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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
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David Lee Roth Is Back — With More Van Halen Songs Than Ever
As Alex Van Halen told Rolling Stone last fall, a tour reuniting the drummer and David Lee Roth didn't come to fruition after Eddie Van Halen's death in 2020. But at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland, Saturday night, Van Halen fans were accorded the next best thing: Roth's return to the stage after five years, playing a set comprised completely of songs from his former band. Other than a corporate gig for Home Depot in 2023, the last time most people saw Roth onstage was more than five years ago, when he opened for Kiss and played a roughly dozen-song set largely comprised of Van Halen songs but also slipping in 'Just a Gigolo'/'I Ain't Got Nobody,' one of his solo hits. The pandemic shut down the rest of the tour, and a scheduled 2022 series of shows at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, which were called farewell gigs, was canceled over coronavirus concerns. More from Rolling Stone Sammy Hagar Brings Out Kesha, Resurrects Van Halen Classics at Vegas Residency Kickoff Sammy Hagar to Alex Van Halen: 'Just Leave Me Alone. I'll Leave You Alone' Hear the Song that Sammy Hagar Wrote With Eddie Van Halen in a Dream Saturday's set, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, was a different animal. Grinning ear to ear, clad in black leather, and joking about his 'retirement,' Roth and his current band opened the 75-minute set with 'Panama' before winding their way through Van Halen standards ('Runnin' With the Devil,' 'Jamie's Cryin',' 'And the Cradle Will Rock …') and deep cuts ('Atomic Punk,' 'Drop Dead Legs') before wrapping up with 'Hot for Teacher,' 'Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love,' and, naturally, 'Jump.' Roth's band featured guitarist Al Estrada, who replicated many of Eddie's licks, and four backup singers, who ably handled and bolstered the harmonies on songs like 'Jump' and 'Dance the Night Away.' In between songs, Roth reminisced about Van Halen's early days (and the origins of the song breakdowns in those sets) and, in a very Dave way, the Lieutenant Uhura character in the original Star Trek TV series. The three-night M3 Rock Festival also featured sets by Ace Frehley, Sebastian Bach, Great White, Warrant, Vixen, Winger, and Lita Ford. Matters between Roth and the Van Halen camp have been never been warm and cozy, but in the aftermath of Eddie's death, emotions still appear to be raw. As he told RS, Alex suggested what he called 'a very overt — not a bowing — but an acknowledgment of Ed' in the discussed tour with Roth, but that the singer 'fuckin' popped a fuse' and, in Alex's words, found the idea 'offensive.' Also to RS, Sammy Hagar recently groused about the Sam and Dave 2002 tour that brought the two former VH frontmen together, albeit for separate sets. ''Dave always wants too much,' Hagar told RS. 'He always tries to upstage.' But onstage with his own band, Roth appeared to be enjoying himself, especially when he riffed on the enduring karaoke appeal of 'Dance the Night Away' and the time an ex-girlfriend would drunkenly sing along with it in the passenger seat of his car. 'It was the sexiest fucking thing I've ever seen,' he said. 'I think about that every time I sing this song.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Los Angeles Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
David Lee Roth returns to the stage amid Van Halen drama
Diamond Dave is back in the live business. David Lee Roth performed his first public concert in more than five years Saturday night at the M3 music festival in Columbia, Md. — a 75-minute set of classics by his old band Van Halen, according to Rolling Stone, in which he was accompanied by a band that included guitarist Al Estrada and four backing vocalists. According to a set list published by Ultimate Classic Rock, Roth, 70, opened the concert with Van Halen's 'Panama' and went on to play 'You Really Got Me,' 'Dance the Night Away,' 'Runnin' with the Devil,' 'Jamie's Cryin',' 'Hot for Teacher' and other Van Halen hits before closing with the band's Hot 100-topping 'Jump.' Ultimate Classic Rock reported that Roth joked onstage that the show marked 'the end of my first retirement' — a reference to his announcement in late 2021 that he was calling it quits due to unspecified health issues. Early Monday, Ticketmaster listed more than a dozen upcoming shows by Roth starting July 22 at the California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles. Roth's most recent show before Saturday's was a private 2023 corporate gig for Home Depot, according to Rolling Stone; before that, he opened for Kiss on a tour that ended in March 2020 amid widespread cancellations and postponements related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The singer was scheduled to play a residency in Las Vegas in early 2022 but called off the shows before they happened. Saturday's performance came as Sammy Hagar — who replaced Roth as Van Halen's frontman in 1985 — has been talking publicly about Van Halen, whose founding guitarist, Eddie Van Halen, died in 2020. Last month, ahead of Hagar's appearance at Indio's Stagecoach festival, Hagar told The Times that he and Eddie had discussed a reunion before the guitarist's death and that Eddie had asked him not to talk about the plans with Eddie's brother, Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen. Hagar went on to tell Rolling Stone that he thinks Alex — who made no mention of Hagar in his 2024 memoir — is angry at him because 'I'm out doing it … and he can't.' After Stagecoach, Hagar launched a Vegas residency at the Park MGM. Van Halen's final concert took place in October 2015 at the Hollywood Bowl — the second of two dates in the band's Los Angeles hometown to wrap a tour featuring Roth on vocals and Eddie's son Wolfgang Van Halen on bass.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jimmy Fallon Launches Zinger Of The Night To Nail How Bad Trump's Economy Is
President Donald Trump's tariff war is wreaking havoc on the stock market amid fears of a recession, prompting Jimmy Fallon to offer expert analysis Tuesday on just how grim things are. 'Right now the economy is so bad, Elon Musk is thinking about laying off Donald Trump,' the 'Tonight Show' host cracked. OK, so maybe it wasn't expert analysis but it was funny. The audience responded with extended applause and Fallon took it in with a big smile. But the comedian wasn't done: 'People are saying Trump doesn't know anything about the economy and they might have a point: He thinks bear markets are where RFK Jr. buys his lunch meat. Trump thinks duopoly is the artist who sings 'Dance the Night Away' (Dance the Night) and 'Levitating.' Trump thinks that endowment is what the dad in 'The White Lotus' showed under his robe last night.′ ' Fast-forward to :45 for Fallon's on-the-money jabs at the president: Jimmy Fallon Savagely Sums Up Trump's First 2 Months In Office In 4 Words Jimmy Fallon Suggests The Next Country For Trump To Take Over And It's A Doozy Jimmy Fallon Names The Oscar Winner Who Perhaps Admired Trump's Speech
