David Lee Roth Reuniting with Van Halen

[CatWoman]

After more than two decades apart, the rock group Van Halen and its original lead singer, David Lee Roth, are reuniting.

The band announced Friday that Roth, 52, will front the heavy metal quartet on a 40-show summer tour. This will be the first time Roth has performed with the band since 1984, after which Sammy Hagar sang lead. (Roth briefly rejoined the band in 1996, but didn't perform with them at the time.)

"I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen," lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen, 52, said in a statement.

Though a little older and thinner of hair, the band has lost no bravado, announcing it would play "a set list of the most iconic hits ever produced by America's premiere rock band."

There will be one change in the original lineup: bassist Michael Anthony will be replaced with Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's 15-year-old son by ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20010821,00.html

[Mojambo]

1. And if you think David Lee Roth looks rough...

Check out Eddie Van Halen

[HoneyBee]

2. He looks like a zombie from World of Warcraft.

[Mojambo]

3. LOL. Totally. n/t

[CatWoman]

4. OH

MY

LORD!!!!

:wow:

:wtf: happened to him???

[Wapsie B]

5. Good lord!

That looks like a man who's done some hard living in his day.

:wow:

[Mojambo]

7. I believe he had cancer as well

I could be mistaken about that.

[Maddy McCall]

14. He DID have cancer.

[NewJeffCT]

8. wow, and people think Keith Richards aged poorly?

He looks young next to Eddie...

[montanto]

6. Jeeziz,

Eddie looks like he's seventy.

I still don't understand the Mark Anthony thing: why did he split?

Oh well, been over these guys since way before 1984.

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[CatWoman]

10. damn

That's cold, brutal and completely uncalled for.

[Little Wing]

12. It would be the only graceful end at this point

Eddie hired his kid to take over Anthony's spot.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Yes, and that's why I won't buy any tickets...

well, that's one of the myriad reasons I won't go.

[Little Wing]

16. And, yes, I don't actually want them to die

I just want them to go away. It's over, guys. Even Metallica knows that.

[Maddy McCall]

18. Now Def Leppard, on the other hand...

I took my son to see them in NOLA about a month before Katrina, and we had a blast.

:D

The Blondie tour, though, we avoided. :(

[texanwitch]

11. He was born on 1-26-1955

Eddie just had his 52nd birthday.

He looks 72.

[CatWoman]

17. my lord!!!

I turn 52 this year!!!!

I look like a spring chicken next to him!!

[Left Is Write]

13. Oh, for the good old days...

[slj0101]

19. It'll be the shortest reunion in the history of reunions.

[swag]

20. Haven't these guys ever heard of tax-advantaged accounts and target retirement funds?