I’m not surprised.

Oh man. Who saw this one coming? Personally, I thought they’d get a couple dates in before the shit hit the fan. This is actually kind of a disappointing catastrophe. I’d hoped for a more mediagenic disaster, like Eddie ripping our Dave’s fake hair or something. Ah well. I guy can dream.

My guess is that Roth found Eddie and Alex to be even more retarded than they were years ago. And who the fuck wants to be in a band with somebody’s punk ass teenage son?

Good!
Van Halen SUCKS anyway.
(first 2 albums were great though)

Deja vu.
Go to hell Van Halen.

It’s official: this band sucks. Which eternal cock-tease will America give up on first: Van Halen or LOST?

Who cares — go see the new band with Hagar, Mike Anthony and Chad Smith instead

Um, yeah…this is about as shocking as when GNR fans rioted at a cancelled concert…go figure.

NOOOOO!!!! Why it got to be like this?? I need to ROCK!!! Maybe next time

i think they should record a new lp before touring anyways. why do these rock stars have to have such huge egos? just go out and rock! i had read roth wanted michael anthony there-that makes sense to me….well we’ll wait and see…a little longer!

Van Halen reunion w/David Lee Roth: “Too Good To Be True!”

Why would you want to see a bunch of senior citizens on stage anyway?

That’s right Carlos. “TOO GOOD.”

Why don’t Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth tour as “Sans Van Halen”?

crystal meth is a hell of drug.

I feel sick

To Boner:
Shut the fuck up! VH will still rock harder then most bands out there

i feel sicker…

This is rediculous! VH was finally getting some good press after more than a decade of destroying their legacy and they pull this! I feel burned! They have run off three singers and a bass player, I guess if your name isn’t Van Halen you are not welcome in this band. Maybe Wolfgang, Eddie, and Alex will tour as a trio, I surely won’t be there.

Van Halen has become such a f***ing joke.

This is really sad. Eddie and Alex have pushed this crap too far. I’m Done!

Steve B. the dream is over

Maybe Eddie’s chemical dependency is too much for him to hit the road, Dave should say “get your ass up here and play guitar bitch! We are ready to go…

Think of how devestated 15 year old Wolfie must be. I bet you Roth got on Eddie’s nerves and he just called it off spontaneously like he did the other time Roth rejoined the group. This sucks…I was totally looking forward to this.

At least we have this picture of them- they look pretty good! Wolfgang bears a striking resemblence to his mom.

Who will Eddie shit on next?

Good. They would’ve sucked with no singer anyway.

Check out what VH New Desk is reporting. Reports are definitely conflicting.

its alright. livenation ain’t got nothin on hitchworld. we’ll make this tour happen. even with eddie drinking hardcore and the meth and all that. mike and sammy will be there too. and david lee™, baybeee. stay tuned.

well, as much as i hate to say it! Van Halen as we once knew it is done! Eddie had probably the biggest hand at fuckin up his legacy. Eddie your ego and your boozin really messed you up! WAKE UP you idiot! when are you gonna realize you are not the only one on this planet. Alex your a idiot too! I got mad respect for your skills on the skins, but you let your brother’s ego mess up what youve help build? I would drag him out of 5150 and kick his monkey ass! he deserves it! you know it and i know it and most of all your fans know it! You guys treat your fans like shit! breaking us off 30,000 dollar guitars that most of us cant afford! getting peoples hopes up on seeing ya again before ya kill yourself from booze! You got alot to learn about how to treat the people that have bought your records, your guitars, and even believed you and your brother when you sat on your couch on mtv and told us that it was all sammy’s and dave’s fault! He better be wearing a cup??? screw you ed! If i ever see ya at the local 7-11 getting your wine you better be wearing a cup!! Asshole

Leave it to the gigolo. what ‘ya Expect? ed cant handle that shiz, “when egos collide” is what there singing now.

I know this is all Eddie’s fault. He probably threw a temper tantrum about some insignificant little bit of nothing, took his toys and went home, just like the whiny little bitch that he’s become. Take notes kids, this is what not to do if you happen to be one of the most talented guitar players in history!

Yeah .. postponed till they get it right.

Dear Ed… saw the YouTube of your “amazing” demo at the Fender Show… please buddy .. go back to the woodshed… are you kidding??

This is how to get it right.

1. Wolfie OUT – Mike Anthony back in.

2. Release the long awaited boxset of demos – live – outtakes from the 1975 – 1984 period. It should be 6 discs – with 4 of rareties – one of VINTAGE DVD video – and one of the ” best of ” and containing no less than 4 new songs.

3. Don’t ever speak or do interviews. You are a screwed up man. Let DLR talk.

4. Get a stylist for the band fast.

5. Repeat in the mirror every morning. ” I am only 25% of the Van Halen that matters and the original Van Halen is far more than the sum of its individual parts.”

6. Suggest you get a tattoo of number 5.

Bottom’s Up

Why put a fifteen year old in your band when each of you are at least 55.

This just opens the door for Gary Cherone.

Looks like my summer “reunion money” just got switched in favor of the Police.

Gary rocks harder then Dave anyway, for that matter they should fuk Eddie off and get Nuno in there.

“Who cares — go see the new band with Hagar, Mike Anthony and Chad Smith instead”

That’s not a band, it’s a group of losers with a decent bass player with a bad attitude.

“Hagar returned to the group for a 2004 reunion tour, but went back to his solo career at tour’s end after having another falling out with Eddie Van Halen. Hagar and Anthony subsequently toured with Hagar’s solo band, and last year performed at each of Hagar’s tour stops as The Other Half, a group whose setlist was comprised entirely of Van Halen material.

Eddie Van Halen has since expressed his displeasure about the Hagar/Anthony venture, in the wake of which the guitarist bounced Anthony out of the group.”

Anthony deserved what he got for hanging out with a loser stealing material from the group and making it his own.

I liked the old VH with him but you have to draw the line somewhere. Haggar the horrible is a two bit material stealing loser with no real talent to speak of. He certainly can’t write, and his singing is mediocre at best and a showman such as Dave he isn’t. Eddie has made all the right moves up until this point.

I’m utterly speechless and embarrassed to call myself a Van Halen fan. If there is *anything* VH is good at these days, it’s f***ing up and pissing people off. Talk about dropping the ball….yet again. At the end of the day, I believe that Dave, Sammy, and Micael Anthony just want to be on stage, giving us what we all want. Unfortunately, the egomaniac/has-been/control freak guitarist, once again, manages to f*** up a beautiful slam dunk.
God, I’m angry at them.

*GASP*

Van Halen breaking up? Never saw that one coming.

skip – the only losers here are the Van Halen brothers whose heads are planted firmly up their asses. And of course, the fans who have been screwed over by these asswipes for years. Michael and Sammy are the only ones who ever gave any thought to the fans. Michael Anthony with a bad “tude? And what does that say for the King of all losers – EVH? As for stealing the “songs that Eddie wrote”, I believe Sammy was just as responsible for those songs as Eddie was.

Ja Ja Ja!

There is only one thing left for Van Halen to do now and thats to get Gary Back and do a Best Of VHIII compilation album!!!

maybe Dave wants Mikey In the band

Rolling Stone as usual is sensationalizing the rumor- some other comments about all this-
Melodicrock.com issued a Van Halen update in response to the rumors yesterday, saying in part:

“I am told that this postponement should be just that – a temporary situation that can be sorted so that the dates that had been arranged can be re-booked and announced down the track somewhat. The band is unlikely to comment beyond the fact the tour will (at this stage) start later than originally planned. The line-up for this tour remains Eddie, Wolfgang & Alex Van Halen and frontman David Lee Roth.”

Also, the VHND’s own sources are telling us not to worry and that the tour is indeed going to happen. We know that the date that the tickets were to go on sale has been pushed back from late February to sometime in March. We are hoping that the main reason for this delay is to coincide the official announcement of tour dates with Van Halen’s March 12th induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

The official website still has the announcement of the tour as it’s splash page. Take that for what you will. But without Michael Anthony, they aren’t the band that recorded the 1978 album, and that’s the only one I’d pay to see right now.

If Eddie and Alex spent a year or two creating a new band synergy with Wolfgang and Dave in the studio, and recorded a new album, I’d give it a chance. But this was just Eddie hiring Dave for a tour, and muscling Mike out because he considers Mike’s new band to be “cheating.” That’s adolescent thinking of course, but saying that about Eddie is redundant.

I just heard on the “radio” that DL Roth is out and MORRISSEY (!) is in, and the tour is back on. Can anyone confirm this?!?!!?

I heard that this is just a rumor, and the tour is not cancelled- just some minor setbacks, pushing the tour back, BUT the tour will still happen this summer.

Always the drama with =VH=

Wait, I had it wrong, it’s not Morrissey taking David Lee’s place, it’s HENRY ROLLINS! Fucking Van Halen, man – one thing after another! Can’t wait for the summer tour. Go Eddie! Go Henry! Go fuck yourselves!

A new rumor has been circulating that says the Van Halen tour has been “indefinitenly postponed”. But don’t worry – the tour will very likely still happen this summer.

Melodicrock.com issued a Van Halen update in a responce to the rumors yesterday, saying in part:

“I am told that this postponement should be just that – a tempoary situation that can be sorted so that the dates that had been arranged can be re-booked and announced down the track somewhat. The band is unlikely to comment beyond the fact the tour will (at this stage) start later than originally planned. The line up for this tour remains the same Eddie, Wolfgang, Alex Van Halen and frontman David Lee Roth.”

Also the VHND’s own sources are telling us not ot worry and that the tour is indeed going to happen. We know that the date that the tickets were to go on sale has been pushed back from late February to sometime in March. We are hoping that the main reason for this delay is to coincide the offical announcement of the tour dates with Van Halen’s March 12th induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Another rumor we want to address – we are suprised to see that some websites are saying that Van Halen is currently being managed by Eddie’s girlfriend (Janie Leszewski/High Profile Media). While it is true that Eddie’s girlfriend is the band’s publicist, the band’s manager for the last three years is Irving Azoff.

I have been hearing this “Morrisey” talk myself here in so.cal. confirmation would be appreciated.

I am disappointed! I was so excited about it, but I do have to say at least they didn’t cancel on a day of a concert; where people already have their tickets and was already in line like someone else we might all know.

Eddie Van Halen needs some help.It’s as if his mind is stuck at 18. Old enough for freedom, and too young to understand it. PrimaDonna. Grow up Eddie and get over your youth.
Brittney just checked out of rehab, again, so there’s a vacancy. I think a Malibu ‘retreat’ would do you good.

With setbacks, indefinite postponements, VH history and the like, would you still pay outrageous money for a ticket with the HOPE they would show up? I’ve just gotta know what people would do.

what the bloody hell. put all your differeces aside and get out there and play for the same reason you started the band. no one knows what happened except the band members. personally i think it was eddie’s ego and dave’s prima-donna attitude. what a waste of talent.

A Van Halen ‘Behind the Music’ would have to be a mini-series…

How much you wanna bet that the “EVH” special edition guitar thats coming out soon won’t sell. It’s probably why you can get those Charvel “EVH” Guitars for a song now. Eddie is a “has been” guitarist and no one cares anymore

Why do we still get excited about this band…face it…there done! PERIOD!!!

hmm yeah well i dont see anyone taking the place of roth, and sammy and mike are gone for good. van-halen.com is still saying its on. all’s we can do is leave it at that and hope there is a push back due to the RRHOF. if nothing promising after that then i think the hint will be taken rather quick.

It’s fuckin bullshit!!
Utter fuckin bullshit………
Just remember spED yer nuthin without DAVE
It ain’t VAN HALEN W/O DLR
FUCK YOU EDDIE!!

Roth on!!

Sammy is God!!

Van Halen ought to remember who put them at the top. It was the fans buying the records and going to their shows. Just put the egos away and get Michael back (if he would come back now) and rock like you used to do. Us fans deserve it. We are tired of being the laughing stock of Rock and Roll.

How many eddies? 1,2-3? who was that short haired next-door trucker type guy? was it a fanatical look-alike fan that could play guitar really good like ed that they used for some reason? to cover up a “sick” eddie? seems to be more evh’s out there than previously thought, even this really old one.

Sammy blows

Sammy doesn’t have a thing to do with screwing this up. Try again!

Well, melodicrock.com and vhnd.net have also been covering this… according to them, it’s a postponement, not a full shut down. They say it’s mostly paperwork and the like. Let’s hope so… check out the websites yourselves.

This is the funniest joke that’s been played on me since 1996.

Hey guys this still would have been a great concert no matter that Sammy & Michael, are gone.
It would have been very interesting to hear the new sound without Sammy’s great vocals and Mikey’s intense bass playing and golden backup vocals. I’m sure Wolfgang can tear it up, he’s Eddie’s son for Christs sake. Eddie still is the best guitarest bar none!

HA! HA! HA!
All of you dumb-ass losers who got boners at the prospect of hairless dave back in the band can go back to wetting your diapers. dave SUCKS. Always has, always will.
At least with Hagar the band toured regularly, put out great music and they were more popular than ever.
dave is a washed-up, never was, one bit, barely good enough to be a lounge singer, crap-stain.
GET OVER IT, YOU LOSERS!!!

CRAP! Is Eddie behind this BS? I was excited and lookin’ forward to my first ever Van Halen concert with David Lee Roth front and center, since I missed the party the first time around, way back. I even went out last weekend and bought all the first 6 Van Halen Lp-Cds on Remasters. I already have the original Cds and vinyl versions. Three decades down the drain! This sucks!

DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

VAN HALEN SUCKS … I CAN”T BELIEVE I UT MYSELF TO THIS ABUSE. EDDIE I HOPE YOU GET ARTHRITIS AND CANT PLAY ANYMORE>>>> YOU REALLY DO SUCK

LOL… At least Guns n Roses got out on the road…..

NOW NOW KIDS…CALM DOWN. I KNOW VH MEANS A LOT TO US ALL,BUT THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING. REASON BEING….ALL YOU PROPONENTS OF NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA AND SPITEFUL HEARSAY ARE A BUNCH OF PATHETIC MORONS! THE FRUSTRATION OF BEING STUCK FOR ANOTHER WINTER IN YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT MUST BE HELL! NOT
TO MENTION YOU GUYS HAVEN’T KISSED A GIRL YET…SO SAD ON SOOOOO MANY LEVELS. CUT YOUR MULLETS PEOPLE!!
VH ROCKS!!!!
LOVE,
DRUMSEXGOD

Every one loves a great train wreck, but wow, this one never left the station…

i’ll still go if this tour gets off the ground, even though it’s 10 years too late….

Damn damn damn

oh yeah….

my nipples are hard.
Not VH related, but nevertheless something i wanted to mention.

too good to be true… damn fate.

I thought the Mullet was standard issue at VH shows from oh, say 1987-200yesterday, when you cut your wonder locks and are now goofin’ on yer crazy ways.
just sayin’

you knew it was coming…

Haaaa Ha!!!!!

Is anyone really surprised?

I heard that they just got some booking issues and that the tour will happen just that it will be starting at a later date then originally planned. No matter what happens we will not no anything until after March 13th. After that we will know what will happen.

I heard that they just got some booking issues and that the tour will happen just that it will be starting at a later date then originally planned. No matter what happens we will not no anything until after March 13th. After that we will know what will happen.

I saw the headline and shouted out loud, “I KNEW IT!” Just when I was debating whether or not to see them when they come to town; I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go see a has-been, other than to see Ed tear it live because I never got to see it decades ago. Too bad we can’t just go back in time and see them before the foolishness.

You have got to be kidding me? How can 50 year old men (who have been out of work for 10+ years) act like a bunch of 14 year old school girls? Alex, Ed, come on now!!! Sammy and Mike wanted to “work” for a living. I’m guessing the Van Halen thing wasn’t paying their bills sitting at home with their thumbs up their asses. Too bad, I was really looking forward to this thing. Poor Wolfie lives in the shadows of his dad and uncle, once rock-gods, now just has-beens.

hey eddie! do us all a big favor?, and blow your fuckin head off!! That way i’ll know its over for good. i wont have to sit and wonder if we are ever gonna hear anything new from u again. and when i am gonna get to see ya i wont have to worry about it being pulled of the shelf. Lets face it you hate yourself and everyone else, why i dont know? So do me a favor and suck on the barrel of a gun you fuckin asshole!

Van Halen is a joke. Having Sammy Hagar at the helm was the only thing that saved this band, but Eddie’s alcoholism has brought the band to a state where it is no longer salvagable. Bring in his 15 year old son to replace Michael Anthony was a telltale sign that Eddie is whacked. He’s been drinking Smoking Loon Wine 24/7 ever since Val left him (and even before then). He is toast!

Sorry folks .But the problem with musicians at any level .. Is all bout egos ..Its like they stop being adults the minute they strap on a guitar .. to bad I think eddie just keeps gettin better..I would have loved to seen these guys … toooo badddd

…yeah, and then he came running out and tried to catch you and I started yelling at him that he was the guy who killed the little black dog and not his old lady, and that you made a mistake and you started crying and shrieking and it was YOU who killed the little black dog and the guy started yelling, “What little black dog? I ain’t got no little black dog, never did! Who the hell are you? I never killed no dog in my life!”

Seriously? Fifteen year old Wolfgang VH has been playing bass for 3 months(unreal), and he would replace Michael Anthony, who represents not only the bass playing, but the majority of the VH background vocals. They can’t do it. No Mike Anthony. NO SHOW! Forget about it! They can’t do it! Original members of Van Halen or NO VAN HALEN! This is pathetic!

Slowly moving toward the exit with the rest of the crowd, we pause by the mersh table and check out the t-shirts. The crowd here is just as thick as it was inside for the band, and I take advantage of this by wadding up a blue Extra Large in my hand and quickly thrusting it into my pocket. I hurry towards the exit to catch up with the guys.

Out in the parking lot Scott shows me the one he stole. It’s the one Tommy was wearing onstage; the same one as mine.

What’s UP with the morissey rumors? I’ve had 3 different people tell me they read on some website that he’s singin with van halen?!

The tour is absolutely a go and will be announced March 12. Rolling Stone should take this down…its NOT offcial or true…..

Maybe child protective services interfered.

Or Dave turned to Wolfie and said “have you seen juniors grades?” and Eddie took it wrong.

Van Halen – 2007. The tour is only postponed, but will take place during the summer months of 2007.

Check out the new-new photo at the following URL – this is not the same photo of recently released.

http://i84.imaget hrust.com/images/3Hkg/view-ima ge/vanhalenreborn.html

I want Van Halen to pee on me!

I was gonna give them the benefit of my doubts.. fuck it..there’s a bar-band down the street that needs my money.

These guys are assholes. it’s probably just DLR… I don’t know. Call Justin Hawkins from The Darkness. He would be PERFECT for that job.

I shut this biotch down. There is no way I am going to let Eddie’s drunken ass replace me with some punkass kid. I threw a wrench into this biotch. Eddie needs to get into rehab and get some new teeth, and then and only then will I even consider playing for Van Halen again. I am in control of this biotch, and I shut it down.

I think that the only logical thing for VH to do is to hire a mexican bassist like Metalica did, and start making music videos in California prisons.
Then again, if the back comes out of the closet and announces they are all gay that might get a little positive publicity from the gays. Maybe they should put a photo of Paul Lind on their new album cover and call it “The End Zone”.
They could also wear all black and dress up like hasidic jews.
Yeah rock and roll.

VH is the GREATEST band of ALL time. It goes beyond the music,….it is a way of life. None of you will ever truly understand. WHATEVER they do, play,…dont play,…..they will remain the best of all time. They invented an entire genre from the release of the first album. From there on,…every album was unique. They are the greatest.
Signed,
(you guessed it)
THE BIGGEST VH FAN ON THE PLANET

P.S. whoever disses or have dissed on them doesn’t not know music, OR how to have a good time, AND I wish upon them cancer of the eyes.

