Van Halen together ... yet again.

[III]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/13/vanhalen.reut/index.html

So how long will this tour last before they're ready to kill Dave? I'm gonna be optimistic and say 3 shows. Pretty cool that Eddie's son Wolfgang is playing bass for them. 16-years-old and touring with VH. What a charmed life.

[William Haskins]

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/images/celebritology/eddie_van_halen1.jpg

"'scuse me sonny... can you tell me
where the hell the stage is?"

[A.M. Wildman]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/13/vanhalen.reut/index.html

So how long will this tour last before they're ready to kill Dave? I'm gonna be optimistic and say 3 shows. Pretty cool that Eddie's son Wolfgang is playing bass for them. 16-years-old and touring with VH. What a charmed
life.

3 shows before they kill Dave or Eddie falls off the wagon and into the booze again.

[ChunkyC]

Waitaminnit -- we had a thread about this not so long ago and they didn't even get as far as rehearsing for the tour before the whole thing blew up in their faces. This could be an old article. Lemme go find the thread....

ETA: yep, here's the thread (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54097&highlight=Van+Halen).

Nope. not an old article. They're talking about a whole different set of dates and they do reference the tour we were talking about in the earlier thread, so apparently this means they're going to try this again?!

One things for sure; no way am I plunking down money for the Calgary concert. I bet the odds of them making it all the way through the tour are about the same as Paris Hilton winning the Nobel Prize for physics.

[robeiae]

As near as I can remember, Wolfgang was not an original member of Van Halen. So, I'm hard pressed to see how this is really a reunion. And having seen the real deal all those years ago, I can't imagine how I would be anything other than disappointed with a new show, given the current state of affairs.

No thanks.

[blacbird]

Haskins . . . that is David Lee Roth? Please, Lord, do we really need a rival to Keith Richards and Donald Fagen for the Aged Rocker Ogre Award?

caw

[Jersey Chick]

In the strictest sense of the term, since Wolfie is Eddie's son - isn't he, in fact, an original member at a very basic level?

[Devil Ledbetter]

Haskins . . . that is David Lee Roth? Please, Lord, do we really need a rival to Keith Richards and Donald Fagen for the Aged Rocker Ogre Award?

cawNo. That frightening photo is of Eddie Van Halen.

[William Haskins]

No. That frightening photo is of Eddie Van Halen.

yes. here's david lee's latest headshot.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/04/21/mummy_wideweb__430x336.jpg

[Jersey Chick]

He look pretty good.

considering

[Williebee]

blacbird, I'm pretty sure Fagen's undead. I mean, he's looked nesferatu since, like, the second tour.

As for Van Halen... It's a long way from the announcement to the stage. I'll believe it when I see it.

[Opty]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/13/vanhalen.reut/index.html

So how long will this tour last before they're ready to kill Dave? I'm gonna be optimistic and say 3 shows. Pretty cool that Eddie's son Wolfgang is playing bass for them. 16-years-old and touring with VH. What a charmed life.

I'm convinced that all the problems in Van Halen throughout the decades have stemmed from Eddie (which is what 2 out of the 3 lead singers have confirmed. I bet that Gary Cherone would agree were he not such a seemingly nice, non-confrontational guy).

It's Eddie who can't play nice with others. He couldn't get along with Dave, Sammy, or Michael Anthony (that's the only reason Wolfgang is going on tour, and that kid hasn't even been playing bass for a year!) OR Valerie Bertanelli. And, since Alex is his brother, he'll go along with whatever Eddie says.

He was a great guitar god, but he seems to be a miserable, self-absorbed person (who looks like a haggard old woman). This tour will likely fail at some point, and I bet it'll be Eddie's fault.

[blacbird]

No. That frightening photo is of Eddie Van Halen.

My

God.

And I thought I might be looking bad.

I feel better now.

A little.

caw

[Opty]

It's even more sad when you see what he looked like just a little over 10 years ago...

http://www.rotharmy.com/images/evhc.jpg


...and compare it to how he looks now.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/images/celebritology/eddie_van_halen1.jpg

Man, that's a rough 10 years.

[blacbird]

Christ, that could be Charles Manson.

caw

[A.M. Wildman]

Nah Charles is better looking. :tongue

Bah, Eddie looks rough, years of alcohol abuse will do that to you. Although, he has a long way to go to catch Keith Richards. Ol' Keith has been dead for 40 years but I don't think anyone has bothered to tell him.:D

[Inkdaub]

I'm convinced that all the problems in Van Halen throughout the decades have stemmed from Eddie (which is what 2 out of the 3 lead singers have confirmed. I bet that Gary Cherone would agree were he not such a seemingly nice, non-confrontational guy).

It's Eddie who can't play nice with others. He couldn't get along with Dave, Sammy, or Michael Anthony (that's the only reason Wolfgang is going on tour, and that kid hasn't even been playing bass for a year!) OR Valerie Bertanelli. And, since Alex is his brother, he'll go along with whatever Eddie says.

He was a great guitar god, but he seems to be a miserable, self-absorbed person (who looks like a haggard old woman). This tour will likely fail at some point, and I bet it'll be Eddie's fault.

I agree one hundred percent...Eddie's the problem.

