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.
68 Best Rock Songs of 2020
Another year has come and gone and while 2020 will be remembered as one of the most difficult years of our lifetime, there were some shining lights in the rock world. In fact, we ve picked our 66 Best Rock Songs that we feel offers a pretty eclectic reflection of 2020.
In a year where we lost Eddie Van Halen, we saw the promise and potential of his son Wolfgang Van Halen with his moving debut single Distance. And Wolfgang wasn t the only new name to take note of in 2020 with impressive entries from up and coming acts such as Holding Absence, Ayron Jones, Dead Posey and the Dirty Nil.