Van Halen Says They Will Tour With David Lee Roth

Van Halen will announce a 50-date American reunion tour with original singer David Lee Roth during a news conference in Hollywood next week, sources said.

The arena trek will begin in early October.

Roth, who split from the rock group in the mid-1980s in hopes of solo stardom, will reunite with co-founders Eddie Van Halen on guitar and brother Alex Van Halen on drums. Eddie’s teenage son Wolfgang will sub for Michael Anthony on bass.

A proposed summer amphitheater tour by the group never got off the ground, with Eddie Van Halen entering a rehabilitation facility for undisclosed reasons in March.

I absolutely loved Van Halen, but they were not the same without Diamond Dave.  I just wonder if Dave’s voice can physically take a 50-date concert schedule, and whether Eddie is going to be healthy enough to make it?

If they do end up touring, do you plan to go see them?

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