According to Michael Anthony, Eddie Van Halen was planning a Van Halen reunion tour featuring all former members before his passing in 2020. He shared this information in a recent interview.
“Unfortunately, Eddie and I never… we had some issues and I’m sure that if he had not passed when he did, we would have reconciled or we would have really calmed all that stuff down,” Anthony explained. “Because I did hear and I’ve talked to Wolfgang about it that you know they were planning on coming to all of us and putting together a big reunion tour with all of us.”
Anthony suggested that Eddie Van Halen’s perspective had evolved in his later years. This made the reunion more likely.
“At that point in Ed’s life I think he was a little bit more like, ‘Hey, the past is the past. Let’s all freaking … water under the bridge,’” he said. “That whole bit. But unfortunately, it was not to be.”
Anthony’s revelations shed new light on the band’s final chapter. The reunion tour Anthony mentioned was not the first attempt at bringing the original Van Halen lineup back together.
Van Halen News Desk reported that there were earlier plans for a reunion tour involving the original lineup that was set to feature major special guests like Foo Fighters and Metallica in select cities. These ambitious plans were derailed due to Eddie’s declining health issues. The tour never materialized.
