Here's a message posted on van-halen.com. It's about time.

FROM EDDIE
March 8, 2007
I would like Van Halen fans to know how much I truly appreciate each and every one of you. Without you there is no Van Halen.

I have always and will always feel a responsibility to give you my best. At the moment I do not feel that I can give you my best. That’s why I have decided to enter a rehabilitation facility to work on myself, so that in the future I can deliver the 110% that I feel I owe you and want to give you.

Some of the issues surrounding the 2007 Van Halen tour are within my ability to change and some are not. As far as my rehab is concerned, it is within my ability to change and change for the better. I want you to know that is exactly what I’m doing, so that I may continue to give you the very best I am capable of.

I look forward to seeing you in the future better than ever and I thank you with all my heart.

Love,

Ed

Woah, considering what a wild life he's had, it's about time.

I'm proud of Eddie for checking himself into rehab. He is doing the right thing. I hope that with in time that all us Van Halen fans will get back the Eddie that we all know and love.

Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony May Be Only Van Halen Members to Attend Gala Honoring The Band

By Newsferatu, Writer, KNAC.com
Thursday, March 8, 2007 @ 1:58 PM

David Lee Roth Not Allowed To Perform

From the Los Angeles Times:

How did that old Van Halen song go? "I found the simple life ain't so simple ... " The iconic Los Angeles metal band is set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a lavish New York banquet Monday night, but now it appears that only one original member, bassist Michael Anthony, will even show up.

David Lee Roth, the band's frontman for its first decade, said Thursday he will not attend the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ceremony because event officials have turned down his repeated overtures to perform.

"I don't make speeches for a living; I sing and dance for my dinner," Roth said, adding that the decision to skip the event "rips my heart out."

The hall of fame's event organizers plan for Velvet Revolver to perform some Van Halen classics, much as Metallica stood in last year to play Black Sabbath songs while that band's members watched from the audience. "So it appears this is a television producer's decision," Roth said.

The choice of Velvet Revolver was in response to a sticky situation as far as what lineup of Van Halen could take the stage to perform with Roth. Van Halen's revered guitar hero, Eddie Van Halen, and his brother, drummer Alex, had already sent signals that they would not be in New York. The Van Halens have been in lock-down mode since their plans for a summer reunion tour with Roth collapsed last month. Roth said he last spoke to Eddie Van Halen's camp a week ago, and he said he could not determine the truth about reports that the guitarist is seeking help for alcohol problems.

"Ed is indisposed and working toward a better future here," Roth said. "If Ed ever dries up, this is going to be a stadium act, man.... What's happening here with this [New York event] is part and parcel of the same spiral that screwed up the tour."

Without the Brothers Van Halen, the Hall faced the prospect of putting Roth on stage with bass player Michael Anthony, who is the lone founding member expected to attend, and Sammy Hagar, Roth's replacement in the band and longtime foil, who logged more than a decade as the band's frontman. Hagar confirmed Thursday he is attending.

Roth said Thursday he had been preparing since December for the chance to perform for the industry elite, the media and a television audience that will be watching the ceremony live on VH1 Classics.

"It's just not an option for me to go and watch some other band — who are only performing because they have some new record coming out — do our music," Roth said. "I have nothing against Velvet Revolver — I'm not familiar with their music — but that was my 3 minutes and 22 seconds up there."

Wow. Stick a fork in Van Halen boys, i think they're done.

Isn't this his second time going into rehab????

What I would love to see is a reunion tour with both Sammy and Dave. It could be a three hour show with an hour and a half of Roth and then an hour and a half of Sammy. And Mike would have to be there too.

What I would love to see is a reunion tour with both Sammy and Dave. It could be a three hour show with an hour and a half of Roth and then an hour and a half of Sammy. And Mike would have to be there too.
Good idea, but I think if it hasn't happened by now, it won't. For EVH's sake, and for his son's sake, I hope that he is able to clean up and get back on track.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-roth10mar10,1,4079600.story?coll=la-entnews-music&ctrack=1&cset=true

Rock Hall of Fame denies it snubbed Van Halen's Roth

The Hall's president and CEO says the singer was offered numerous chances to sing at the induction ceremony.

