Rock band Van Halen officially announced their upcoming tour at a press conference on Monday.
Washington, Aug. 14 : Rock band 'Van Halen' officially announced their upcoming tour at a press conference on Monday.
David Lee Roth, the original frontman of the group, said that they were returning as a new band.
"This is not a reunion-this is a new band. I've done more rehearsal in the last four months than I've done in the past 20 summers. The whole sound is better than it has ever been..," E!online quoted him as saying.
"We decided to do everything you'd expect but make it high speed, low drag. Everything that got me fired from radio," he added, joking about his brief stint as Howard Stern's East Coast replacement after the shock jock left for satellite.
Wolfgang Van Halen, the teenage son of Eddie Van Halen, has replaced Michael Anthony in the four-member band.
The band kick off the North American leg of their comeback on September 27 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will be touring in this hemisphere for the rest of the year.
When asked how it felt to be "back together" with Roth, Eddie said, "It's the s--t, that's all I can say. It's better than it's ever been."
Promoter Live Nation is hopeful that Eddie and Roth will maintain peace between themselves throughout the 50-show tour.
Music experts reckon that the reformed band may earn as much as 70 million dollars on the U.S. leg of their tour alone, if it survives without eruptions.
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