Might as well tour, go ahead and tour: Van Halen "may" return to the road in 2011

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Van Halen May Tour in 2011
Irving Azoff reveals Van Halen will embark on a trek next year

By Daniel Kreps
Oct 05, 2010 4:10 PM EDT



Van Halen will return to the road in 2011 — or so said Live Nation Ticketmaster chairman Irving Azoff, in a meeting with analysts meant to show that the outlook for next year's concert circuit will brighten. Van Halen, with David Lee Roth, last toured together in June 2008. According to USA Today , Azoff, who is also Van Halen's manager, named Van Halen, Christina Aguilera, Fleetwood Mac and the cast of Glee as some of the artists that are expected to pack stadium and arenas when they embark on tours next year. Van Halen's 2008 tour grossed $93 million for Live Nation.


This isn't the first time Azoff has promised of a Van Halen tour: In September 2009, at another Q&A session, he mentioned that Van Halen were planning to tour in 2010, but that never came to fruition. Van Halen has long been rumored to be working on a new studio album, their first with Roth since 1984, but Eddie's wife Janie Van Halen told Rolling Stone in June that, "What is going around is exactly that, rumors."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/215655

[mitchum]

1. Irving Azoff. Further evidence that you make a lot of money from people who play music...

rather than from playing music yourself.
That coked-up parasite has been thriving for four decades.