“When Dave walked in it blew his mind – he couldn’t believe how good you are”: By the mid-2000s, Van Halen were teetering on the brink – a teenaged Wolfgang Van Halen helped bring them back

Wolfgang (left) and Eddie Van Halen perform live onstage at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon in 2007.

Is musical talent genetically inherited? If your test sample is the Van Halen family, the answer undoubtedly would be yes and the proof would be the current Van Halen tour, which features the Van Halen brothers – Alex and Ed – on drums and guitar respectively, as well as Ed’s 16-year-old son Wolfgang on bass.

Although Wolfgang picked up the bass less than two years ago, his comfort on arena stages in front of crowds of 20,000 fans suggests that it was always in his DNA to be a performer.