The Idolator is having a slow news day today, or they've been into the Colt 45 again because they have decided to predict Van Halen's inevitable reunion tour, and the events leading up to it. It goes a li'l somethin' like this:

1/12/07: Roth and the Van Halen brothers meet at a Hamburger Hamlet outside of LAX (it's Dave's treat) to discuss the possibility of a reunion tour. Because all of them are in need of extra money--particularly Alex Van Halen, whose aviator-sunglasses addiction is described as "crippling"--they agree to a three-month jaunt.

3/18/07: The contracts are finalized, though Roth's last-minute insistence that every legal document be appended with a "Skebadee-skebadee-woo-ah!" scat causes concern within management.

There is more here , but I can't be bothered to read it all.