For a slew of “traditional” reasons, it was for the most part assumed that Wolfgang Van Halen would prefer the first (Roth era) incarnation of his dad and uncle’s namesake, Van Halen.
As is often the case, “tradition,” couldn’t have been more wrong!
Live: Right Here, Right Now marks the first Van Halen reissue focusing on the band’s Van Hagar era, a fact that didn’t seem lost on Wolfgang.
“….That era [of Van Halen] doesn’t get any respect, I don’t think,” he noted. “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….”
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