Van Halen Snub Anthony
08/15/07
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(antiMusic) antiMusic contributor Anthony
Kuzminski had a rather disturbing entry in his blog today about the Van
Halen reunion. He was over at the Van Halen site and noticed that Michael
Anthony was removed from the cover artwork on previous albums. While not
as bad as Sharon Osbourne removing the original rhythm tracks from Ozzy's
classic albums over royalty disputes, this is pretty disturbing.
Here is a bit of Tony's blog: I was actually
OK with Van Halen going out on the road without bassist Michael Anthony.
I think Mike and Sammy are better off without them...for at least the time
being. But after seeing what is on the Van Halen website today, I'm pretty
shocked and disappointed in the Van Halen brothers. If you want to see
what I'm ranting and raving about [go to their site and] check the left
column and look at the album covers for Van Halen and Women and Children
First.
Had a chance to look? OK, if you have you
can now see that they have removed Michael Anthony from all album covers
and on the original Van Halen album they have replaced him with Wolfie.
It's one thing to disagree with someone and go your own separate ways,
but it's another to alter history. - read
more
Update: Seems someone caught on
to the fact that this maybe wasn't such a good idea. Tony posted a little
update on this story on his blog, here is the meat of it: There has
been no official comment from the band, management or Live Nation, but
it appears that the original unaltered album covers are now back on the
site. - see bloggers really can change the world =) Read
More of Tony's update
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here to read today's full report
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