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WOLFGANG VAN HALEN Wants To Continue Playing With TREMONTI

Posted by aliblackdiamond on October 22, 2012
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Source: Blabbermouth.net

“Robb’s MetalWorks” conducted an interview with TREMONTI, the band led by CREED and ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti, on October 7 at the Sunken Gardens Theater in San Antonio, Texas. You can now watch the chat below.

VAN HALEN bassist Wolfgang Van Halen made his first appearance as part of Tremonti‘s solo band last month at a show in Rhode Island. This marks the first time Wolfgang has played with anyone outside of his father Eddie, his uncle Alex and singer David Lee Roth.

Asked if he is going to be involved with future TREMONTI tours and recording sessions, Wolfgang told “Robb’s MetalWorks”, “Yeah, every chance that I have. I’d love to be a part of this. If they’ll let me, I guess,” he joked.

Wolfgang Van Halen is replacing Tremonti‘s bandmate from CREED and ALTER BRIDGE, Brian Marshall, who is sitting out the Tremonti trek for undisclosed personal reasons. The other members of Tremonti‘s touring band include Eric Friedman on guitar and Garrett Whitlock on drums.

Tremonti is on the road behind his debut solo album “All I Was”, which came out this past July.

 

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN Has Beef With ONE DIRECTION

Posted by aliblackdiamond on October 18, 2012
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Source: Blabbermouth.net

According to The Pulse Of Radio, VAN HALEN bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, currently acting as touring bassist for CREED and ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti‘s solo band, has gotten into a beef with boy band ONE DIRECTION. Van Halen called out the group on Twitter after a run-in with them at a hotel in Birmingham, England, where Tremonti is on tour at the moment.

Van Halen wrote, “Fun fact: Was just insulted by that shitty boy band #OneDirection in the lobby of our hotel this morning!” He continued, “No joke. That ACTUALLY happened. That group of kids in #OneDirection were dickheads to (TREMONTI bandmembers Eric Friedman, Garrett Whitlock) and I.” Van Halen later joked, “They must call themselves that because all of their hair points in #OneDirection.”

Whitlock, TREMONTI‘s drummer, later tweeted, “Had a run-in with some boy band in the hotel lobby. no worries. I can’t take a insult from someone who doesn’t even write their own tunes.”

The members of ONE DIRECTION have yet to comment.

Van Halen joined Tremonti‘s solo act last month at the last minute after bassist Brian Marshall dropped out for personal reasons. He recalled getting the phone call from Tremonti. “I’m like, ‘Hey buddy, how’s it going?’ And he’s like, ‘Not good,'” he said. “Totally depressing change in the phone call. And he told me, and I was like, ‘I’ll call you right back,’ and I was trying to think of like a reason not to — not that I didn’t want to, because there are so many reasons that I would want to. And it totally worked out.”

Tremonti is touring in support of his first solo disc, “All I Was”. He just finished a headlining stint on the HardDrive Live tour and is in Europe for a series of gigs.

Van Halen the band is off the road for the rest of 2012 while Eddie Van Halen recovers from surgery on his intestinal tract, which means Wolfgang has at least a few more months to stay on the road with Tremonti. The latter has expressed interest in recording with Wolfgang as well.

 

VAN HALEN: Video Footage Of Entire Los Angeles Concert

Posted by aliblackdiamond on July 1, 2012
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Fan-filmed video footage of VAN HALEN‘s entire June 1 concert at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California can be seen below.

The band’s setlist was as follows:

01. Unchained
02. Runnin’ With The Devil
03. She’s The Woman
04. Romeo Delight
05. Tattoo
06. Everybody Wants Some!!
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. China Town
09. Hear About It Later
10. Oh, Pretty Woman (ROY ORBISON Cover)
11. Drum Solo
12. You Really Got Me (THE KINKS cover)
13. The Trouble With Never
14. Dance The Night Away
15. I’ll Wait
16. And The Cradle Will Rock…
17. Hot For Teacher
18. Women In Love
19. Beautiful Girls
20. Ice Cream Man (JOHN BRIM cover)
21. Panama
22. Guitar Solo
23. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
24. Jump

As previously reported, Eddie Van Halen and his son, VAN HALEN bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, gave a rare joint interview to USA Today on June 13 in which they discussed the reason for the band canceled more than 30 summer tour dates following a June 26 show in New Orleans. Eddie explained, “We bit off more than we could chew. This record took a lot out of us. And we went on tour earlier than we wanted to so we could play Madison Square Garden (in March, before a renovation), and that threw the schedule out of whack.”

Eddie added that “a lot of the canceled dates were in cities we already played,” but promised that VAN HALEN will return to U.S. stages later on: “In November, we’ll hit Japan, and in the New Year, we’ll possibly do something special, but I can’t talk about it.”

When the canceled shows were announced, rumors originally began circulating that Eddie and singer David Lee Roth were feuding again. But Eddie denied that, saying, “Dave‘s the same as he’s always been, funny, witty. Sometimes I can only take that in small doses, because he just goes on and on.”

Wolfgang added, “He’s like the Energizer Bunny — wind it up and see what happens,” while his father said, “But Dave always lands on his feet.”

Roth himself posted a video message online explaining the scrapped dates, saying that “the band is getting along famously, better than we have in quite some time . . . (but) if we continue past July 4 and all the way into Australia and Japan then we’re asking for the robot zombie tour.”

VAN HALEN is touring behind “A Different Kind Of Truth”, its first album in 14 years and first with Roth since 1984.

 

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

Posted by Stargazer on May 7, 2012
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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.
Source: Bravewords.com