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j'avais vu ça le pb étant que c'est pendant le Hellfest puis ça fait vraiment loin de chez moi ... quoi qu'il en soit j'y avais passé un très bon moment en 2005 !

Je n'envisageais pas non plus d'y aller, mais c'est toujours une bonne nouvelle quand un festival revient

C'est sur le pb est que cela peut faire de l'ombre au Hellfest même si les affiche du FOR sont en général assez mainstream ...

De l'ombre au Hellfest??? bizarre, j'aurais pensé l'inverse. Et pour le mainstream j'ai fait que l'édition 2007, mais c'était très loin d'être mainstream j'ai trouvé...

Faire de l'ombre au Hellfest, je ne pense pas, il me semble que le Fields est plus petit, le festival est bien moins connu (d'autant que la dernière édition remonte à 2007) et c'est quand même assez éloigné. Il y a des chances que le Hellfest et le Fields Of Rock aient quelques groupes en commun, comme avec le Graspop d'ailleurs, mais je ne pense pas que ces festivals boxent dans la même catégorie.

Sur l'edition du FOR 2005 nous etions 50/60 000 donc si une edition d'une telle ampleur devait avoir lui le même week end que le Hellfest je pense que cela pourrai faire du "tord" au Hellfest avec les festivaliers du nord de la France ou de la Belgique.

Perso je trouve que l'affiche 2005 était assez mainstream en tout cas comparer au Hellfest:

Ah oui, effectivement

Ils attendent de voir l'impact du nouveau skeud, avant de lancer une tournée...encore faut il qu'il sorte
je ne suis qu'à moitié surpris donc pas déçu

Van Halen Download Festival 2012.
C'est la seule date européenne malheureusement

by Zegut...

Ouai ce serait tout de même moche ça!

Ouais, venir en Europe pour un seul concert, ça sentirait le très gros chèque pour l'exclusivité. Merci pour les fans.

Nouvel info Zgut:

David Lee Roth style

"Wait a second, wait a second," Roth tells the audience member. "Don't throw your garbage up on stage, throw your girlfriend asshole."

Le groupe annule une trentaine de dates entre juillet et septembre. C'est en fait un report apparemment, et pas une annulation. Je suis pas trop inquiet, ça doit juste être de la fatigue, parce qu'il faut dire qu'ils sont en tournée non stop depuis février, et cette tournée les aurait menés jusqu'à fin septembre sans plus d'une semaine de repos par ci par là.


According to Pollstar.com, VAN HALEN appears to have postponed over 30 dates on its 2012 North American tour, beginning with the July 7 concert at Uncasville, Connecticut and ending with the September 25 performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There has been no word yet as to the reason for the postponements.

The official press release from United Concerts, which was the promoter for the VAN HALEN concert at in Salt Lake City, Utah, reads: "The VAN HALEN show at EnergySolutions Arena Tuesday, September 4th has been temporarily postponed. Future dates to be announced. The on-sale for this Friday, May 18th is also postponed. Please hold on to your tickets until further information is available. We apologize for any inconvenience."

Remaining VAN HALEN dates:

May 19 - St. Paul, Minn., Xcel Energy Center
May 22 - Kansas City, Mo., Sprint Center
May 24 - Denver, Colo., Pepsi Center
May 27 - Las Vegas, Nev., MGM Grand Garden Arena
Jun. 01 - Los Angeles, Calif., Staples Center
Jun. 03 - Oakland, Calif., Oracle Arena
Jun. 05 - San Jose, Calif., HP Pavilion
Jun. 12 - Anaheim, Calif, Honda Center
Jun. 14 - San Diego, Calif – Viejas Arena
Jun. 16 - Phoenix, Ariz., US Airways Center
Jun. 20 - Dallas, Texas, American Airlines Center
Jun. 22 - San Antonio, Texas, AT&T Center
Jun. 24 - Houston, Texas, Toyota Center
Jun. 26 - New Orleans, La., New Orleans Arena

