EOnline reports that The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-bound band—Roth included—is now thisclose to inking a deal with Live Nation for a 40-date amphitheater tour, billboard.com reported Wednesday.
Roth, who unceremoniously parted ways with Van Halen in 1985, told the music magazine's Website eight months ago that getting him and his former hair-band brothers back together would not be "rocket surgery."
"It's very simple to put together," Roth said. "And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam, like what's-her-name at the end of the movie Chicago—'So what? It's showbiz!' So I definitely see it happening."
Unlike, say, his career in morning radio.
The former heavy metal frontman last rocked out with his fellow "Hot for Teacher" artists in 1996, when they recorded a few songs that ended up on the greatest hits album Best of Volume I. But an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards that year by all four original bandmates—siblings Eddie and Alex Van Halen, Roth and bassist Michael Anthony—proved that the guys weren't really ready to reconcile.
