“This is either going to be a nice coda to Van Halen or it’s going to ruin my life”: Wolfgang Van Halen explains the extreme risk that comes with playing his dad’s songs onstage

Wolfgang Van Halen in 2025.

Wolfgang Van Halen has explained what he considers to be the personal gamble that comes with playing Van Halen material live.

The singer/multi-instrumentalist, who joined his father Eddie and uncle Alex in Van Halen from 2006 to 2015 before launching his solo project Mammoth, has only performed tracks by the pioneering hard rock band on two occasions since Eddie died following a cancer battle in 2020.