{"id":2445536,"date":"2019-06-20T11:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850531"},"modified":"2019-06-20T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:09:18","slug":"flashback-van-halen-play-aint-talkin-bout-love-at-wild-1984-detroit-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-van-halen-play-aint-talkin-bout-love-at-wild-1984-detroit-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Van Halen Play \u2018Ain\u2019t Talkin\u2019 \u2018Bout Love\u2019 at Wild 1984 Detroit Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Anthony made pretty big Van Halen news earlier this this week<\/a> when he revealed that he was approached last year by the band\u2019s management about a reunion tour. A representative from David Lee Roth\u2019s team also called him, and he was so confident it was in the works that he asked The Circle \u2014 his current group with Sammy Hagar, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson \u2014 to take a break during the summer so he could be a part of the supposed tour. \u201cThey never got in touch with us about any kind of a contract or any kind of a meeting to discuss or whatever,\u201d Anthony said. \u201cAnd the next thing I knew, the plug got pulled on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tour would have marked the first time that the classic lineup of Van Halen<\/a> played together in public since the end of the 1984 tour. That was the peak of the gourd\u2019s popularity, when singles like \u201cJump,\u201d \u201cHot For Teacher and \u201cPanama\u201d were all over the radio and MTV. Check out this video of the band performing \u201cAin\u2019t Talkin\u2019 \u2018Bout Love\u201d at Detroit\u2019s Cobo Hall on April 5th, 1984.<\/p>\n

MTV was in the house shooting the gig because Van Halen fan Kurt Jefferis won their Lost Weekend contest and was flown out to party with the band that day. As you can see in the video, they bring Jefferis onto the stage during the song and throw a cake in his face before drenching him with champaign. The new documentary short Lost Weekend<\/em> (which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year) reveals that things got far wilder backstage when the cameras were off and Jefferis drank Jack Daniels, snorted a few lines of cocaine and got into a shower with a naked groupie. \u201cI blacked out, and the next thing I remember is waking up in a hotel room bed,\u201d he said. \u201cMy head was killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Halen obviously aren\u2019t on any sort of tour right now, with or without Michael Anthony, but David Lee Roth recently said he\u2019s meeting with the brothers soon to talk about the future. And wherever Jefferis is these days, I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be happy to come backstage on the next tour for another round of fun.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Anthony made pretty big Van Halen news earlier this this week when he revealed that he was approached last year by the band\u2019s management about a reunion tour. A representative from David Lee Roth\u2019s team also called him, and he was so confident it was in the works that he asked The Circle \u2014 […]<\/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-2445536","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 06:44:40","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\/2445536","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=2445536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}