http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/35444/We-spent-two-hours-with-David-Lee-Roth-and-no-one-got-pregnant

I like this bit……Just a small part of the interview.

Are there any plans for new Van Halen recorded material?
Yes. I was just on the phone with the fellas … We are going to be getting together, not this month, at the end of June to start preparing for some new recording and some new songs, but we’re touring a little bit this year. That’s kind of a surprise.

Are there any plans for new Van Halen recorded material?
Yes. I was just on the phone with the fellas … We are going to be getting together, not this month, at the end of June to start preparing for some new recording and some new songs, but we’re touring a little bit this year. That’s kind of a surprise. We’re in Australia, we’re doing a Japan tour for a couple of weeks, and we’re doing some American stuff. That comes as a bit of a surprise. Van Halen projects are a bit like James Bond movies. They come around about once every three-and-a-half years. Any sooner and it’s like, “Weren’t you just here?” It’s like that third Johnny Depp pirate movie [Pirates Of The Caribbean]. Weren’t you guys just here? Oh, that’s a rough one right. Leave before the sun sets, quit just before the party begins to disintegrate, don’t be the first one back in next week. We’ve been around for so long that that is a deft kind of a tactic. And there’s politics. So with that in mind I imagine we’ll be doing extensive touring and travelling outside the United States after this upcoming tour.

We plan ahead by about two-and-a-half years in advance, which sounds extravagant … [But] from the time you go, “Let’s start to write some songs”, until all of the machines of production and humanity kick in, things move achingly slow. Achingly slow. Especially if you are art-centric, if you want something to last, it’s going to take a long time to put it all together. Quick up is quick down. We know about one hit wonders and we know about fast, but it’s about three years, it takes about three years.

Somebody should remind Dave that the first 6 albums came out in 6 years.

I’m sure he’s talking about they way it is now not back then. In the late 70s and early 80s, you didn’t have the ability to oversaturate the market like they do today with all of the digital media. He’s talking in terms of touring in ’07-’08 and then not going back out again until ’12-’13.

2 new Aussie Dave interviews.

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/nsw-act/rocks-cheeky-guy-david-lee-roth-still-has-that-twinkle-in-his-eye/story-fndo4bst-1226623812253

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/after-all-these-years-lee-roth-still-walks-this-way/story-fn9d2mxu-1226623848537?sv=c8c307924f81373ef995f02e3cea9f6b

Wonder if they’ll work on a few new songs and resume the cancelled dates from 2012.