During a recent appearance on the Oklahoma City radio station KATT, Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolf discussed the Sammy Hagar-era reissues, in particular, the upcoming limited vinyl release of “Live: Right Here, Right Now”.
He said (via Guitar):
“That era [of Van Halen] doesn’t get any respect, I don’t think.
“And there’s a lot of amazing songs and just obviously brilliant guitar playing on a lot of that — on all of that stuff — and I think people don’t give it a chance ’cause they fall into that just exhausting ‘this singer is better, this singer is better’ crap, when it’s, like, just give it a chance. There’s some really good stuff in there.”
Wolfgang Van Halen was asked if he has an involvement in any of the upcoming Van Halen reissues.
He said:
“Al (Alex Van Halen) is, obviously, he’s the head honcho when it comes to making the decisions. But I am a part of that when it comes to… Obviously, I default to him on anything that he thinks is the right thing to do.
”But when it comes to decision-making or at least just kind of helping out, yeah, I am that sort of what would have been my dad’s vote for stuff there with Al. So Al and I are kind of that team. But, yeah, all in all, he’s the guy.”