In our no-holds-barred new interview, Wolfgang Van Halen tells all about his next album, the real story behind those rumors of an Eddie Van Halen tribute tour, dealing with Internet haters, missing his dad, and much more
You said that your long-in-the-works album, which finally came out last June, was the product of “trial and error and self-doubt and anxiety…Yeah, well, me too, man. But maybe you can expand a little bit on that, because it was a long, long process to get to the debut.
It’s easy to forget that you were just a teenager facing online hate for replacing an original member of Van Halen. He had been playing it with Slash, and I was like, “Dude, like, you need to teach me how to play this because I know the song, but I’ve never learned how to play it.” That’s all I did on the bus for that week. One night at like 3 a.m. I was walking around playing it for like two hours.
I guess just the one time, they did get Krist Novoselic onstage and did in fact play a Nirvana encore. I’m not sure to that extent. I think I’m just, you know, the reason I’m doing what I’m doing is because I know dad would want that. He loved the music so much. And, you know, I just really wish I kind of had him involved in some way that would piss people off. We would joke about it and be like, “You know, if Dad were to ever be on anything, it’d be, like, ‘Don’t play guitar.
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