So Wolfie is too young according to child labor laws (and the laws of logic) … howzabout we get Micheal Anthony to replace him??!!

Meanwhile Sammy is laughing his ass off on a big pile of tequila money (it pays WAY more than music).

“P.S. whoever disses or have dissed on them doesn’t not know music, OR how to have a good time, AND I wish upon them cancer of the eyes.”

does that mean that because i have dissed on them i “don’t not know music”? because then, thank you, i agree that they suck

Van halen sounds interesting again im sure about that, but i think they should do something with their music coz it might sound boring these days if they keep doing the same old style they did years back. There photo looks promising though.

Is EVH still on meth?

rivercityrascalpm

Sammy is a loser thief that elbowed his way into shoes he was never qualified to fill.

“Sammy doesn’t have a thing to do with screwing this up. Try again!”

That’s sadly wrong. He has deliberately poked his nose into the bands business since Dave left to intentionally cause problems and keep Dave from ever returning. Sammy is 99% of why Dave hasn’t returned before now. The guy is a jerk and obviously has you buffaloed. He has never been anything but a jerk and going on the road without others that cowrote songs approval to play the bands music is borderline illegal. Anybody that takes a look knows the guy is just a POS troublemaker that starts fights and then acts like he had nothing to do with it. He’s come out looking like sunshine many times when he is more often than not THE PROBLEM. He reminds me of the sibling that kicks his brother when moms not looking and when the brother hit’s him back he screams his brother is hitting him again.

Sammy = LOSER and if Micheal is with him and on his side that makes him one too sadly. Sammy is the cancer that has plagued this band for years (many years) I think Eddie is finally seeing the light. Only took twenty years but at least he came around. So Eddie cured cancer in more ways than one.

As far as Sammy writing…I’ll just say this, go look at the Lyrics to any of the first three albums and compare them to anything ever written during the Sammy years. It will be a sad comparison, a joke at best.

sick. just f%^$#n sick. want dave, mike sammy, ed, and alex to crumble our ears like they used to. miss the party.

it would make sense to postpone things until the rock hall gig, and then do a big promo push, with a new single or a hits package. wolfie is not alone in being a young guy touring. tons of bands have had young members and still toured. wasn’t tommy stinson like 14 years old as well?
also, has no one heard the other rumor? that the g’n'r half of velvet revolver wants to do a reunion too? the only way to make money touring these days is to give value, or something that people have not seen in eons.

i guess the rumored zep reunion never got off the ground either….

I am a Van Halen fan since I was 7. I didn’t know much then, but I knew this band kicked the shit out of everybody including Kiss. I’ve see VH 12 times and all without Roth. I’ve seen Roth 3 times without VH. I am not prepared for the rant that follows…….

I give 2 shits about any fucking reason why this band is not going to tour! I don’t give a fuck about how Vh’s politcal or religious views. I just want to see the fucking band play one fucking time before Ed drops dead in the 5150 studio from whatever…..I don’t think that eddie owes me shit, I just want to see that raw shit onstage. Alex, speak up you dumbfuck. I am sick of how this band keeps all hush,hush then expects it to be a huge fucking deal when the make and announcement of a tour that has less odds then a Tyson fight. If this is a true breakup then, Put both those fucked up hands together Eddie, you just lost a great fan…….

Bottom line….This Bands Legacy has been ruined, and those are words from a fan that has been there,influenced to play guitar by Eddie and now says FUCK YOU!!!!!!Print that Rollingstone!!!!!!!

Cherone didn’t didn’t bug me, I got to see the greatest guitarist on the planet live (for the 11th time at that point)…..Sammy is back…..One of the greatest shows I’d ever seen….If Diomond David Lee Roth Doesn’t tour this year…..I have lost all respect for Eddie and Alex both. If the Band has broken up, the Legacy of Van Halen has officially been ruined.

Let Wolfie create his own Legacy!

Dave, you were always right with what you’ve done in life. Keep it up. You are truely the “Diamond” one in my mind. Any haters or greeters can see me on Myspace userSike5150

Chinese Democracy and Van Halen reunions. They just WON’T happen.

This Blows!! I mean, were not askin’ for much. What the hell is the problem. These guy’s cant even get this thing started let alone tour for any set ammount of dates. We are all stupider for having listened to the B.S. surrounding this possible tour. Love the music, but what a bunch of losers. Wolfie’s the only one with his S*#t together!!

What a shame,whose fault is it this time???? There will be alot of disappointed fans in Detroit.

Skip – WOW! Who’s got who buffaloed? You obviously haven’t read the other posts here. Face it, Skip – your hero is a delusional ass who has managed all by himself to destroy the greatest band in rock history.

That is not Van Halen. Dave might be there (or not I suppose), but without Michael Anthony its just a stunt to try and get people to remember the “glory days” while ripping them off at the same time.

Man, never saw it coming…

HA HA HA HA HA. TWITS!

Uhhhhstounding. Guys, you all have tons of money…did you throw away this great opportunity for more money becuase you didn’t like the terms?

12% of a fortune beats the crap out of 100% of nothing.

I love Van Halen

The IceCream man has left the building!

Yo skippy, you’re and idiot. Didn’t Dave tour with Sammy? So, Sammy stole all the material and Dave still toured with him? Sammy couldn’t care what the FUCK the Halen brothers are up to because he’s doing his own shit. You’re a tool. Sammy has one of the greatest voices ever. The reason Mike is touring and partying with Sammy is because he still wants to rock, not watch Eddie in rehab or roll Alex around in a wheel chair. Van Halen was much better with Sammy, but the original lineup was excellent as well and changed rock and roll. Read the lyrics on 5150 and see what you think now about Sammy’s writing skills. You are HUGE joke for even saying Sammy can’t sing and is a thief.

I call for an end of van halen. This is bs- who cares anymore. typical b.s. Soap Opera crap- they act like they invented a cure for cancer. give it up already.
I am done with it

F.U. Van Halen. You fat, middle aged babies deserve to fade into obscurity for screwing your fans like this.

Now I am going to start saving for Police tickets…

What’s with you people. Get over it. Van Halen was nothing more than a Pop Rock band that wrote cheesey songs that had no substance at all. As far as Eddie being guitar god,PLEASE, give me a break. He was just a fad who couldn’t write a song to save his ass. POP ROCK PEOPLE!!!! The last good album they did was Fair Warning their 4th. What does that tell you. Milked it for all those years.

Wolfgang blows monkey ballz

heard that wolfgang just joined Morrisey band

As a long time Van Halen fan, I’ve just about had enough. I’d say that it is time to officially call it quits. Make nice for the RRHOF, then start chucking out box sets of live stuff, demos, whatever is laying around and go off into the sunset with whatever dignity is left….which is not much.

When I was walking back from my shitey job at the VA Hospital in the snow and my feet were getting cold and wet, and I could smell my own BO coming off my vintage to rags VH ‘84 tour Tshirt all I could thinks waz Wow I hope someone notices my post on the VH cancels their tour posting board. Can I get in on that reality TV show thing now?

This is too funny.

Sinistro !!! Van Halen tem que tocar no brasil !!!

Man, i’m very disappoited on them!
It’s the greatest american Rock’n'Roll band ever, and it’s story it’s nothing but a soup opera with a great sound tracking!

I’m completaly hopeless!!!

Hey VH…GO THE F@#K HOME…
And stop jerkin me halfway off then not finishing the job!

Thank God their not touring. Dave can’t jump or sing. Eddie is a disgrace to the band. Wolfgang is just not ready for something like this. I think it would have been a complete embarrassment to them all!

Skip- You’re an uneducated jack ass. Do you SERIOUSLY think that the “lyrics” DLR wrote are better than Sammy’s?!?! You’re out of your g****mn mind! The stuff Sammy wrote with VH was not only better than what DLR wrote with them, but it’s better than the stuff Sammy wrote/writes with his own friggin band, and I love the Wabos! *sigh* It’s all ovbiously matters of opinions, and that’s cool, really. If we are all truly Van Halen fans, then we just need to step back and admit that our favorite band had 3 singers. Yes, 3. You may not like 2 out of three, but you don’t have to. Peace.

So what, it may still happen. eddie’s still good for some youtube. check out his latest namm vid or his new fender line of guitars video. search “eddie van halen fender” on youtube, it’ll be the first 2 vides.

I’m glad this trainwreck already happened. I mean, Roth is a joke at this point. If Sammy and Mike are smart, they will stay the hell away from this mess of a band.

Did you really want to see Jurrasic Park 5 anyway?

The smartest guys in all of this? Sammy and Michael. They’re still touring. Still having fun and neither one has to deal with Eddie Van Halen. One of the great guitarists of all time but such an arrogant asshole. I had my hopes up for this one, I really did. But I think it’s time to bury any hopes and dreams of a VH tour. Maybe I’ll check Pollstar and see what The Other Half are doing.

This news really sucks…What a F%$king buzzkill..First the Bears lose, now this…..I was really pumped up about this tour and looking forward to seeing them live..This was like a bright beacon of light and hope….. The first tape I ever bought was “1984″ back in the day when I was 9…..David Lee and Van Halen were gods among mere mortals who walked the earth like gladiators…When Van Halen came to your town it was like the entire town closed down…..I think
Sammy chesseified the band with his safe predictable sugar coated pop rock persona…It’s just too bad Eddie and Dave never got along…..Say what you want about Eddie though…I’ve seen alot of nasty comments about him on this board…He essentially reinvented and redefined the role of the electric guitar in rock and roll…Without him there would have been no whammy bar,floyd rose locking tremolos, 80’s hair metal bands, shredders, neo classical riffers etc….He showed the world what the electric guitar can do and inspired millions..I hope they can possibly meet up for some last minute negotiations to get this together….

{{{{{{YAWN}}}}}}}

Gee, what a surprise. Do these guys ever think before they open their drunken mouths? Is there even a shred of credibility left in them? No Ed, Wolfie can not play a 1/2 hour bass solo while you shed crocodile tears of fatherly pride in the stage wings. Put all these guys on an island with about 10 cases of Jack Daniel’s and the next day, when all the whiskey is gone, whoever walks out first wins. Of course there’s always a hope that none of them would make it off. ENOUGH ALREADY!!

Eddie needs to go back to getting drunk, playing golf and losing his wife.

He sucks at being part of a band.

Oh hell, say it isnt so! My fucking life is over.Where is my Chipmunks album?

I told u so! Getting these guys back together is like getting you X-wives for a reuni on.Bi tch,B itch, Bitch ,Bitc h,Bitch,Bitch,Bitch,Bitch,Bitc h,Bitch.

ogmonster wrote:

“What’s with you people. Get over it. Van Halen was nothing more than a Pop Rock band that wrote cheesey songs that had no substance at all. As far as Eddie being guitar god,PLEASE, give me a break. He was just a fad who couldn’t write a song to save his ass. POP ROCK PEOPLE!!!! The last good album they did was Fair Warning their 4th. What does that tell you. Milked it for all those years.”

OK, ogmonster. Why don’t you do us all a favor and tell us what is “quality”, then! Who’s your favorite guitarist of all time? Someone obscure? Or Dave Mustaine? Yngwie maybe? What’s so wrong with music being catchy?!? It’s the basis of all rock & roll really. Simplicity. Less is more. K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Go dig what you wanna dig. We won’t harangue you for that. Leave us the f**k alone, though, if we wanna dig on a band and be disappointed that their long-awaited reunion tour was cancelled last minute, dick!

yo soy de chile y me apesta escribir en ingles, van halen es uno de los mejores grupos de rock and roll, he escuchado temas del maestro roth y creo que seguiran juntos , creo que tienen tanta ganas de salir a tocar que salen estos comunicados solo para despistar a los estupidos que no creen en el rock y solo en hacer comentarios malintencionados aguante van halen!!!!

I knew this would happen, they are the biggest bunch of babies in rock music. I don’t know what’s worse, this stupid feud or the ego crap between Roger Waters and David Gilmour. If I was betting on this reunion, i would have put good money that these jackasses would have fallen apart before the tour took off.

So I take it the word “CONFIRMED” in big, bold red letters on the RS homepage should have instead read “SPECULATED”? If so, way to do your homework RS.

And I’m the only one who can’t wait for the Hall of Fame induction?

SKIP – I agree with you 100% on Sam’s lyrics being nowhere in the vicinity of up to par with Dave’s.

As for the rest of your comments: you’re an idiot.

I think Dave pooted and Eddie thought he was smelling some good Colombian redbud, and then Ed got pissed when he realized it was Dave’s azz after all…

I’m surprised.. I thought The Police would break up again first.

I feel bad for all the Van Halen fans out there… This band really enjoys fucking with you guys. What a class act these guys are. Maybe its time for you all quit wishing it was 1986. Get rid of your key-tars and go see a rock show for Christ’s sake!!

not the same without M.A

who cares anymore

I heard Peter Forsbag is gonna be the new singer

Other than the Van Halen’s (Alex, Wolfie trying to get his start) with no talent and running out of money, the real victim here is the fans.

Get real. The Van Halens are rich forever.
FOREVER.
$ isn’t a problem for them.

Eddie is just a stupid man! If he wasnt such an amazing guitar player, he would be pushing a shopping cart in an alley somewhere. Despite not having Anthony in the band, I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt. If this story isn’t true and they are in fact going to tour in the near future, then they need to make a statement pronto! They have a lot of damage control to do, this breakup rumor is all over the internet.

i like cheetos

If the VH’s are still rich then I wonder where the $$ is coming from. When you make big money you spend big money. Nobody buys their records anymore, they havent toured in years. Dave and Eddie needed each other to make this thing work. Nothing against Sam, but another Van Hagar tour is not going to be the blockbuster that this would have been. They just pissed away a windfall.

By reading these comments, they have alienated the fans that they do have left…..I am going to sell my VH cd’s at the used record store, I’ll be lucky to 50 cents a piece.

I believe there is being a late push get Mikey back. These guys are probably looking at the money the police are pulling in. And they probably are rethinking this. Play the 40 summer shows take a break if all goes well full arena tour. A lot more cash to be made with Mike in the band for what I read somewhere they are well aware of the negative feed back for the fans about mikey.But nothing surprises me with theses guys any more.

Who gives a fuck, I am just waiting for real rock gods Metallica to tour the states………VHIII forever…..hey you, get yourself together……

First you say that you will

Then you say you won’t

Well I’m just trying to figure

Try and figure you out

How long can this go on

Tell me what is wrong

And maybe there’s a way

That we can work it out

VH III !!!!!

There must be some kind of way

That we can make it right

But I, I just can’t do it all

Without you, without you

Eddie is in rehab! Everything else you hear is just a smoke screen! Alex pulled the plug, Eddie is wasted!

CNN.COM Eddie Van Halen arrested and charged with vehicular homicide.

Somewhere in Cabo, Sammy Hagar is sitting back and laughing his ass off.

Ok that’s it! Van Halen must be deliberately trying to piss off the fans. I’m pretty much through with this crap, they were “once” the best band ever! Now they’re just a joke.

Lets all move on from this. Here are the facts, not rumors: 1) They don’t need the money. 2.) Dave and Eddie are idiots. 3.) Who cares anymore? This band hasn’t put anything out worth buying in over a decade and they are completely washed up. These guys should never-ever bring up reunion again and Eddie should change his kids name to Mark or something relatively normal, take him back to school and give him a chance at a normal life.

I read somewhere that maybe Eddie’s ex wife Valerie sicced the child labor police on the Van Halen camp. Hee-hee. Wolfie’s touring and child labor laws don’t really mesh.
I also agree with The Pimp, there was probably a last minute effort to get M.A. back. Not having him is the one biggest insult to all the fans who’ve supported them through the years. The money backing this tour probably doesn’t want to risk angering ticket buying fans. One look at the picture above and one can almost read Dave’s face regarding this issue. Nothing against Wolfie however. I just don’t concider this lineup as true V.H. and I’m far from alone!

Van Halen broke up before they began.

sleazeroxx.com – Dave Grohl is stepping in as bassist and Stevie Nicks is the new singer…and the new guitarist is Ace Frehley.

tickets were to go on sale for alot of markets this weekend, its been pushed back to late march!

look for tour dates on vh web site in mid march!!

It’s official Dave Grohl, Stevie Nicks and Ace Frehley are the new Van Halen. The drummer will likely remain Alex hence keeping the band name as Van Halen. Can you believe it???

I always figured Dave would still find away to screw up but this has Eddie written all over it. one other thing I heard last year through some one who worked on the 2004 tour was that Eddie has an early case of alzhimers seriously.I did not believe it but after thinking about it I believe it. I could see these guys trying for one last cash and grab.

1st off M.A. sucks at playing bass. He’s been doing that same stupid idiotic bass solo for the last 25 years. It’s boring and is a waste of concert time, which I pay for by buying a ticket, so he’s wasting my time.
They need to do what KISS did and learn how to play the old songs like it was yesteryear. Don’t speed them up just to be able to get more in. Van Halen is and always will be Dave and Eddie(period!).
All their doing is getting old fans like me mad.
Music awards reunion that didn’t happen, now this one that may not happen.
They need to do another thing that KISS did and put out their old live performances on DVD especially “1984″!!!!
“Can You Hear Me!”

Man, these guys have made GnR look credible. At least Axl gets off his ass and plays some shows, members’ revolving door policy and all. Every move Ed’s made in the last eleven years has resulted in him stepping on his own pecker, and when the dust settles after this fiasco, you betchum his name will figure big in the ‘who fucked whom’ department.

Gimmie a break with this child labor crap, Cher took her kid out on gtr when he was 14, so who cares, VH is just a lazy ass who wants everything his way. He & Axl Rose should get together & stay home, because neither of them seem to want to see the light of day again….

Dave is the master, has always been will always be…how about a Vai, Sheehan, Roth reunion????
He kicked Ed’s ass before & could easily do it again, now THAT would be a real reunion!!!

Man this stinks I was real excited to hear that they were back with Roth. Oh well, at least I still Detroits own Midst of Lions. They’re better than Van Halen any way, ok maybe not, but at least they can stick together. Check ‘em out http://www.myspace.com/midstoflions

maybe mikes back need him or forget it come on van halen get your head out of your ass lets rock leave the child home mam o man.

ITS ALL PART OF THE ACT… THEY ALL REUNITE AT HALL OF FAME… AND MIKE WILL BE BACK FOR THE TOUR, YOU LL SEE.

This has to be some kind of PR stunt.
Granted we are talking about VH, they can’t be this dumb again and again. Who knows? It’s not surprising though?
Bands that fuck with fans heads like this need to follow Britney…
Rock bands like Five Eight from Athens, Ga need the attention they deserve. Not VH like this.
http://www.fiveeight.com
myspac e.com/fiveeight

I would have gone to see them even with Wolfgang, but why can’t Eddie and MAnthony put aside their problems
for just this once! They toured with him for all these years and they know the tour would be better with all original members. I doubt this is any publicity stunt, they aren’t smart enough to pull off something that sophisticated. It’s either the same old Eddie/Dave problem or maybe that child labor law thing. At least the Police seem to be doing it the right way, and I never thought I’d see them back together.

Hey Alex -

You should have kicked the shit out of your crazy drunk brother years ago. Must be tiring going through life as Eddie’s gofer bitch.

rivercityrascal | 2/22/2007, 7:25 am EST

“Skip – WOW! Who’s got who buffaloed? You obviously haven’t read the other posts here. Face it, Skip – your hero is a delusional ass who has managed all by himself to destroy the greatest band in rock history.”

