Wolfgang Van Halen as soon as once more emphatically rejected the concept of a Van Halen reunion, declaring that the beloved group “doesn’t exist anymore.”
Despite forging his personal profitable profession, Wolfgang is regularly hounded with questions concerning his late father Eddie and the well-known band that bore his final identify. In a dialog with The Messenger, the youthful Van Halen stated he understands why followers proceed clamoring for a tribute live performance, however added that it’s time to maneuver on.
“It’s out of love and how many people my father’s writing and playing touched around the world,” Wolfgang famous. “But life isn’t written to have a happy ending — some things just suck. And if I have to figure out how to have a life without my father in it, I think people can figure out how to live without Van Halen, because it can’t happen. Dad’s not here, Van Halen doesn’t exist anymore as far as I’m concerned. The music and the legacy are there, and I’ll be here to push that forth, through things like dad’s guitar and amp company, and help in every single way.”
Wolfgang participated within the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert events in 2022, celebrating the life and legacy of the late Foo Fighters drummer. It was an expertise the rocker has praised within the months since then, whilst followers examine these occasions to what an Eddie Van Halen tribute may potential appear like.
“The unfortunate thing in comparison to what Dave Grohl was able to pull off with the Taylor Hawkins tribute, is that the Foo Fighters have a very friendly thing going on,” Wolfgang defined. “There wasn’t a lot of animosity between members to get it done and Van Halen is quite the opposite. I don’t know, maybe it’s just ’80s bands — there’s something about ’80s bands where it was the cool thing to be dicks. But some things just don’t work out and it seems like [a tribute concert] is one of them.”
Wolfgang additional famous that his performances on the Hawkins occasions, throughout which he performed a number of Van Halen classics, served as an “opportunity obviously to pay tribute to Taylor, but at the same time pay tribute to my father. And that was it for me and it’s over — that was me having that moment and being able to do it myself, outside of all the bullshit that the Van Halen duff gets muddled in with. I think I was able to put that to rest and not say goodbye, because I hate to ever speak in absolutes, but for the foreseeable future, Van Halen is not what I’m focused on in any way.”
Wolfgang’s band, Mammoth WVH, will launch their sophomore album on Friday. The band is at the moment on the street with Metallica, with a headlining tour scheduled for the autumn.
Van Halen Lineup Changes
Three totally different singers and two totally different bassists joined the Van Halen brothers through the years.
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