David Lee Roth Slams Wolfgang Van Halen In YouTube Clip – Billboard

Diamond Dave isn’t taking a shine to Wolfgang Van Halen.

Founding Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has taken a rare swipe at Wolfgang, the band’s bass participant and son of the late, nice guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli.

The charismatic singer posts an audio clip to YouTube, through which he fires a barrage of complaints the way in which of the youthful Van Halen, ripping him for disagreeable conduct and poor choices made on the highway.

“This f—in’ child,” he says, “he’s complaining your entire tour like I’m not paying sufficient consideration to him on stage.” Roth continues, “he’s complaining to everyone round me – the enterprise supervisor, the safety man, the clothes woman – ‘Dave’s not paying sufficient consideration to me.’”

The clip opens with a throwback to Roth’s temporary stint helming The David Lee Roth Present, as he launches into an imaginary chat with a comedy-voiced “Jesus Christ,” a thinly-veiled barb at Wolfgang securing the gig with VH because of him being of the son of guitar “god” Eddie Van Halen.

Unity and inter-band concord was by no means Van Halen’s sturdy go well with.

Roth himself left the band after the hit album 1984, to pursue a solo profession, earlier than returning to the fold in 1996 and once more in 2001. The “Van Hagar” period noticed Sammy Hagar in (from 1985), then out (in 1996), and in once more (2003 to 2005). And, in 2007, Eddie Van Halen controversially changed founding VH bass participant Michael Anthony along with his personal son, Wolfgang. From 2007, Wolfgang was a fully-fledged member of the group till Eddie’s loss of life in 2020, aged 65, at which level VH disbanded.

These cracks couldn’t be hid as VH was inducted into the Rock Corridor class of 2007, when Hagar and Anthony, who had just lately been turfed, have been the one bandmates readily available to simply accept the consideration.

If there was a bridge to fix, Roth’s rant was a wrecking ball.

Roth recounts touring tales the place, in New York, Wolfgang “commandeered a few monkeys to go in again, behind my again, over to the facet of the stage and throw out these two nice dames that I invited to be my friends to the present.”

“In reality, you aren’t gonna imagine this s—. This f—in’ child, what he doesn’t know is that these two dames work for the accounting agency that signify him, not me. However as standard, he, identical to his uncle and his uncle’s brother, stiffed them for tickets.”

Roth tells an identical story, this time with Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl because the setting, for the top of what was presumably the legendary rock band’s closing tour in 2015. As the principle act was about to launch into “Ice Cream Man,” on the behest of Wolfgang, he claims, one other feminine visitor of Roth, sat within the wings, was recognized, made to do “the stroll of disgrace” and ejected from the venue.