Van Halen is back -- with David Lee Roth
Roth will rejoin his old band mates for a national tour that is
scheduled to reach the Southland in June.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
January 25, 2007

Give credit (or blame?) to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: David Lee
Roth is back with Van Halen and planning to tour.

The mercurial Roth, who officially left Van Halen on April Fool's Day
in 1985, will reunite with his old band for a tour that kicks off in
North Carolina in early May and includes June stops in L.A., Orange and
San Diego counties, according to sources in the concert industry.

Joining Roth will be guitar hero Eddie Van Halen and drummer Alex Van
Halen. But bassist Michael Anthony reportedly will be replaced by Eddie
Van Halen's teenage son Wolfgang.

The band had been planning a splashy press conference in L.A. to
announce the news, but word leaked out Thursday. There had been intense
speculation that the reunion might happen after the announcement this
month that the band would be inducted into the Hall of Fame in New York
on March 12.