{"id":491538,"date":"2019-10-22T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=902396"},"modified":"2019-10-22T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:09:36","slug":"flashback-van-halen-play-a-fiery-everybody-wants-some-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-van-halen-play-a-fiery-everybody-wants-some-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Van Halen Play a Fiery \u2018Everybody Wants Some!!\u2019 in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van Halen<\/a> fans can be excused for feeling a little confused at the moment. David Lee Roth<\/a>, on the promotional trail for his upcoming Las Vegas show, has been telling the press that the band is essentially over. \u201cIt\u2019s been canceled a number of times and I think Van Halen\u2019s finished,\u201d he recently said.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ve inherited the band, de facto, whatever that means. I think it means, you\u2019ve inherited it, carry this proudly. Van Halen isn\u2019t going to be coming back in the fashion that you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t explained why exactly the band is \u201cfinished,\u201d but he did not dispute the (completely unsubstantiated) reports that Eddie Van Halen is going through some sort of health crisis. \u201cI hear all the same rumors that you do,\u201d he said, \u201cand it\u2019s not my place to guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

TMZ tried to fill in some of the gaps earlier this month when they ran a report<\/a> about Eddie going to Germany to receive treatments for throat cancer. (Again, none of this has been confirmed by anybody and could be completely wrong.) But then last night, TMZ ran a story<\/a> about the guitarist going to a Tool concert in Los Angeles. \u201cHe\u2019s super stoked to see the band rock out,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThe sad medical news had some folks thinking Eddie was on his death bed, but we\u2019re told that\u2019s anything but the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They also ran a recent photo of Van Halen at a Beverly Hills car dealership just days ago where he posed with an employee and appeared to be OK. He\u2019s not doing interviews, but the message is getting out there that rumors may be wrong or grossly exaggerated. But as is typical in Van Halen world, only a tiny handful of people really know what\u2019s happening \u2014 and none of them are talking.<\/p>\n

David Lee Roth\u2019s decision to play Van Halen hits, along with songs from his solo catalog, in Las Vegas does seem to suggest that the band won\u2019t be active for quite some time. Here\u2019s video of the group playing \u201cEverybody Wants Some!!\u201d at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on June 12th, 2012. They were touring in support of A Different Kind of Truth<\/em>, which may wind up being their final album. Then again, they might hit the road with Sammy Hagar in a few months and release 10 more albums. Just like everyone else, we have no idea what is really going on.<\/p>\n

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Van Halen fans can be excused for feeling a little confused at the moment. David Lee Roth, on the promotional trail for his upcoming Las Vegas show, has been telling the press that the band is essentially over. \u201cIt\u2019s been canceled a number of times and I think Van Halen\u2019s finished,\u201d he recently said. \u201cI\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:04:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}