Van Halen Announce 2012 Tour - complete with David Lee Roth

Frat boys and their fathers alike are celebrating this week as Van Halen announced a 2012 tour, led by their notorious frontman of the 70s and 80s, David Lee Roth.

Roth and the Van Halens (the current line-up ridiculously includes drummer Alex Van Halen, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his son, bassist Wolfgang Van Halen) have a rocky history to be sure, but the Roth-era of Van Halen is regarded as Van Halen's best. (Whether this is because music, as a whole, has gone steeply downhill since 1984 or because Roth's Van Halen was actually better, is up for debate.)

While I'm definitely rooting for them (who would want to miss out on the chance to see "Hot For Teacher" performed live by 57-year-olds?) I think we're all in agreement that an old-fashioned Rock and Roll, on-stage meltdown would be -- as Larry David says -- pretty, pretty good.