While reports regarding the Grammy Awards nominations concert had strongly suggested that Van Halen would be making some kind of appearance, the night has passed without any sign of David Lee Roth or the Van Halen family. As Blabbermouth has noted, the concert, which was televised on Wednesday had been advertised as featuring "a special live announcement from a truly iconic group regarding their historic reunion set to take place on the Grammy stage on February 12, 2012." This message was followed by a post on the official Grammy Twitter feed which read; "Does this hint make u wanna Jump and Dance The Night Away?", strongly suggesting that the act in question was Van Halen.
Speaking to
Reuters.com, Recording Academy president
Neil Portnow remained elusive as to whether Van Halen was the band in question:
"In the world of creativity, everything is fluid... In the process of discussions that we had been having with an expectation that perhaps we would be at a point tonight where the artist involved and we, moving forward, would be ready to announce [a reunion], they weren't quite at that point. So it's live television, we go on to the next act. It's rock and roll and so on. That being said, we were genuine about the intention and we are genuine about the discussion."
Van Halen inked a deal with Interscope Records last month, and it is through this label that their recently recorded new album is expected to be released. The new record is the first full Van Halen album since 1998’s "Van Halen III" and the first time the band has recorded an album with front man David Lee Roth since 1984.