I tend to ignore the children on this board who probably aren’t old enough to even know the difference between what was being created by artists and what is now being pushed by record companies. Sammy is a POS. If you like him SOOOO MUUUCH why are any of you on a VH post praising him?? Maybe because die hard VH fans don’t really like the guy. And you just can’t stand seeing the truth be told to the world. I’m far from an idiot. I’ve been a VH fan since long before they broke up. I bought every album up until they broke up. I have NOT bought one since however. And unless they do end up getting back together in some form WITH Dave I most likely won’t ever again. I don’t like the sound of Sammy’s voice and never have. I didn’t like him before Van Halen I didn’t like him in Van Halen and I still don’t like him with his new band. The music he made sounded like bubble gum pop at best. If you listen you never hear many songs played by Van Halen without Dave since most of it isn’t all that good and MOST of it has been produced without Dave and YET>>>>BY FAR more songs of VH with Dave are played on stations EVERYWHERE. That tells me I don’t give a rats azz about the opinions on this board and the Sammy lovers present.

I say again if you like him SOO MUCH, listen to him with his new band and his new bassist that is a decent bassist even if Sammy can’t sing or write. (Especially write – because he without a shadow of a doubt he sings better than he writes which still isn’t saying much) Oh yeah I’m sure “I can’t drive 55″ ranks right up there with “Running With the Devil” or any other with Dave, take your pick because it IS to laugh if anyone thinks I’M an idiot.

Sammy = LOSER

I’m WELL aware of the VH past. And at every turn Sammy has been there when there was a fight and magically never had anything to do with it.

Dave went on the road with him and wouldn’t even come out of the Dressing Room. Yeah sounds to me like he just LOVED the guy. This is taken straight from an interview with Sammy. Sammy took his time to make Dave out to be the bad guy yet again. Yeah Dave’s obnoxious. Big whoop. I would be too if I had to deal with Sammy’s whining azz day in day out.

Eddie cured cancer apparently twice. Once in his mouth and the second in his azz by surgically removing Sammy.

KUDOS to Eddie. Now if he can keep the promise on the website and actually make it to tour even better.

“Skip – your hero is a delusional ass who has managed all by himself to destroy the greatest band in rock history” I never said he didn’t have a hand in it. I just said Sammy made sure it stayed that way. Because the fact is, Sammy was never a part of the greatest rock band in history, just the greatest wannabe replacement singer in history.

Ditto, Skip.
Ditto.

Mr. Right
“This band hasn’t put anything out worth buying in over a decade”

THIS band has played together in over a decade.

You can ignore the other posts all you want, Skip, but you are definitely in the minority here. Damn, it’s only a rock band – chill out. I don’t have to write 20 paragraphs and repeat myself 15 times to make a point.

Expanded Consciousness | 2/22/2007, 7:09 pm EST

Ditto, Skip.
Ditto.
_____________________

Good to see someone on here with a little sense.

There is a poster calling himself “Expanded Consciousness” on Blabbermouth.net and he is saying some pretty nasty things about VH. That wouldn’t be you, would it?

rivercityrascal, people my age are generally in the minority more and more these days. I’m in the minority because the vast majority of people half my age with would probably easily comprise MOST of this board, and never were fans of VH before they broke up. Simply not old enough. It’s more like “Dave who?” for them. I can understand that. But it doesn’t make me blind to the facts all the same bud.

Van Halen died in 1985.

Hagar’s voice. Never liked it.

The coolest band in the world in 1984.
A complete goofie joke in 1986 (watch Live Without A Net).
Jumping jacks. Running in place. The cloths.
An amazing transformation.

Resurrected for 2 songs in 1996.

Ressurected in 2007?

We’ll see…

rivercityjackyl,

Absolutely me on Blabber.
Absolutley said nothing nasty on VH.
Absolutely served up the facts vs just echoed Eddie’s whinny BS.
How is he going to spin this mess, this time?
He always comes out w/ nonsense.
Both Roth and Hagar were liars in ‘96, supposedly.
Anthony caused his own self to be fired by playing with the “enemy” (Hagar).
What now, EVH?

Expanded – I happen to like your posts. You’re obviously a fan, but not blind to the fact that VH makes a habit of dumping on its fans.
Skip – You’re obviously a fan, as am I. We just happen to like a band that can’t put their differences aside and just play music! Agreed?

Agreed. And you’re right they do keep dumping on their fans. I’m a little tired of the “pump and dump” myself, pun intended.

Well, fellas.
Keep hoping for the best.
The nail ain’t in this coffin, yet.

Actually I was hoping as said by someone else on this board that this may possibly be a last ditch effort to get MA back for the tour. I don’t know. I have nothing against Wolfgang playing and I would definitely still pay to go, but I just don’t think he’s creatively mature nearly to the level of his peers here. It is kind of cool watching him play on stage with Eddie on Youtube. I’m not sure I would want the whole show like that though. I somehow feel like I’m contributing to the delinqency of a minor myself by paying to see them play with him. HAHAHA

“Pump and dump” – I like that. Great analogy, Skip.

MICHAEL BACK IN!!!
PROMOTERS DEMANDING!!
HOPE SO!!!!

THE DELAYS MEAN THE TOUR HASN’T BEEN SIGNED. THE $-DEALS WITH THE TOUR PROMOTERS HAVEN’T BEEN SIGNED.
BUT I’LL TELL YOU WHAT HAS BEEN SIGNED.
THE CONTRACTS BETWEEN DAVE’S LAWYERS (DARTH VADAR AND SONS) AND THE VAN HALEN CAMP.
AS DAVE SAID IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPGHY AND MANY TIMES IN INTERVIEWS, NO WAY WAS HE GOING BACK UP THERE WITHOUT LAWYERS AND IRONCLAD CONTRACTS SIGNED.

IT IS STILL ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(hopeful ly)

STEP 1: CONTRACTS BETWEEN DAVE AND VAN HALEN ARE SIGNED AND IRONCLAD. DONE.
STEP 2: CONTRACTS BETWEEN TOUR PROMOTERS AND VAN HALEN STILL BEING WORKED OUT.
PROMOTERS WANT THE ORIGINAL LINE UP.
OFFERING LESS $ FOR THIS 3/4TH REUNION.

VAN HALEN ARE FIGHTING FOR MORE $.

THIS IS BIG BUSINESS KIDDIES.
NOT A JAM BAND MEETING AT THE LOCAL DIVE FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT.

“But Hagar said that Eddie Van Halen was drinking heavily and, on some nights, it showed. In Chicago, Eddie stumbled throughout the set and, at one point, quit playing and sacked out, telling the crowd: “I done run outta gas.”"

This is why I hate Hagar. I don’t disagree this may be a truthful event but it’s seriously in bad taste to talk about it to the press unless it’s yourself your talking about and not another member of the band.

“Last month, Hagar publicly chided Eddie Van Halen for taking his son on tour. He also added that “the guy is a genius, but he’s just out there and it’s hard for people around him.”"

What-ever.

Eddie is a fucking loser. The sooner each of you accept that, the better off you’ll be..

$$ will bring MA back into the fold. Eddie kicked him out – NOT because of his friendship with Hagar – but because MA failed to attend Eddie & Alex’s mother’s funeral…once you’re in VH’s doghouse, you are DEAD MEAT

These dumb ass motherfuckers haven’t done anything right since 1984. Millions of dollars are out there to be made and they just don’t understand. The Who hated each other and still made great music and cashed in forever! Fighting makes the music better. Hell Fair Warning was one of my favorite albums and you could tell Ed and Dave were on the outs from the lyrics. Eddie is a twelve year old head case who thinks he should be treated like royalty. Fuck him! The greatest guitar player ever and he won’t do a damn thing but smoke crack or meth or whatever. I really wanted some new music but this selfish asshole can’t get his shit together long enough. He doesn’t deserve the musical genius God gave him… he’s throwing it away!

Man the dirt on this band would be enough to fill a huge book. and someone better write it one day. from beer and broads to the millions in the bank over night, and the fallout and exit of david lee roth. too the truth behind one of the industrys most exclusive address’s in the valley, the recording studios of 5150..

Honestly, people may consider dave the “better” frontman, but there is no denying the fact that the band had better sales figures with Sammy at the helm.
Also, it helps that Sammy is a good buisnessman rather than some disgusting old prick in spandex.

I’ve liked Van Halen since they started, but I have to say Alex VH is possibly the worst drummer I’ve ever heard. He’s one lucky SOB, that’s for sure.
VH 2 is my favorite, after that, nothing new.

who the fuck cares? 3 has-beens and a kid? why is this news?

I was there on that shoot (above photo) and know the story. It was very exciting to be wroking w/ one of my all time fav bands. The excitement of the poss of a tour thrilled me. Hell, just being around such rock gods was enough! Ultimately, I am not suprised by this out come. It is a very sad thing.

Ah, the joys of nepotism… Perhaps the new tour band could be called “Eddie Van Halen & Wings.” It would seem only proper.

blah blah blah, VH will never be again. Want some cheese with them whines?

That latimes/vhnd article
One band session they had.
One.
One time playing together.
Once.
And VH puts an official tour announcement on their website.
I had visions of contracts signed, stage designers brought in, clothing designers hired.
Just how out there is EVH?
Nails in the coffin of Van Halen just keep on coming.

The new VH, Californias own, “Atomic Punks”! love you guys xoxox

Skip and what’s-his-name need to get a room. it is nice to see an expanded get-down. I am THE original Van Halen fan. Old enough to remember when it was gonna be called VanRoth.
There was a dutch band signed to American Arista at the time and they had some old school money behind them and they were gonna pitch a hissy..throw down wit some GREEN, and so Dave backed down and ALEX got his way. . .Alex is a fabtastic beat boy.
Listen to the intro to HOT FOR TEACHER..are you DEAF?
it’s Moonish AND KRUPA-esque in the same goddamn instant.
It’s fuckin Marching Band on acid.
So they had an idea. Let’s PLAY again. But hold it..everybody thinks Ed is lost..gone..needs a dentist and a fine tooth comb.
EDDIE don’t care, does he Tim? Have YOU looked in a mirror lately? Theses guys spent years brining the rock. EDDIE gave up some decent prom-head..so you could grab the nearest buzz and crank up your git-go.

it will be..if we let it.

Skip and what’s-his-name need to get a room.
But really, it’s nice to see an expanded get-down here.
I am the original Van Halen fan. I was there when the name of the band was VANROTH. There was a dutch band with the same name signed to American Arista and they threatened to flash some GREEN protest and Alex got his way. . .Eddie could really not care. right Tim?
as far as ALEX’s drumming? What are ya, deaf? Crank up Hot for Teacher..it’s Moonish and Krupa-esque in the same instant. It’s marching band on acid.
So everyone thinks Eddie is lost…gone..needs a dentist and a fine-tooth comb..right? Well have YOU looked in a mirror lately?
These guys brought the rock for DECADES so that you could grab the nearest buzz and split the atoms of your OWN imagination.
So they had an idea. Let’s play again. And as it tumbled into reality, the planets started lining up and EVERYONE realized just how HUGE this could be.
Take a deep breath. Exhale.

I danced at the BACK DOOR with Sally Speaker, while the band did a spot-on “YOU REALLY GOT ME” – Van Halen-style.

Man-this tour was going to be HUGE and,now,it’s not going to happen.I don’t know what will happen with Eddie and Alex but David Lee Roth can always do “Strummin’ With The Devil 2″.This tour isn’t going to happen,the new G N R album got-again-delayed.At least the Police will kick ass on their summer tour.

So – when they announced a big reunion tour, with no quote from the long lost singer and no photo with the announcement… what did you think was going to happen?
I loves me some VH – but I think we all knew these wacky kids we’re on thin ice.

BRING BACK SAMMY! (Even though he’d be crazy to do it.) At least you’d have some credibility on stage.

“Skip and what’s-his-name need to get a room.”

You need to stop “split(ting) the atoms”. I don’t know what you were reading but apparently you were imagining half of it.

Take a deep breath…now hold it for an hour or two.

look were all sick of this in one way or another.I liked the whole band fron start to finish. With DLR and Sammy.Had no probs with the change, Van Halen was still Van Halen.Except for the brain fart with Gary.Every band eventually has egos and other problems,(expecially if your lucky to last this long(.Bands change players..no biggie. Agreed the idea of Wolfie playing in this band is a let down. But you have to at least say they are trying to make out for us. If not Mike, why not Eddis son? Eddie probally tought Wolfie to play.As far as who has the biggest ego in the band? Sure Ed has a big one, but Daves always took the cake. And It got bigger when he left to solo. A big reason he lost alot of players he had.And ened up being a paramedic in NY.Ive seen the band 36 times through out. So Ill be there when and If they get the ship righted. So How can you just say without knowing that this was just Eddies fault???? They all drink and all are very good at that. Untill the facts come out, and WE know why or what caused it, Ill hold judgement.And if you all are,as you clame to be big Vh fans, you will too. And stop feeding the rumor mill yourselves.

This is a difficult tour I can see DLR camp and Van Halen camp working but I have to agree with Sammy Hagar on Wolfgang. He is just to young to put on a major tour , Michelle Anthony should be the bass player. This is a sad day for me and all other Van Halen fans, I have seen Roth with Van Halen during the Diver Down tour , and I have seen Sammy both great but Roth adds the rock to things right and get the tour going again .

Bottom line It wont be a VH tour with out Mike! Only way possible for that to happen would be for wolfgang in his very young mind figure out he will be in the music industy in some way shape or form either making it or be involved in in some way!if he chooses. that if he says to DAD ,im going to step down and give the spot back to mikey! thats the only way i can see that happening because weve all heard Ed say i dont give a fuck what the fans want or say in so many words! I know im living in a dream land But wasnt that a great dream to see ed and dave back on stage kickin ass even if it is ten years late!

Van Halen is Ed and Dave. PERIOD!

No bassplayer, no Alice and no Spammy McGaygar.

Van Halen isn’t a playground for little rich kids either, regardless of whaever DNA pool somebody swam in.

I’ve seen the REAL Van Halen enough to know that Van Hagar and Ga y Halen weren’t even in the same league. I’ve seen Dave on his own countless times to know that he brought an authenticity to the classic Van Halen tunes.

Get this tour on the road, and start promoting it. The Police have sucked the oxygen out of the summer and that was traditionally Van Halen’s time to shine. If you’re going to sit up on Howdy Doody Mountain then at least record some new material and put that out.

folks its just a reunion tour…

its not a time machine – its like the 1984 VH will be there….

things chnage and not always for the best…

Take the greatest hits of ‘Van Hagar’ and put it against the 1st Montrose album – I think THATS the Sammy that Eddie wanted, but it never quite happened becasue Sammy had changed …..and Dave has changed …… Im old, I saw VH open for Sabbath wen I was in High School and I saw the 1984 tour….and Im also a Montrose and Van Hagar fan………. but hard rock is young mans game……

or wait til Britneys 50 ; ]

the Stones are about the only band thats realy gotten away with it….

go watch Dave on youtube, it looks silly

but it would be fun to see a 25th reunion in ‘09

the biggest difference is I wont be 24 again….. and maybe its better t hat the kids DONT have t here VH memory of an OLD Vh,,,,,, Legends are more fun than reunions ; ]

The only way this ever happens is Eddie needs to clean himself up he cant even remember his owns music his kid had to play it for him. Also Eddie wil have to check his ego and make up with Mike and go out has the original band thats what will sell. The average person does not care anymore just us diehards. There are some serious issues with Ed and thses guys only played one time together what is that.

my nipples are still hard.

Doesn’t anyone care?

Eddie is nothing more than a drunk and DLR is an idiot…they are washed up losers that need to grow up

Why is Eddie the only one smiling in the above picture? Just wondering.
But seriously….I sure hope they fix this mess. I had a few hundred extra bucks$ burning in my pocket ready to spend on concert tickets and related crap thanks to the IRS and giving me my money back. Hear-that, tour promoters, Eddie, band etc?? Someone here posted that VH doesn’t need the money anymore. I almost split my guts out laughing at that one. Everybody Wants Some!!!

Nobody ever asks me anymore. Should I be worried?

Well thats what happens when you have, and are worth a lot of money for a very long time. you live in your own little world, seperated by many adult like responsibilities. encapsulated within a controlled enviorment (5150) and insulated from the outside world. of course they never had to grow up like many of us (beyond say 17-18) but that doesnt mean they havent at all in some form or another. and in what that other “form” could be i do not know.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Better save the women and children first.

How depressing, those dumb turkeyheads… I blame Eddie totally.

Wolfgang can sit on my lap!

You guys are making me laugh. Surely there are plently more VH song title puns to be had over all this?
I was mad a few days ago when someone called VH a joke as I’ve been a fan for so long. Now I’m begining to accept the reality.
I’d still rather hear about VH than Brittny or Anna however. Those two stories make me want to shoot my TV.

Eddie, get your butt out there and make me more money! Those Lifetime royalties are running dry. Invite that David guy over to my house too!

come on folks,you really think mike wants to come back to this mess?I’d think he’s gone for good.
hey lets try a new idea.. There are plenty oh great bassests out there, Gene Simmons for one (Give him some positive to do besides make stupid reality shows),or maybe Jason Newstead. That would be a sight.

ok are ya ready for this? I just figured out what is going down. Eddies pissed at everybody and everybody’s pissed at him so he fired them all and he’s going into the studio just him and his big ego and he gonna do a solo record. ed on guitar, ed on bass, ed on drums, ed on crack,loon,heroin,and whatever else they make! his solo record is going to be called F.U.

And another thing, if you think Wolfie is going to play bass on tour with Van Halen this summer then you’ve been bathing in Smoking Loon again.

Britney was right, you’re a drunk!

Van Halen Tour On Hold But Still In The Works
David Lee Roth

February 23, 2007, 2:00 PM ET

Ray Waddell, Nashville
A prospective Van Halen tour with original frontman David Lee Roth has derailed. Sources tell Billboard.com the decision to postpone the outing indefinitely was not due to any internal strife among band members. Insiders close to the situation say a tour is still in the works and will happen, though when is anybody’s guess.

The tour, negotiations for which were first tipped here on Jan. 24, will feature Roth, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen’s teenage son Wolfgang on bass. A spokesperson for the Van Halen brothers confirmed the tour in a Feb. 3 press release.

I’m rich bitch!!!! You think I,the greatest guitarist of all time,give two sh*** about you the lowly fans?If I did would I have charged 25k for a guitar worth less than 600.00?Now I’m playing you,getting you to beg for a show,keep putting it off,making you want it bad!Till YOU WILL PAY ANY THING TO SEE ME,THEN I’LL STICK IT TO YOU AGAIN…..thats if I don’t die first.

I have 300 Van Halen tickets for sale….the price for each ticket $25,000

I have a boner.

Look this idea here is not new to aging Rockers. Plan a big tour,that sounds great to their fans. But, then for some reason, they postpone the tour, why? To drive up attendance for the tour, more publicity, and the big factor,Money!!!Like I said nothing new about any of this.Why rant and rave about it? Its just thr reaction they wanted to see. The more everyonetalks or gets pissed about it, the more others will want to go see it. Just to see what all the fuss is about.
Its stupid to fight about it on blogs like this. If you dont like the waiting game or the players,GET THE FUCK OUT!!! You were not a fan to begin with. All yall act like you all know these guys personally. You all are like those hair- brained Elvis fans. Who
are pining for that poor bastard,who Killed himself, They have no life, andit sounds like the same in here. Word of wisdom :
” Grab life by the horns, or you”ll get passed the fuck by” In other words : GEt A Life you loosers.

