David Lee Roth opened his 2026 North American solo tour in Spokane, Washington, on Thursday night with a set that leaned hard on the past. The 71-year-old rock singer played 17 songs, and 15 of them came from his Van Halen tenure.
Roth started with “Panama” and closed the main set with “Jump,” turning the opening night into a brisk tour through the catalogue that made him famous. The only two songs that were not Van Halen numbers were an untitled acoustic blues piece and a cover of Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind.”
The Spokane show was billed as the launch of the 2026 North American solo tour, which has dates ahead in places including Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde, Oregon, on 04/18 and Sturgis Buffalo Chip in Sturgis, South Dakota, on 08/07. The schedule also includes remaining stops across the United States and one in Ontario, Canada.
That balance says plenty about where Roth is in 2026: still drawing from the songs that defined him, but using a solo tour to keep moving the story forward. A separate date, the 100th David Lee Roth Cherry Festival Headline Set for July 4, 2026, is also on the calendar, adding another marker to a packed run.
