Ok, I’ve had enough tipsters sending this in that it should be a full post on it’s own. I think we can solve this puzzle quickly. Let us know in the comments below and read one very smart birdie’s insights.
UPDATE, Thanks DONK: The roadies [who went to Rapture, not the band members] let out the word that Eddie & Wolfgang got into an inter-band fight the night before in Florida.
Van Halen recently canceled a planned show at the John Paul Jones arena. An awesome little birdie sends in a link to an “industry-leading” website called “Ticket News.” The website explains:
Did a recent fracas in Charlottesville, VA cause Van Halen to postpone two concerts: Feb. 22 in Charlottesville, VA and Feb. 25 in Duluth, GA?….. However, Van Halen’s fan website reports what it calls a rumor: “We have had two unsubstantiated reports from the Charlottesville area that the members of Van Halen were in a bar called Rapture on Thursday the 21st, and it was reported that Wolfgang got into an altercation with someone, which precipitated fighting within the band at the nightclub. It reportedly got heated and apparently this caused the abrupt postponement of the shows in Charlottesville and Atlanta.”
While the rumor of the problem at Rapture circulated around Charlottesville all weekend, I was in doubt. Honestly, why would Van Halen members go to Rapture?
The same little birdie sends in the following juice:
In case you didn’t know, Wolfgang (Wolfie) is the son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli and is playing bass on this tour, replacing original bassist Michael Anthony. Wolf is 16 years old. Was he really at Rapture?
I have no idea, but someone must have been at Rapture and I think we can figure out the reason before anyone else does.
Who was at Rapture that night? Who has the deets?
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actually the members of van halen suddenly realized they were too old and rich enough to spare themselves the indignity of flogging the dead horse that is now their career.
Sounds implausible.
However, I did hear the following exchange between a couple of bleary-eyed yokels in the men’s room during the Jason Isbell show Saturday.
Guy 1: Yea, I ain’t seem them since they were touring with Gary Cherone.
Guy 2: Oh yea?
Guy 1: Yea. I mean, Eddie was tearing it up, but it just wasn’t right. (Pause. Sad reflection.) It just wasn’t right.
Ok Fair Warning. Lets not Jump to conclusions and cause a big Eruption. Its About Time to set the record straight, its not like this was one of those Summer Nights when rock gods fight over Beautiful Girls. This was Right Now, in the winter, when everyone is Runnin with the Devil just to stay warm, and I Aint Talkin Bout Love. When rock stars like this have Big Fat Money why would they be Crossing Over the track to joint like Rapture? I suppose they were Strung Out and it was Not Enough to be Doin Time in the Panama hotel and they simply wanted to Dance The Night Away? Maybe a Pretty Woman was involved, I mean Everybody Wants Some sometimes, and whe you are rich enough, and Love Walks In, one tends to think Why Cant This Be Love? Cant I have the Best of Both Worlds? But if you hit on some Jamie, and Jamie’s Cryin, she might beat you into Poundcake, I mean you might really get Spanked, beaten Black and Blue. They should have just Unchained themselves from Rapture and hit the Mean Streets back to the hotel to watch Dirty Movies, even if it makes you wonder Where Have All the Good Times Gone.
You Really Got Me why the show was canceled, but I’ll Wait til I Drop Dead to Hang Em High on the internet. Dont Tell Me its Not Enough to wait for the Aftershock, or give me the Runaround. It just Feels So Good to Finish What You Started with facts, not Secrets. Im Leaning To See this now.
/lets just get all of these out of the way at once, shall we? snicker.
saw on the hook’s site that van halen’s buses were already at JPJ when the show got “postponed.” so i guess they miraculously made it through all the heavy snow and ice, but didn’t think their audience could?
sounds like the band is keeping it a secret though
way to go taking the bullet there, belmont yo!
Hey, its what I do.
(still left “hot for teacher” in play)
b yo, you rock! Thor, you rock!
Wait, I thought rich 16 year olds could go to bars…
/watching too much Gossip Girl
3WV claims to have had the news as of 6:30AM on the 22nd, so it was at least previous to that point. I haven’t heard anything about them being at Rapture, so I’m not so sure that wasn’t purely rumor. VanHalen.com also has mention of some possible issues towards the end of the Ft. Lauderdale show.
Pssst…. I heard Sammy Hagar was at the opening of The Box.
(I was 17.) (True.)
Ok… a little bit more info here:
I just heard back from a Rapture employed acquaintance. The word is that the band didn’t actually show up at Rapture, but their road crew did. The roadies let out the word that Eddie & Wolfgang got into an inter-band fight the night before in Florida.
I’ll try to update as more details come in.
@4 and The Hook - When you’re as rich as van Halen, you don’t travel in tour busses. You take a chartered jet and a limo to and fro fancy hotel, airport, and venue. Those tour busses are for backup singers and roadiers. I know this because I am cool
@10–Much more plausible.
The Daily Progress entertainemnt reporter Jane Noris has done some digging on this.
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354742953&path=
Carry on.
@13
Blasted old media with its “facts” and “research!”
Okay her’s the deal. Eddie threw a raging fit because his ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli wrote a tell-all book about im, and he heard some of the juicy details from it. Ed is a very private person and he is raging mad that Valerie dug up his past to make a buck on it. That’s why the shows got cancelled - because Ed is throwing a fit.
@ 13: FACT CHECK!
when i am doing the internet, the only facts are my opinions. i am drunk with power.
