Half-Indonesian Rock Stars Launch 2012 Tour

If you were alive and awake during the 1980s, you are likely familiar with Van Halen. Their hits include "Hot for Teacher", "Jump", "You Really Got Me" and "Panama". Is your head bobbing yet? Your air guitar singing?

Perhaps a little known fact about the brothers Van Halen is discussed in an interview posted on their website:

Mom was from rural Indonesia.

Eddie and Alex's father was a Dutch musician who visited the archipelago to play saxophone on a six-week radio contract and found himself staying for six years. He fell in love and married. Eddie and Alex were encouraged by their Indonesian mother to learn classical piano, and their love of music flowered from there.

Eddie and Alex confess during the interview that they have never visited Indonesia and know no Indonesian language.

The current tour supports Van Halen's first album in 14 years entitled A Different Kind of Truth. No Indonesian dates have, as yet, been posted on the 2012 tour. Perhaps these rockers will reconsider reconnecting with their roots...?