During an appearance on the latest episode of the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast, Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen‘s son, who joined VAN HALEN at just 15 years old, was asked if he gets along with VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Not really, at least as of recently. I thought we were on good terms, and he actually made a couple YouTube videos about me, about how much he doesn’t like me, which was, like, ‘Okay, cool man.’
Asked what Roth‘s justification was for making those videos, Wolfgang said: “He basically just said a bunch of stuff that was true to him, I guess. It doesn’t matter if it’s not true because the people that are going to listen to it will believe it and use it to hate me anyway. So you’ve just gotta move forward.
“I think the big thing, one of the bigger things is that my dad isn’t around,” Wolfgang explained. “So I think he just went for what’s still there to kind of point at.”
Wolfgang went on to say that Eddie and David “always” had difficulties in their relationship with each other. “I mean, throughout their history, I think, absolutely,” he said, before adding: “I don’t know what it is with ’80s bands. There’s always fucking something. I’ve kind of used it as my own… just, like, I don’t want this to happen. So it’s, like, for my band, it’s, like, why can’t we just have a good time and just be happy and make music? Like, is it that fucking difficult?”
Elaborating on why he thinks there is so much speculation about the inner workings of VAN HALEN, Wolfgang said: “I think the really tough thing with VAN HALEN is that my dad and my uncle never talked about it. They just pushed forward and kept doing what they were doing. I think that left room for interpretation or one side to be loud about it, to have the only truth be out there, and that’s the only thing that people end up believing, when that’s not necessarily the case.”
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