Reformed Van Halen performs intimate NYC gig

NEW YORK (AP) They'll be personification arenas when they debate subsequent month, though on Thursday night, a regrouped

Van Halen

supposing thrills in a little bar where a VIP throng stood bend to bend as a storied

band

played some of their biggest hits including "Jump" and "Panama."

"Welcome to

Occupy Van Halen

, ladies and gentleman!" frontman

David Lee Roth

yelled only before a rope launched into "You Really Got Me," a initial in an approximately hour-long, high appetite set.

The uncover was during a famed Café Wha? in New York's West Village a bar owned by

Manny Roth

, a uncle of Roth.

David Lee Roth remarkable some of a greats that played in a bar including Bob Dyl an and told a crowd, "I'm some-more shaken about this gig than we would ever be in a Garden," referring to

Madison Square Garden

.

The rope will shortly be personification a Garden and other venues like it, as they flog off a

nationwide tour

subsequent month. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers start a debate in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 16, and will debate by June, attack cities like Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. They'll also be compelling a new album: The organisation announced Wednesday that they'll recover "A Different Kind of Truth" on Feb. 7, a group's initial manuscript with Roth given their distinguished manuscript "1984," expelled that same year.

Van Halen has left by copiousness of changes given then. Roth left a rope for a solo career and was transposed with Sammy Hagar in a disorderly breakup; he after returned to a rope as Hagar exited in a separate that had onl y as most discord. There would be some-more misunderstanding as bassist Michael Anthony was transposed a few years ago with

Wolfgang Van Halen

, a son of guitar good

Eddie Van Halen

.

But it was all smiles on Wednesday, as father and son, along with Eddie's hermit and drummer Alex were all on palm as a reconstituted organisation played a warm-up of sorts before their national tour, their initial together in roughly 4 years.

"This has been a unequivocally prolonged time coming," Roth told a audience.

The rope frequency seemed rusty. Though his mic was weak, Roth's voice wasn't, as his signature cackle was in tip form, as was Eddie Van Halen's boiling guitar play on songs like "Hot for Teacher" and "Dance a Night Away."

Roth joked about a tiny distance of a club: "The final time we stood on a theatre this low, we had to get a automobile home by midnight."

L ater, he talked about how he used to ramble by a bar as a kid, forgetful of a possibility to play on a stage.

"It took us 50 years to get this gig. It was easier to get in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than to get this gig," he said.

Roth's uncle Manny, now 92, was in a audience, sitting subsequent to John McEnroe, one of several luminaries in a crowd.

"It's come full circle," pronounced a lucent David Lee Roth amid a audience's cheers.

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Nekesa Mumbi Moody is a AP's song editor. Follow her during http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi

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