That s what Wolfgang revealed during a recent online interview with HardDrive Radio. Though the touching music video for Distance, released last November, served as a postmortem tribute to the Van Halen guitarist, Wolfgang composed the number itself before Eddie s death.
Watch the interview down toward the bottom of this post. Wolfgang reveals that detail and more about Mammoth WVH s Distance to host Lou Brutus at about 7 minutes into the chat.
The 29-year-old musician says his father had struggled a lot, health-wise, over the years. It d be up, and it d be down, and it was a tough thing to deal with. [ Distance ] was just kind of an expression of where I was in the moment, and imagining what … I would feel like without him in my life.