In a new conversation with 104.5 WJJK, Eddie Van Halen son, Wolfgang, talked about his late father and what the fans didn’t know about Eddie.
This is what Wolfgang said:
“I think the whole point of the video [for Wolfgang‘s recent single ‘Distance,’ dedicated to Eddie] is important to show that while everybody knows him as this guitar god, he was just as good of a father.
“I don’t think people really maybe even ever thought of that. I especially think most people in his position, I think if you look at a lot of other musician fathers, some can be really bad – almost absentee fathers.
“And he was anything but. Even through his own struggles in his personal life, he was always there for me, as I was there for him. So we were best friends.”
Wolfgang added:
“Going through all the videos and digitizing footage, I hope I can find this one – we were getting the floors redone in the house, and we were drinking soda or something.
“We were all hopped up on sugar, and we were dancing around in our pajamas in front of a video camera. I really, really wanna find that tape so badly. I know it’s somewhere.
“But that was always a really fun memory, ’cause we were just goofy. [Laughs] I wanna make that clear – I was, like, seven. It wasn’t, like, recently. I just wanna make it clear. I was, like, seven in that video.”