The following shows are no longer being listed on VAN HALEN's official web site:

Jul. 07 - Uncasville, Ct., Mohegan Sun Arena
Jul. 09 - Hampton, Va., Hampton Coliseum
Jul. 11 - Philadelphia, Pa., Wells Fargo Center
Jul. 13 - East Rutherford, N.J., Izod Center
Jul. 15 - Baltimore, Md., 1st Mariner Arena
Jul. 17 - Rochester N.Y., Blue Cross Arena
Jul. 19 - Detroit, Mich., Joe Louis Arena
Jul. 21 - London, Ontario, John Labatt Centre
Jul. 24 - Toledo, Ohio, Huntington Center
Jul. 26 - Grand Rapids, Mich., Van Andel Arena
Jul. 28 - Cleveland, Ohio, Quicken Loans Arena
Jul. 31 - Fort Wayne, Ind., Allen County Memorial Coliseum
Aug. 02 - Columbus, Ohio, Schottenstein Center
Aug. 04 - Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson-Boiling Arena
Aug. 06 - Memphis, Tenn., FedEx Forum
Aug. 08 - Birmingham, Ala., BJCC Arena
Aug. 10 - Greenville, S.C., BI-LO Center
Aug. 12 - Cincinnati, Ohio, US Bank Arena
Aug. 21 - Spokane, Wash., Spokane Arena
Aug. 23 - Portland, Ore., Rose Garden
Aug. 25 - Sacramento, Calif.,Power Balance Pavilion
Aug. 28 - Fresno, Calif., Save Mart Center
Aug. 30 - Reno, Nev., Reno Events Center
Sep. 04 – Salt Lake City, Utah - EnergySolutions Arena
Sep. 08 - Albuquerque, N.M., Tingley Coliseum
Sep. 11 - El Paso, Texas, Don Haskins Center
Sep. 13 - Austin, Texas, Frank Erwin Center
Sep. 15 - Oklahoma City, Okla., Chesapeake Energy Arena
Sep. 17 - Wichita, Kan. – Intrust Bank Arena
Sep. 21 - Moline, Ill., Iwireless Center
Sep. 25 - Milwaukee, Wis., Bradley Center

Il y a des rumeurs disant que la bonne entente de façade commencerait à se fissurer !

Once the news hit the interwebs, VH fanboys got all in a tizzy about the reason behind the delayed shows. Rolling Stone reported that “A source with knowledge of the tour tells Rolling Stone that Van Halen’s members ‘hate each other.’ Adds the source, ‘The band is arguing like mad. They are fighting.’”

Doesn’t sound good, but it wouldn’t be a total surprise to find out that DLR and EVH are butting heads. However, the normal course of action when a band is imploding (again) is to stop everything immediately. Why would VH continue to play 15 more shows?

Ha mais ça j'en doute pas qu'ils se détestent ! Enfin, qu'Eddie et Roth se détestent. De toutes façons, surtout avec Wolfgang dans le groupe, c'est les Van Halens d'un côté et Roth de l'autre, c'est évident. Mais justement, je pense qu'ils n'ont jamais cessé de se détester. Ils se tolèrent pour travailler ensemble. Et là, ça fait trop d'un coup, donc vaut mieux qu'ils reportent les concerts de cet été !

Le groupe s'est empressé de démentir ces rumeurs avec une floppée de communiqués :

"First off, no one in the band is sick. No health problems. Second, we knew right away that Rolling Stone’s “source” is completely wrong, and can not possibly be a person with actual inside knowledge of the tour, because all four band members have been getting along splendidly throughout the entire tour. Roth and the Van Halen’s talk every day, and they are all smiles on stage. Everyone who’s seen the tour or even youtube videos can confirm that.

In fact, the band is on such a high from playing together this year and they were really taken aback by the Rolling Stone quote. They’re older and wiser and haven’t had any issues with one another.

