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.

Reminds me....Can't wait until only Ringo or Paul McCartney is left. Then the joke will be, Do you think the Beatle will ever get back together again?

I don't know how they're going to replace "the Ringo Starr of the bass guitar" Michael Anthony's backing vocals. That's a huge part of the Van Halen sound, believe it or not.

Listening to bootlegs of classic-era Van Halen concerts is mind-boggling. The charisma and energy just explodes in your face. It's amazing some of those buildings didn't spontaneously disintegrate during those shows.

I also predict that after the tour concludes, 80% of the user base of harmony central will commit suicide, as their reason for living will no longer exist

I've been a VH fan for years. I saw them with Roth on the 1984 tour, and several times with Hagar. Hagar isn't the world's best singer, but he sure did put on a better show than Roth. Roth is all dick jokes and Jack Daniels. At least Hagar wrote better tunes.

Yes, I prefer Van Hagar, as people so eloquently call the 2nd incarnation of the band.

As far as Wolfie, Van Halen's basslines, with just a couple of exceptions, are super simple. A kid who grew up with the songs getting private lessons from the lead guitar player is qualified to play them. Hardest basslines are Poundcake (just for the unrelenting tempo - no real hard licks, just fast and steady) and When It's Love (neat little triplet arrangement and odd chord choices). It's not Rush or Primus, folks. The kid can probably play pretty damn well. If his dad couldn't teach him, then he sure could find someone capable of doing so.

Good. Maybe now Harmonix -- Wait, Activision now -- will finally be able to get Panama for a Guitar Hero.

The ex-mrs-EVH:



/not a methhead

Is this the Flying Pigs tour?

You kids have no idea.

I was predicting this in 1987.

His radio career sucked, so will this tour. DLR was, is, and always be a dickhead.

Certainly You Jest

I don't know how they're going to replace "the Ringo Starr of the bass guitar" Michael Anthony's backing vocals. That's a huge part of the Van Halen sound, believe it or not.

Listening to bootlegs of classic-era Van Halen concerts is mind-boggling. The charisma and energy just explodes in your face. It's amazing some of those buildings didn't spontaneously disintegrate during those shows.

Absolutely, sir. You speak the truth. MA's back-up vox were a HUGE part of VH's sound- almost as much as Eddie's guitar orAlex's "Brown Sound" snare drum.

Dave made the band FUN. And sure, Eddie could shred, but so could a lot of other guys.

No FUN = I'm not going to the show

(Man, I got SOOO sick at their '79 tour, sorry to anyone I puked on.)

Pro Zack: Is this the Flying Pigs tour?

How dare you take my name in vain!

/wake me up when Pink Floyd reunites

"(Man, I got SOOO sick at their '79 tour, sorry to anyone I puked on.)"

heheh.

I;d go see them this time - they just need to get their sh*** together a bit -

'The reunion that Van Halen fans have been awaiting for twenty-two years began in December, when David Lee Roth walked into Eddie Van Halen's Hollywood home studio. There he rejoined the band for a rehearsal, singing fourteen Van Halen classics.'
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...tour/#more-1875

I used to be the singer for Van Halen, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies...

Certainly You Jest

I don't know how they're going to replace "the Ringo Starr of the bass guitar" Michael Anthony's backing vocals. That's a huge part of the Van Halen sound, believe it or not.

Listening to bootlegs of classic-era Van Halen concerts is mind-boggling. The charisma and energy just explodes in your face. It's amazing some of those buildings didn't spontaneously disintegrate during those shows.

Hallelujah. This is what "Wolfie" has to worry about, not the playing. MA Seems like a standup guy, and Eddie's a walking bag of dicks. Roth sucks live, and nobody except drummers ever cared about Alex outside of "Hot for Teacher."

Saw MA and Hagar live last year, they put on a MUCH better show with the rest of Sammy's band than the last VH reunion. I won't pay for tickets to see =VH=. I'll pay for front row the next time Sammy comes around, and may very well head to Cabo next October for his 60th birthday.

Sammy's shows are an absolute blast.

Oh, and Cherone is a great singer, VH3 was just not a good album.


