Fan-filmed video of David Lee Roth‘s whole August 8 live performance at Arduous Rock Stay on the Etess Area in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey may be seen under (courtesy of the Jim Powers channel on YouTube).
As has been the case in any respect of his different exhibits in 2025 up to now, Roth was backed on the Atlantic Metropolis gig by Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler on bass, Francisco Valentino on drums and Danny Wagner on keyboards.
Atlantic Metropolis was the fifth date of Roth‘s summer season 2025 U.S. tour, which is scheduled to conclude on September 14 in Napa, California.
The total setlist for the Atlantic Metropolis present was as follows:
01. Panama (VAN HALEN track)
02. Drop Lifeless Legs (VAN HALEN track)
03. I am The One (VAN HALEN track)
04. I will Wait (VAN HALEN track)
05. You Actually Acquired Me (THE KINKS cowl)
06. Runnin’ With The Satan (VAN HALEN track)
07. Romeo Delight (VAN HALEN track)
08. Dance The Night time Away (VAN HALEN track)
09. Imply Road (VAN HALEN track)
10. Atomic Punk (VAN HALEN track)
11. Jamie’s Cryin’ (VAN HALEN track)
12. Unchained (VAN HALEN track)
13. Oh, Fairly Girl (Roy Orbison cowl)
14. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (VAN HALEN track)
15. Sizzling For Trainer (VAN HALEN track)
16. All people Needs Some!! (VAN HALEN track)
17. Soar (VAN HALEN track)
Roth performed his first full solo live performance in additional than 5 years on Could 3 on the 2025 version of the M3 Rock Competition on the Merriweather Publish Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
“We have reached the top of my first retirement,” David joked at one level throughout the M3 live performance. “What number of retirements did Rocky have? 9?”
Roth initially left VAN HALEN to pursue a solo profession following the success of the band’s album “1984”, however he returned for a stint in 1996 after which took over as VAN HALEN‘s frontman once more from 2007 till 2020, though the band had not toured since 2015.
In latest months, Roth has been releasing solo variations of a number of VAN HALEN classics, together with “Soar”, “Unchained”, “All people Needs Some!!”, “You Actually Acquired Me”, “Dance The Night time Away”, “Panama” and “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”. The tracks had been laid down on Could 3, 2022 throughout a session at Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood, California. Becoming a member of Roth within the studio had been Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler on bass and Francis Valentino on drums. A complete of 14 songs had been recorded in two hours. The music and the vocals had been tracked dwell with “no samples” and with out the pitch-correction know-how Auto-Tune.
In January 2022, Roth canceled the remaining farewell exhibits he was set to play in Las Vegas after he vowed to retire from performing dwell.
In a press release, occasion organizers mentioned the cancelations had been made “because of unexpected circumstances associated to COVID and out of an abundance of warning for these working and attending the exhibits.”
When Roth‘s Vegas residency was first introduced, organizers promised “a altering set of 26 immediately recognizable songs, together with ‘Soar’, ‘Panama’ and ‘California Women…’“
In March 2020, Roth postponed the ultimate six exhibits of his Las Vegas residency as a result of coronavirus pandemic that was spreading throughout the globe.
Roth‘s final Vegas residency kicked off on January 8, 2020 with a 15-song set that included 10 VAN HALEN classics and 5 songs from his solo profession. Backing the singer had been lead guitarist Al Estrada from the VAN HALEN tribute band ERUPTION, rhythm guitarist Frankie Lindri, bassist Ryan Wheeler, keyboardist Danny Wagner and drummer Mike Mussleman.
Roth defined that he selected Vegas because the place to debut his new band as a result of “that is the place you come to have a good time and do the victory dance, no matter meaning to you.”
In a February 2020 interview with StarTribune, Roth brazenly questioned whether or not his first tour since VAN HALEN accomplished its 2015 run of exhibits could be the final time he would carry out.
“I am calling it ‘The Final Tour’,” he mentioned on the time, “after which beneath it in parentheses: ‘Until It Is not’. … At my age, every little thing is a potential farewell tour.”
“It has been a protracted nice journey, a protracted nice run,” he continued. “However this type of music requires the type of power that folks of their 20s convey. You realize what NFL stands for: Not For Lengthy. It is comparable in rock. I keep in mind the times once we would stand round and say, ‘Let’s go have a cigarette.’ And that is what we did: 4 guys having one cigarette. I keep in mind these days. They go by quick, so get pleasure from them when you’re in them.”
In February/March 2020, Roth carried out because the opening act for the North American leg of KISS‘s “Finish Of The Highway” farewell tour.
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