Diamond Dave is back in the live sector.
David Lee Roth played his first public concert in more than five years on Saturday evening at the M3 Music Festival in Columbia, MD. – A set of 75 -minute classics by his old Van Halen group, according to At Rolling Stone, in which he was accompanied by a group which included guitarist Al Estrada and four singers.
According to a defined list published By Ultimate Classic Rock, Roth, 70, opened the concert with “Panama” by Van Halen and continued to play “You Really Got Me”, “Dance the Night Away”, “Runnin 'with the Devil”, “Jamie's Cryin'”, “Hot for Teacher” and other Van Halen before closing with the “Hot-Topping band. “”
Ultimate Classic Rock reported that Roth joked on stage that the show marked “the end of my first retirement” – a reference to his announcement at the end of 2021 that he called this due to unpertified health problems. Early Monday, Ticketmaster listed more than a dozen to come from Roth from July 22 at California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles.
The latest Roth show before Saturday was a private concert in 2023 for Home Depot, according to Rolling Stone; Before that, it opened its doors for a kiss during a tour which ended in March 2020 in the midst of generalized cancellations and postpones linked to the COVVI-19 pandemic. The singer had to play a residence in Las Vegas in early 2022, but canceled the shows before they occur.
The performance of Saturday came while Sammy Hagar – who replaced Roth as a leader of Van Halen in 1985 – spoke publicly about Van Halen, including the founding guitarist, Eddie Van Halen ,, Died in 2020.
Last month, before Hagar's appearance at the Indio, Hagar Stagecoach Festival said to The Times That he and Eddie had discussed a meeting before the death of the guitarist and that Eddie had asked him not to talk about the plans with Eddie's brother, the drummer of Van Halen Alex Van Halen.
Hagar went to say Rolling Stone, whom he thinks that Alex – who made no mention of Hagar in his memories in 2024 – is angry with him because “I came out … and he cannot.” After Stagecoach, Hagar launched a Vegas residence at MGM Park.
Van Halen's final concert took place in October 2015 at the Hollywood Bowl – the second of two dates In the hometown of Los Angeles of the group to wrap a tour of Roth in the song and the son of Eddie, Wolfgang Van Halen, in the bass.