As for the reunion, I couldn't care less really. My reasoning is the same as robeiae's.

[Shadow_Ferret]

Eddie's a crackpot. I've never seen them and have no intention of seeing them now.

Wolfgang needs to join his mom at Jennie Craig.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/assets/images/200708/200x150/35196.jpg

[William Haskins]

It's even more sad when you see what he looked like just a little over 10 years ago... ...and compare it to how he looks now. Man, that's a rough 10 years.

stay away from the meth kids.

[benbradley]

stay away from the meth kids.

I'm guessing these are the effects of the more common and 'safe' drug known as alcohol. The other stuff would have likely killed him by now (admittedly he DOES look like a zombie).

Here's a description of an appearance and his condition a couple years ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.guitar.amps/browse_thread/thread/4ab580087c540cc7

[Devil Ledbetter]

Dead things should not be resurrected. Van Halen is exhibit A.

[BenPanced]

It's a reunion because Eddie said so. Right, Eddie?:e2thud:

[tourdeforce]

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/images/celebritology/eddie_van_halen1.jpg

Estelle Getty arrives for her make-up call on the first day of shooting
for the long-awaited Golden Girls reunion special.

[Perks]

Shit. He and I still have the same haircut. I'm suing.

[Nolita]

Leave Wolfie alone!

First his parents go and name him Wolfgang(a name which I doubt flies well in school). Then his dad's well...

And his poor mother's trapped in America's Sweetheart Hell...

He's already messed up enough. Last thing he needs is for internet geeks(hehe I'm one too relax), ripping on his weight and giving him a complex.

We can't all be skinny. Well I can it's my genetics + metabolism. But the rest of you. You can't all be skinny :P

[Shadow_Ferret]

I doubt anything I say will give him a complex any worse than he already has.

[Nolita]

;) You know I can't resist :P.

[Writer2011]

I hope it will last, but if not at least we've had a return to the heyday for just a little while.

Personally Eddie is the one who runs the group--it's always been like that and always will be.

[cletus]

Looks like it's over (http://theblogofheavymetal.blogspot.com/2008/03/end-of-road-for-van-halen-tour.html).

Edit: Or maybe not (http://theblogofheavymetal.blogspot.com/2008/03/report-van-halen-tour-still-on.html).

[ChunkyC]

Good lord. It's like a drunken pilot buzzing the airfield: will he land or not this time?

ETA: well, they have played some dates at least: Panama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAysbClepO8&feature=related)

[Mud Dauber]

Not to throw my girlie gossip into this thread, but...

There's speculation that ex-wife Valerie is trying to sabotage Eddie by releasing her tell-all book (http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Gaining-Life-Back-Pound/dp/1416568182/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204767624&sr=1-1) during the VH tour. I doubt that's the case, but I guess you never know.:Shrug:

I'd still see 'em (if I could afford tickets:rolleyes:)even though I'm a Sammy girl at heart.

~Mud Dauber, with her .02

[ChunkyC]

I have to admit, watching that vid and seeing how utterly chuffed Wolfie appears to be up on stage with his dad's band, makes me smile. I hope the kid is having the time of his life.

[III]

"Chuffed"? Is that a Canadian term?

[ChunkyC]

Aussie, actually. :)

[III]

You're the original Internation Man of Mystery, Charlie.

[jst5150]

Is it me or did Diamond Dave look like the Chairman from Iron Chef?

[Voyager]

Is it me or did Diamond Dave look like the Chairman from Iron Chef?
:roll:

Eddie was once the lord of ax men. Now he's scary enough to make Marilyn Manson cry.

[ChunkyC]

You're the original Internation Man of Mystery, Charlie.
As in, it's a mystery why I haven't been deported yet? ;)

Is it me or did Diamond Dave look like the Chairman from Iron Chef?
:ROFL:

ETA: Eddie in better days (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ&feature=related) (11 minutes)

[Devil Ledbetter]

As in, it's a mystery why I haven't been deported yet? ;)


:ROFL:

ETA: Eddie in better days (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ&feature=related) (11 minutes)In 1986, I saw Yngwie play that in concert with one hand, and stifle a yawn with the other.

And we also see where arrogance and a passion for donuts got Yngwie.

[ChunkyC]

Yes, Yngwie's an arrogant ass. If he was as creative as he likes to think he is, he would have put together a band that took the world by storm like Van Halen did. Yngwie is a prime example of a guy who took what Eddie made popular and pushed the technique into the stratosphere but forgot all about the musicality.

Dance the Night Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvpreZcAfI)

Yngwie couldn't write a song like that if his life depended on it.

[III]

Thus leading to the debate - who has let themselves go more, Eddie or Yngwie?

http://backtorockville.typepad.com/back_to_rockville/images/2007/04/23/eddie_before_x00048_9_2.jpg

http://www.1077thebone.com/jocks/steel/metalnews/images/yngwie-malmsteen-002.jpg

[Chumplet]

Oh, Gawd, you zoomed in on his face! Oh, the humanity!

Valerie had an interview in a Toronto paper today -- she says Eddie's in the hospital for undisclosed tests and the tour is postponed till March 11th.

[ChunkyC]

Thus leading to the debate - who has let themselves go more, Eddie or Yngwie?
They just can't stop trying to outdo each other. :D