David Lee Roth Explains Postponed Van Halen Tour Dates

[Amerigo Vespucci]

David Lee Roth Explains Postponed Van Halen Tour Dates

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-lee-roth-explains-postponed-van-halen-tour-dates-20120520



David Lee Roth posted a video this weekend explaining the mysteriously postponed dates on Van Halen's tour.

As Rolling Stone reported Thursday, the band abruptly postponed all the tour dates after their July 26th show in New Orleans, pulling more than 30 dates from their schedule last week, including shows in Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Salt Lake City and El Paso. They offered no explanation for the postponement at the time.

Though a source with knowledge of the tour attributed the cancelations to fighting within the band, Roth insists otherwise in the video. "The band is getting along famously," he says, "better than we have in quite some time."

"As usual, we bit off way more than we could chew when it came to scheduling. The band is winning, but our schedule has been sidelined for unnecessary roughness," he says. "We're gonna take a break and we're gonna come all the way back around, because this tour is gonna take about two years."

[Chan790]

1. I cannot actually mentally-process that David Lee Roth now looks like my HS Soc. Stu. teacher.

I have some grave concerns that if he tried to "Jump!" he might break a hip.

As another advanced-aged rocker of my youth said:

"What a drag it is getting old..."

[Populist_Prole]

2. Now that's funny!

I know what you mean though. In my mind musicians from my favorite bands still should look they way they did, even if they have to wear a wig.