August 8th, 2007
From: reuters.com
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - David Lee Roth and his former bandmates in Van
Halen will officially announce their reunion during a news conference at
the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles next Monday, according to their
representatives.
"Come witness rock history as Van Halen makes an announcement of
monumental proportions," said a media alert e-mailed on Wednesday by
concert promoter Live Nation.
Roth will be present at the 11 a.m. PDT announcement, along with Van Halen
guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his older brother, Alex Van Halen, the
band's drummer.
It will not exactly be a reunion of the classic lineup famed for such hits
as "Panama" and "Running with the Devil," because bassist Michael Anthony
has been replaced by Eddie's 16-year-old son, Wolfgang.
Roth and Van Halen were supposed to hit the road earlier this year for a
reunion tour, but plans fell through when Eddie Van Halen entered rehab in
March for undisclosed issues. His illness also scuttled a potential
reunion at the group's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction later that
month.
Roth, 52, quit Van Halen in the mid-1980s, during the band's heyday, in
hopes of attaining solo stardom. Those dreams crashed, and Van Halen
continued successfully with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
The band's luck ran out a decade later when Hagar and Van Halen
acrimoniously parted ways, and a new album with a third singer tanked.
Since then, both Roth and Hagar have briefly aligned with Van Halen, and
the two singers even toured together, despite Roth's barely concealed
enmity for Hagar.
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