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Van Halen Snub Anthony


08/15/07
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(antiMusic) antiMusic contributor Anthony Kuzminski had a rather disturbing entry in his blog today about the Van Halen reunion. He was over at the Van Halen site and noticed that Michael Anthony was removed from the cover artwork on previous albums. While not as bad as Sharon Osbourne removing the original rhythm tracks from Ozzy's classic albums over royalty disputes, this is pretty disturbing. 

Here is a bit of Tony's blog: I was actually OK with Van Halen going out on the road without bassist Michael Anthony. I think Mike and Sammy are better off without them...for at least the time being. But after seeing what is on the Van Halen website today, I'm pretty shocked and disappointed in the Van Halen brothers. If you want to see what I'm ranting and raving about [go to their site and] check the left column and look at the album covers for Van Halen and Women and Children First.

Had a chance to look? OK, if you have you can now see that they have removed Michael Anthony from all album covers and on the original Van Halen album they have replaced him with Wolfie. It's one thing to disagree with someone and go your own separate ways, but it's another to alter history. - read more

Update: Seems someone caught on to the fact that this maybe wasn't such a good idea. Tony posted a little update on this story on his blog, here is the meat of it: There has been no official comment from the band, management or Live Nation, but it appears that the original unaltered album covers are now back on the site. - see bloggers really can change the world =)  Read More of Tony's update
 

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