David Lee Roth might be walking back ‘shoes’ announcement

Diamond Dave mightiness beryllium retrieving those shoes.

As is his wont, David Lee Roth is leaving himself immoderate wiggle room, aft announcing his status aft his 5 shows astatine House of Blues astatine Mandalay Bay ending Jan. 8. On Monday, Roth posted connected his website and Instagram relationship a Wild West-style amusement poster with the message, “The Last Tour Unless It Isn’t.”

On Oct. 1, Roth made the instantly classical announcement, “I’m throwing successful the shoes. I’m retiring.”

Officials for performance promoter Live Nation, which owns House of Blues, person not returned requests for comment. But it is confirmed that Roth’s artwork is not an authoritative promotional poster for the constricted engagement. At the precise least, Roth has thrown immoderate theatrics into what has been acceptable up to beryllium his sendoff aft a 50-year stone career.

Roth’s five-set bid runs Dec. 31, Jan. 1, and Jan. 7-8. He astir precocious played House of Blues successful January 2020, and has nary different show dates scheduled. He’s said the shows would beryllium the last iteration of Van Halen. Who mightiness beryllium performing with him has not been announced, either.

In the Oct. 1 chat, which played retired arsenic a one-man show, Roth remembered “the departure of my beloved classmate recently,” referring to guitar large Eddie Van Halen. He past offered, “I thought I mightiness person been the first, frankly. I mightiness person thought the Marlboro Man would’ve got me. ‘Hey Ed, objects successful the rear-view reflector are astir apt me. And my doctors, my handlers, compelled maine to truly code that each clip I spell onstage, I endanger that future.”

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