While
Eddie and Alex Van Halen may
be pushing 60 (currently 57 and 58-years-old respectively), it seems
like the band’s legacy will carry on long after the brothers are
finished. Eddie’s song, Wolfgang Van Halen, who’s been the band’s
bass player since 2007, says he’ll keep playing the new and old
songs the legendary rock band is famous for.
“It
kind of falls on my shoulders,” the Van Halen bassist
tells Esquire.
He adds that the band has demos of material cut over the last three
years, plenty to fill future albums. “I thought it would be really
fun if dad and I just sat down and started jamming and see if we came
up with something together, instead of him writing something and me
putting my spin on it.”
Eddie
Van Halenalso partook in the interview with his 21-year-old son,
who’s been the band’s bassist since he was 15-years-old. Wolfie
says they’ve rehearsed almost daily since then, aside from the two
long tour stretches. So far he’s only added bits and pieces to the
new music, which he categorizes as a total collaboration.
On
the road Wolfgang has plenty of responsibilities to attend to. “I
kind of come up with the set lists. When we’ve got a song that we
haven’t done, it’s like, we should probably run through this
before the show and figure out like the count of it. Because dad, for
some reason, counts in odds. He’ll land on three instead of four.”
“He
still, to this day, does not know the lyrics to ‘Beautiful Girls.’
You know how we go, ‘Top of the world, beautiful girls’? He has
it written down on his pedal board. On the last tour I used to have
to go [mouths lyrics]. You were at sound check yesterday when we were
practicing ‘Full Bug’ and he was like, ‘I don’t know when to
stop!’ So I had to go over there and was just like, ‘Now!’
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