Michael Anthony came together with Wolfgang Van Halen at a Mammoth WVH show in Las Vegas on December 8.
Wolfgang shared the backstage reunion with the original Van Halen bassist on Facebook, while Anthony posted a video from the concert and a picture with the singer on Instagram. Both posts received positive comments from fans and other artists like Sammy Hagar.
The bassist’s post read:
“Went to see Mammoth WVH last night here in Vegas, and they threw it down! Love ya, Wolf, so great to see ya! (Proud of you, brother!)”
As fans celebrated the reunion, Hagar wrote:
“Totally awesome to see you & Wolf together. Can’t wait to see ya tomorrow, brother.”
Hagar’s Plans With His Former Bandmates
Sammy Hagar is set to go on a summer tour with Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, and Joe Satriani in 2024.
The former Van Halen vocalist revealed the plans for ‘The Best Of All Worlds Tour’ on November 14, saying that other artists may also join them throughout the 28-date North American trek, where they would play Van Halen songs.
He publicly invited his former bandmates to the upcoming shows during a chat with The Howard Stern Show:
“We’re gonna invite every musician in every town. First of all, whenever you play, if there’s a guitar player in town, no matter what city it is, they come out to see Joe [Satriani], just like they used to do for Eddie [Van Halen]. So, if we’ve got other guitar players, we’ll get them involved. If Alex Van Halen wants to jump up, if David Lee Roth wants to come out and join us, come on, motherfucker. You are welcome! This is about Van Halen.”
The Plans For A Van Halen Reunion
Fans have been rumoring a reunion with all Van Halen members for the past few years. According to Wolfgang Van Halen, they were actually planning to do a ‘kitchen-sink’ tour that would include Anthony, Hagar, and David Lee Roth before Eddie Van Halen’s passing in 2020.
The Mammoth WVH vocalist once told the Texas radio station 94.5 The Buzz:
“It was my idea. Over the years, I’d been talking to Dad and introducing the idea of, like, ‘Hey, hear me out. But this would be really cool. What if we had Mike come back and I could open?’ And over the next year or so, he started to warm up to the idea, and he was into it.”
He continued:
“And then we started joking around with the idea of the kitchen-sink tour — everything but the kitchen sink — and just get everybody. Get Hagar, get Cherone, get Roth, Anthony, and we’d all get up on stage and just have a party. And we even spoke to Irving Azoff, the band’s manager, and he got really excited about it, and hit up Anthony.”
The idea was later scrapped due to the guitarist’s declining health.
