Van Halen Would Like To Thank You For All That Money

anthonyjmiccio | June 5, 2008 12:00 pm

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Despite Eddie’s rehab stint turning a summer tour into a fall tour, despite Eddie’s health (and rumors of a feud with the band) causing postponements later in the tour, and despite replacing their bassist of more than 25 years with Eddie’s frikkin’ child (who looks more like the child of Valerie Bertinelli and Danny Partridge), the recent Van Halen reunion tour made a whopping $93 million plus, easily making it the top grossing tour in the band’s history. All that’s currently planned for the future is a live DVD and a spot on Guitar Hero World Tour, but I’d be surprised if Dave and Eddie won’t at least try to work up some new material, only to split again when Dave changes Eddie’s song “The Dream Of Love” to “Wolfie and The Hand Jive.”

Meanwhile, Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar had an understandable response to the news of Van Halen’s success at the last date of the recent tour.

(OK, this was actually taken in 2004, but talk about prescient.)

Van Halen Tour Grosses More Than $93 Mil [Billboard] Wolfgang Van Halen getting “beat up” at the LA concert. [YouTube]