WOLFGANG VAN HALEN – “There’s So Much Material That Dad Wrote Such A Long Time Ago That Has Never Seen The Light Of Day”

Following their exclusive interview with EDDIE VAN HALEN (found at this location), Esquire now has posted a chat with Eddie’s son and Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Esquire: Did you actually have to decide at one moment that I’m going to be in this band? Or did you just feel like you were — I mean, there had to be a point where you’re like, Holy shit, they’re really planning this thing around me.

Wolfgang: “I guess it really didn’t hit me until, like, the first night of the tour, in 2007. It just felt so normal, because we had already been rehearsing for two years. It just kind of fell into place, you know? I didn’t really have anything that I felt like I needed to do other than music. It’s the only thing I had, I think.

Esquire: Have you written an entire song for Van Halen?

Wolfgang: “Not yet. Just little parts. It’s a collaboration. Like, we go, ‘Hey, I came up with this idea,’ kind of just all play. We jam it and kind of play around: ‘Hey, that works.’ ‘No, no, no, this works.’ ‘No, how about that?'”

Esquire SQ: Are you writing music on the road?

Wolfgang: “Not much. I mean, we have a lot of ideas that we wrote that never made it to the record that were so awesome I wish they had made it. But we kind of held it off to another record, possibly.”

Esquire: Because there’s just so much material?

Wolfgang: “Yeah, there’s so much. And there’s so much material that dad wrote such a long time ago that has never seen the light of day, either.”

Read the entire interview Esquire.
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