mess on the 2004 tour. I keep picturing him staggering around and missing half the licks to his own songs.
And now he's going to replace the two band members who were sober and performing well with David Lee Roth and a fourteen-year-old kid...
This will be an arena tour of Titanic proportions.

I was hoping for cure for oil
then, cancer drop-off!

VH started sucking long, and hard, with "1984" ... and never stopped.

priestrape: They're touring in support of their new album, "Chinese Democracy"

FTW!

I've seen all 4 versions: W/DLR, W/Hagar, W/Cherone, and W/Hagar again. Honestly - at least live, Gary Cherone was the best singer as far as vocal talent. That show was July 4th at the Blockbuster Pavillion outside of L.A. It was seriously one of the best concerts I'd been to see.

The last time I saw them was 2 years ago at the X in St. Paul. EVH was shiatfaced. He brought Wolfgang out to do his 316 'solo' with him, and halfway through, started kissing him to the point where it was hard to look at the IMAG of the show because I was so embarassed for that poor kid. Nothing like a loaded dad going all "I love you, man!" on his son in front of 20,000 people.

Dr Rockso unavailable for comment.

/I DO COCAINE!!

For shame Farkers, all these posts and not one pic of Valerie Bertinelli. Off to GIS...

/must...not...kill...kittens

Gee, Michael Anthony's conrtibution to the band was soooooo important they couldn't replace him with just anybody.

They had to go out and get a 15 year old kid to fill his shoes.

I was definitely pulling for the cancer cure thing, too. Damn you Diamond Dave for thwarting our collective health!!

I met David Lee Roth once. He is the biggest prick evar!

As for Gary Cherone's time with the band.... while VH3 wasn't a great CD by any stretch of the imagination, the tour was. VH fans owe him a debt of gratitude for finally getting Eddie to play the farking guitar again. You can tell that there were points where during the recording of that album he said "hey Eddie, here's how Nuno (the guitarist from Gary's previous band Extreme) would have played it." There's a lot of Nuno Bettencort riffs on that album.

Every riff Nuno ever wrote can be heard on Fair Warning.

Awesome. All of you haters better not buy tickets, cause I want a good seat.