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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Rock Star Van Halen? 

We all remember Rock Star INXS. Ok, I do, but maybe a lot of you don't given the dismal ratings despite the record budget put into making and marketing the show. Undeterred from low ratings, the Rock Star franchise pushes on and the rumor mill is heating up with reports that Van Halen will be the next band to lift an unknown singer out of obscurity and into the limelight.

One person isn't happy at all about the news. Former Van Halen frontman extraordinaire David Lee Roth all but begged the VH brothers to forgo the reality show and give him his old job back. My drive to work this morning was less than 10 minutes, but in that short time span Diamond Dave made no less than a half dozen pleas to be taken back by the group - and he still had around another hour or so left on the air.

Dave was right when he said this morning that neither VH or himself would achieve any more significant music success than they could if they reunited.

Comments:
Dave did anything but beg. And he wasn't appealing to be taken back by the band, at least not for good. What he rightly demanded was for the VH brothers to accept a deal offered to all of them to do a three-month, eighty-show summer tour. Dave made it abundantly clear he wanted the closure for all involved. And he didn't say they could do nothing any more significant than they could if they got back together. What he said was that fans would take nothing any of them do seriously until they get their reunion, and he was spot on.
 
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