Sir Edward Van Halen – Uh, yeah, that sounds about right.

skip skip.
I don’t understand the animosity everyone seems to feel for the DLR-Eddie Circus.
THEY GOT HUGE. Bigger than anyone could ever have imagined. Who got that big and kept it together?
Aerosmith? HA. Motley Stew? HA.
hell fire, babaloonians,even PRINCE broke-up when he was rather large.
You anonymous posters can’t even get along for 5 comments in a row about something that doesn’t even personally matter.
There will be a tour.
I’m STILL holding my breath.

you dink-tips are just jealous. So I was born to Eddie and Valerie, what was I suppose to do? Become a porn producer?
It not like I’ve got 3 other brothers to share the ship.
I wanna rock. You don’t even know me.
and your claim to fame is you BLOG well?

Postponement on something that really was not put together properly in the first place. as roth states, lets see what happens with and at the rrhof. he’s unsure wether the brothers halen are going to show up to begin with. let alone what happens afterwards. but he is hoping for something to occur so lets not lose total hope.

Michael Anthony do not be worried about not being included with Van Halen anymore. Instead of sitting on the couch and having to wait for Eddie and Alex to get their heads straight, you did the right thing and went out on tour again with one of the class acts ever, Sammy Hagar. The Hall of Fame induction is going to be great when Hagar goes out after DLR and blows the world away. You should be included in this reunion tour, that’s the only way I’ll pay to see it. Too bad you have comittments with Hagar for the 2nd annual Cruise and Birthday Bash. We’ll not really. I was in Tahoe last year for a Hagar/Anthony/Wabo concert and Sammy never sounded better. What a great concert. Thank you for handing me that huge glass of Jack Daniels.

Docula

“Hagar goes out after DLR and blows the world away…”

What’s he gonna do fart?

I think it would be in good taste to let david lee roth come out ahead and accept this award (initially) for the band, and then the band slowly approaches up behind dlr and one at a time they say something them selves. with sammy hagar behind mikey on oppisite sides of dlr, like sammy/mike/alex/eddie/dlr then the podium (or alex/mikey) but then that would probably go over as well as a lead baloon, but maybe ill be surprised. but just expect heavy back-lash if they visualy and physicly try to alienate dlr from this award and or any proceedings acompanying it.

there will be a tour.
at the Hall, Ed should come to the podium 1st. then Alex, thanking Ed. Then Mike saying he was lucky to know Ed and Alex and HE intros DavidLee. and after a surprisingly restrained lil speech, DLR says hey to Sammy, who comes out with Gary and Wolfie and Valerie. (naked).
there’s a little Valerie naked in all of us.

I used to wack off over one day at a times valerie bertinelli and the girls from threes company.

And people say me and Donovan were bad?

T.O., VH has us beat, even me and Shaq are boys again….

Stop talking about val naked,I haven’t had any of that in along time!My Precious…….damn she looks good…..need more meds…can’t go out in public….the voices..gotta get more security cameras…val call me daddy…..the black dog telling me to tour…..come back val I need you.

Has anyone heard or read about van halen and led zepplin suing a club owner over letting bands cover their songs??Didn’t they start out doing other peoples music?I think so.Did the cancer get to his brain?

These guys and this whole getting back together again thing sounds less glamorous and more pretentious every day.

And someone said “Fair Warning” lord will strike this poor band down…

Oh c’mon dad, gimme a break… one break, coming up!!!

Shit Eddie, put out a cover album. That’s what you do best anyway, like Jimi and “All Along the Watchtower” or “The Star Strangled Banner”. I can almost hear the bombs bursting in air Van Halenized… kinda like your intro to Orbison…. Pick up that god damned guitar and tell Wolfie to put two rocks in the fucking stem… now hold your breath and WOW!!! Blow all our minds too..

There having a better weekend i bet. if your in a recording studio located in the valley right now, and the studio happens to have a name of “5150″ you come from the makings of better weekends. im sorry but:

Van halen= 1
YOU= 0

How about a Valerie Bertinelli sandwich? Sounds a hell of a lot better to me! Hey Eddie, want a bite?

Got one question for all of you. From the first album on this band has had these problems, almost like
a soap opera,why does this new problem any different? Thats what gets these guys going, part of their plans, always strat or have something going on. This band always lives up to them too. They
never can just put out an album then tour, like other bands. They have to have some kind of build up.
For some reason, I loved the music from day one,and have followed them all the way through.VH 1 ( with Dave) was good, Eddie was it for all future players. The only thing I thought was out was Daves,ego and attitude. Listening to him talk or reading him in an interview, made me want to punch him myself. I kept yelling at him:’
Hey you ass, its not all about you, you are just a 1/4 part of one of the great bands.There are 3 more in this band”
VH 2 with Sammy) Was even better, seeemed like a full tight unit for the first time, and it showed with the albums they put out.pure platinum all the way. The only thing wrong I thought was the fact
Sammy was doing most of the guitar work, while Eddie was doing keyboards. And to the poster who was bitching about “live without a net” look again moron. What I see in that video was a band finally having fun again. Notice how they all smiling and laughing? they just couldnt stop. Fun, fun, fun.All the pics of the band were the same.
Now VH 3, (Gary) is the part I want to forget totally. Not going to touch it at all.
I knew from onset when the first attemt to reform with Dave,came out, I knew that wasnt going to work.How can you seal up that arrogant SOB, and get it to play as a part of the group and not think it was the whole thing? And this is a guy in his solo, who would come out on stage with a 12ft
inflatable mic stapped to his crotch. Made his band wear and play just what he wanted them to play, even in thier solo part of the concert. No wonder hehad a revolving door for players.
So, hang tight, this will happen,when they get through with their little games.

“VH 2 with Sammy) Was even better…”

That’s comical. Good one.

Fuck Live Nation… Who died and made them God? The same pricks who announce no Van Halen are selling the amphitheatre and cancelling all concerts this year in Nashville… Beverly Hills, that’s were I wanna be NOT!!!

There’s NOTHING good about Sammy Hagar. He’s just plain awful. He’s even awful at being a bad example of a lead singer. He should run for the border and stay on the other side with Mona and all of the other illegal aliens bassplayer included.

i had a store. a marketing company was giving us a chance to have a big VH3 pre-release listening party. the CD was Fed-Xed overnight and we were set to rock…People were quoted as saying “Eddie could get a hair-lipped midget” to sing and VH would STILL rock.
I had ordered 10 copies that moring for Teusday’s Street Date. The Disc came and we tore open the package and put that bitch in the player… 1/2 way through, I called back the distributer and changed the order to ONE.
What a DUD.
This is where the DOUBT about Eddie began IMHO.

You think ed’s going to live that long?I found one story that said the reason they were rushing this tour was to get one more tour in before he is unable to function,apparently the cancer that was supposed to be cured was coming back and He thought he could get through a short tour with his son for the last time.The disease came on stronger and faster,thus calling for the cancellation.That is why David Lee Roth made the comment about not knowing if the Van Halens would be attending the RRHOF ceremonies.Our prayers are with You Ed.

Eddie is waisting away for various reasons ie: drugs, alcohol and I’m sure that little medical lab in NY that he founded didnt cure his cancer, Promoters wont gamble on Eddie making it through the tour without falling apart. Its too bad, it woulda been nice. Michael Anthony is doing the best thing, palying with Sammy is by far much more normal than dealing with the VH sisters, too much denial at 5150

well if those cancer things are true. Then maybe Eddie should have tought Wofie how to play guitar, so he could take over, and not bass. I hope to hell they a wrong, but if not, Ill have all the good times to fall back on. Get well Ed,
I can understand this then.He took a turn for the worst and they have to wait and see if he’ll be able to do the tour.

These dudes are no better than Guns’n Roses.
You can’t fool around with drugs and the occult ( check out the last two words in “the Satanic bible” by Anton Z. Lavey. They’re usually printed in the book with a stamp. It the same as the title of one of DLR’s solo songs.)
Herion addiction and channelling are nothing that anyone can control. They control you, tear your body and mind apart, and then the demons spit you out when they’re through with you. (Axl, Eddie, Jimi, etc…)
Prediction: Ed will be too sick to attend the R’n'R HOF induction, and will die before years end.

Well I’m in redneck heaven. Sitting in Music City USA aka Nashville Tennessee watching Sammy and Michael Anthony tear it up at California Speedway before the Nextel Cup race. Having fun and singing “I Can’t Drive 55″ to 92,000 in the grandstands and 100 suites and how many in the infield? Not to mention national television coverage with millions watching. Get a clue Ed. I guess this is as close to a Van Halen reunion as we’ll ever get.

u guys should come to pensacaola fl that would be the best thing ever i love you guys so please come me and all me friends would come

I saw them tour for the 2nd album through Fair Warning, then again for 1984. Never saw them with Hagar, didn’t care. Ed’s tone got real generic, didn’t really care to see it anymore. But then, I’m an old fart who had just started playing guitar when that first album came out. It was the epitome of “mind-blowing”.

Their best album? The first.

I don’t think I’d go see this. I still remember those early shows, they were great.

What a joke Van Halen the band has become. I saw DLR a year or so ago and he wasn’t that good. Good for Michael Anthony for joining Sammy. Sammy and Mikey can have a great time playing and hanging out together. Did someone say Mas Tequila!

We know what happened, Our Fat lil Wolfie flunked gym.

Summer School has derailed Van-Halen.

Sammy was phenomonal.Daves a Joke.

Dave is a paramedic now.

If your A David Weave Roth Fan it’s because you like the videos and old albums.

FYI: Dave had to sing line by line on those old albums because he couldn’t stay in key.

Also, no live album from DimeBag Dave: Because he was HORRIBLE live. He talked his way through songs.

The Sam and Dave tour wab an eye opener. Dave was embarisingly goofy.This was not your imagined lead singer from the videos. He was horrible.

No Mike, No Go

Dave couldn’t get along with Vai or Sheehan either.

Dave IS goofy.

Who plays on a VAN HALEN TRIBUTE ALBUM.

Note to DLR: You were IN VAN HALEN.
You don’t PLAY ON YOUR OWN TRIBUTE ALBUM.

And it was COUNTRY.

Go to UTUBE and watch that embarassing video. Thats who you get now.

I pray that Eddie is healthy. I pray that IF Ed IS healthy that all 4 ORIGINAL guys, Dave, Ed Michael and Alex can work and give us fans a tour. If Ed is healthy and they won’t or can’t tour for some unknown problem that screw Van Halen as a band. Maybe Michael is doing the smartest thing and partying ways with VH!

No matter WHATS going on, it is Eddies fault.

He has abused his body,his relationships with band members, as well as his family, his music and ultimately his fans.

Have you seen Juniors grades,

Since you like youtube so much, why don’t you watch this one

Rage Beyond The Stage: Dave VS Sammy Uncensored Part 2

Sammy Hagar, “That’s difference between us, Dave’s a rock star.”

He whines the entire video. It’s effing pathetic.

“Dave is a paramedic now.” And your point is? Dave has said many times he always wanted to be a paramedic. This just says your a putz that can’t see the forest for the trees.

At one time or another (pre-80) they approached eddie about just replacing everyone including his own brother at one point in time or another, like they had this interest to re-create some kind of twisted rock & roll version of the bay city rollers or something (where everybodys perfect in looks and abilities) an early industry created band that was not un-commonplace to some extent thru most of the 80s-90s, and that thankfully never occured. people dont seem to realise how close they actually were about not having to deal with david lee roth/michael anthony or even alex van-halen. it gets even more coincindental, strange and weirder than this, but thats room for a book.

HAVE YOU HEARD IT’S OFFICIAL!!!!!I JUST SAW IT ON VAN-HALEN.COM!! THE BAND HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT’S “OFFICIAL”…..THEY ARE TOURING THIS SUMMER!!!!

Thats been on van-halen.com since the cancellation. it takes them for ever to update the web site. but it may show that it hasnt been totaly and completly canceled. and that a postonement is more likely to be the case. hmmmm

next your going to tell me its cancelled! LMAO!

Regarding a post below: I think the “Dave VS Sammy Uncensored Part 2″ video on youtube is one of the funnier things I’ve seen lately. Sammy saying “if you get this dressing room you’re f#@ked” made me laugh. And Dave’s luminescent spandex, triplet kitties and “I am the party” quote are priceless. Hee-hee. That’s good stuff.
It occurred to me while watching that their tour together could have been highly entertaining reality TV. Possibly/probably far better than the tour itself. I would have watched!

L.A. CO. NEWS: A spokesperson barely able to speak and breaking down in tears made the announcement this morning that guitarist,and founding member of the band Van Halen,Edward Van Halen passed away this morning at 1:12 a.m.after a long illness.It was later disclosed that the spokesperson was also Van Halens girlfriend.No other imformation was released.

Is Eddie really dead??? Nothing on the net yet…..

Hey Castle – Your a jackass. Death is not something to joke about. I can’t find a thing on the web to backup what you said about Eddie. What you said is just WRONG!!!!!!

I think Castle just wants us to think and not makes jokes, (like I have), about his fav band. His methods tend to make me think he’s a bit retarded however.

ok – somebody please clear this up – is Castle just a jerk – or have the news wires missed something this big?? I tend to think Castle is just being an ass – but for what purpose?? Who knows….

He is full of it. You”d think something this big would be all over the news, so far nothing. I even went to the papers site that he mentioned. Guess what…nothing.

After I freaked out, my sister emailed CNN and this is their reply: “Thank you for contacting CNN. Eddie Van Halen dying is a hoax that shows up every few months. I can find nothing to support the rumor that he died. He is still very much alive.”

If Momey Were Realy a Factor!Then
Why Did EDDIE,ALEX,MICAEL Want The
Rmastered First 6 Cds That Has All
Original Album Photos,Liner Notes
For Under $10.00? The Original 6cds
Did Not Have All Original LP Album
ArtWork & were over $16.OO.

im so tired of eddies shit rock on hagar and micheal anthony

Boy I’m glad to hear he’s o.k.someone on wall street must have heard that rumor,everyone was selling off their wine stock.

Concert promoters Live Nation say negotiating with Ed is somewhere between Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and just can’t get a damn thing accomplished. I have an idea! Approach Mr. Van Halen with a naked little boy and a syringe full of heroin. That covers it either way!

A shame , I was really looking forward to some new material too.
Ed’s gotten a bit flaky.

ok I’ve heard some new news. I got it from XMs channel 41 the boneyard’s Eddie Trunk. He said that as of today, the tour and the new VH best of vol 2, both are now
officially “postponed In defintly.
so my guess is that all of VH well see.

They have to Tour Again – I still haven’t fullfilled my life’s biggest FANTASY!!!!! To have sex with either Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, or Alex Van Halen after a Van Halen Concert!!!!! I was alone once talking with Eddie backstage after a concert in the 1980’s and he invited me to leave with him in his waiting limo – and I hit the floor and PASSED OUT!!! I totally blew it!!! I was just out of high school – and that was my (teenage) high school fantasy – I would’nt blow that opportunity again!!! I will always LOVE my VH BOYS!!!!! I’m STILL HOT Eddie -

…I’m cryin’ right now man…

Me too. . . I’ve been waiting for this for 23 years. . .

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Love early Van Halen….Sammy was/is a Fuckin’ joke!! Eddie lost the plot years ago as evidenced by that time he was bugging Nirvana to let him “Jam” with them live on stage . Nirvana promptly huddled and talked about letting him play a few notes and then were gonna just push him offa the stage into the audience!!!Too bad this didn’t happen!! They just told him no instead as they felt merciful and didn’t really wanna embarrass the King numbskull of wank-style playing!! Wot a missed opportunity.That stupid fucking guitar he “plays”…He ain’t no Link Wray ,that’s fer sure!! Or Ron Asheton for that matter.Anyways..Captain Sensible plays rings around Eddie.The “Fair Warning” lp does rip,though.

Eddie was drunk at NAMM at the Fender release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=sIr-WBZT1MI

He also just did a video with Matt Bruik (Valerie’s sisters husband and part of VH management) for the new fender frankenstein replica guitars, he was wasted through the whole video that came out as a disk in Guitar World Magazine. I think what we are seeing here is EVH in the last stages of Alcoholism. Maybe he is in Rehab with Brittany, I hope so I don’t want to loose such a great virtuoso talent like we have lost so many.

Nobody know whats going on, and nobody will until its really meant to be known. Van Halen has always been good at this game with when and where they turn up again and with who. Us as true fans must stop believing things like “Eddie died” or “the Tour was canceled because of such and such” and whozits fault”. That is why this world (partally) is crazy because of rumors. All that we can do is wait to see what happens at the hall of fame induction next month.

Easier said than done. . .

I guess I need to clarify – I’m not blaming anyone – I just really want them to tour and am having a hard time waiting to see what is gonna happen. . .

IM SOOOO SICK N TIRED OF EDDIE’S BULLSHIT!! YEAH HES AWESOME BUT, SHIT GET IT TOGETHER ALREADY..IVE BEEN A FAN SINCE UR DEBUT VH IN 78..THE GROUP ISNT THE SAME WITHOUT DLR AND MA..NOT WOLFGANG! 23 YRS OF WAITING AND BULLSHIT!! ITS RIDICULOUS GUYS..U WERE THE BADDEST AND BEST BAND IN THE WORLD BACK THEN..SHIT IM 40 YRS OLD HOW LONG DO US FANS HAVE TO AWAIT UR REUNION?? LAST TIME U SAID THIS IS WAS ON MTV WHEN DLR WAS WITH YOU..BUT, U ALREADY HIRED GARY SHARONE..THATS PRETTY SHITTY!! SAMMY IS AWESOME!! BUT, HES BETTER BY HIMSELF..U WOULD SELL OUT ALL OVER THE WORLD AGAIN IF EDDIE YOU WOULD GET UR SHIT TOGETHER AND STOP BEING SUCK A AZZZZ!! UR A BAD AZZ GUITAR PLAYER SO GET BACK TO PLAYING AND SCREW THIS CRAP UR DOING..U AND UR BRO MADE THIS BAND PUT IT BACK ON THE MAP AND MAKE SOME AWESOME TUNES LIKE U USED 2!! IS THAT SOOO DAMN DIFFICULTLY HARD TO DO?? I WAS SOO EXCITED TO HEAR DLR BACK IN THE BAND! AND MIKEY GOT THE BOOT WHICH IS VERY BAD!! THIS IS ALL SOOO FUCKED UP!!!!
FAN FROM SOUTH FLA

Im sorry to here it. But they need to have anthony back. Wolfgang has a right to join but not as a replacement

LETS GET ON WITH IT GUYS,THE HYPE
OF CANELLING THE TOUR IS OVER!
ROCK ON EDDIE HEROIN AND ALL!!

I must agree w/ the sexy mail/lettercarrier person …Didn’t sound like a chick talking, YEAH It would be the biggest thing this summer and remembered as the greatest summer here on out!!! What was the last greatest summmer you remember…its been a while!!!

Last greatest summer i had was at the pine knob music theatre in 1993 when van halen, namely eddie was in best form. using his yellow/gold music man guitar. effortlessly jumping around hitting all the notes perfectly in his faded blue jeans with holes in the knees and those over sized shirts that he wore, along with sammy, michael and his bro. just utterly fantastic sound and performance. never again will a july night feel as warm, or that a band of that calibre ever be able to pull off what van halen had done that night!

Whether Eddie is dead or not is still up for debate. Maybe they airbrushed the flies from the above picture and are doing a “Weekend at Bernies” type deal. Either way he looks dead. Hell I’m the same age as Valerie four years younger than Ed and he looks like my grandma. No, that’s not being nice… to my grandma!

COME ON!!!!! I wated to go to this concert but no eddy and alex hade to be an asshole to david and now the damn tour is CANCLED. THIS SUCKS ASS MAN!!!!!!!!

