He can intuitively learn almost any song he hears and works on his own music every day - the 5150 archive is filled to the rafters with unreleased recordings - but he simply isn’t intrigued by the music of other people (the last “new” guitarist he liked is 68-year-old jazz artist Allan Holdsworth, who’s eight years older than he is). That’s pretty much the extent of his investment as a consumer. THIS COVER STORY FIRST APPEARED IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE GET THIS WEEK’S ISSUE HERE OR SUBSCRIBE TO BILLBOARD HEREĪs a high school student, he was obsessed with Eric Clapton and mildly interested in Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. But even that is rare.Įddie Van Halen : The Billboard Cover Shoot He sheepishly admits he never even listened to most of the bands that opened for Van Halen and worries, “Does that make me an asshole?” Sometimes he listens to Yo-Yo Ma, because he loves the sound of the cello. He doesn’t listen to the radio in his car, much to the annoyance of his wife (“I prefer the sound of the motor,” he says). He appears to know only one Ozzy Osbourne song Randy Rhoads played on, and it’s “Crazy Train.” He scarcely listened to Pantera, even though he spoke at the funeral of the group’s guitarist and placed the axe from Van Halen II inside the man’s casket. He’s not familiar with the work of Radiohead, Metallica or Guns N’ Roses. The guitarist maintains that the last album he purchased was Peter Gabriel’s So, when it came out in 1986. I’d just asked if he ever revisits old Van Halen albums, but his disinterest in those records is merely the tip of a very weird iceberg: Unlike every other musician I’ve ever met, he does not listen to any music he isn’t actively making. “I don’t listen to anything,” he tells me from a greenish couch inside 5150, the expansive home recording studio built on his seven-acre residence in Studio City, Calif. Eddie Van Halen does not listen to music. But I thought it was pretty funny.This is not a fake-out or a misdirection, nor is it a seemingly straightforward statement that actually means its opposite. So my manager was a bit upset at me for that dumb joke. "While I thought it was a funny joke, it actually held back the approval process for the album cover by one day because we had to sign a work-for-hire and pay him $1. "You'll see on the back of the album, 'All songs written and performed by Wolfgang Van Halen, except for wah operation on solo of I'm Alright by Patrick Bertinelli.' The song I'm Alright, for that solo with the wah.I kind of got bored with the operation of it, so I had my uncle Patrick do it. He said: "The one thing that I did do was like a fun little joke. Wolfgang recently made a joke about his uncle guesting on the upcoming album – and it ended up costing him a day and a whole $1.Įver since the son of the late Eddie Van Halen launched his own project, he has been asked whether any of his family or former Van Halen bandmates would ever guest on his Mammoth material. He recently released a video for Another Celebration At The End Of The World, the first taste of Mammoth II. Van Halen's second solo album, Mammoth II, will be released later this year as the follow-up to 2021's debut.
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