RollingStone.com has posted the first official photo of VAN HALEN "2.0" - featuring new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen (son of VH guitarist Eddie Van Halen), frontman DAVID LEE ROTH, drummer Alex Van Halen and Eddie - click left to view.

As previously reported, highlights from the upcoming Rolling Stone interview, which hits stands everywhere February 23rd, read as follows:

On his first post-reunion jam with Eddie: "Eddie and I wrote the songs, every note, every syllable, as if we invented a language that only we can speak. It was an easy, natural thing…When you speak a language that you both created, it’s natural to go, 'I know you.' So it was very easy. There wasn’t any stumble at all. I just showed up, and twenty minutes later, it was the usual, 'How’s the wife, how’s the kids, let’s play.' When you’re born to do that language, you speak it naturally. I never forgot it."

On how rehearsals are going: "The chemistry is combustible. There’s an explosive sound there that is, I think, perhaps…unless you were there, which most folks weren’t, than you may have forgotten. This is really sophisticated, smart stuff. Everybody’s at the top of their game in terms of…it’s not just intangible things. My voice is arguably better than it was when I left the band back when. I love what I do, perhaps for some different reasons now than I did, more so than I did. It’s a privilege to do what I do for a living."

On whether or not the reunion will be permanent: "God willin’, and the creek don’t run dry, just like Grandma Roth used to say. Barring any act of God or Ferrari…yeah. I have hope and faith, and that’s more than just the name of a couple of strippers from Albuquerque."

Van Halen will do a 40-date tour this summer, making it the first time Roth has performed with the group since their 1984 tour, back in 1984. Van Halen will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next month. They will be joined by R.E.M., PATTI SMITH, THE RONETTES, and GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE at the annual Rock Hall ceremony, which takes place March 12th at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.