When you might decide 4 of your favourite musicians to affix forces and be in a supergroup collectively, who would they be? We requested Wolfgang Van Halen the identical query, and his picks got here as a little bit of a shock.
First, a disclaimer — we advised him he could not decide anybody from Van Halen to be within the group, for potential bias causes.
Mammoth WVH’s Mammoth II has been out for a number of months now, and most of the people appear to agree that Van Halen, who as soon as once more performed all the instrumentation and sang all the songs, did a terrific job at avoiding the dreaded “sophomore stoop.” Impressed closely by teams resembling Meshuggah, the brand new set of songs has a flare to it that we have not heard from Van Halen beforehand, and it debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s High Onerous Rock Albums chart.
“That was the mission assertion, was like, no sophomore stoop. [I] was like, ‘I must be as proud or extra proud, it must be higher than — nearly as good or higher than the primary,” Van Halen described to us of his angle whereas making the second document. “That was the one factor in my thoughts. I did not let it cloud the imaginative and prescient in any approach, I simply all the time had that behind my head as a result of I wasn’t gonna launch one thing I wasn’t happy with.”
As a multi-instrumentalist who acts as a one-man band within the studio, we have been curious what Van Halen’s very best supergroup would appear to be — one which he might simply be a fan of, not be concerned with himself. So we requested him to call his favourite singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer to be in an imaginary supergroup collectively, and as beforehand acknowledged, no Van Halen members have been allowed to be chosen.
“Guitar, Aaron Marshall [Intervals]. He is my favourite guitar participant proper now, I feel he is an outstanding guitar participant. He writes wonderful music, he is fantastic — he is on guitar,” Van Halen stated.
As for drummers, it was a toss-up between Software’s Danny Carey and Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree. He went with the latter, although, as a result of he selected Software’s Justin Chancellor as his favourite bassist, and needed to modify it up somewhat than having two musicians who already play in a band collectively.
“For a singer, I am going to decide Ian Kenny from Karnivool, one in every of my favourite bands from Australia. I feel that may be a very cool, semi-shreddy, Software-like band between the 4 of these guys. That is a cool band. I hope that occurs,” he concluded.
READ MORE: Wolfgang Van Halen’s 10 Favourite Albums When He Was a Teenager
See the complete interview under.
Mammoth WVH are at present on tour, with their subsequent present going down tomorrow (Nov. 9) in Chicago, Illinois. See all the dates on their web site.
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