{"id":2445524,"date":"2019-06-20T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850466"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:36:59","slug":"michael-anthony-van-halen-pulled-the-plug-on-summer-reunion-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/michael-anthony-van-halen-pulled-the-plug-on-summer-reunion-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Anthony: Van Halen \u2018Pulled the Plug\u2019 on Summer Reunion Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Van Halen<\/a> bassist Michael Anthony says he was approached last year about the possibility of a reunion tour with the band that was supposed to take place this summer. It would have been the first time all four members of the classic David Lee Roth lineup shared a stage since 1984.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure you know Sammy [Hagar] had made a statement [earlier in the year] saying I was offered [to do a tour with Van Halen],\u201d Anthony told radio host Eddie Trunk on Wednesday. \u201cAnd I can tell you, I spoke with [Van Halen\u2019s manager] Irving Azoff last October \u2014 that\u2019s when I first heard from him \u2014 and he asked if I would be interested in any kind of a reunion, and I told him, I said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 I was finishing up a couple of shows with Sammy and I said, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019d be interested to hear what you guys have going on. I\u2019ve got these few dates left, and give me a call.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A follow-up call from Azoff never came, Anthony says. \u201cAnd then, right after the first of the year, David Lee Roth\u2019s business manager or lawyer, or something, got ahold of me about a meeting or something,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so at that point, I gave it over to our manager, because I didn\u2019t wanna start getting in this whole thing \u2014 I wanted to do it the correct way, especially after the way things went for me in 2004. From what I\u2019ve heard, and I haven\u2019t spoken to any of the guys, they were gonna try to plan a thing for this summer, And for whatever reason\u2026 I was never\u2026 My people were never\u2026 They never got in touch with us about any kind of a contract or any kind of a meeting to discuss or whatever. And the next thing I knew, the plug got pulled on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point, Anthony was so confident it might happen that he asked for the Circle \u2013 the current group he plays in with Sammy Hagar, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson \u2013 to give him time off in the summer. \u201cThe reason the Circle is taking a break right now is that if things would have worked out as they were starting to go and was planned, we would have been in pre-production rehearsals with Van Halen right now,\u201d he told Trunk.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear why the tour didn\u2019t happen, though Roth did give a somewhat cryptic statement about the group earlier this month. \u201cPlenty of music coming up,\u201d he told the music interview website Toazted.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m gonna be seeing the Van Halen brothers in the next week or so. We\u2019ll be talking what\u2019s coming up then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Halen parted ways with Anthony at the end of their 2004 reunion tour with Hagar. Eddie brought his teenage song Wolfgang into the band on bass and he\u2019s been there ever since, though the band has been on hiatus since the end of their 2015 summer tour. Wolfgang has been working on a solo album for many years, but there\u2019s no word on when it might come out and what it might mean for his future in Van Halen. In typical Van Halen fashion, the group hasn\u2019t commented on any of this.<\/p>\n

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Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony says he was approached last year about the possibility of a reunion tour with the band that was supposed to take place this summer. It would have been the first time all four members of the classic David Lee Roth lineup shared a stage since 1984. \u201cI\u2019m sure you […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 06:45:07","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}