Eddie Van Halen Enters Rehab
Rock guitar legend Eddie Van Halen announced Thursday that he's going into rehab.
"At the moment I do not feel that I can give you my best," Van Halen said in a statement to fans posted on van-halen.com. "That's why I have decided to enter a rehabilitation facility, to work on myself, so that in the future I can deliver the 110 percent that I feel I owe you and want to give you."
Van Halen was supposed to reunite with original frontman David Lee Roth for a 40-date amphitheatre tour this summer. It would have been their first time together in more than 20 years.
But sources told Billboard.com on Feb. 23 that plans for the tour had been postponed indefinitely, although it was "not due to any internal strife."
The band was scheduled to appear together at their induction at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. But Roth said he would not be attending because he wouldn't be allowed to perform.
"I don't make speeches for a living; I sing and dance for my dinner," Roth told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Thursday, adding that the decision to skip the event "rips my heart out."
Scenes from the 2006 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony
Rockers Velvet Revolver are scheduled to perform a medley of Van Halen hits. Last year, a squabble erupted on stage when lead singer Debbie Harry refused to let former members Frank Infante, and Nigel Harrison perform with her during the ceremony.