Eddie Van Halen Talks 'Tokyo Dome,' Van Halen Album Plans

This week, Van Halen released their new LP Tokyo Dome Live in Concert, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band's first live collection with David Lee Roth on the mic. In an interview with Washington Times, Eddie Van Halen reveals why the band finally decided to drop a live album with Roth, the current state of his relationship with the singer and whether Van Halen plans on hitting to studio to record a follow-up to 2012's A Different Kind of Truth.
Van Halen said, "We were trying to figure out what to do since we didn't have time to put a studio record together." The guitarist briefly considered remixing the band's original 25-song demo but those tapes were lost, and attempts to remaster old bootleg recordings vacuumed the energy out of the original recordings.