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From melodicrock.comVAN HALEN CANCEL POSTPONE USA DATES FROM JUNE 26: Van Halen have postponed all tour dates after June 26 without warning and without explanation. This comes not long after adding…Continue
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Rank the 11 Van Halen studio albums from your favorite to your least favorite. The albums are: Van HalenVan Halen IIWomen And Children FirstFair WarningDiver Down19845150OU812For Unlawful Carnal…Continue
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What are your top 10 Van Halen songs from the David Lee Roth era? Of course, that would be from the first 6 albums: Van HalenVan Halen IIWomen And Children FirstFair WarningDiver Down1984 I'll post…Continue
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We'll see. I sure hope so.
From blabbermout.net:
It's been pretty quiet on the VAN HALEN front lately but we've now found out why – they're working on a new album. ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti broke the news when he was telling VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner about how new music is coming along with his solo band, TREMONTI, which includes VAN HALEN bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.
Said Mark: "With Wolfgang in the band now, he does a lot of work with VAN HALEN right now, they're putting together a new album, so it's going to be hard to get everybody's schedules to line up."
When VH1 Radio Network asked Tremonti if Wolfie tells him how the new VAN HALEN music is sounding, Mark said: "You know, he doesn't. He just says, 'Yeah, sounds great, man. Sounds great.'"
After singer David Lee Roth said in an interview last summer that VAN HALEN has started work on its 13th studio album, the next question was whether the material will be freshly written or pulled from the band's vaults. Many of the songs on 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth" originated from demos going back to the group's earliest days, and Wolfgang Van Halen told The Pulse Of Radio that there's more where that came from. "There's plenty of other ideas lying around and some new stuff that we've been working on too," he said. "You never know what'll happen."
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Roth told comedian Jim Florentine back in August: "I was up at [guitarist] Edward's [Van Halen] house three days ago, and we're starting to put music together. We're writing; I write lyrics routinely and the band plays together routinely, at least three times a week up at Ed's place."
But Roth also cautioned that fans should not expect to hear the finished follow-up to 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth" for at least 18 months.
"A Different Kind Of Truth" was the first new VAN HALEN album in 14 years and the first since 1984 to feature Roth, the band's original singer, on lead vocals.
The disc debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album chart, selling 187,000 copies in its first week of release.
The group toured through the spring and early part of the summer of 2012 behind the album, but abruptly pulled off the road that June due to "exhaustion." A severe intestinal disorder later sidelined Eddie Van Halen, restricting the band to only sporadic live shows since.
I saw that yesterday. I can easily live with 18 months. But if it happens, it will be longer than that.
Complete Van Halen show from Tokyo:
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony says he was flattered by comments his former bandmate David Lee Roth made about wanting him back in the famous group recently. As he jokingly noted, “He never used to talk like that when we were all playing together.”
In an interview with Eddie Trunk, Anthony touched on a number of topics, including the possibility of joining hisChickenfoot (and former Van Halen) bandmate Sammy Hagar on the singer’s upcoming multi-band career retrospective tour (“Sammy wants me to be a part of that, because I was a part of that”) and the future of their current band (“We’ll get back together as soon as the schedules align… probably in the fall”).
When asked about Roth’s comments, Anthony, who was replaced by Wolfgang Van Halen when Eddie and Alex Van Halen reunited with Roth in 2007, seemed legitimately touched. “I really don’t know what to say to that. It was flattering that he said that.” But he also makes his priorities clear: “At this point in your life and career and whatever, the career aside, it’s more about the friendship and just people. And if the music side of it, if that happens, if that comes about, all the better, but that’s not what it’s really about at this point.”
Comments by Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth that the band will tour Europe beginning late this year are incorrect, according to Irving Azoff, manager for founders Alex and Eddie Van Halen and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.
In comments picked up by multiple media outlets, Roth said on the Sirius Opie & Anthony radio show yesterday that Van Halen were "going to be playing Europe -- probably 50 or 60 shows starting at the end of this year."
Azoff begs to differ. "All the announced dates, which include the date in Australia, the dates in Japan and a date in Wisconsin, are confirmed and on sale and those are real," Azoff tells Billboard exclusively. "I manage the Van Halens, and I know nothing about any European tour."
While he wasn't sure what Roth was talking about, Azoff confirms that Roth will indeed front the band that will play the scheduled dates, which include the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on April 20; June 21 at the Tokyo Dome, and June 24 and 26 at Osaka's City Central Gymnasium.
Van Halen will also headline the final night of Rock USA festival July 20 at Ford Festival Park in Oshkosh, Wis.
The band played 46 shows last year and grossed $54 million, with attendance of 522,296, according to Billboard Boxscore, eighth among all touring acts for the year.
On the recording front, Wolfgang Van Halen RECENTLY TOLD BILLBOARD that the group is open to following up 2012's "A Different Kind of Truth," which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in February.
"Oh yeah, there's plenty of other ideas laying around, and some new stuff that we've been working on, too," Van Halen says. "You never know what'll happen."
This is interesting:
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