Why were these dates postponed? The band has been working tirelessly for the last 18 months – writing and recording A Different Kind Of Truth, filming the 'Tattoo' video, rehearsing, putting together the show themselves (lighting, the videos, the stage, routing the tour, and lots of behind the scenes stuff that most people don’t even know about). The band wants the second leg to be as awesome as the first. And for that to happen they want to put more time into the planning of it. Not just continue on with the same show.

Van Halen is very enthusiastic about the rest of the tour and wants be on the road for a long time. Just how long remains to be seen, but we’ll say that the tour will probably continue into next year. They are now considering touring Australia and Japan in the near future.

As it stands now, the 31 postponed US shows are due to be rescheduled. There should be some sort of official announcement forthcoming."

According to TMZ.com, VAN HALEN decided to postpone 31 of its previously announced summer concerts because the guys in the band felt like the current schedule was "too much, too fast" and they were "losing their focus." The site quotes a source "close to the band" as saying "They're simply burned out" and adding, "They want to make sure their concerts are not a routine ... they want every performance to be special." The members of the group want to take some time to "recharge their engines" and return to the road with a renewed energy and enthusiasm.

As for rumors that Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth are feuding, TMZ.com's source states, "It's total B.S."

VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth has released a videotaped message for the fans explaining the reasons for the postponement of 31 of the band's concerts — starting from their July 7 show at Uncasville, Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Arena through their September 25 concert at Milwaukee's Bradley Center.

Un unnamed insider close to the band told Rolling Stone that VAN HALEN's members "hate each other" and that "the band is arguing like mad. They are fighting." The magazine questioned an industry source as to why the band is, seemingly, shelving such a large amount of dates, saying: "You want to know the absolute fuckin' truth? I have no fuckin' idea." A source at the 10,000-seat Mohegan Sun Arena, where the band was scheduled to play on July 7, said: "It's selling pretty good — I don't know why they would say it's being canceled."

In the videotaped statement, which can be seen below, Roth says, "The band is getting along famously, better than we have in quite some time, and I think the shows reveal that through the miracle of YouTube. I think we're one of the few bands who relishes you bringing whatever camera — if you can carry it in and pull the trigger on it yourself, then please do. And through the eye of YouTube, you can see that we're having ourselves a hell of a time, and I think that translates into the music. As usual, we've bit off way more than we could chew when it came to scheduling. The band is winning but our schedule has been sidelined for unnecessary roughness. If we continue past July 4 and all the way into Australia and Japan, then we're asking for the robot-zombie tour when you start getting a lot of 'yes' questions. [Adopts robotic voice] 'Do you feel alright' 'Yes.' 'Are you having a good time?' 'Ahh…' You don't wanna get to that point. And we're nowhere near that point. But we're gonna take a break and we're gonna come all the way back around, because this tour is gonna take us about two years. And we're the guys who brought you KOOL & THE GANG as the ultimate and arguably left-handed top bill co-headline tour — they just went on first every night — and we have in mind a supersize monster truck rally VAN HALEN tractor pull sort of event, and we're gonna be bringing that back around for the United States as soon as we learn to speak Australian. So stay tuned and we'll see you down the road in just a little bit."

A major selling point of VAN HALEN and David Lee Roth reuniting was that all of the squabbles and musical differences that tore the band apart in the mid-'80s had been resolved — a point that Roth and Van Halen have always been quick to drive home to the public. "We really have reformed this team like a brother team that it never was before," Roth said, according to The Pulse Of Radio. "I think you hear that in my voice here, and we think we got it right this time. You come and judge the performance harshly. Please, I beg you, come on down and see." Added Eddie Van Halen: "None of us want to give you less than our best and we are at our best."

Sammy Hagar dit par contre qu'il en était "sûr"

Right now, Sammy Hagar is awfully glad he's not in Van Halen anymore.

