i have tickets for the march 21st pittsburgh show and i sure hope i can go- anyone heard anything definitive

Eddie is where Ms. Winehouse should be. The tour is off.


What started off as a promising project, with favorable gig reviews, is now facing a dead end. According to latest Van Halen rumors, the band's remaining tour dates have been cancelled due to guitarist Eddie Van Halen's "issues."

The band's long awaited North American tour, which kicked off in September, marked the first time singer David Lee Roth performed with the band in 22 years, joining Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Wolfgang Van Halen, the elder Van Halen’s 16-year-old son.

Van Halen officials are yet to confirm the reports, but according to celebrity gossip website TMZ.com, arrangements are currently being made to cancel hotel stays for the tour, which was scheduled to continue through April 19th.

The group cancelled two concerts in Virginia and Georgia late last month but rescheduled the dates for mid-March. No reason was given for the postponements at the time.

Besides the rumored internal band tension, recent reports also suggested that the reason for the tour's cancellation is the guitarist's poor performance, as he appeared to be intoxicated during the band's latest gigs.

In March last year, Eddie Van Halen announced he was checking into rehab because, according to a statement he released at the time, he did not "feel that I can give you my best."

"That’s why I have decided to enter a rehabilitation facility to work on myself, so that in the future I can deliver the 110 percent that I feel I owe you and want to give you," the statement added.

Van Halen, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2007, last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.



Check out this train wreck.

Fort Lauderdale, 2/20/08










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Article posted on Billboard with a time of 2 PM (EST) today:

Despite reports to the contrary, sources with Van Halen tell Billboard the band's tour is not being canceled, though tonight's (March 3) scheduled show at the American Airlines Center in Dallas has been postponed and rescheduled for April 24.

Three other dates have been postponed for undisclosed reasons. The source says the outing picks up on March 11 in Charlottesville, W.V., and a press release regarding the tour's status will be coming within 24 hours.

let's see if DLR can keep his washboard stomach until EVH gets out of rehab!

All I know is that the Montreal show I caught in November was great.

EVH was crisp and it was LOUD.

ha , i knew it wouldnt last,non pros thats the problem, its not as easy as it seems to pull of a mega tour, and i am not second guessing here i predicted this
when the first van halen thread started about this tour

I saw the New Orleans show on 8 February.
I would say it was mediocre at best.
Not very impressed and extremely disappointed I shelled out top dollar for a floor seat.
At least I had the luxury of walking to the arena from my flat.

I've seen them twice this tour (Staples, MGM) and they were great both times.

josh.

Uh - who keeps just screaming/yelping Jump? Is DLR actually 'singing'? It sounds like he's taking a shit the entire time.

And just what is it that Eddie is doing? I've never heard such bad guitar - oh wait, the usual drips at Guitar Center play about as good as that.

What a joke.

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I've seen them twice this tour (Staples, MGM) and they were great both times.

josh.

thats not the point, the point is that they did not finish the tour as most people predicted

It may have been my speaker. Some goofy set up, in mono. Hard to discern things.

Was Eddie playing like shit on that? Some of that sounded horrible.

.... wimpy band

My theory is that if the tour is over, but tickets are still on sale then they (the artist, promoter and Ticketmaster) are holding on to all the money deposited to allow the interest earned to rise a bit more before having to issue full refunds.

I saw only one show (Cleveland) and I felt bad for Dave. It came across to me that he had minimal creative input into the show except for allowing him to ride an inflatable microphone at the end of the show and a few minute Springsteen spokenword type into for "Ice Cream Man". They have not altered the set list in any shape or form since the first show. It's a great set list, but not worth it for a fan to see more than one show.

Eddie is a guitar hero. The stage has a catwalk into the crowd. Eddie cannot use it since he is not playing wireless. Fans want to be close to their hero. Dave uses the catwalk 4 times. The same 4 songs each show. Nothing is done on the fly.

It was ment as a trip down memory lane, but to me failed.

DLR was awesome with the baton in that clip...