Interesting update on ‘The Stadium Tour’ featuring Motley Crue, Def Leppard & Poison.
It looks like Nikki Sixx had invited David Lee Roth to join them on ‘The Stadium Tour’.
Here’s what Nikki said:
“David Lee Roth said I don’t open for bands that I influenced.”
Earlier Roth had shared his opinion on glam bands imitating Van Halen, saying:
“Hair bands were the imitations of VAN HALEN. Yeah, it is true, and spandex was what they came up with as something visual. I started off in leather, with the same haircut that Bono and [Bruce] Springsteen and the guys in METALLICA had.”
“A famous haircut — if I had that same haircut today, it’d have its own Instagram. But VAN HALEN was a ’70s band — we started off in 1972, and our first two albums were in the ’70s. We sold our first 10 million records before the ’70s were over. We spawned a whole lot of imitators who resorted to gimmickry and trade crap. It’s easier to imitate a haircut and a kind of pants and to exhibit bad behavior.”