I’m better than wolfgang AND anthony combind. I SHOULD BE PLAYING THE BASS FOR VH!! I’ll put the VH bro. in their place, damit!!!

what is wrong with you guys so what if they’re not playing any more just leave Eddie,Alex,Dave,and Wolfgang alone they probably have there reasons
No true fans here

We are true fans – that is why we want to see them play again so bad. . .

I have always known of vh but never really liked until I reached my teens. I must have listened to every song close to 200 times n I’ve never heard the band in concert. What the hell, get together, play the music, and make millions of fans happy.

what an amazing blog…this pucker just keeps truckin..i love the Eddie is Dead fantasy.. I watched the youtube NAMM Ed today..he didn’t seem so much different han any other rockin dude. Was he supposed to be, I don’t know, more presentable? He’s a freakin musician. Everyone knows musicians tend toward the awkward. Do any of you really think that without Eddie there would even have been VH 1, let alone all the permutations?
and Skip, keep up the Dave defense, the jury is starting to swing back. I found the SamHalen albums to be generic-y, although it was a good move for the boys to just find someone to get along with and party, and that’s the summation of the SamDaze.
WolfGangBang needs a shot at this.
it will happen.

Matt Bruck is not married to Valeries sister. Matt and Ed have been together forever. Whatever that means.

Van Halen Still Rocks

it”s all about the money$$$$$$$$ iam not surprised. it trun into a big joke!!!!!!!

Van Halen is a fucking joke away

just get sammy&mike back and cut a new cd and get back out on the road ,sammy was a better songwriter,and a better musican,the band more #1′S in the AD line up. (AD=AFTER DAVE)

It’s really too bad the tour won’t happen, though, I liked Van better with Them anyway. Mystic Eyes is the balls… or is it are the balls?

Alexentered theVH compound about 10:30 last night,about 45 mins later a limo stopped at the gates,a number of people made their way to the up to it the window went down,and guess who…..Diamond Dave!!,short hair and looking ready to rock.he signed a few autographs untill he got a phone call.he said “its mr hurry up and wait,gotta roll”,then went in.get off his back people,at least he stopped and made us fell like it might be worth waiting for.

#1’s?? who cares. Debbie Boone was number one. “you light up my life???” yes..what a rocker.
this is between Optimists (yay) and Pessimists (boo)..

I realize that half of what made Van Halen what they were is Eddie, but seriously there will never be another successful incarnation of this band until there is no Eddie Van Halen in it. And even then it wouldn’t feel right. So Dave: go do your thing, and Eddie: disappear and never come back.

We can’t speculate. Are the people with the rumors even the true fans? I mean the drugs or ego etc..Let’s wait and hope that they don’t let us down. We don’t know what the issues are. If not a tour, then at least no BS! I think Eddie and Dave won’t disrespect their longest waiting fans. I just have to believe that. I think they want it to happen……But if not; no BS, right guys?? Austin, TX:)

Eddie will always rock and he is Van Halen anyway.

ATX

if you were hanging at the gates and saw dave and alex, thats cool I wish I could have seen that

No matter WHATS going on, it is Eddies fault.Totally eddies fault

He has abused his body,his relationships with band members, as well as his family, his music and ultimately his fans.

No mike, No show

Boycott Van Halen

I think it’s pretty funny that “hanging out at the gate” wants us to “get of their backs” – sounds like he/she is the one with stalking issues. . .

FoolS! Tobey’s Cryin’! The VH boys have once again led the public to think the Classic VH lineup have reconvened without a followup! How can they do this to the fans…..AGAIN?!

Pip…he loved the Sodomy. It’s what he learned from Tobey. Ever urinate on a small dog?

BONEFACE ROCKS http://www.myspace.com/bonefacemusic

Original VH is the most exciting thing that could happen in the Rock World in over 20 years!This reunion must happen for the Van Halen fans.Come on boys & suck it up and do what you do best,play your fucking music!

Just want to say Hello, today a cool day

A L.A. area newpaper reports that Edward Van Halen has addmitted himself to passages a Malibu Rehab Center.Good Luck ED!

I could use a drink right now. V/H style.

Van Halen fan since the 70’s. Knowing Dave from the albums and videos he allways was envisioned as this cool rock and roll type guy.

Has anybody seen Roth in the past 5 years ?

He is downright goofy.Just START at his facial expressions? Has he had plastic surgery. Does he make you cringe when you here him speak with those goofy comments ?

Then take his performances. What an idiot.That, “magic” is gone. Just go look at his country music strumming with the devil on UTUBE.

Dave is a mess, Eddie is a mess, No Michael Anthony. Whats up with that ?

No matter what happens, EVERYONE should SAY they are going to go, then, turn around at the ticket booth at the last minute and leave them with empty halls.

Serves em right for all of this insanity they are putting us through.

Maybe ten years ago, not now.

This is not a reunion.This is an embarrassment.

There is no “gate” at the compound. It’s a bit different than that. Dave affording a limo, c’mon the guy is a paramedic.It all sounds hokey to me.

F Wolfy. No one knows about this prodigy bull crap .I think it would be funny if they pelted DrunkDaddies boy with urine filled plastic bottles.

Wheres Michael Anthony.

LEAVE WOLFY ALONE, HE IS NOTHING SHORT OF GENIOUS,THANK GOD HE IS GODS GIFT TO BASS PLAYING/SINGING BACK UP IN VH, VH WOULD NOT BE THE GROUP IT IS TODAY IF NOT FOR WOLFGANG VAN HALENS GRAND ROLE.

AT THE ENTRANCE THEN…..DAVE IS STILL WELL OFF…..HE JUST BECAME A PARAMEDIC BECAUSE HE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO,HE DID IT ON A WHIM NOT BECAUSE HE HAD TO.WOLFIE IS A TALENTED PLAYER ON BOTH BASS AND GUITAR AS WELL AS IN THE RECORDING STUDIO.

Did you read where Dave said he wouldn’t sing with Sammy at the RRHOF.

Thats because Roth can’t sing. When they recorded those old VH albums, ROth had to resing everything line for line.

weeop

How can you say ANYTHING about Wolfboy. No one has heard him yet.Being a great musician has nothing to do with genes. He is being handed a spot on the tour because Daddy says so. He should, deservedly so,get NO respect from the fans.Mike is the original bassist… period.

Daves doing the reunion tour because he NEEDS THE MONEY. Van Halen has mentioned many times that they signed the worst contract in Warner history. Thanks Mo. Then , when everything was renogitiated, Dave had to sue (late 90’s) because he was(hmmm, absentmindedly ?!?!?) Left out of the renogiation on the old stuff.Thinking Eddie isn’t in it for the money as well is just being naive.

Dave is embarassing as a solo artist. He couldn’t keep himself on a label. You want to look at talent, Sting, although not my particular taste, is a credible artist. Dave does country (WHAT ?) TRIBUTE Van Halens albums. Dave was in Van Halen. Why is he doing a TRIBUTE album to Van Halen. Go look at that UTUBE country songs. That is the new, allways Goofy, David Weave Roth.

I saw the Sam and Dave “Sans Halen” tour and WANTED Dave to kick ass. It was goofy. It was embarrassing.I felt cheated.

So, people say, “Well, Mike plays with Sammy”. So did Dave ? Theres no excuse.

And now the tours Kaput.

In reality, it’s a shame this show is 10 years too late. It would have really rocked out back then.

I saw the 2004 show. Eddie was a mess. I was at the first show, Newark show, and Chicago.

I have become more of a Sammy fan because Sammy has allways seemed to put the fans first. He seems to care as well as the fact that he can sing.

I used to really care about this band. I can not pay to see shows anymore that are subpar with an acheing feeling that it somehow has become Kiss.

And then, after 30 years, they, the Van Halens Brothers, have Mike sign over his band rights, make him take huge paycuts and then humiliate his role by having a 15 year old kid step in.

No more. Clean up Ed. More than just your drug habits

You know what Eddies is going to say after his 10 year drunk ?

I hired David Lee WHO BACK ?!?!?!?

Eddie was painting guitars in his garage, Playing them on tour, then selling them on ebay.Why rip off the fans like that ! Because they will pay ?

Ozzfest is free. That is a phenomonal statement

When I read “WOLFIE IS A TALENTED PLAYER ON BOTH BASS AND GUITAR AS WELL AS IN THE RECORDING STUDIO. ”

I must say, who would know that . It must be somebody posting that crap from the Van Halen camp.It can’t be a real fan.Besides I heard Wolfie plays Bass and Drums.

Wolfie, time for bed. Uncle Mike needs his bass Guitar back

Wolfgang VanHalen

The talent has to be in the genes.I’d love to see him play.

I bet he is amazing. Sure, i miss Anthony!! and wish Dave AND Ed would surprise us all. And if Ed is drinking or being a jerk; i am very let down. So let’s hope for a turnaround if that is even the truth. VH forever!

Comment- Why would Valerie let Ed take Wolfie on tour if any of that crap is true anyway? She probably wouldn’t..so yeah, rumors.

Rebecca – Austin

GREAT COMMENT REBECCA

Why IS Valerie allowing her son to tour with Van Halen ?

Roadies offer drugs and alcohol, Middleaged woman with huge cameltoe and god knows what diseases.

Add to that only being 15 years old, and well, your looking at the next Danny Bonnaducci.

Wow, Ed, mess up your kid, as well as your life AND a great band.

Wheres Valerie. No, wait a minute…Wheres DCFS ? This kids going to be a mess

I don’t understand your comment at all Rebecca. This board is not for naysayers, but true fans.

I say the true fans ARE the dissenters, not the lambs who just allow any old version of VH to appear on the scene.

I would say the greatest act of being a fan is to stand up and complain about the absurdity of all of these shenanigans and how they are ruining what was once a great band.

If people did not care, they would not be looking and adding their comments.When a person says the truth on here, everybody else wants to sugarcoat the obvious, that this has turned into a complete disaster.

I Have been very quiet on here lately, but no more.

I support the comments on here.I have been a fan since the early 80’s and can not tolerate what this band has turned into. A joke.

Thank god people are mouthing off about it.

Bring Mike back. No 15 year old kid (or anyone) should or can replace him.

I have been to many VH concerts. I will not attend any more. Period . My opinion, and I used to LOVE this band.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. H L Mencken

Don’t care what anyone here says, You all sound like a bunch of bitches wha wha wha! If VH comes back Im gonna see even if Im the only one there! Anyways if Eddie is in rehab and IF thats true then good for Eddie man, I can wait to see him next year when he gets his stuff in order and yeah I don’t think its the same without Mike either but lets see what the kids has got before all of the trash talk OH YEAH by the way most of you arn’t loyal, STAY AWAY!!!

What is a lyal fn. I also agree the loyal ones are the ones complaining.

Dude, does Eddie still paint curbs with the house numbers ? Eddie, go dry up, please. The only issues revolve around you.Alex is cool, As I have said before: Sammy and Michael are cool as hell.Dave is a time bomb waiting to explode, but hey, what else is new.Hopefully Dave will be cool if he realizes that schtick and goofy jokes don’t cut it anymore.Put em ALL together.

You know this guy can’t be a fan because he is so pro anything Eddie does. Probably is Eddies drug connection.

No Mike, No my Money.No Mo !

That noise in the background- the crickets chirping, must be the sound of VH reunion tour.

Oh, the band finally got together,after 8 more years they are finally playing, but the fans moved on……

Well if your SOOO into the family thing you Bell Head, you’d probably go if Valerie was singing, Buttwipe.

I can’t help if your mullett waited around living in your parents basementfor 20 plus years for both VH and Roth’s career to fall so low, that nothing else is a better career decision.

Face the facts. And why stick up for a 15 year old kid who Daddy is giving a job to. If you want the real reunion, you should scream for the return of Michael Anthony.

Be a real fan, not a lemming.

I love Van Halen more than any other Band in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize Van Halen perpetually.

Why ruin the good of the reunion tour with the bad of ousting Michael Anthony.

It seems that fans are begging to see Dave has been Roth sooo much, you would probably accept Eddies 15 year old son on bass.

Oh, um, it seems you already have.

Mike, We love you. Your a class act, and you have been great for the last 30 years of this band.

Eddie, go dry out.

WHAT I DO NOTICE IS THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF ANGER HERE. A LOT OF PEOPLE CARE.GET BACK WITH SAMMY AND MIKE. DAVE SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO.JUST MY OPINION.

REBECCA obviously is an idiot.
By saying guitar talent is in the genes, is like saying it’s a trait, like blue eyes or blond hair.
It takes practice. It takes time.
Just because Eddie shot some white paint out 15 years old, that does not mean he has painted a masterpiece.

How can we support this irrational behaviour.Why not hire everyone out in the band to other players, so you, the idiots ,can be satisfied with something you can call a reunion.Then your dumbass can pay a lot of money, get ripped off, and then be happy.Inthe Immortal words of Kurdt Cobain:I think your dumb

no need for obsenities firefly,
I dont have a mullet and probably younger than you and respect some of the things you say and your right, Val bertinelli, come on now! But your wrong about the pro Eddie thing, I would rather he went to rehab than go on tour personally, I respect all of the members of the band, yes would rather see mike in there (nobody can play or sing backup like mike!! So now it wolfgang, well everone’s a critic.. Ill still go NO, YOUR RIGHT ITS NOT THE SAME

Doesn’t Eddie look like Gollum.

Wolfgang is that nasty fat cruel hobbit Sam.

Dave looks like that balding Beach Boy, Mike Love. Those gay stripes don’t help.

Alex looks like Jeff Goldblume

Posted before as well

ludwig dude.I’m on fire

I think his problems are a lot deeper than rehab.

There is rumor going around that Ed has taken a turn for the worse.Apparently he is no longer in remission.They were trying to rush this short tour thinking he could make it through .He wanted to play with his son while he was still able.It returned fast and hard.Thats Why David Lee Roth commented about not knowing if the van halens were going to the RRHOF awards

I heard that too,
and lets hope thats not the case.
but if so , pray for all the best.

Why is it that everyone wants to discount genetics? We breed horses to be fast, cows to give milk or grow fat fast, pot to get you high or produce rope but we can’t selectively breed humans? Sorry to tell you guys this but we have produced a master race. 12% of America is black but 77% of the NBA is black. Can you say white men can’t jump? Wolfgang’s father is the Secretariat of the guitar world. Let’s just pray his father has passed on his most important asset… and I’m not talking about bathing in Smoking Loon.

There canceling because David Lee Roth is all pissed about the new bassist and Eddie and David are fighting

Dr Ralph is soooo way right.

Wolfgang is a chubby bad TV actor, just like dear old Mom.

He is now pretending to be a bass player for Van Halen.

Its one thing to Jump (Might aas well jump!), it’s quite another to learn music fundamentals, chords, scales, modes,keys,notes, etc.

THE SAD THING IS I SEE SO MANY – 1 IS WAY TOO MUCH- VAN HALEN FANS WILLING TO ACCEPT EDDIE VAN HALENS 15 YEAR OLD TEENAGED KID. ENOUGHS ENOUGH ALREADY. FANS ARE TIRED OF THESE GOOFBALL PAIRINGS.

You are living in the past. You think of the David Weave Roth in videos. Oh, How cool ?

Its not the same seeing Van Halen with Roth. Do you think by propping up that goofball your getting the real Van Halen. Oh, you would. A guy who can’t sing a note , can’t kick, can’t do anything. Maybe Roth in 1978 was , well, acceptable. Roth is now a bobbing head mess.Do you think magic is going to come from a washed up old singer. I saw Dave on the Sam and Dave tour. That Night he headlined. OUCH. I and half the stadium walked out. He was embarassing. Keep In MIND, I wanted to see Dave Kill.DAVE WAS SILLY ! He talked through the songs. He messed up the lyrics. He was off key. I was there !

Any reunion WITHOUT Michael Anthony will lose the Van halen “Feel”. The first notes you ever heard on a Van Halen Album is the Mikey Anthony bass notes for Running with the devil.allways remember that.

Listen, if your looking at an old VH album now, thats the best were ever gonna get. I can’t help if you can not face reality.

If you won’t turn your back on Roth, why would you turn your back on Mike.

No Mike-No show from a REAL fan

RIGHT ON

THIS REVOLVING DOOR POLICY OF BAND MEMBERS SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED.ED THINKS HE CAN DO ANYTHING AND THE WELL HEELED DOGS WILL OBEY. NOT ME, BROTHER.

Is the whole reunion just about Roth and Eddie ? Mike sang back up vocals. Mike played with the band up until now.Mike waited for Eddie for what amounts to 10 years doing nothing. The guy was super loyal.This guy bleeds honrability.

Most people do not know that to play the last tour, Ed made Mike sign away all his rights to VH, saying that was the last tour. Mike did it. he says he thought the band was finished, and he wanted to go out with VH. He said he did it for the fans. He took a huge paycut, and became a salaried employee.

Do we just want to see Roth rock again ? I am not sure about this one either.

No, if that was the case, go see Roth with a great guitarist like Vai. The only problem with that, nobody wants to work with Dave personally and professionally.Dave is really washed up.He couldn’t even tour. He was fired from his Vegas Lounge show act. There are so many tired performers in Vegas that have shows that last for 15-20 years.Dave lasted a few weeks.

So, you want to prop Ed up once more, grab Dave from the dumpster and it’s supposed to be pre 1984, and then get rid of an original member ?

I can’t buy this.

You shouldn’t either.

What should be a great time for Van Halen fans with the return of Dave, actually leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many, with the abrupt dismissal of the fan-favorite, and 30-year member Anthony. It seems the perfect reunion could have been a reality if petty differences were put aside. But it wouldn’t be Van Halen without a little controversy would it?

No matter how well the new band plays on their 40-show tour, there is no way to replace Mike’s stage presence, his attitude, his connection with the fans, or his incredible backing vocals, which are a signature part of the special Van Halen sound. Good luck to the guys in replicating all of that.

Tour dates have not been listed yet, nor is it known for sure if Van Halen will play at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 12. It is also not known whether Mike or Sammy Hagar will be at the event, although both have hinted that they plan to attend should there not be any animosity. Yeah someone tell Ed that.

Any tour billed as a Van Halen reunion certainly would not be an actual reunion without Michael Anthony on bass. If the band intends to keep any shred of credibility with the constant back-and-forths with singers, it would probably be wise for them to realize that Mike is an integral part of the band. If that needs to be explained to them, then it hardly seems worth it for VH fans to be that excited about something that isn’t really a Van Halen reunion.

This is the third time the band has tried to reform with David Lee Roth at the helm. There is of course the famous MTV Music Awards appearance and the failed reunion in 1996, which the band took a huge credibility hit from. The band tried again to get back with the singer in 2001, but those negotiations fell through as well. The band did reunite with Sammy Hagar in 2004 for a nationwide summer jaunt. But that tour ended on a sour note, and Sammy continues happily to tour with his band, with occassional guest appearances by Michael Anthony, billed as “The Other Half.”

EVH, I’d like to be the next Van Halen front man please…Or I can learn how to play the bass before the summer. Thanks

You guys should change your name everytime you get new singers

Guys, we all know the articles and the interviews. nothing is going to pull this together with out the right mix. this teasing and flaunting crap and then soap opera-etique attitude since 1996 (11yrs now) is a rock’n roll disgrace. none of witch has seen the light of day since john lennon and yoko ono flaunted there crap against the greatest rock band in history, the beatles. and you know what came of it, want more? just stay tuned..

Such hatred! Sorry, not used to hearing such trash about EVH. I was only trying to support the tour. Sure i want to see the original 4. I have been waiting a long time. I will try to use an open mind when viewing some comments. However, some seem infantile and unintelligible to me. But i see your point and will try not to rock out too much in the front row when i see ED and Wolife or Ed and Anthony.

