{"id":2233055,"date":"2026-07-30T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/?p=2233055"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:47:53","slug":"david-lee-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/2026\/07\/david-lee-roth\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lee Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Lee Roth<\/strong>&nbsp;has canceled all but one of the remaining dates on his 2026 U.S. tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former&nbsp;<strong>Van Halen<\/strong>&nbsp;frontman is now scheduled to perform only his previously announced August 7 show in Sturgis, South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roth launched the tour in April and had extended the schedule through early September. Recently canceled shows include stops in Dillon, Colo.; Clear Lake, Iowa; Louisville, Ky.; and East Moline, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No reason was given for the cancellations. However, media reports have suggested that weak ticket sales at several June and July performances may have contributed to the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the announcement, former Van Halen vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong>&nbsp;posted a video message on social media inviting Roth to join him at one of his upcoming Las Vegas concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Hey, Dave. Sammy here,&#8221; Hagar said. &#8220;I just got a call from Michael Anthony \u2026 about your tour getting canceled. And I wanna say from the bottom of my heart, I&#8217;m sorry. I hope you&#8217;re well. I hope there&#8217;s not a physical problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Honestly, Mike and I love the fact that you&#8217;ve been out there doing it, supporting the greatest band in the world that we were both part of,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And, yeah, I&#8217;m really sorry. That&#8217;s f*cked up. Supporting what we did in this band to keep this music alive. You and I, Mikey, Al [Alex Van Halen], Ed [Van Halen] cannot be replaced. So, when you&#8217;re ready to carry on, you go, brother. Mike and I support you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lee Roth&nbsp;has canceled all but one of the remaining dates on his 2026 U.S. tour. The former&nbsp;Van Halen&nbsp;frontman is now scheduled to perform only his previously announced August 7 show in Sturgis, South Dakota. Roth launched the tour in April and had extended the schedule through early September. Recently canceled shows include stops in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233056,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233055\/revisions\/2233056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wioe.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}