By Geoff Boucher
Los Angeles Times

David Lee Roth has been doing all the talking lately--big surprise there--but on Saturday the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame responded to Roth's public protests that he's been rudely snubbed.

The clock is ticking toward Monday night's induction of Van Halen into the Hall and, as of Saturday, Roth was standing by his pledge to skip the show, which will air live on VH1 Classic. The flamboyant rocker blames Hall officials who won't let him perform on the stage. But Joel Peresman, the Hall's president and CEO, said in a Saturday e-mail to The Times that Roth has told only part of the backstage story.

"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sorry that David Lee Roth will not attend this year's induction of Van Halen. We offered him opportunities to play and sing a Van Halen song of his choice with our House band, including his own guitar player or a song with Velvet Revolver and he refused those opportunities."

Peresman concluded the e-mail with a curt denial that the Hall is somehow the bad guy in all this: "We made every effort and the decision not to come was solely his, not ours."

So who's telling the truth? It looks like both sides could have been less rigid and, that in the end, they ran out of time and patience.

The Roth camp says that the only offer they had received before Friday was an invitation to perform "You Really Got Me" with Velvet Revolver. Roth balked in part because that song, off Van Halen's first album, was originally recorded by the Kinks and is not a "true" Van Halen song.

Roth wanted to do his trademark tune, "Jump," but that was a curveball for Velvet Revolver, apparently, with rehearsal time limitations. On Friday, according to sources close to the show, event producer Joel Gallen offered Roth a chance to do "Jump" with Paul Schaffer and some players of Roth's picking but, for Roth, that came too late, apparently, to allow travel and needed rehearsal time.

Hall officials, privately, were surprised and wondered if Roth really wanted to perform at all. They also said if he had traveled east to New York to work with the producers on site, everything would have worked out.

Roth, meanwhile, said he felt like the Hall was more concerned with Velvet Revolver's issues than the band getting inducted. He said he's been preparing since December for the Hall event and loathes the prospect of missing it. "It rips my heart out," he said Thursday.

The Van Halen induction is looking to be a fairly sad affair. Eddie Van Halen announced last week that he is entering rehab and he's not expected at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ceremony in New York.

:( This story has just gotten sadder and sadder.

:( This story has just gotten sadder and sadder.

It's been sad since they announced the tour. Replacing Michael Anthony, an integral part of the band, with a fifteen-year-old? I don't care whose son he is - yuck.

It's been sad since they announced the tour. Replacing Michael Anthony, an integral part of the band, with a fifteen-year-old? I don't care whose son he is - yuck.
Michael Anthony -a founding member and a very talented musician. Btw, what was Valerie thinking letting her boy get involved in all this?? :eek: YIKES!!

Michael Anthony -a founding member and a very talented musician. Btw, what was Valerie thinking letting her boy get involved in all this?? :eek: YIKES!!
Yeah, no kidding. I personally wouldn't trust my son with my unstable, drug addict ex.

Yeah, no kidding. I personally wouldn't trust my son with my unstable, drug addict ex.
She was going to let him go on a WORLD TOUR!! Yeah, no drugs or groupies to worry about. Nothing could possibly go wrong. :rolleyes:

Eddie Van Halen 1995:

http://www.olho.nu/van-halen/_img/members/evh-1995-003.jpg

Eddie Van Halen 2006:

http://www.apostropher.com/blog/img/scaryeddie.jpg

I sincerely hope rehab does him good.

Eddie Van Halen 1995:

http://www.olho.nu/van-halen/_img/members/evh-1995-003.jpg

Eddie Van Halen 2006:

http://www.apostropher.com/blog/img/scaryeddie.jpg

I sincerely hope rehab does him good.
Reminds me of the before/after pics in those "Say No To Drugs" posters in school. *shudders*