Peace

Truth is

I wanted to see them 10 years ago.

I’d like to see Wolfie come on stage sure..not as a replacement. Of course!!!!! And yeah, I have been dissapointed in ED. SOME.That’s the truth. So yeah, I understand. But some people are mean. That’s all i have to say.

See you there i hope! PEACE

Peace

And No-

You can’t replace Michael Anthony.

I know this.

Bought the 1st VH Album back in the day.

After the last reunion attempts, who REALLY thought this was going to happen? The initial reunion news sounded good to me, but I remained sceptical.

van halen is over 1978-2007 sad i know but really who cares

Dude wth Richard ur gay … VAN HALEN MUST GO ON TOUR ITS MY LIFE DREAM!!

Van Halen III failed because there were no Micheal Anthony Backup vocals (Eddie thought he was the Van Halen sound). This attempt will fail or has failed for the same reason. When will Eddie learn!!! And when will we learn!!! The idea of either Sammy or David Lee works. You want a clean hard Van Halen, get Sammy. You want a sloppy hard Van Halen, get David Lee. Either way, without Micheal’s backup vocals, neither Sammy or David Lee will work. Eddie, for us the fans who make you money, get Micheal back. Tell Wolfgang that you’ll see him at the house.

I hate to state the obvious here.
something we all are not wanting to admit. But what is happening to EVH and as well as Van Halen, what is tearing up the band and Eddie is his genius, just like all the ones before him. The yall are dead, and what seems to be the rule with rock and roll geniuses, the die dreadful deaths, or commit suicide. If he doesnt get strAIGHT, WE’LL LOSE HIM TOO.. It is reported before, that they have trouble coping, and later have big unstoppible egos. That Drives everyone away, and soon they are gone.
Get straight Eddie, or this will happen to you.
And to the person who was saying Dave was a messed up over the hill,singer. Yes we all know. He got kicked from this band, then later couldnt keep a solo band together, and much less a fan base.
Buy from what Ive see so far, since he has been a EMT, it appears that hes grown up alot. (But time will tell)
As far as Mike goes, I do believe he’s doing right ,right now, not wanting to be apart of this fucked up mess. And is doing what he loves, playing and rocking out live with Sammy.Can you really blame him? If and when Eddie does get well, then it will be time to get those four back. I have nothing against Wolfie wanting to play with Eddie. If you were handed that gift, what would you do in his place? Turn it down? HEll no!!! You all would jump at that, well he did too, so lay off him. He’s not the problem.

You all know Edward’s health isn’t very good! I don’t think he’s in a perfect mental state. I believe he’s taking this situation all very personally. Sammy loves the VH brothers, but he’s got to make a living, and so does Michael. Ed, Al, Dave, Mike, and Sammy better be at the Rock & Roll ceremony together and celebrate the history of Van Halen. They all deserve it!! Even if they never tour or make albums, it’s ok! I still got my VH albums. I personnally wouldn’t care if I ever saw the original line up again. Sammy is by far a superior performer than Dave. Dave only sounded good in the studio. Ed, please let the personal stuff go!! And at least stand together for your induction into the RRHOF!!

LR: Do you think you really are so established now that the audience will stick with you?

DLR: it’s difficult to tell. Because I know what I do when I like a band or I’m interested in an artist and listen to the record and I really enjoy it and I go and see the show and I love it, and I think about it all the time and every time the record comes on the radio I think about the way they looked on stage and when they’re on a cover of a magazine I buy the magazine and I take it home and read it and that’s great and then they come out with a mediocre album and I say “The hell with you.”

LR: When was the last time that you felt that way with a band?

DLR: With the Stones. I vacillate depending on the artist. If they have a good live show I will always to see the live show, but as for buying the record just because it’s so-and-so, forget it.

LR: So you’re very conscious that the audience is fickle and that you could lose them…

DLR: Absolutely, that’s why I feel no responsibility whatsoever to my fans.

LR: What???

DLR: Why should they feel any towards me? If I make a bum record, if I put out a lousy song, how can I possibly expect them to buy it?

LR: Are your song lyrics always about you?

DLR: Absolutely. All the songs are merely chapters in the world according to Dave. Dave as Dave sees it, Dave as others see Dave, what happened to Dave last night and how Dave feels this morning. You can give them titles, and seemingly change the scenario and the characters, but I don’t even have to look back in retrospect about it – I know it’s all about me and the people that are around me.

LR: How much time do you spend writing the lyrics?

DLR: I write them during the commercials. It took much longer this year, because I was watching cable.

LR: Don’t you think that shows a certain contempt for your audience?

DLR: Not at all, not at all.

frankly dont care about being called gay i am only 16 but my fave bands r all from the 80’s i especcially like led zeppelin def leppard iron maiden u know bands like that eddie van halen will always be the reason why i took up guitar but sumhow i dont think van halen is even gonna survive anymore ive lost all faith in van halen their the band that got me into rock aswell but i think its over for them lets face it like every other gud band that was at the top off its game in the 80’s van halen are washed up has beens the three things that destroyed good rock nirvana and all the bands becoming sell outs and mtv

391 comments and counting! This motherfucker is alive. One day at a time, Dr. Ralph IS soooo way right. The Wolfmeister grew up in a damn studio tripping over guitars (probably in more ways than one). His dad, uncle, grandad and probably most of the people he has associated with in his life are all professional musicians! Do you really think the boy hasn’t been playing his entire life? Some things just can’t be taught, like the ability to jump or play eruption/spanish fly/tora!tora!tora!/romeo’s delight etc…..

on march 12 the band will show with the new lineup! contracts will be signed and concert dates to follow i saw dave last summer in detroit and he f******jammed for 2hrs!!! the boys still got time have faith.

no V.H dont SUCK YOU DO GOOD

rock n roll === VH with Roth. GET THIS MOTHER FUCKER ROCKEN! IM TURNING 40 how long do we have to wait for some REEEEEEAAALLLLLLLL VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

i say you need to take your foot out of you ass, and snap to the day’s when you and “sammy” would kiss in the mouth because ya where best of friend’s so snap the fuck out of it, because when i will see you in video’s i would cry cause you gay’s are just like me and my brother, cause you could see in the vedio’s that you wher “SENSERED”so cut the bullshit a fuck “David” and bring back “SAMMY”…love you 5150 from san anto aka big chico

van halen is over

ok slash is not better at guitar than eddie van halen eddie van halen is rock guitar god always has been always will be

Folks, as much as it hurts me to say it, WE’VE BEEN HAD.

Guys, FAce it VH is done. Eddie is whacked out be it the cancer or the booze, These tours have all had issues, roth reunions and Hager alike. The only constant in all of these situations is Eddie himself. Put n the first album and rememebr the good times These is no future

WELL i WENT TO vhnd LAST NIGHT.
AND THEY HAVE LEARNED THAT THE WHOLD BAND WILL BE AT THE RRHF.
AND THEY ALSO HAVE AN INTERVEIW WITH BOTH EDDIE AND ALEX ON THERE.
FROM WHAT THEY SAY THE TOUR IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THAT THEY HAVE NEW MATERIAL FOR A COUPLE OF NEW ALBUMS,READY TO GO. SO, WE’LL HAVE TO SEE WHATS UP. IT SURE SOUNDS GOOD.

Thanks Headbanger..

someone else who VH deserves as a fan. There aren’t many here!!

Let’s go rock out at VH guys!

EVH rules the planet

I know when Ed lies. It begins when he moves his lips. I wouldn’t believe a word about “new” material and records in the works. And, in the event he does have new material, it would likely be as sucky as what he delivered with VHIII. Ed is washed up.

Remeber when the Album “Van Halen”? I hope if the make new songs they’ll be like those with it’s mostly guitar.Keyboards are alright for jump but thats all

Yeah what’s up with Slash? It’s like he busted this huge nut on “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and then could never get it up again… hey eddie dude pass the viagra! Oh that’s right your manager/girlfriend/publicist is a pornstar. You don’t need no damn viagra!

Axl Rose’s available, & Eddie needs a singer. Match made in heaven, similar personalities!

they’ll be ok at the rrhof. there all gonna be there now sitting at there respective tables. eddies family, sammys, roths, and mikes. being an inducted band it is not unusual to let another band/artist honor you. sometimes later in the evening everybody might end up on stage together thats something that hasnt been unheard of before at the hall of fame. just a cheesy night with no obligations to carry anything fourth. cause i honestly dont believe eddie has it in him anymore (the passion) maybe just for his son and thats about it.

this is for evh, in 2004 i had bought 5 star packgaes to see you in three diffrent states which cost me a fortune but i felt it was worth it until i asked eddie for a kiss and he replyed no. i explained to him i had open heart surgery in 2003of jan. which is my birthday month too. and iwas told by three diffrent doctors i won’t live past 50. two heart valves in my heart burst and now there are two artifical ones there and leaking. the doctors even of the best of them can’t save me i was told. i died 7 times on the table during my surgery and somehow i made it through. now i have to use oxgen to breath for me due to having pulmanry heart pressure and which got worse and now i need to use a walker. i was in a car accident and had a heart attack which caused the accident. a i wittness saw the accident and told me later that the car spun and round twice and flipped over twice and landed upside down now this really took a toll on my heart and lungs and now other problems are starting to accure. my point is that eddie van halen was told all this and i was let down. i’ve been a fan of eddies since i was 16. now i am 45. eddie get this message and please respond back to me. us the postal service to respond sometimes my e-mail doesn’t work. my address 819 anderson hill road. candor , ny 13743. please prove to everybody you have a big heart and feelings for the dying. my last dying wish was to spend a few days and possibly a bass guitar with your authograph. this would make me a extremly happy woman that will die with a smile. belive me it is very hard to take what i have been through and stil be here. i have not funds to travel to see you because my cost for my surgery was 250,000 and i had no health insurance and i still paying for prescriptions until i die. i had to sell my house in long island ny to pay my hospital bill and move upstate n.y. please eddie show the world you still have care for all your fans. this is a small price to pay for life. for life is priceless. just stand in my shoes one day and you shall see what it feels like being told your going to die at my present age. i hate taking 25 pills a day just to keep me alive just for example morphin, vallium and many more . if it was up to me i would throw them all away and leave this earth . i belevie in god and my time is short. i know god will be coming to take me soon. so once again respond asap and please don’t disappoint me and the rest of the world of fans. i have proof of this and it’s not a hoax. trust me who would be sick enough to make up a story like that.i have the proof and belevie me the pain i deal with everyday of my life along with the ticking noise in my head from the heart valves and i could list a mile long but i’ve come to the end of this narrow life road. hope to hear from you soon. still luv you eddie van halen.xxxxooo. i pray you will not let me down again. broken hearted toula.

thinking about how VH would sound WO serious backing vocals and bass played by a kid who’s probably never gigged like this in his life makes it hard to imagine VH in concert as I remember them.

The common denominator here is clearly Eddie. The guy is at best an ego maniac and at worst quite literally insane. I also love the idea of putting a 15-y.o. boy on tour with drugs, booze, and a million chicks who want to statutory rape him every night. Oh and can they still play worth a damn…does DLR still have the pipes?? Doubtful. And I am not on my knees sucking M. Anthony but…he IS the key background vocalist to ALL of their hits so without him….the only screw that’s going to fall out around here is you, Eddie.

So what’s the story? Get over the petty BS and give the fans what they want, if that is you saying that Mr Ed, remember who got you where you are today, Anyways, it’s Dave we want to see!! HA! Love ya Diamond Dave!!!!

Tough story there Toula, but don’t you think that Eddie hears those kind of stories 24/7? I could be wrong but you sound kind of obsessed with the guy, I’m sure the guy has compassion for dying people, he wouldn’t be a human being if he didn’t. I’m sure there was a reason he didn’t do what you wanted him to do. Remember, he goes all over the world and hears all kinds of reasons as to why you or someone else should have special treatment. I know, your situation sucks terribly but he has to be careful with whom he deals with, especially people he does not know. Remember John Lennon? This is a crazy world and I don’t blame him. Maybe next time try to work with his management and try to get something going that way, good luck, Muscles!!

Well,is it on or is it off? I need to know, I’ve got alot of planning to do, gotta make the salad for the boys in the “crew”. When do the rehearsals start? When is the 1st date? Is there an opening act? I need to know this stuff, alot depends on all this man! I got to make the salad, make the salad. I haven’t taken my meds today either. Hey Van Halen, please get back together so I can be “normal” again. Signed, J “PS” M.

Why did you guys take my comment down?I was just trying to help the gal.

I know why they are not going to go on a tour right now. They are going to wait until The Police popularity goes down, their announcement took all the steam out of VH’s. I think they are waiting for the police to get busted, get sent up the river, go to the joint, get put in solitary.

dave is the great old guy, but i think he might just be gay.

I CAN,T TAKE THIS ANYMORE.WITHOUT DAVE IT WILL NEVER BE VAN HALEN AGAIN.DROP THE EGO,S AND LETS ALL HAVE FUN.ED,S DRINKING HAS KILLED THIS BAND.DRINKING IS GREAT BUT HOW MANY YEARS CAN YOU GO BEFORE YOU HIT THE WALL?

ed’s an old nuerotic coot from the sound of things and peoples opinions. im sure a lot has gone to his head ego wise. your allowed some but too much breeds arrogance. mix in alcohol for one hell of a ride! hide out on your mansion/recording studio compound and just have cigarettes/booze “smoking loon wine” and food brought in 24/7 along with a little lady luck (hide the press from the prosti’s!) and ego polishing and lifes a breeze and your a god!

a vh tour with dave would be awesome but these rich sobs dont care about us the fans take theyre fame and cash then theyre will be a tour of great proportions i aint waiting much longer grow up guys

I heard through a very reliable source that the tour will happen, and the reason for the shut down is because Roth has refused to tour with Eddie unless he goes to rehab to get his alcohol problem under control.

y cant they both just suck it up for the fans, AND PLAY THE CONCERT.

Because they would need to get lawyers involved. a ton of paper signing, insurance and contracts would have to be written up ect.. it costs too much money to be vague with each other, its either there going to do it (and eddie will know for damn sure if he will or not) or its just not gonna happen. you cant sneeze in this industry with out it costing somebody (namely you if your in van halen) a lot of money.

It’s gonna happen… I smell something and it ain’t teen spirit! Eddie and Dave can’t drop the ball on this one or they both know it’s over. From the size of this never ending blog we all need what no one else can give us. We were too young for the Beatles and Stones, we had AC/DC, Aerosmith, Nugent and Kiss and then we had real Rock and Roll… sounds never before heard… guitarists crying and little girls wetting their panties. We had that once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of something new. The insanity of a guitarist who broke all the rules. Whammy bar dives, harmonics, hammer ons, pull offs, playing with the volume knob on the Frankenstrat with his right hand while going crazy with his left… It was like listening to Sgt. Pepper the first time with headphones and a hit of blotter. You stood up and said what the hell is going on here??? Now give me some more… please…

Whoever keeps crying about Sammy (noballs) Hagar being the best frontman needs to check their data. Van Halen is one of only five artists to ever sell more than 10,000,000 copys of two separate albums. VH1 and 1984. Diamond status is what the Recording Industry Association of America calls it. Now you know why they call him Diamond Dave. Hell Van Halen is number nineteen on the alltime greatest selling bands list with 56,500,000 sold. VH, VH2, and 1984 account for half of those alone… get your facts right before you get on the web motherfuckers…

I know there are many bigger, more important, or more profound issues that might come to mind when starting a sentence this way, but one of my biggest regrets in life is not having ever seen the original line-up of Van Halen in concert. No joke. That may seem quite petty to some, but I really think I missed out on something special. I mean, I’ve seen Roth solo twice, and Van Halen with that little guy singing once, but it just wasn’t the same. I know Michael Anthony wasn’t going to be on board for this one, but to see and hear ‘the guitar’ and ‘the voice’ back together would have been great. I thought I finally would have gotten a monkey off my back! Guess not, for now.

Last year my wife took me to see Motley Crue for the first time as my Valentine’s day gift. I really appreciated it, but just couldn’t help but think that 2006 was a far cry from 1986. Like the Crue, I know they’re far from their heyday, but I don’t think a VH show would leave me one bit unsettled. Again, monkey gone! Make it happen!!!!

it has to happen i mean it is goin to be the biggest tour of the summer. alot of fans will be disapointed if this tour doesnt happen. but i have faith

I thought atleast they would do a few dates before the EGO kicked in full force. I thought a reunion was when all members get togther? If They want wolfgang in also I suggest let him sit him in a few songs maybe. There would be nothing wrong with that. So lets do the tour so you can make your ego explode….ha…
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ROCKS ! ! ! PEACE…

dont know wot i was thinkin changed my mind about the whole thing van halen shud tour this year

I feel your pain Rob! I have been waiting to see DLR and EVH on stage together for 23 years!!!

Its not looking good now as of 3-7-07 sammy hagar has heard thru his managmnent that the brothers eddie and alex van halen will not be attending the rock and roll hall of fame ceremonys where they will be inducted along with the very attending david lee roth, michael anthony and sammy hagar. there you have it.

you know what? van halen is more david and sammy than the actual van halen’s. Regarldless of which singer you like more… And WOLFGANG CAN SURVIVE TOURING!! it’s alot easier than getting up early everyday for school and staying awake. He is YOUNG and is gonna be just having fun every night so whats the big fucking deal? Eddie’s dad would be dissapointed and his mom would call him a nobody-nut, just like he said she used to say in a vh documentary. If eddie wants to not shame his international fan-base for all of history and kill his legacy, he needs to pick up his damn guitar and wait to bitch about shit until the show is over. He has been my idol, the reason i started playing guitar, and lead guitar of the most raw rock and roll band of all time, but i am actually losing my respect for him. He needs to build a franken-coffin, cause he is laying down and quitting…

If you didnt see VH by 1981,then you will never really see them.They were young,unspoiled,not to rich and hot as hell.You can never get that energy back .One of the best live bands of all time.

Let’s face the facts. Ed is the heart of VH. The mouth is either DLR or SH. History has shown that none of the mouths can stand alone against VH as a whole.
The bad thing is that, just like any other genius, Ed is a perfectionist. The hunt for perfect ion grows proportionally over the years the same way reputation does. This hunt leads to destruction. Add the booze addiction and there you have it. Ed’s judgment is blurred.
VH and DLR reunion cannot succeed because the “fun” factor is out of the scene….

just remember that ed is getting older and his playing style and ability will change along with it. i think too many people are still expecting something from eddie van halen and the band VH that they will not be able to fulfill. drugs, alcohol, lazyness it doesnt matter. they are not getting any younger and its not the 80’s anymore.

kevfee, you’re right but I think up until the 1984 tour they were a different animal. When Valerie and Ed hooked up the whole chemistry changed. Eddie wanted to play love songs and Dave still wanted to party like a big dog. This more than anything else ushered in the Hagar era with love walks in, if it’s love, blah blah blah… no more love em and leave em ala Jamies cryin’.

I graduated from high school with Vanhalen playing in my car on 8 track tapes and I really need to see a show. This better happen because I will spend what ever the cost would be to see a show that I had missed years ago. Valerie, who was one of my television loves better let Wolfgang at least try to play the shows. Anyways, this will kill me because I had tickets to see led Zepplin in Chicago and Jon Bonim and the show was cancelled.