- R

My prediction: It will never happen. One half hour into the first rehearsal and it will be history. That is just too much mental instability for one location to contain. Anyone who ends up knowing that they are going to be present for the debacle should remember to bring a camera.

Not to threadjack, but, has anyone noticed that the girl on the current batch of TGIFriday's ads looks just like a young, perky, pre-EVH version of the Mrs. EVH?

/mmmmmmmm Valerie, the stuff teenage wetdreams were made of
//MacKenzie, not so much

Langdon Alger

anyone could play bass for this band

But not anyone could do the high harmonies that make you instantly go "hey, that's Van Halen." Even if somebody could, it's a matter of principle. When you're paying to see a "reunion tour", you want it to be an actual reunion of the original members.

but i wonder what haoppened to make M. anthony quit?

He didn't quit. He was fired by Eddie for touring with Sammy Hagar. Absolutely ricockulous. Either have a reunion tour or shut up and go away.

mongaloid,

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

You're forgetting that said 15-year-old is Wolfgang Van Halen. He's been living, eating and breathing music since birth having been taught by Eddie.

He's no slouch.

Is it wrong that I was just hoping to see a picture of Paris Hilton in a nuns dress?

Does anyone here remember the late, lamented Suck.com? Remember the column where they made a fairly convincing case for David Lee Roth being the anti-christ?

I do. Good times, good times...

Balchinian


My prediction: It will never happen. One half hour into the first rehearsal and it will be history.
----
Use the link, they have already rehearsed....

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...tour/#more-1875
The reunion that Van Halen fans have been awaiting for twenty-two years began in December, when David Lee Roth walked into Eddie Van Halen's Hollywood home studio. There he rejoined the band for a rehearsal, singing fourteen Van Halen classics.

Please let it be the Paris Hilton one, pleeeaaaaaaaasssseeee. *click* Dammit!

i think MA was fired because he could no longer down a 1.75L bottle of JD while doing his bass solo...

anyone remember that?

i saw VH live on their OU812 tour (I thought they'd release their next album called "I81B4U" but that never happened.

I got high at the concert...I was 15...I didn't smoke weed...but everyone else in Austin does...and did that night...

I learned to play the drums with my headphones on listening to 1984, Van Halen, Van Halen II, and Diver Down when I was 12...

VH was pure rock as far as I was concerned...

Now I listen to SlipKnot, System, Tool, and others...my my my how times have changed...

Dude...all I hope is the tour start somewhere on the east coast so I can see the almost reuinion before it asplodes!
/Got Iced Tea in my JD bottle!

I will be first in line for this tour...but MA is a big part of the VH sound. Hope they work it out.

All haters: go hang out at a Creed gig

All that matters, is that David Lee Roth has a hot half-spanish pornstar daughter.

stvdallas

Pic of the stage at US '82:



Why is it that the keeps showing up in places you least expect?

I was a huge VH fan back in the day. Wasn't a big fan of 2 or 1984 but I don't need to see this train wreck.

I agree this could very well go really bad and that Eddie has major problems now. But some(not all) of you are so damn Nickleback, Foo Fighter ghey'd out you don't know what guitar playing is anymore.

Sure some players can be better than Eddie. But ask any of those post-Eddie era players who their influence was. That's what counts. I don't see anyone in the future saying "That guitar player for from (insert alternative shiat band here) really influenced me to play and revolutionized how others play.

I read DLRs book, i think it was called Crazy from the Heat. I cant believe Eddie would have anything to do with him after he wrote that Valerie came up to his dressing room looking to fark him, he turned her away and she went looking for Eddie, and that was the last of Eddie. the book was a fun read though. he was quite the traveler, he almost died in the amazon after getting some infection..

\have a bootleg DVD of the US Festival
\\I FORGOT THE FARKING WORDS!!!!!
\\\HEY MAN, DONT THROW ICE AT ME, I'L FARK YOUR GIRLFRIEND!!

Michael Anthony sucks arse (and he's such a complete tool). My dog could play his simple shiat (and howl his backup vocals too).

Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you a question: who's side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?
Chris Moore: What?
Marcus: What kind of question is that?
Chazz: Who's side did you take: Halen or Roth?
Chris Moore: ...Van Halen
Ian: HE'S A COP!

geniusiknowit

All that matters, is that David Lee Roth has a hot half-spanish pornstar daughter.

