The Van Halen Thread

[Sour Mash]

i hope they stick to 10 tracks ,12 at most............

[Downy]

Great photos have been posted here of a record store signing VH did in 78.
Cool stuff!

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[Sour Mash]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7kp2zzcs4&sns=fb[/youtube]

[Joseph KISS Senior]

Yeah, just watched this. No new music, but it's starting.

Concert tickets on sale in January so we've got to hear something soon.

[Downy]

Yipeeee!!!! cant wait!!

[nicksmithworld]

This does explain that recent photoshoot...

http://van-halen.com/hft.html

[nicksmithworld]

and there's THIS!!

https://twitter.com/#!/EddieTrunk/statu ... 85/photo/1

[Downy]

Just had an email from Vanhalen.com with the album cover in it.
Sceduled release is the 7th Feb then.

[RippingFleshFromBone]

Already 2012 is shaping up nicely!!!!!

[Pete]

Just had an email from Vanhalen.com with the album cover in it.
Sceduled release is the 7th Feb then.

I had that too...very cool.

[Downy]

More latest VH news here.

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[nicksmithworld]

http://www.bravewords.com/news/175244

[Downy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7r50cGe-0I[/youtube]

[Downy]

Van Halen to Perform at New York's Cafe Wha? This Thursday

Journalists across New York have been invited to a Van Halen concert at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village this Thursday. Though nothing is official, word is the band are going to perform a 45-minute set. The group hasn't played in public since the end of their 2007/'08 reunion tour with original frontman David Lee Roth, though they have been rehearsing for their upcoming world tour at the Roxy in Los Angeles for the past few months. A new album is in the works, and a new image released by the band has the date 2.7.12 on it. A new video and single is expected to hit sometime this month. The tour goes on sale January 10th.

The 250-seat Cafe Wha? may seem like an unlikely place for Van Halen to launch their new tour, but the club has an important family connection to David Lee Roth. His uncle Manny Roth owned and operated the venue, providing a stage to then-up-and-coming acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor and many others.

While the Van Halen camp has been extremely quiet about the band's plans for 2012, they recently put up a giant billboard in Times Square and teaser footage showing the band rehearsing at the Roxy. They have also given the fansite VHLinks two exclusive videos of the band reminiscing about Eddie Van Halen's old Volvo and judging wet T-shirt contests back in the Seventies. The site also says that a "trusted source" tells them the band has been "busy booking rehearsal space and hotel rooms for the band and their crew for [this] week in NYC."



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[crad]

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According to the Van Halen News Desk web site, VAN HALEN's new single will be titled "Tattoo" and it will premiere on January 10. The band's much-anticipated new album — which will be its first with original singer David Lee Roth in 28 years — will arrive on February 7.

VAN HALEN's upcoming tour will kick off next month in Louisville, Kentucky, with tickets set to go on sale on January 10.

As previously reported, VAN HALEN will perform at the Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village, New York City this Thursday. It is rumored that the band will play a 45-minute set at the 250-seat venue, which was once owned and operated by VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth's uncle Manny Roth, providing a stage to then-up-and-coming acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor and many others.

VAN HALEN recently gave fan site VHLinks two exclusive videos of the band reminiscing about Eddie Van Halen's old Volvo and judging wet T-shirt contests back in the Seventies. The site also says that a "trusted source" tells them the band has been "busy booking rehearsal space and hotel rooms for the band and their crew for [this] week in NYC."

VAN HALEN didn't just use the Roxy nightclub on Hollywood's Sunset Strip to shoot a music video. According to a post at the venue's web site, the reunited band has been rehearsing there for their upcoming tour for the past two months.

The November 14 shoot was reportedly for a video for the song, presumably "Tattoo", that the band is seen but not heard playing in the tour announcement clip.

VAN HALEN's new record deal with Interscope was finalized in November and marks the first time the band has recorded away from Warner Bros. Records, which signed the group in 1977.

VAN HALEN reunited with Roth in 2007 for a successful year-long reunion tour — minus original bassist Michael Anthony, who now plays with ex-VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar in CHICKENFOOT.