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NOW IT IS OFFICIAL: VAN HALEN REUNITED WITH SAMMY HAGAR

The world's worst kept secret, the Van Halen reunion with Sammy Hagar, is now out in the open after promoter Clear Channel posted tour dates at their web site ahead of the official announcement.
 
The tour will start on June 13 in Hershey, PA. Other cities locked in so far are Detroit, East Rutherford, Greensboro, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, St Louis, St Paul, Wilkes-Barre and Worcester.
 
The Van Halen reunion tour has been in the planning stages since last year when the VH brothers and former frontman Sammy Hagar put aside past differences and started their first dialogue since Hagar was sacked from the band.
 
Sammy found out second-hand he was no longer in the group. The band started recording with David Lee Roth behind his back. "It actually made it easier for me when they got David Lee Roth back in the band for me to go well the hell with you guys" he told Undercover News in 1999." This is like really back-stabbing. They were rehearsing with Roth for two weeks before I even found out about it. After 10 great years of camaraderie they turn on me like that".
 
For Sammy, Van Halen had become a corporation with no soul. "It was just a business deal for them" he said.
 
Sammy recalled his last tour with Van Halen. "In Van Halen, it became "I don't wanna do that song" then someone else would say "well I don't wanna do that one". So we couldn't jam anymore on stage and we became sterilized" he said. "That's the only complaint I have about the last tour with Van Halen. It was totally sterile".
 
He also said the recording process had deteriorated for the band. "When everyone is compromising each other and getting off on the compromise, when I would come up with an idea and Eddie would say "I think we should put it in this key" or whatever, and you'd think "oh yeah that's even better", that's a good compromise" he said. "But when it starts becoming a hassle, like it was with the last two things we tried to do, like the Twister soundtrack song 'Human Beings', it took us four months to record one stupid song. That's not a good compromise. That's when everyone doesn't know what they want. They don't want what you're doing and it's like "I don't like that", "well I don't like that", "Put it in another key", "well maybe you should sing it lower" "maybe you should play it like this" and you know it just becomes this butcher job where no-one gets their way. And you end up with something that is brown instead of the colour that you wanted it. That caused so much tension in the band for me in that last year where I got to the point where I didn't want to compromise anymore".
 
Warner will release a second volume of Greatest Hits with three new songs featuring Sammy to coincide with the tour.