New Van Halen Songs Originated In The 1970s

01/30/2012
. (hennemusic) While David Lee Roth returned to Van Halen a few years ago for their 2007/08 reunion tour, it's the February 7 arrival of "A Different Kind Of Truth" that really seals the deal that both Roth and Van Halen are back and the material on the album is also a blast from the past according to Roth.

"It's material that Eddie and I generated, literally, in 1975, 1976 and 1977," Roth tells the Los Angeles Times. "Usually fellas in our weight division will kind of gamely � or ironically, wink, wink � try to hail back to it [but] keep a safe, mature distance from it."

Instead, Roth said, he and the band have tried to do a sort of collaboration with their past. They can't be the same people � too much has changed � but Roth said there's interesting experimentation in the era-spanning synthesis of self. more on this story

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