Wolfgang Van Halen, understandably, has many kind things to say about his late father, Eddie Van Halen. His latest praise for his guitar-great Dad is a thinker in the best way possible.
In an appearance on WTF with Marc Maron, Wolfgang said, “In a way, Dad kind of ruined the musical landscape, because instead of everybody wanting to find out who they are, they just wanted to be that.”
Truthfully, Wolfgang isn’t wrong. EVH’s influence was so strong that it did lead to a lot of copycat playing styles in the 1980s. Then again, that sentiment can really be applied to any great guitarist. That Oscar Wilde was really on to something when he famously coined, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Elsewhere in his interview with Maron, the whole David Lee Roth drama was discussed. Wolfgang said he thought he and DLR were “on good terms, ” but then Roth said how much he didn’t like him on YouTube. Wolfgang took the high road and chalked it up to Roth saying “a bunch of stuff that was true to him, I guess.”
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In January, Roth shared a video to his YouTube channel titled “This Crazy Kid.” In the video, he talks about two incidents involving Wolfgang from Van Halen’s final tour.
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