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Sources tell Billboard.com a contract could be signed as soon as today for Live Nation to produce a 40-date amphitheatre tour by Van Halen this summer, with original frontman David Lee Roth back in the fold for the first time in more than 20 years.
As previously reported, guitarist Eddie Van Halen's 15-year-old son Wolfgang has stepped in for original bassist Michael Anthony in the new incarnation of the group, which also features drummer Alex Van Halen.
Van Halen last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. Hagar refused to collaborate further with Eddie and Alex Van Halen after the tour's completion ("I don't get along with Eddie anymore, and that's all there is to it," he told Billboard.com in August 2005), although he has consistently played live with Anthony in recent years. The warring factions may wind up meeting in public in March when Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"I see it absolutely as an inevitability," Roth told Billboard.com last May of a potential reunion 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!' So I definitely see it happening."
Hagar recently told Billboard.com he was concerned Eddie Van Halen was asking too much of his son to have him join the band and promptly perform in front of thousands of people every night.
"That's a lot of pressure for Wolfie. Just 'cause he's Eddie's son doesn't mean he can go out and play in arenas and perform and entertain an audience for two hours," he said. "I would love to see Eddie and Alex get behind Wolfie, with a kid of his age singing, and produce the record for him and help him launch a career. I'd rather see it go that way than come out and say 'Wolfie's the bass player in Van Halen and maybe singing, too.' Van Halen's got way too much history to have that put on him."
That's frickin sweet...but do I want to see Eddie's 15 yr old kid playing bass when Anthony should be there? Do I fuck....
- ********0
f-in meglomaniacs. I wish they would just go away.
And no, its not a reunion if you have eddies fat prepubescent kid up there playing bass. That is a trainwreck waiting to happen.
- sherman0
yes i believe you do.
- TheBlueOne0
I'm waiting for onstage fisticuffs between Dave and Wolfgang to ensue..then as an irate Pappa Van Halen rushes to his son's aid, he slips and falls and losses his last two teeth on a stage monitor, leaving Uncle Alex to throw drum sticks at Dave's head to get him off of Wolfgang. Dave is hurt, but is OK as he now has NYC EMT training to safely remove the drumstick from his eye socket and enough residual THC in his blood stream to dull the pain.
Oh, and there will be midgets onstage at some point.
- ********0
"To me, it's not rocket surgery."
rock science PLUS brains surgery??
i hope it isnt...
- M0NEYCIDE0
i hope REM does not