In celebration of a 2015 Summer/Fall North American Tour, Van Halen will perform a special concert for Jimmy Kimmel Live March 30th on Hollywood Boulevard. Featuring some of the band’s essential rock and roll classics, the concert will be broadcast over two nights, March 30th and March 31st, on the late night talk show and marks Van Halen’s first U.S. television performance with original lead singer David Lee Roth. Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. / 10:35 p.m. Central time on ABC.
Van Halen is touring North America beginning July 5th in Seattle, Washington at the White River Amphitheater, with concerts scheduled through October 2nd in Los Angeles, California at the legendary Hollywood Bowl. Special guest Kenny Wayne Shepherd will support all dates along the tour. Tickets for the Live Nation-promoted tour go on sale beginning April 4th at ticketmaster.com and livenation.com with special pre-sale information being announced locally. A complete list of tour dates can be found below.
The special Hollywood Boulevard concert will be a hit-heavy set of songs featured on Tokyo Dome Live In Concert, the first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21st, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Dome Live In Concert includes 23 songs spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth. It is being released as a double CD, four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl and digitally beginning March 31, 2015. Fans who pre-order Tokyo Dome Live In Concert before its March 31st release date through Amazon and digitally at iTunes will instantly receive downloads of Panama, Runnin’ With The Devil, Jump and Hot For Teacher.
Also being released beginning March 31st are remastered versions of Van Halen and 1984, with remastered versions of Diver Down, Women and Children First, Van Halen II and Fair Warning due out later this spring. Each album has been cut straight from the quarter-inch tapes for CD, 180-gram vinyl and for the digital version by mastering engineer Chris Bellman, who remastered the original albums for Bernie Grundman Studios, Hollywood, CA. These albums are being released beginning March 31st with pre-orders available now through Amazon and iTunes now.
Van Halen 2015 North American Tour:
All dates, cities and venues subject to change.
July:
5 Seattle, WA White River Amphitheatre
7 Portland, OR Amphitheater Northwest
9 Concord, CA Concord Pavilion
11 San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheater
14 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
16 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
18 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheatre
20 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
22 Bonner Springs, MO Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
24 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
26 St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
28 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
30 Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
August:
1 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
3 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
5 London, ON Western Fair District
7 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
9 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
11 Hartford, CT Xfinity Center
13 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
23 Hershey, PA Hershey Park
25 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
27 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
29 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
31 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
September:
2 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
4 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
6 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
9 Raleigh, NC Walnut Creek Amphitheater
11 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
13 Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
15 West Palm Beach, FL Coral Sky Amphitheatre
17 Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
21 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
23 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
25 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
28 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
30 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
October:
2 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
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18 Responses
What’s most surprising about this announcement is not the album or tour, but that the band is actually doing promotion behind it. When’s the last time Van Halen actively promoted an album or tour? It’s all done like a stealth operation. They’ve even muzzled the Biggest Mouth In Rock & Roll!
I guess this will hold me over until an album of new material (you know, the “albums and albums worth of music I’ve already got in the can” that Ed Van Halen keeps referring to) is released….
Why do all the good rock tours skip Wisconsin guess livenation sucks.
Because, besides Milwaukee and/or Summerfest, there isn’t much there. Besides they played Oshkosh last time.
There’s a massive piece of property in East Troy that would beg to differ. It’s a damn shame what’s become of Alpine Valley!
Van Halen, AC/DC, in the same month? Come August, I’ll be “Runnin’ With The Devil” on the “Highway to Hell”, also be taking a ride on the “Wild Side” with the Crue! 🙂
Strange that we went from Eddie recently saying he didn’t even know where Roth was and wasn’t writing new music with him, to a live album and a tour. I hate to say it, but if you aren’t writing new material, you’re verging on a nostalgia act. They barely played any songs of the last album, and I’ll be honest, I think them completely avoiding all the Sammy ear stuff is a huge mistake. At least pay a little respect or homage to it, even if Dave can’t sing it. Currently, it’s like the biggest era of VH, with the best selling albums, never happened.
I’ll try and grab tickets to see them if it works out.
The best selling albums are with Dave. The first VH album sold over 10 million and so did 1984! The sammy albums sold poorly in comparison.
Dave will never sing Van Hagar songs. His ego is too large. And he couldn’t hit those notes. Hell, he can’t even hit the notes on his own songs anymore. As much as I love VH, I probably won’t go see them on this tour even if they are right in my backyard. Ticket prices are outrageous. Maybe if I find a deal on them or something. Also, isn’t it odd VH will appear on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel, but won’t appear on TMS. A head scratcher for sure.
Van Hagar was the biggest era of the band???!!!!! Are you out of your mind?
wasn’t it a known fact that David Lee’s voice was shot on the last tour?………and they think people are going to pay for that again???
Yes people will pay for it again because despite Dave”s voice, Eddie is at the top of his game!