David Lee Roth Responds to Hagar’s Tour Offer: ‘Let’s Do This’

Hell could have simply frozen over, as a result of David Lee Roth says he is keen to carry out with Sammy Hagar.

Final week, Hagar introduced that he and founding Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony could be joined by Jason Bonham and Joe Satriani for the Better of All Worlds tour, which is able to characteristic a set checklist closely centered on Hagar’s decade-long run as Van Halen’s second lead singer.

“If Alex Van Halen desires to leap up, if David Lee Roth desires to come back out and be a part of us, come on, motherfucker,” Hagar stated whereas saying the tour on the Howard Stern present. “You might be welcome. That is about Van Halen.”

In a quick assertion issued to the Van Halen Information Desk right now, Roth seems to just accept the invite, saying: “I am able to go. Let’s do that.” The positioning additionally says they’ve it on “superb authority” that up to now no one from Hagar’s camp has reached out to Roth with any formal invitation.

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The 2 singers have recurrently sparred within the press ever since Hagar changed Roth as Van Halen’s lead singer in 1985. He acrimoniously departed the group in 1996, returning briefly for an much more disastrous 2004 tour. Roth briefly rejoined Van Halen to report two new songs for a best hits compilation in 1996, then returned once more in 2007, remaining with the group till guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s 2020 dying.

In 2002, Roth and Hagar joined forces for a joint headlining tour. Hagar repeatedly pushed for the 2 to share the stage, however was persistently rebuffed by Roth. “It grew to become a operating joke,” he later defined. “I used to go beat on his dressing room and he would not even reply the door, and I might say, ‘Yo Diamond! You prepared tonight? You able to exit and do it?’ It’s a must to have a humorousness about it.”

Hagar’s Better of All Worlds tour is scheduled to kick off July 13 in West Palm Seaside.