David Lee Roth has announced a Las Vegas residency for next year. But what does this mean for the future of Van Halen?
“A weekend with me is interactive way beyond just music,” Roth said in a statement. “It starts with the best food on Earth. The fellas smoke their three cigarettes for the year and we all stay up way past our bedtime!”will feature “26 instantly recognizable songs, including ‘Jump,’ ‘Panama,’ and ‘California Girls.’” It goes on to label the music “the sound of a generational prison break.”
This is actually Roth’s second Las Vegas show. In 1995, he tried out a lounge act in the casino town featuring Nile Rodgers, Edgar Winter, members of the Miami Sound machine and exotic dancers. The show contained just two Van Halen songs and instead focused on covers like Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle” and James Brown’s “Living in America.” It struggled to sell tickets and closed within months.This new Vegas show is sure to cause many Van Halen fans to question the group’s future.
Eddie and Alex Van Halen have rarely been seen in public since that night, though earlier this year original bassist Michael Anthony says he was contacted about a possible tour. “I spoke with [Van Halen’s manager] Irving Azoff last October,”“He asked if I would be interested in any kind of a reunion, and I told him, I said, ‘Yeah.’ I was finishing up a couple of shows with Sammy [Hagar] and I said, ‘Yeah, I’d be interested to hear what you guys have going on.
A couple months later, Anthony heard from a representative for David Lee Roth and wheels seemed to be in motion. “And for whatever reason, they never got in touch with us about any kind of a contract or any kind of a meeting to discuss or whatever,” Anthony said. “The next thing I knew, the plug got pulled on it.”
Sammy Hagar has gone on record several times saying he’d gladly return for a tour where he shared vocal duties with David Lee Roth on the condition that Michael Anthony also returns to the fold. “Can you imagine the competition of that?” he
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