VAN HALEN! Not Van Haggar

[KC130FE]

VAN HALEN! Not Van Hagar

VAN HALEN has announced the details of their much-anticipated reunion tour with David Lee Roth today at a Los Angeles press conference. The arena tour kicks off September 27 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and continues through December 11 in Calgary, Alberta. The first confirmed dates are as follows:

Sep. 27 - Charlotte, N.C. @ Bobcats Arena
Sep. 29 - Greensboro, N.C. @ Coliseum
Oct. 01 - Philadelphia @ Wachovia Center
Oct. 07 - Toronto @ Air Canada Centre
Oct. 10 - Cleveland @ Quicken Loans Arena
Oct. 14 - Indianapolis @ Conseco Fieldhouse
Oct. 16 - Chicago @ Allstate Arena
Oct. 18 - Chicago @ United Center
Oct. 22 - Auburn Hills, Mich. @ Palace of Auburn Hills
Oct. 24 - Minneapolis @ Target Center
Oct. 26 - Kansas City, Mo. @ Sprint Center
Oct. 28 - St. Louis @ Scottrade Center
Oct. 30 - Boston @ TD Banknorth Garden
Nov. 03 - East Rutherford, N.J. @ Continental Airline Arena
Nov. 13 - New York @ Madison Square Garden
Nov. 20 - Los Angeles @ Staples Center
Nov. 23 - Glendale, Ariz. @ Jobing.com Arena
Nov. 25 - San Diego @ Cox Arena
Nov. 27 - Sacramento, Calif. @ Arco Arena
Nov. 29 - San Jose, Calif. @ HP Pavilion
Dec. 01 - Portland, Ore. @ Rose Garden
Dec. 03 - Seattle @ Key Arena
Dec. 05 - Vancouver @ GM Place
Dec. 09 - Edmonton, Alberta @ Rexall Palace
Dec. 11 - Calgary, Alberta @ Pengrowth Saddledome

Man, I hope they don't fu#k this up!

 

[skim]

I saw the press conference on VH1 classics. Roth did seem rather toned down, unlike the first reunion tour announced on the MTV video awards a few years back where he pissed off the other guys with his 'jokes' and antics. Hopefully it lasts too.

 

[Schnugg]

Didn't "Eddie" have his tongue (or some part of it) removed due cancer from his smoking...and he's still smoking like a chimney.

 

[Brett327]

Didn't "Eddie" have his tongue (or some part of it) removed due cancer from his smoking...and he's still smoking like a chimney.

Indeed. He can barely talk. I saw them w/ Hagar in '04 and they all looked very tired and were doing the begging for applause thing a lot - kind of sad, after having seen them on the Carnal Knowledges tour.

Brett

 

[Schnugg]

Recently EVH did a promo bit for Fender guitars. He jammed live on a stage peddling his trademark white and red guitar.

What I noticed besides his usual rifts was he sounded drunk...I suspect as a result of his cancer and surgery.

 

[Hozer]

Tongue? What about that hip replacement? There's no f-ing way EVH is going to make it through this without going back on the "meds".
No Florida dates either, must've figured they'd be dead by then.

 

[skim]

If Keith Richards can survive, I sure hope he can. I think he is much, much better...

 

[Hozer]

Keith Richards? apples and oranges, that fvcker isn't human. And he's been talking like he's drunk for forty years with a tongue and all.

 

[skim]

Yeah, that guy embalmed himself long ago, therefore, he can't die, or stumble on
a riff.

 

[BurghGuy]

Keith Richards? apples and oranges, that fvcker isn't human. And he's been talking like he's drunk for forty years with a tongue and all.

"Perhaps that is why Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons."

 

[skim]

"Perhaps that is why Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons."

Is that quote from the movie? I must watch it now.