No he doesn't, but I give her props for creative self-promotion.

foonly

Wow...................how the fark did you notice that?

I LOL'ed.

Yeah, the only one that matters baby! Halen! zebopziddlybopbop!

I think I'll save my concert ticket money and go see Heaven And Hell, which is basically the Dio lineup of Black Sabbath.
I KNOW that will be good. Don't know about this, however.

nigelgandy:i saw VH live on their OU812 tour (I thought they'd release their next album called "I81B4U" but that never happened.

Actually, there was an I81B4U album released by the punk band Gang Green. They were a fun band, though incredibly sloppy. Other great Gang Green album titles include Older...Budweiser and Another Case of Brewtality, to give you some indication of their "inspiration."

no Michael Anthony, no Van Halen

/bassist

I love Dan Halen!

FlyingPig

self-masturbatory

As opposed to...?

magical_mystery_meat

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

lawl

van halen with david lee roth was awesome in the 80s, young and crazy, fun times.

van halen with david lee roth is gonna suck now, old and washed up, ragged skank.

Eddie is starting to look like Eddie:

gizmanjr: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.

Sounds like when I saw them in 1984. Except the song was "I'll Wait" (one of Eddie's synth show-off songs).

/ Ozzy came to town 2 days later and smoked their asses

Wolfgang isn't bad

There goes my dream of Axl Rose being selected as the new frontman...

/the big ball of insanity...it's so beautiful in my mind!

I liked these two quotes, in particular:

"...getting him and his former hair-band brothers back together would not be 'rocket surgery.'"
and
""And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam..."

Dammit, subby, I really thought it was the oil!!

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!
David Lee Roth

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
David Lee Roth

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
Eddie Van Halen

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Sammy Hagar

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
Sammy Hagar

Although I grew up listening to VH along with other tasteful talent such as WASP and Twisted Sister. You have to admit that the earlier VH was very good for its time and did inspire a few next gen guitarists. In any case that was then this is now. And as far as all that goes.....




Is Not Amused.

Roth told the music magazine's Website eight months ago that getting him and his former hair-band brothers back together would not be "rocket surgery."

Rocket surgery?

I loved VH with DLR, & I loved them even more with Hagar. I loved Extreme but Gary didn't cut it with VH.

This is very happy news... Off to give the old discs a spin!

EVH looks like if George W. Bush dressed up as Janis Joplin for Halloween.

Wolfgamg has only been playing for 3 months. It's not as if he's been training for this his whole life.

it is absolutely asinine to even CONSIDER doing this withuot Michael Anthony. He was actually the original lead singer! His high harmonies are as essential to the "sound" of Van Halen as the tapping. Not only that, but he's the coolest guy ever that everybody loves. You'd have to be a complete dickface to have a problem with Michael Anthony *looking at you Ed and Al*

I used to think the problem with VH was Lead Singers Disease. Now I know it was Eddie all along.

I found an old interview from Diver Down where Eddie says he's been trying to get rid of Mike for a long time. it's bullshiat.

If there is a tour, MA will be on it.
The differences between Eddie & Mike will be worked out, either beginning at the HoF induction in a couple of months, or more likely prior to it, since they have to address the issue of letting MA jam with band.
The real interesting question will be if Dave can handle being on the same stage as Sammy, since both of them are being inducted. It's just as likely that they tour will no happen because Dave pulls some sort of "1996 Video Music Awards" crap again in the course of trying to show up Sammy.
It will be interesting, though, to say the least.

STRYPERSWINE
it is absolutely asinine to even CONSIDER doing this withuot Michael Anthony.

Agreed.

He was actually the original lead singer!

Nope. He was the lead singer in his previous band, but DLR joined the VH brothers slightly before MA did. Before Roth, Ed sang lead.

galumph200
If there is a tour, MA will be on it.

Well, it would appear there IS a tour, and MA hasn't been in the band for years now (not to mention Eddie is telling the media that Wolfie is the bassist), so I'm afraid you're wrong. If you have some info the rest of us don't have, please share.