Sammy Hagar is back...

[BITENY]

VH Tour

Van Halen Ends Feud with Former Singer, Sets Tour



By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of pop music's messiest feuds has come to an end with the return of vocalist Sammy Hagar (news) to rock band Van Halen after an eight-year absence, the veteran group said on Friday.


Additionally, Van Halen will return to the road this summer for the first time in nearly six years, launching a tour of indoor North American arenas in Greensboro, North Carolina on June 11.


With Prince and Madonna (news - web sites) also preparing concert tours and promising to play their golden oldies, nostalgic fans will soon have plenty of opportunities to party like it's the eighties.


The Van Halen reunion brings the band back full circle to 1985, when Hagar first joined the foursome after original vocalist David Lee Roth (news) quit for a patchy solo career. With Hagar on board and guitarist Eddie Van Halen (news) wowing fans with his flashy riffs, the band maintained its hit streak with such tunes as "Why Can't This Be Love" and "Dreams."


Amid growing tensions, Hagar left Van Halen in early 1996 claiming that he was fired by his bandmates; they countered that he quit. He resurrected his solo career and even toured with Roth. Van Halen hired a new singer, Gary Cherone, and saw its fortunes plummet, ultimately losing its deal at Warner Bros. Records. The band has been inactive in recent years.


Warner Bros., a unit of Time Warner Inc. which owns the rights to the band's back catalog, will release a second hits compilation in June, featuring the new Hagar-sung track "It's About Time."


In addition to Eddie Van Halen, aged 49, the band includes his older brother, drummer Alex, 50, and bass player Michael Anthony (news), 49.


The Van Halen brothers were born in the Netherlands and emigrated to the United States with their parents in 1962. They formed Van Halen in the mid-1970s and ultimately sold about 75 million records worldwide.

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

won't last. that tour will be cancelled, a mess or end prematurely. Eddie Van Halen is a nutcase and a controlfreak.

[BITENY]

I agree.
I actually think that the reason he's back is because the band is bored and they can't get anyone else to sing for them...and yeah, they need the money.

[TheDude]

do they wheel Eddie out with his Iron Lung?

[JJ]

Just aint Van Halen without David Lee Roth. and yeah this tour is gonna do shitty, if it happens at all.

[Flock of Moosen]

What happened to the David Lee Roth/Sammy Hagar tour? Did they cheat on each other with Gary Cherone and decide to call it quits?

[Crack Hitler]

i'll go see it with you, i always liked sammy better than dave anyways

[sweet angel]

Me too. Saw VH both ways and enjoyed it much more with Sammy.

[JimmyBlueEyes]

I might actually go to see this. It'll be interesting to watch Eddie get wheeled out or playing on crutches with that bad hip of his.

[PSYCHOMARKFAN]

Good luck to Van Hagar....yeah let's be real about this, o.k.? I saw them with Hagar back in the day(1985) with the 5150 tour and B.T.O. opening for them at the former Meadowlands Arena only because i was too young to see them with Diamond David Lee Roth. The only reason they're going out with Hagar is that they couldn't get Cherrone again and Roth has no more singing voice. I'll concede that the band with Sammy was more successful commercially and critically Roth was more the frontman and after they rooned the alleged re-union at the VMA show back in 1994. They screwed the fans into thinking that all was forgiven and only using Roth for the two tracks in their greatest hits cd Volume One.

Enough about Van Hagar they'll run their course and die a degrading death sooner than later......I HOPE