I too, am drunk with parlie’s power, though I still prefer tequila.
I heard the same thing as Donk
Parlie is right!
Argh! I wish people could get this straight: INTER- means between two distinct entities. INTRA- means within one entity.
C.f. intramural sports (within the walls, NOT playing against outside teams).
An INTER-band fight would be if they started trading punches with Def Leppard. What we have here, on the other hand, is an INTRA-band issue.
I’m sure Mr. Donk’s information is correct. I just can’t help correcting the syntax.
A fight with Def Leppard hardly seems fair, but I suppose the kid Wolfgang could pair off and fight the drummer for Def Leppard.
Have you seen Wolfy? He’s not small.
“Eddie & Wolfgang got into an inter-band fight the night before in Florida.”
*sits by phone waiting for it to ring*
Someone totally just threw down some grammar nazi gloves.
Hawkins,
I’ll be watching you.
a grammar champ, eh? maybe that’s because you are, as we say in latin, a “dorkus malorkus.”
Hartman’s Law, people:
Nice, Stanley.
/did not know your last name was Hartman/
Oh, and jools, you of all people I would expect to put your latin in italics
/did not know your last name was Hartman/
Funny, doof. I do try to be a descriptivist rather than a prescriptivist. But, in the immortal words of Tegan and Sara, I’ll stray on occasion.
God I love that song. I will play it wednesday.
@ 27: i thought that i could escape bluebooking rules on the internet, of all places! apparently i was wrong…
/does not know how to format text in italics
OMG jOOlzor!!11 UR 4mattiNG is teH SuxXorz!1!111eleventy
Tour done.
@13 & 14, before hawkins starts an inter-blog war, let me point out that the “old media” didn’t do a lot of “research”, or have a lot of “facts”. They basically talked to one employee of Rapture, and found out no fight happened there. They didn’t tell us anything about why the show was canceled. (Until it gets rescheduled, the difference between “postponed” and “canceled” is mighty slim.)
@33 and the rest of ya….
The show has officially been rescheduled.
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354783667&path=
It’s on my birthday!
Thanks for the heads up!
DATES WERE CANCELED FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS. DISCUSSED THIS FIRST HAND WITH PRIMARY CREW MEMBER. WE ALL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS.
Barking Spider, welcome to the party! Have a bloody mary.
Now slow down, turn caps lock off, and tell us what this means!
[…] series; this week it was local real estate. We bust out an all time record post discussing the Van Halen cancellation; various news outlets pick it up around the […]
I just heard that he did get in a fight on the mall and they re-scheduled for tomorrow because that’s his court date and the concert is in fact happening tomorrow night. So you were wrong.
yeah, but I heard they came back to town a couple of days ago and got into another huge fight, and Eddy went all guitar-god of war and Erupted on Wolfgang’s ass, which blew out power to most of the downtown mall for most of the weekend, so the concert is off again.
I heard I’m opening for van Halen. Is there any truth to that rumor? Does anyone know?
Opening what for them? Bottles of wine?
his “manhole”
I heard I am Van Halen.
Don’t ball-flush my manhole, oy
As long as you aren’t Van Hagar, b yo.
Actually, I am Van Huesen.
I am McLovin
I am Conan the Cimmerian
Rescheduled to April 19th….
Err… rescheduled… April 19th is the first new date, I think… Don’t know if that’ll be at JPJ.
Daily Progress wants to interview you guys about the cancellation. email either:
mrosenberg at dailyprogress dot com
or
jbarney at dailyprogress dot com
No idea what they are asking about, but it sounds sneaky… I suggest you do it.
Oh, man I got scooped by Donk. And I’m not talking to the DP about shit.
Yeah.. I don’t think I’ll be doing any interviews either.
And happy b-day tomorrow, Shen.
whoa you’re psychic
another crack in the monolith of old man printpress!
damnit, i work for old man printpress. son of a bitch.
yeah but BRO=cool, DP=sucky…
(except for that sexy-ass photographer chick)
@43 Street– I love that!
c’est genial ça! j’en veux un…
photographed chik, that is
What is it with these damn interviewers? Last week I was interviewed by 29 News, and this week some journalist from the DP tried to interview me. What’s next? CNN? The Daily Show? Your mom?
Street, they are interviewing you about cVillain stuff!?
No, nothing pertaining to your wonderful
playgroundsite, but I promise to plug the cVillain the next time the opportunity presents itself.My mom has some questions for you, Street. They’re mainly about whether or not you’re eating enough and getting enough sleep, though.
Happy B-day Shenanigans!
awww…your mom is so sweet. You can tell her that I eat all my vegetables, get to bed at a reasonable hour, and that I did my homework.
Friday, May 2nd.
dammit!
[…] The reasons for the previous show cancellations are veiled both in mystery and rumor although the official statement from the band is that the postponements were brought on by an undefined illness to Eddie Van Halen. There is actually an extensive thread about the Van Halen postponement/re-scheduling on Cvillain. […]
It’s gonna happen this time!!!
Nope. Sorry. I just had lunch at Rapture and Van Halen was there. They got in a fight with the roadies over astrology and it is off again. Silver lining though, your tickets will be honored at the Ice Capades in Norfolk on memorial day.
/you heard it here first.
Will Sammy Hagar be ice skating?
I believe it will be the Nuge, as he is infact, quite the skater. Missed the ‘68 olympic singles by *this* much!