GUITARIST MARK TREMONTI REVEALS THAT VAN HALEN IS WORKING ON NEW MUSIC
Mark Tremonti has revealed that Van Halen are busy working on new music after explaining the band’s studio time is preventing Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen from working with Tremonti in his solo band.
Chatting to VH1 Radio Network’s Dave Basner about any news on Tremonti’s self-titled solo band he said: “With Wolfgang in the band now, he does a lot of work with Van Halen right now, they’re putting together a new album, so it’s going to be hard to get everybody’s schedules to line up. You know, he doesn’t [say how the music is going]. He just says, ‘Yeah, sounds great, man. Sounds great.”
Van Halen singer David Lee Roth confirmed last year the band’s intention to record a new album to follow on from the well received A Different Kind of Truth which was released in 2012. That record was an collection of songs which could be traced back to the band’s earliest days.
The album debuted at Number two on the Billboard album chart, selling 187,000 copies in its first week of release.
source: classicrockmagazine.com
Hope it isn’t cassette jams from ’80 rescued from the old EVH trunk with Roth adding 2014 lyrics from driving his lowrider around Altadena. Right about the last album….I heard some that stuff years ago in other forms. They look like Night Of The Living Dead there….somebody get smilin’ new color shots in Malibu Canyon.
I wasnt very thrilled with the last album. I dont think DLR doesnt sound good at all. But to each his own. I was just hoping it would have been better
As a fan of the band, I’d hope to think they can come up with some genuinely new ideas, even though a large part of ADKOT was based on older material, and was largely good. We’ll see. I agree with Eddie that it won’t happen overnight, and DLR even talked about an 18 month period to get it together. Funny how bands used to put out a record per year or more. VH fans have learned to be patient. No choice. I’m curious as to what went down with the songs they recorded around 2000-01 when supposedly they were going to release new material with DLR. Was that material the basis for some of ADKOT, or will it ever see the light of day. Michael Anthony was quoted as having a copy of it and said that it was pretty good. Apparently lawyers got involved, and the progress was stalled and they never completed a full album then. Not sure, but the timing would have been good given the debacle that VH III turned out to be. Oh well, moving onward…
Wasn’t there an article a few years ago where Mark Tremonti said that Van Halen was working on new music?
I just hope it’s way better than the last one. That was a huge letdown, IMO.
Letdown? Are you seriously saying that?