MAMMOTH WVH
The drums were his first love. At 15 he was Van Halen’s bassist, before going on to play bass in Tremonti. Then, in June this year, Wolfgang Van Halen released Mammoth WVH, the debut album he’d been brewing for many years. Recording began in 2015 and was compled in 2018. He delayed its release in order to be with his father, Eddie Van Halen, in the final years before the guitar icon succumbed to cancer in 2020. “My father had every opportunity to listen to it and he loved it,” Wolfgang, 30, tells us today. “He couldn’t have been happier with it.”
Wolfgang spent much of 2021 touring Mammoth WVH (on which he plays all the instruments) with a “phenomenal” live band, as headliners and supporting Guns N’ Roses.
How was your head-space while you were writing the album?
