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VAN HALEN PART 1 - EDDIE'S NEW PUBLICIST:
Press Release / Publicist Janie Liszewski has left the adult industry and her company High Profile Media to embark on a new chapter of her career. Effective immediately, Liszewski will be the exclusive PR rep for rocker Eddie Van Halen.
"This new venture does not allow me to do publicity in adult any longer," Liszewski explained to AVN.com, "but I want the opportunity to thank all of those who chose HPM for PR and also to all of the media, as I have worked in adult in several capacities since I was 18, and have made many good friends."
Liszewski met up with the Van Halen organization while working on the publicity for director Michael Ninn's Sacred Sin (Ninn Worx), for which Eddie Van Halen composed two songs.
The publicist's current slate includes the upcoming Van Halen tour scheduled for summer 2007. "I am so excited to be given the opportunity to work with such a legendary musical force and look forward to going on the road this summer," she added. "Obviously this is a dream come true in many capacities. I would like to thank everyone for all of their support for so many years.”
WebLink:
www.avn.com.
je sais qu'il y a plein de fans de Roth qui crache sur Hagar ...mais quand meme, je le trouve sympa et lucide ce mec (ce n'est que mon avis, bien sûr)
VAN HALEN PART 2 - HAGAR DOESN'T BUY RUMORED VAN HALEN TOUR WITH DLR:
Press Article / By John Soeder, Cleveland Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic / Van Halen scored a landslide victory in The Plain Dealer's seventh annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poll. We asked newspaper readers and visitors to
www.cleveland.com to tell us which nominees on the latest official Rock Hall ballot are most worthy of induction.
"Quite honestly, I'm not surprised," singer Sammy Hagar said when he was informed of the mandate. This was no time for false modesty, dude. "Me? Modest?" Hagar quipped, reached by phone recently at home in Mill Valley, Calif.
He joined Van Halen in 1985, replacing original vocalist David Lee Roth. Rounding out the group in its 1970s and '80s heyday were the Van Halen brothers -- guitar virtuoso Eddie and drummer Alex -- and bass player Michael Anthony.
The band has more than a dozen Top 40 hits, including "When It's Love," "Why Can't This Be Love" and the chart-topping "Jump."
Van Halen's music "is holding up really well," said Hagar, 59. "I'm not taking all the credit. I mean, the earlier stuff with Roth set the tone for the whole thing. Thank God when I joined the band, it didn't go down. We kept going. It was awesome."
If Van Halen is enshrined, it remains to be seen if the honor will extend to ex-Extreme vocalist Gary Cherone. He sang only on the 1998 album Van Halen III. Hagar had no idea if Cherone would share in any Rock Hall glory. "It would be a little strange," Hagar said. "But at the same time, he did his part."
Earlier this year, it was announced that Eddie Van Halen's 15-year-old son Wolfgang had replaced Anthony on bass. "I really have no idea - ppphhhttt! - what's going on," Hagar said. "Michael and I are friends, which is why he isn't in the band anymore."
Van Halen and Hagar went their separate ways in 1996. Eight years later, Hagar was back in the fold for a reunion tour. In the interim, he co-headlined a tour with Roth. There has been buzz lately about Van Halen hitting the road again with Roth. Hagar, for one, doesn't buy it. "
I'm not saying I don't want a Dave reunion," Hagar said. "I think their best bet after this would be to go out with Dave. But I don't see it working. "Ed, Wolfie, Alex and some new kid would be what I put my money on. That could happen.
"But Dave and Ed working together? I don't see it in a million years. I know 'em both." In fact, Hagar doubts Van Halen's members can put aside their differences even long enough to get through the Rock Hall ceremony. "I think it could be ugly," he said. "This might be the best one ever! It's what everybody wants. They want to see blows thrown and yelling and screaming and people making fools of themselves and trying to outshine each other. This could be a real comedy, man. This could be a reality series right here.
"I don't think it's gonna be a real friendly, beautiful scene. . . .I could go there and jam with them. Ed, Mike, Al and I probably could pull it off, 'cause we just did it [in 2004]. We were professional when we went onstage.
But you throw Dave in that mix, and I just don't see it working. Dave's gonna want it to be all about him. Ed's gonna want it to be all about him. And that's a tough one right there. I'll probably just be sitting over in the corner, cracking up." Hagar would like to see his first band, Montrose, get in the Rock Hall someday, too. "Montrose, man - we were Van Halen's heroes," he said. With a laugh, he added: "Maybe Van Halen could induct us!"
WebLink: whtq.com/music/hagar_on_roth_reunion.html.
Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.
