And The Van Halen Stories Keep On Coming

[ericgtr]

This from undercover.com

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David Lee Roth says he isn't holding his breath for a Van Halen reunion, which is good because they haven't asked him back. They've asked Sammy Hagar.

While on tour in Europe, Roth spoke with Norway's Metal Express. "If the Van Halen band was ever to do a reunion, super, but I wouldn't old my breath" he said in their interview.

One thing Roth says Van Halen will never be able to do is imitate his voice. "The one thing you cannot duplicate ever is the sound of the human voice that makes me sound this way" he told Metal Express. "If you think about it, the London Philharmonic Orchestra is really a Tchaikovsky tribute band. Tchaikovsky has been dead for many years and so has most his rhythm section so why do we keep going to the concert? Because an instrumentalist can take the music beyond where they find it."

The Van Halen reunion tour with Sammy Hagar has been the worst kept secret in rock and roll this year, with an announcement expected soon for what will be one of the biggest tours of the second half of 2004.

A second volume of Greatest Hits is also said to be in the works with three new songs with Sammy included.

Watch this space.

Incidentally, Australia will get a David Lee Roth tour before Van Halen and Sammy. Roth will be in Australia in the sond half of the year.


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[Sister_Wrath]

I heard the interview at metalexpress.no....no comments...i'll just said that i don't like DLR's attitude.

[ericgtr]

This is typical Dave, he completely misses the picture. VH never tried to duplicate his voice after he left, they did something totally different. He's just upset that the band isn't asking him back so he continues to spew his bullshit, thing is, he can say some pretty witty things at times but here he's just reaching.

[SuckaInA3Piece]

He's totally reaching, especially since the guy goes out of his way too duplicate the band's sound by touring with a tribute group. He can have all the shredders he wants, but there's only one fuckin Eddie Van Halen. And he'll never ever find anyone too capture Mike's or Alex's sound. I think that Ray does an awesome job and is one of the best live drummers around, but it still aint big Al.

[ericgtr]

Amen brother! They are Van Halen, Al, Mike and Ed. No two ways about it.

[EddieMan2003]

and dave bitch. im rick james haha

[El_jalepeno]

Not to piss anyone off, but I thought VH was always a lot heavier rock music with Dave. I don't dislike Sammy or anything, and I really never thought of Dave and Sam "eras" until a couple of years ago when I staerted hanging out at the forums. But I really dug seeing Dave a couple of years ago with Brian playing guitar. I guess for me, it was more of a "Screw You" to Ed since he has been so stubborn about the future of the band. Sammy, Dave, or shit, even Gary... Just pick someone and get back in the saddle already! [img]images/smilies/rock.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/rock.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/rock.gif[/img] [img]images/smilies/rock.gif[/img]