I just read an article in the LA times Dave is not showing monday for the rock and roll hof induction. Dave says he will not watch velvet revolver perform Vh songs. So Sam and Mike will be there. Dave also says If Ed ever dries up they will be a stadium act. This is a mess next time im cali im going to ED’s I know where he lives and kick his ass and Alex’s too

here is a thought !!! if wolfgang
is such a great musician let him
take Ed’s place on guitar, let
Mike play the bass, let Dave belt
out the vocals, and finally if Alex would have enough backbone
to stand up for what is right, and tell Ed to get his ass some help, get on those drums and rock. I have been a VH fan since
VH I. However I now at at the point where I really don’t care
what the Van Halen brothers do. It seems to me that Dave is really trying to make this thing work, and the only thing that Eddie is doing is letting all the
true VH fans down !!!! AGAIN !!!

Why don’t they all just “build a bridge and get over it!”

Life’s to short for this shit to go on.

All Van Halen fans deserve better than this!

If it wasn’t for us fans, there would be no Van Halen.

Now we all can stop speculating, Eddie just entered rehab about an hour ago… get WELL ED

i was just looking on the van halen website and eddie says that he is checking into rehab. Man, i really hope that there is going to be a tour this summer lets hope that they work everything out and the band rocks out for all the fans

I’ve worshipped VAN HALEN since 1978, and this reunion should be ALEX, DAVE, EDDIE, and MIKE. No offense against Wolfgang, but I wanna see Mike up there with his Jack Daniels Bass, and he has a great voice and he is just a huge part of VAN HALEN, so without him it won’t be a complete reunion!

Come on Ed,dry the f— up will ya.You owe it to everyone who never got to see the original VH.I was fortunate enough to see VH 7 times from 78-84.Saw Van Hagar once and walked out halfway through.And leave Wolfie at home with the play station.Make it an all original VH reunion.Mike deserves to be there as much as anyone else.

EDDIE U FUCKIN ASSHOLE GET UR SON OFF THE STAGE THATS MIKES PLACE. GET UR SHIT TOGETHER AND MAKE THIS TOUR HAPPEN U OLD CRACK HEAD

This is getting worse than a soap opera, ive loved VH’s music throughout the years, but im tired of the bullshit drama, get real you guys!

Kip Winger should sing for VH.

sammy aiways gets it done with or without pschyo ed theres only one way to rock go sammy mike knows

you guys have heard about eddie going into rehab right? everythings off for awhile including the rrhof and touring.

i thought i could die now…ill just linger a slow death untill all is good with the original van halen

GET WELL
GET HEALTHY

THEN IF THERE IS A TOUR WHICH I KNOW YOU WANT

I WILL BE THERE

IF NOT, I WILL STILL BE HERE

take care of yourself. your true fans are supporting you.

MUCH LOVE AND SUPPORT

Oh, shawna…please post again. Where are you from? What do you know? Why do you want this as bad as I do…despite the fact that it could be a huge letdown?

23 years? How old are you and what kept you from seeing them first several times around?

my first concert ever… the woman and children tour…..awsome. seen them all after that…awsome. till the break up. i always idolized dave, but then thought he was the problem the way the brothers sounded. guess not. sorry dave. hope it all works out. were never to old to do what we love…

Outside of a Beatles reunion, which is no longer possible, the only reunion that would pack every stadium across the world would be a VanHalen reunion with Diamond Dave. No one else doing the vocals matters. With Dave, you sell out stadiums, with someone else, you sell out bars. Do the math.

It is about time Ed tries to clean up last time he went to rehab back in 87 he did not stay he left also that same year left an AA meeting stopped at a bar and got a DUI on his ninja.If all works out next summer they will tour hopefully Ed looks back and relizes what a douche he was and brings Mike back.

Give Wolfie some slack. In my humble opinion I think VH would still put on a great show. Let the kid rip Mean Street or Unchained to shut his critics up. Man, he was taught by the best. Can you imagine that!!?? Ed and Al’s dad always told them, age has nothing to do with rockin’, either you can play or you can get the hell out! Do you think Eddie may have instilled this in his son!?

**You guys are way off!! *** Van Halen III is the all time best album. Sammy and David could only hope to measure up to Cherone on vocals. It should be Cherone, Alex, Eddie and Michael at the Rock n Roll hall of fame!

I hope Ed gets better. It’s a shame that a guy with so much talent professionally can’t get his personal shit together. By the way people, VH doesn’t owe you anything. Were you not entertained?
It would be nice to see an orig lineup tour, but it probably won’t happen. Don’t sweat it! Enjoy the old shit and shut up!

Eddie & Alex need to pull their heads out of their ass and bring back Michael. Wolfgang should start his own band and not ride on the coat tails of drunken daddy. Eddies a train wreck !!!!!

Travis, I’m glad you glad you like VH III and Cherone is a great singer but common man, his voice was just a little to crisp for the raspy rippen’ rock sound Van Halen had with Sammy and David….do you agree? Cherone sounded great with Extreme’s style I’ll admit. If they could do a time line of VH in the Hall of Fame , David AND Sammy should be in there with VH. Of course with Alex too. I’m rambling..

I meant Micheal too..sorry.

Just a thought but who gives a shit? Van Halen was fun when we were kids but we grew up and they got old. It’s time for the looseers who still think these dinosaurs are any good to listen to some new stuff. Move on for Christ sake!

Did you reaaly think there would be a tour. Those VH brothers are fucked up and can’t get along with anyone. There old news anyway.

I wonder who finally was able to convince him into getting help. I have a feeling Dave and Ed’s girlfriend had something to do with it. Because no one will promoter will touch them now not until he can play 2004 was the worst I ever heard him play and he was drinking in past. We need to see them play together again with Mike.

i thought i had heard it all, and in here i guess i have, i’ve heard evrything from eddie is a saint to eddie is washed up. it’s no wonder they are hesitant to get on the road again,nobody really seems to care anyways.and apparently no one in here knows anything about the music business.blame eddie or alex or sammy or dave doesnt matter, record execs dont care unless it makes money….and if theres a way to make a dime on all of this you can bet they will. and no matter how much we the fans love the artist, wether it be van halen poison rush or culture club, we dont determine who stays and who goes, only how we remember them and we the fans give them the respect that they get, all the big record companys only love them while they are hot and selling.but when they fade to new fads or new acts like rap or the seattle music and grunge whatever you want to call it, thats when a true fan shows his true colors, not take every chance to take pot shots at eddie when half of you dont even know what the hell is really going on, just like me. i love van halen. may not agree with the lineups but i still love em, eddie goes to rehab and you like i should do is support him if you are a true fan. if your not be one for whomever you like. dont waste your time trying to take down someone who is unfortunatly already down right now,, eddie if you ever see this do what you do best. rock your balls off and have fun. thats all you owe anyone. if your having fun a true van halen fan will be having fun as well…we as fans need to understand reuniting a band isnt just calling the old lineup and saying lets meet in the garage where it all started. it’s all political now and everybody feels they have to get their piece. the hall of fame show is the only place where they can just jam and not have to have everyones seal of approval, cause that night my friends is all about them and they deserve it. all of them…if you dont like eddie than fine but dont try and take him down for what he has accomplished, look at any top 10 guitar list of all time,and in that top ten time in and time out you will see eddie van halen.wether your a metalhead or or your into britney spears. if you are a guitar player you have been influenced by eddies style, rock music has eddies influence all over it, and thats what legends do they inspire…

rock on eddie
you are a legend.

Wow is that guy travis half retarted? Gary Cherone? Worst stuff VH ever put out.

I was so physched to get the chance to see David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen together again, it just couldn’t get any better than that. Sure hope they change there mind and there is a tour.
I think Wolfgang is probably a huge talent and should be given a chance to jam with his father. Can’t go wrong with DLR and EVH together again!!!!

I don’t care what you all say. I am going to keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully when all is said and done it will be Dave, Ed, Alex and Mike on stage, rocking all their fans!!

Travis you belong in rehab with Eddie.

Lew, man get some prozac. I guess you don’t celebrate Christmas anymore either. Common man, turn on some Unchained and tell ME you don’t have the urge to head bang! If you still don’t rock out, I know you need a check up from the neck up!!!

I’m a pro player who was very influenced, inspired, and motivated by Eddie. My thoughts and prayers are with he and his family. Get well Ed… there’s still plenty of time to show these wanna bees how it’s done.

damn i was lookin forward to that tour…

Come on people. This is not the first time Eddie has been in rehab. He’ll get it together and will be back with Roth. I bet that is what happens.

This forum is a mess and an Insult to one of the hardest working acts in the music buissness. The point Now should be That the fans realize How ill Ed is and wish him well. Why are people surprised by the decisions to tour with a fifteen yr old and Bring back a proven loser in DLR. Alcohol and Drugs are known to cloud the decisions that users make. The point is Eddie is Not thinking clearly, He is a sick guy who needs friends and family to intervene and support him so we don’t lose him. So he is trying to Will back the success he remembers in the haydays, anybody would. Prolonged abuse has made Ed dilusional and he is battling his own genious, besides alcoholism. The band peaked with Sammy as it should have. Hopefully, eddie will sustain his sobriety if he gets it. He is only a Human, besides having Guitar Prowess. I love that Guy, the real Eddie, I just hope we are all Lucky enouph to see him Do what he does Best. Eddie is a musical Genius, I have never known any musician with his level of talent whom has not have problems. That being said, I love Eddie and wish him a happy and long Life,. Thanks to Eddie and all of the the original group for some of the best kick ass rock and roll ever. I never Pray, But I am praying Now For Eddie and all of His talented bandmates. I really don’t care if the band plays ever again. I just cant Imagine losing another Rock Icon. Eddie get well soon, all the true fans miss you and don’t need to write negative crap to enetrtain themselves. deepr

Ok, I lied, my middle name is Paul, thats what he liked to call me. Van Halen, hmmmm….god bless Eddie and his trials…thats why there are MP3’s,CD’s, cassettes, and 8 tracks. What ever transpires, that was who they were, it may be a different sound, a trip down memory lane, but if you in any way think people are going to instantly start wearing bandanas again you are dellusional. Respect an era when it has past, Eddie, enjoy yourself, whether that be music or fishing, just have a good life, you have produced history, something few can say, history rarely repeats, we should all respect where it rests in the books.

And Eddie, not that you’ll be reading this, but you know DLR and the way he really was, I have a lot of respect for you never using those things against him publically….in that, and what few know, you were the bigger person in that time. Get it people “Van Halen”–the brothers say who stays and who goes, not the the rest, its their business, not ours.

Important to note: Notice I did not use Sammy’s name in the same sentence as “Van Halen”. He has no right. His life would have ended as the pathtic putz55 if it wasn’t for eddie. Sammy, Eddie saved your career, have a little f****ng humility. I know you personally as well and, well, you are and egotisical pr**k who rode on the coattails of a true legend. Whoooo good for you, you own a bar in Mexico, mr. big time making half ass appearences on half baked Rocker Stations that no one listens to anymore. Van Halen was a “group”. The Grateful Dead never tried to “get another singer”–not that I am a big dead fan or anything, I am not, but they had the respect and dignity to let the sun set. After the original VH, it was just another group….never did Post VH capture the essence of the original vibe(guess I am giving DLR a little credit here, but he’s still a twit”. Very few of us have the right to say we have ever been truly “the best” at anything. Eddie, you earned that. Give back to us what you can, but remember to keep some for yourself.

OK, I’ve gotta say something here. Ed happens to be a friend of mine and I’m SO happy that he has decided to get clean for good. He is playing better than ever and Wolfie is a phenomenal bass player (and drummer!) AND the sweetest kid I know next to my own son. People need to withhold judgement until they hear the Van Halen family play together. It’s the way it was meant to be and I, for one, can’t wait for the tour which WILL happen!

How many of you remember when they played back yard parties…

Minimom you rock!!
love your positive outlook, I cant wait to see the VH family play as well. Mike was a great bass player and backing vocalist in the band and is original as they come, but like Ed said “he plays in another band now and you can’t be in two bands”. Bring on wolfie!!

How blind do you have to be to see that Eddie is the reason Van Halen broke up the first time and second time. As far as Roth is concerned anyone who has heard him lately or saw him on the Hagar/Roth tour together realizes its not 1982 anymore and spandex is out alond with his hair. He was horrible 4 years ago on that tour and it would be pathetic to see a guy try to do a karate kick who can’t lift his leg above his stomache. As far as Kracker is concerned Hagar is the only one left with a career. You might think Van Halen saved his career I see it the other way around. Van halen reinvented themselves with his writing and BTW never had a #1 album til 5150 and then had 4 in a row..Nothing the OLD Van Halen did. Dont get me wrong those albums were great and I love the music although I think Diamond dave is a ridiculous Vegas act these days. Noone is cooler than Michael Anthony in the group and who does he hang with these days? Sammy and Michael are true rockers moving forward with their careers not stuck in the past. So for Kracker to say Sammy’s career was over without Van Halen should realize Gary Cherone would of gotten the call many years earlier and its Eddies career which woulda ended not Sammy’s……..

p.s. anyone who thinks the reason eddie didn’t ask Michael to do the tour because he was “in another band” is ridiculous. He wasn’t in another band in 2004 when Eddie didn’t want Michael for that tour either. But sammy wouldn’t do it without Michael. As Sammy said even then “how do you do a reunion tour without the original members?”..For some reason people want to keep makeing excuses for Eddie’s bad behavior towards his bandmates and his decisions. Well hope he gets better drys out and wakes up and realizes as great as he is he wouldn’t of done it alone. Without a great front man you don’t sell 50 millin albums. Roth WAS great..Sammy and Michael ARE great…

r/r hall of fame show was a mess for V.H No band even comes close!! not EVEN close!! Edward get your shit together.plug in that damn gutiar and REDEEM your self don’t go out like this. listen to wolfie he is the one nudging you to do another tour. i’am saying a prayer for ya love, mary

in time

get it together V.H. R/R hall of fame show was a mess.NO ONE can even come close!! if that was the best they had…Edward get your shit to a happy place plug in that damn gutiar and REDEEM yourself. after what we watched tonite don’t go out like that. praying for you mary

There are two reason why this didn’t happen. One, Ed has some major personal issues, and I hope he wins his battle against those demons.

Two, this band is not marketable anymore. They were going to tour with no new music, and the band would have been going on tour with about two months worth of pratice.

If a promoter was to touch this, they would only be holding out on the loyal fans that are in their 40’s and 50’s to shell out big bucks to see a two hour show.

They also know how Dave is, like him or not, he has an ego the size of a stadium, and he’s proven he can’t get along with anyone. It would be a NASCAR wreck waiting to happen.

In addition, Dave has no new material, expect for some lame Van Halen material/Bluegrass CD that was a joke.

In all respect to the kid, it would be a big gamble to promote a band with a 16 year old bass player.

I don’t like to rain on your parade, but don’t hold your breath, a Van Halen tour with these four, and no new material just won’t happen.

So, if they are old news or washed up, why are you guys on this forum hitting that keyboard with a fury? LOL

Legendary Van Halen doesn’t get touched by anyone………..

I was very upset last night watching the rock-n-roll hall-o-shame inductions. I only watched for van halen and I didn’t know Eddie, Alex and Dave weren’t going to be there. I understand why Eddie wasn’t there, but for Dave and Alex not to show up was a shame. I am so bummed out about what’s going on with these guys.
I hate to say it but Rock-n-Roll is dying out!!!!!

To EDDIE,DAVE,MIKE AND ALEX,
PLEASE!!! put the past behind you and get this tour back on track,when i was growing up with you listening to that GREAT!!sound of VAN HALEN Iwas crushed when you broke up, i though sammy was better by himself than with van halen, dave your the best ,you guy’s can do ,look at the problems that def leppard had that band i love and they have true loyalty to there band and rock and roll,the stones are old but they are still together and still rock.PLEASE get the tour going and come to ST.LOUIS so i can see you guys have fun again,i have been waiting for a reuniun for ,well since you guy’s broke up, it won’t be right without mike but i do agree you should at least let wolfgang play a few songs with the band, maybe right a couple of new songs with him playing bass,van halen was the best rock group back then so please get back together and make the tour happen so you can be great again,eddie get well soon and hopefully i will see you guy’s soon in st.louis

Whew !!! That was a close one.

If other oldies bands can put the shit to one side for the money I have a suggestion Call it the SAM and DAVE tour. DLR, Sammy, Eddie ,Mike ,Alex and Wolfie all on the same stage do the damn show let the die-hard fans pay outrageous money for tickets .Start out with Chicago, NYC ,LA,Dallas 6 or so shows and see if it all holds together . Hopefully (And I mean it) those in the band with substance abuse problems get clean and find happiness the music isn`t important for some of these guys ..if it was they would find a way around the ego `s and get onto the buisness of making music AND money !

Hey Buzz,
Could you please explain why VH/DLR sold 37.7 million albums, when VH/SH only sold 18 million?
Both have the same amount of albums {5} not counting complilations of which, again more complilations {greatest hits albums} during the SH era.
Having #1 albums don’t mean diddly if the sales aren’t there.
Maybe #1 albums because of radio airplay, but certainly not from sales.
I’ve quoted U.S. sales figures here.

I’m so over the whole Van Halen thing. I have been a die-hard fan since way back when. But being inducted into the Hall of Fame is a moment of a lifetime. They couldn’t get their collective @#*% together for at least one night!? Can’t you do it for the ‘kids’? Quit taking everything for granted. Before you know it, it’ll be gone. Oh, wait it IS gone! I just can’t take it anymore. I’m done.
I’m not planning on dropping good money down on tickets to a half-baked wannabe revival. Good riddance and grow up!

Hey Dave, there’s always American Idol.

As far as Van Halen and the RRHOF,
Eddie had an excuse, Alex I guess didn’t want to go without his lil bro. Mike and Sam proved they are a class act. DLR no excuse, you need to grow up.

I’m still ticked. I looked forward to seeing the members of VH inducted into the RRHOF. The greatest/rock party band of all time and only two members show up! One of them is not a founding member and the other a founding member but kicked out of the band. At least those guys have some class! Only one member had any excuse at all for not showing up. The others just took a huge dump on their fans.

God! What a disappointing night. REM trying to upstage our Van Halen.

It’s all a conspiracy for REM to sublimate us to their their stupid lame Rock N’ Roll like music…

Long Live Van Halen!!!

The worst part of the evening was seeing VR screwup a VanHalen song. It was painful to watch and hear. I swear Slash was loaded as his playing sucked bigtime. I guess if I were in his place under those circumstances I’d get loaded too!

Eddie,

Come on baby, finish what ya started. . .

My prayers are with Eddie, during his time in rehab…..

Eddie, yo soy tu gran admirador, from PERU, en cada momento importante de mi vida, siempre estuvo embuelto por tu musica, Recuperate pronto, y vuelve.

VAN HALEN FOR EVER

Lets compare DLR to Sammy. In the early days, DLR was THE ultimate rocker. Every album up to Diver Down was solid GOLD baby. Then, Diver Down came out. Since that album, Dave has become a cartoon character. All he wants to do is “zappa zappa zoo zoo” and “scooby doo” when he sings. His “bop, zuzza zuzza bop, zidda bop” is soooooo old. Grow up. Then came Sammy. 5150 propelled VH to a whole new level of music. Sammy brought an aspect to Van Halen that the cartoon character DLR could never bring. Can you imagine DLR trying to sing Not Enough? I guess Eddie could play a banjo and have DLR put cimbals on his needs so he can ham bone!!!! Sammy IS Van Halen. I went to see VAN Haln on their most recent tour in Greensboro and Atlanta. In Atlanta, I had the seats inside the stage, about 2 feet from Michael. Sammy and Michael interacted withe crown, high fived uh, gave us their autographs, etc…. Eddie wouldnt even make eye contact with the audience, and NEVER acknowledged us. Alex was the same. Sammy and Michael gave made the show, at least they acknowledged their fans. I guess that is too much to ask from Eddie And Alex. Too bad the greatest guitarist who ever lived will be remembered for his pouting, not his music. I have been a DIEHARD LOYAL VH fan since 1980, but I must say, they have blown it.

