Wolfgang Van Halen has gone on record to clarify major things that were happening on within Van Halen, and the final three years of his father Eddie Van Halen’s life.
Wolfgang told Sirius XM's Howard Stern Show that his dad’s health declined after doctors diagnosed him with Stage-four lung cancer in 2017 and gave him six months to live. That led to treatments in a German hospital that prolonged Eddie's life by an additional three years.
In 2019 Eddie had a motorcycle accident and was then found to have a brain tumor. Wolfgang said that the accident along with his past health issues began stacking up, to the the point where "it just never let up."
Before all of that, Wolf approached his dad with the idea of a tour that would include all the past Van Halen members, for which he would serve as the opening act. Eddie did eventually warm up to the idea and everyone involved was "excited about it." But “it just didn’t pan out, unfortunately." He thinks what they'd called the Kitchen Sink Tour "would have been insane.”
Wolfgang also squashed recent rumors that he's already started compiling material from Eddie's vault of unreleased Van Halen material, saying it would be "a while" before that would happen. He won't "put a timeline on" when he'll get to it, but says it won't be "in the immediate future."
[courtesy of Classic Hits Today]