The legendary rock band he led for more than a decade after replacing David Lee Roth in 1986 launched a tour in February with Roth back at the helm. But Van Halen on Thursday postponed dozens of shows this summer that had been scheduled for months, without giving a reason.

Hagar thinks he knows why.

"They're hard people to get along with, those brothers," Hagar told The Associated Press on Friday. "Otherwise I'd still be in the band.

"I'm surprised it took this long" for the tour to experience major difficulties, he added. "I predicted this was going to happen a lot sooner. I lost money on that bet!"

Un concert complet par un fan :



01. Unchained
02. Runnin' With The Devil
03. She's The Woman
04. Romeo Delight
05. Tattoo
06. Everybody Wants Some!!
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. China Town
09. Hear About It Later
10. Oh, Pretty Woman (ROY ORBISON Cover)
11. Drum Solo
12. You Really Got Me (THE KINKS cover)
13. The Trouble With Never
14. Dance The Night Away
15. I'll Wait
16. And The Cradle Will Rock…
17. Hot For Teacher
18. Women In Love
19. Beautiful Girls
20. Ice Cream Man (JOHN BRIM cover)
21. Panama
22. Guitar Solo
23. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
24. Jump

Wahou, une news au sujet de Van Halen sur le site de TF1

"Eddie Van Halen opéré, le groupe Van Halen annule une tournée "
http://lci.tf1.fr/people/eddie-van-hale ... 85481.html

Il est même resté 3 semaines à l’hôpital, et devra se reposer pendant 4 à 6 mois :

VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen spent three weeks in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for diverticulitis, and will now need four to six months at home to recover from the procedure.

According to CNN (as reported by Van Halen News Desk), the guitarist first developed the condition while on tour and had a serious flare-up once he came off the road.

The long hospital stay was required because surgery to remove the infected intestine resulted in another infection when Van Halen popped a few stitches.

Diverticulitis is a digestive disease that occurs when pouches of the inner lining of the intestine, most often in the colon, become inflamed or infected. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, fever and cramping.

Ouai on est pas prêt de les voir tourner en Europe surtout s'ils exigent retrouver l'équivalent en terme de chiffre

voici les vrais chiffre de la tournée US :

This all courtesy of Pollstar's bi-annual Top 100 Tours page.


Tour gross: $44,900,000

Average ticket price: $100.11

Average number of tickets sold per show: 9,513

Total number of tickets sold: 448,506

Average gate per show: $955,319

Cities/Shows: 47/49

Agency: Azoffmusic Management

lelite a écrit :
Average number of tickets sold per show: 9,513

C'est tout ?
Je pensais qu'ils remplissaient en moyenne 20 à 25 000 places par live aux US moi...

Ben ouai c'est vrai que pour les US c'est pas énorme, mais cela reste une moyenne; Ils ont tournés partout ! je pense que pour des villes comme L.A. ou New York ce doit être plus autour des 20 000.
Mais surtout il y a eu une bonne dizaine d'années d'absence du groupe sur la scène musicale, le grunge, le prix des places etc... je ne sais pas si Motley ou Kiss rameute beaucoup plus là bas

Eddie aurait même frôlé la mort en fait :

According to Radaronline.com, VAN HALEN guitar legend Eddie Van Halen was on the brink of death recently when doctors battled to save him after his intestines "exploded," the new issue of the National Enquirer exclusively reveals.

The 57-year-old guitarist was clinging to life when he was rushed to the hospital in excruciating pain after swallowing a cayenne-based diet concoction, revealed an insider.

Oula, c'est bien plus grave ce que je pensais en fait.
Il a du en chier le pauvre.

According to David Lee Roth, VAN HALEN will embark on an Extensive European tour before the end of the year.

The singer revealed the news during an appearance Monday morning (March 11) on "The Opie & Anthony Show" on SiriusXM satellite radio. "We're going to be playing Europe — probably 50, 60 shows outside of the States, starting at the end of this year, and then come back around through the U.S.," he said.

Pour de bon ou pas cette fois ci?