Better enjoy the rockers while we gottum kids,cuz in ten years the RRHOF inductees will be 5 rap acts to maybe one “rock” act. Thanks to some moron who obviously hates rock and roll.

to iron man… Dave would not WANT to sing any of the sissified cheesepop van hagar represented. I guess you probably think Europe was better than Ratt…

The Dave vs. Sammy debate is just such a waste of time. Regardless of which era you like or maybe both it doesn’t change the fact that some VanHalen members don’t care about us fans at all! They’ve become spoiled rich, self-centered, immature babies. Perhaps they always were. I’m an naive idiot for letting that fact pass over me for so long. On the flip-side; I sure hope Ed feels better soon. I can’t imagine going through all he has so publicly.

to Hot Rockin:

Happy Trails, The Full Bug, Top Jimmy… if those aint cheesy, what is? Oh jimmy…..

By the way, RATT is way better than Europe.

Cheesy?? Look at DLR lyrics on Drop Dead Legs

Dig those moves, vam-pire
Set me loose, get it higher.
Throw my rope, loop-de-loop
Nice white teeth, betty boop.

He actually used “Betty boop” i n a song?????!!!!!!!
He should stick with his Scooby Dooby zabba zabba boo boo stuff, and let Sammy do the real singing.
Game, set, and match!

The RRHOF performance by Velvet Revolver- Wow. Could that have sucked any more? Musically a sound performance of Aint Talkin Bout Love, vocally…yikes!! Slash was ok. He could afford to be “ok” with a rythym guitarist, but that’s probably beside the point. As far as what they called Runaround, that was just awful. Sammy and Mikey sounded great despite the odd arrangement they had of Why Can’t This Be Love. Horns?!? Anyway… I just hope Eddie swims out of the bottle and we get SOMETHING we can call Van Halen again SOON!!!!

PS- Yes, I’m a Sammy fan, but I would MUCH rather have seen Diamond Dave up there instead of Weiland.

Edward just get back to good music & everything will be groovy. hit the studio w/ wolfie and “swing” praying for ya m.

I need to correct myself from below.
VH/DLR – 6 albums {No “Live” or “Hits”} = 37.7 million in sales.

VH/SH – 7 albums {1/”Live” & 2/”Hits”} = 18 million in sales.

U.S sales quoted here.

To “VanHagar for Life”,. Hey , I’m a huge VR fan but seriously, Slash’s opening of “Ain’t Talkin Bout Love” was so sloppy I was embarrased for him. The little kids in our neighborhood can do better! Scott has never sounded so bad. It didn’t work. God, I wish they had picked someone else to take the sting out of the evening. I’m not sure yet wether VH will ever regain their fan base now.

Sng lists? ok, let me XDe

Song lists? ok,ATOMIC PUNK,ON FIRE,SOMEBODY GET ME A DOCTOR,BOTTOMS UP,LIGHT UP THE SKY,EVERYBODY WANTS SOME,ROMEO DELIGHT,MEAN STREETS,SINNERS SWING,HEAR ABOUT IT LATER,UNCHAINED,HANG EM HIGH,GIRL GONE BAD.This is just a list of songs that completely kick van hagars ass.Lets be real,VH with Roth,is why VH got in the RRHOF.Lets put it this way.pretend VH never existed with Roth,and was an all new band in ‘86.Here is a list for you. A list of bands that van hagar would be on the same level with: GIUFFRIA,RICHARD MARX,HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS,HEART,BAD ENGLISH…UGHHH… Im making myself sick, but you get the idea.

Sonic Templar:

My original post said DLR WAS the man, until Diver Down came out. No doubt, the first 4 VH albums rocked hard!!!! No doubt. But now DLR is a cartoon character. He looks like the Crypt Keeper.
His solo career was a joke. Sammy is more mature, and a much better performer. DLR is to much a ham. So I choose Sammy over Hammy!

well Im sure if DLR could sell his soul to be forever frozen in 1981, he would do it in a second. Unfortunately, father time can turn out to be a nasty MF.Thats not a DLR problem,thats a harsh reality we ALL must face eventually.Now,where was all this fucking negativity when Kiss came back? Is Kiss something more special than classic VH? SHIT NO. Hell, in my mind, VH was everything Kiss never was and never would be.

To Jim in Monterey, CA-
Yeah, and the way he played it down the neck was just not correct. Eddie always (and so do I for that matter) plays it up in first postition. Oh well. As far as regaining the fanbase- I dunno. I know I’d buy a ticket. I just would. If Eddie says it’s a go, I’m going. No question. I’m an Eddie Van Halen fan. That’s why I try to stay out of the “who’s better than who” bullshit. Ultimately, I really don’t care. I know what speaks to me, and that’s it. Oh, and I definitely wasn’t ragging on VR, just that performance. Peace.

Ironman, I can`t believe any metal fan would ever put down KISS! You are fucking insane! KISS is the best and will continue to be. Van Halen isn`t as good as KISS because KISS wasn`t fucking dumb enough to get Sammy Hagar to sing and be drunk and stupid for them. You`re the only one who is fucking stupid enough to say that! VH should have kept David Lee Roth. Regis could`ve been they`re singer, he`s better than Sammy. KISS never made that big of a mistake. Fuck you!

Sammy vs. Dave? Totally different music when either men front VH. Dave w/ VH in the early days through 1984 was incredible. My highschool days were filled w/ music from VH 8 tracks and albumns! “Aint talkin bout love” is one of the best rock n roll songs, (just my opinion)

See ya! Cimm

Happy Birthday Wolfie!

Kid, you are gonna rock! Stay tough; these old metal heads are tough. EVH forever

Love ya, and have a good day. Stay good keep a smart head in the business cutie; you have talent.

Happy Birthday Wolfie!

Hey Ed, I hope you get well this time. Have strength in facing the demons. You can do it!

Hmm, just wondering about wolfgangs birthaday and where his dad ed took him to.

V.H. DONT’T EVER!!! I REPEAT DON’T EVER LET WEILAND DO THAT AGAIN TO A V.H.TUNE. WHAT A TOTAL MESS HE MADE HE LOOKED LIKE A COMPLETE FRICKIN” FAIRY UP THERE.I EVEN CAUGHT MYSELF LOOKING AWAY WONDERING WHAT THE HELL IS ED THINKING AT THIS MOMENT WATCHING THIS “FOOL” GET WELL ED WE NEED YOU BACK BAD!!!!

happy b-day wolfie!! just to let you all know am hoping & praying things work out with the entire band esp. eddie you still have a few things to teach that kid.dig deep eddie & get back to playing with wolfie.

To DEE140. What are u talking about? Show me were I put down
kiss!!!!! What are u reading????

nice language… by the way.

To VanHagar for Life, it’s OK if you want to rag on VR, LOL. I’m truly not into that sort of thing. They write some interesting material but I’m not a huge fan. Yes, Slash was playing that song in a strange place on the guitar though I suppose it could work. The tone is way off in that position however. Probably wouldn’t notice much on Slash’s gear though. Everyone always plays that on the first so I don’t know what he was thinking. Plus he was flubbing up right and left. I still say he had a few before he went out. Scott just sounded weird!
I never bother with these boards but VH was really important to my youth and music experience. Very disappointing over all that’s happened. I feel better now that I’ve vented, LOL. Yes, after all the cr@p I’ve spewed on this board I too would go to a VH show, sad huh? There aint no way I’d miss a chance to see Eddie for one possibly last time. I sure hope they get MA back in though.

just to comment on what some moron said about Van Halen being ALL that KISS could never be..Hey genius you know Gene Simmions discoverd VH right? VH was and still is a great band but their night and day. name one song from VH that everyone on the planet knows..come on come on…ok now name one person that dooesnt know ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE!! cant do it can you? I rest my case.

rest yor dick in yor mouf…if you think kiss was EVER as good as VH between 78 and 83 you should put down the crack pipe… and of course we all know demon gene popped up the dough for VH demos.That hardly translates that kiss was better than VH.

sheesh… this debate is really silly.Both Kiss and Dave era VH are two of the greatest bands of all time. In each bands prime, they could bring the rock. BIG TIME.Something sorely lacking with bands today.I would say to the clown who made a lame case, and i mean LAME, that somehow because VH has in later years made disasterous decisions.(Cherone,dropping the ball in ‘96,shitting on Mike)that this makes Kiss better.The Kiss family is not quite as joyful as some stupid asses might think.Lets put it this way,if it were the 1800’s, Ace and Peter would be picking the cotton for Gene and Paul’s Shirts.I’ll give you a better example.How bout last years VH-1 Rock Honors where Ace plays with the warm up band and when Kiss plays… NO ACE! what the hell? So in other words, after 30 years nobody is flawless,dick.

This is truly a strange debate indeed. Kiss vs. VH. Why bother? Another apples and oranges argument that sucks up space. On another more positive note; I hope Eddie gets well soon. I’m going to put some VH on right now and crank-it for the neighbors. Think I’ll fire up the geetar amp as well.

Oh well the CD’s are better

how in the world can you say kiss is better than van-halen i mean seriously what are you smoking and to the person who said to name 1 song by van-halen that everyone knows jump and another thing hagar isn’t that bad they did make runaround,poundcake,why can’t this be love etc. so cut the guy a break.

i like vh and kiss both been a fan for yrs but really getting in the r n r hall of fame nowdays is really no big deal ( like winning a grammy) music of this era pretty much sux and most of the new artists should of never made it out of the garage… ill take the hair bands anyday… but if vh and kiss were playing in the same vacinity the same nite.. id prolly go see kiss sorry truth

i like vh and kiss both been a fan for yrs but really getting in the r n r hall of fame nowdays is really no big deal ( like winning a grammy) music of this era pretty much sux and most of the new artists should of never made it out of the garage… ill take the hair bands anyday… but if vh and kiss were playing in the same vacinity the same nite.. id prolly go see kiss sorry truth

Speaking of the RRHOF, sammy couldnt be any more luckier hitching up with these guys and he’s not even in the band anymore! i know roth isnt either but he was a founding member after all. and sammy’s montrose may not have made it for long long time, if at all. talk about the best ride on coat tails anyone could have ever been on!

Ok, we are all human here, not to sound like a dork but come on. Are we all perfect? Ehmm, NOT! If some one is having problems shouldn’t we grant them some compassion and or support? After all we are the ones listening/paying for the music these guys put out. If you don’t like it don’t listen. First off Sammy never road on the coat tails of van halen to become a success. He was well into his own before van halen and is 100% all american rock and roll, the “red rocker” before and after VH. Hat’s off to you sammy, and to VH. My brothers and I are all musicians and grew up listening to Van Halen and Sammy Haggar before joining Van Halen. Of course the switch from lead vocalists was hard to cope with as was with every VH fan. People just don’t like change. But even with Sammy on vocals there was tremendous success and produced loads of great songs and albums. I doubt anyone posting here can say they have made one single hit song or record. That’s what it’s about in my oppinion, the music. Look, everyone of us has our own faults and demons to deal with in life. If eddie is having trouble and since every one posting here apperantly has some interest or liking to the band or memebers past or present then we should be supporting them not critical. All I am saying is I love the music VH has produced through the years. Yes, I admit I was agrivated by the loss of David as the lead vocalist “back in the day” but ya cant take it out on the guy that replaced him just because he wasn’t the original. Some times people just don’t get along for what ever reasons and need to make changes. Point the blame where you want but it leads no where. I don’t know maybe I am just getting old but I simply say make the music and rock on!!! VH and Sammy keep rocking…

I have no idea whether VH reads any of these comments, but I hope this message gets to one of them. My daughter doesn’t know about the squabbling, politics or delays, she just loves the music. If VH plays in Nashville or any where near and I can afford the tickets, I will drive her to the concert. This might be the last chance for her to see you in concert. You see she is now 12, her dad was one of your biggest fans. You never knew him, but he partied right along with you. Serious addiction–several of the best rehabs. When he finally became clean, the years of abuse to his body had taken its toll. In 2002 I took my daughter to see David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar when they played in Nashville. Everyone stood up and I don’t think she could see the stage, but she heard the music. Her dad was too sick to attend the concert. He died six months after that. Hospice and grief counselors played an important role in her life. At the funeral, she brought some of her dad’s favorite cds. When it came time to pay last respects at graveside, I asked her what she wanted played. She responded, “Running With The Devil.” Everyone laughed and said Joe would have loved that.
So VH when you’re out there on tour, remember there is a young girl, that’s an honor roll student, civil war reenacting drummer, and just a delightful daugher, that is in the audience for very special circumstances.

The Hard, Cold Truth:
It doesn’t matter whether or not the RRHOF award itself is valuable. It’s an acknowledgment from artist peers and a chance for fans to see the “one-time” event. For the fans that have bought their albums over the years to help support their wonderful lifestyle – at the least some members of VH could have made a showing at the RRHOF. Eff-them! I’d been the loyalist of fans through all the years, (since the beginning), but when they didn’t show it spoke volumes to me. I was so looking forward to see them receive that award. What a mess that was! But that’s old news. Truth is, they don’t give a rats as$ about the fans. That’s a fact. DLR is a giant as$ and so are the brothers. The only ones with class are no longer in the band.

Get yer mullet hair cuts curly permed and the Camaro waxed up you cheese dicks so you can go pay $50 to watch a washed up methhead,a double pedal playing never was,a hair club for men member and silver spoon punk ass kid not worthy of a garage band stumble around a stage and piss into the wind…..Get a life , grow up and get out of your parents house.Oh…and have a great day.

i agree haggar is good but roth is the man. kiss wore make up to cover up the fact that pound for pound they really were not much more than a mediocre garage band its really sad that these clowns need there rock spoon fed to them.eddie needs to get his ass off his shoulders. and realize hes only human .not a rock god.it always seems to be somebody elses fault.eddie your a dick.other bands 1000s of bands would love to have the chances they throw away like garbage.oh im sorry eddie dont take out the garbage .his ego tells him garbage would contaminate his majic fingers .perhaps they should retire while they still have face to save…reverend d

oh yeah shut up big daddy love handles you my friend are not even a pimple on any memeber of VH ass.you probably like dropped d power sludge sang by pissed off little dime store hoods who sing about how hard it was to grow up in a soccer mom upper class suburban neighborhood.times are hard .times are hard.reverend D

i dont think this is relevant to the recent tour dates that were released look at the date above the photo it is from feb. around the time they first postponed the tour

Has anyone heard about the little boy who cried Wolfgang? When are these guys gonna s*$t or get off the pot?

If it is too good to be true, it ususally is.

Except the tour happend and the sound was horrible!!! Like listening to an AM radio with a Subwoofer on 15!!! I left early

Well the came, they made some noise and the sound was horrible at least in go ol Montreal…We left early…maybe it was some retarded french canadians who did the sound

You did!

Thank you marvin! Guitar Lover, you’re wrong! It’s not even the original lineup! Zeppelin is better! Guitar Lover, get some help! Now, to Ironman, I know my long absence has probably had you thinking that you won this argument. WRONG!!!!! I’m back, and Lamar,AR likes KISS more than Van Halen!!!!!!!!!!

Reverend d., KISS rocks harder than Van Halen! What you gonna’ do about it?! Dumbass, I know music thank you very much! To anyone who says that I forgot that Gene Simmons discovered Van Halen, look on the back of the first album!! Ted Templemen signed them! Gene was to smart to sign them! It fell through! This ain’t over yet, it’s just beginning!! Come out, Come out wherever you are, Ironman!!

Reverend d., get some help! To anyone who said that I forgot that Gene Simmons discovered Van Halen, look on the back of the first album! Ted Templeman is what you will see! Gene’s deal fell through! KISS rocks harder, Ironman!

Dee 140 is right!

Hey, Ironman, grow some balls!!!

kissfan4life, that’s the biggest bunch of bullshit that I’ve heard in my life! If you’re a KISS fan for life, you don’t sound like one! I can name a few people that haven’t heard Rock and Roll all nite! Nathan, Brooklyn, Tiffany, Ashley, the list goes on and on! You sit there and say that I don’t know music, how dare you!!!!! Michael Anthony, I know you’re probably mad at Eddie, but as far as I know, the reason why Wolfgang is rocking in your place is because you denied the chance for a reunion! Can you really call it a reunion! It’s you’re fault in the end, don’t blame Eddie for this! Come out and play!! One more thing, ya’ mama!!!! I’m not black though!!

Ironman!!! Did you hear me!!!

Let’s see what arbiter has to say about this! If you hear me, tell everyone your opinion! How you doin’ arbiter! Nice to speak to you!

Cheesy crust pizza delivery!!!!!

Look at “Ironman the bitch!”

Aloha, pendejos!!!

All hail King Gumbi!!! If you don’t, you will feel his awesome wrath!

Why is everyone ignoring me?! Do I still exist?! Dee 140 is still my best friend! Ain’t that right? And all you fools best back of motherfuckers!

Hello, again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The devil has come at last!!!

Sorry, Dee. I forgot to respond to your call.

I have a VERY important question to ask all of you: “Why won’t you talk?! You bunch of wienies!”

I wuz here!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):) :):):):):):):):):):):):):):) :):):):):):):):):):):):):)

There’s something wrong with my smiley faces.

My frowning faces seem to work. What about this. :0

Hey, Dee, I think Ironman lost his tongue. Hello, Ironman. Are you there? Yo-yos. Is this helping you, Ironman? GET OVER IT!

I have video games.

What is wrong with you people?!! I hope you all rot in hell!!!!!!

Hello once again, you people of the dead. There must be something seriously wrong with you. Dee says hi.

Hi John! Check it out man

I went to see Van Halen in Little Rock,AR. You didn’t ha ha!

Shawty had them apple bottom jeans boots with the fur the whole club was looking at her she hit the floor next thing you know shawty got low low low low low low low!

Hi pizza delivery guy! I hate you forever! Goodbye

Looks like the 2008 tour is off again. Eddie supposedly flunked his urine test.

You negative Nancy-boyz are such pathetic little weezles. Any chance to diss the mighty Van Halen in deference to your own whiny little cry-baby fests aren’t worth commenting on. BUT what is worth commenting on is the latest factoid to come out of the VH management camp/ The tour is NOT being cancelled. Eddie is seeing a doctor. The man might be ill and he wants to get better. The tour will procede as planned. So, shut the f*ck up, you bunch of Sammy Hagar Fans.

That’s Ok I will see Rush again in Miwaukee after just seeing them recently. To me TRusah is 10 times the band Van Halen is so I don’t really care though i may have seen them if I could hsave gotton cheap tickets. Need to save anothe $600.00 to $700.00 for first or second row for Rush

hey scott ur an idiot, there is a reason why van halen is know has one of the greatest rock bands of al time. HOw many albums totaled has rush solfd over 35 years, 40 million, Van Halen has sold 80 millions and they havent been around as long. VAN Halen with the exception of only Zeppelin is THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME.

Nick — I think you need to work on your spelling dude .

VH is the best band in the world. Well, if you forget KISS. Van Halen puts on one of the best and loudest shows ever!! I saw them in Little Rock, AR. Eddie’s gonna be just fine! Don’t Worry CHILDREN!!

yeah dee i think that vh is a pretty cool band compared to kiss but my friend did a project on kiss and i’m doin’ a project on eddie , we ended in a fight of who is the best

That’s okay. I can see how that would happen. But, in the end, we all have our own oppinion. We just have to learn to accept it. But, if your name is Ironman, that’s impossible!! You know, he’s shut up. I wonder what happened to him. So, you’re a VH fan. What’s your favorite song?

Can’t wait for the new record. Well, I hope there’s a new Van Halen record.

Can’t wait for the new record. Well, I hope there’s a new Van Halen record.