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March 17, 2008

Van Halen's Providence show rescheduled to May 25

Guitarists and air guitarists partial to speed-is-king solos can exhale -- the Van Halen concert has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 25, at Providence's Dunkin' Donuts Center, according to concert promotion agency LiveNation. For those who just want to hear in person the keyboard line from "Jump" one more time, breathe a sigh of relief.

The hard rock band, which rose to wide fame in the 1980s, has reunited with original singer David Lee Roth and has been touring the country. The band postponed its tour, including the originally scheduled March 24 show at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, while guitarist Eddie Van Halen undergoes tests "to determine a course of treatment" for an illness that was not disclosed.

The guitarist popularized the "tapping" technique in rock guitar, in which the player creates notes using both hands on a guitar's fretboard, which can create fleet-fingered, flowing solos.

Today's announcement is for all of its previously postponed North American tour dates.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 6:00 PM | Permalink

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