It’s been two years since Wolfgang Van Halen released his solo debut ‘Mammoth WVH,’ and he’s currently prepping his follow-up, ‘Mammoth II.’
In a new interview, Wolfie said fans assume that some of his father’s famous friends are breaking down the door to collaborate with him.
In reality, he records all of the music himself, but he DID call on one of his family members to contribute to the new project.
He said, “The one thing that I did do was like a fun little joke. 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. 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 joke ended up being a pain as Wolfie said, “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. So my manager was a bit upset at me for that dumb joke. But I thought it was pretty funny.”