After years of being pitted against each other in Van Halen's endless rotating-singer saga, Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth are finally joining forces. The two are discussing heading out on the road this summer for a joint tour.

According to Hagar's official Web site, www.redrocker.com, the singers were "blown away at how well they got along together." Hagar added, "If this [tour] happens, this would have to be the party of a lifetime!"

Meanwhile, Hagar is keeping busy with his band, Planet Us, which also features Van Halen's Michael Anthony on bass and former Journey/Bad English members Neal Schon on guitar and Deen Castronovo on drums. The band has recorded two demos, "Vertigo" and "Peeping Through a Hole."

Amidst rumors that he is back in the Van Halen fold, Roth has finished David Lee Roth's No Holds Bar-B-Que, a video collection of Diamond Dave's covers of everybody from James Brown to the Chemical Brothers, and sent it out to media. There are no firm plans yet for its release.

CHRISTINA SARACENO
(March 20, 2002)