Wolfgang Van Halen
Wolfgang William Van Halen is an American musician best known as the former bassist for VanHalen and Tremonti. He is the only child of Dutch-Indonesian American guitarist Eddie van Halen and American actress Valerie Bertinelli. He recorded his only album, A Different Kind of Truth, in 2011.
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Wolfgang William Van Halen is an American musician best known as the former bassist for VanHalen and Tremonti. He is the only child of Dutch-Indonesian American guitarist Eddie van Halen and American actress Valerie Bertinelli. Wolfgang started his musical career as a drummer. He recorded his only album, A Different Kind of Truth, in 2011. In 2012, he joined Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist Mark Tremont i. He appears on the band’s 2015 studio album Cauterize and its 2016 follow-up Dust. On June 9, 2019 he announced that he had completed his solo album.
In November 2020 he started a new band called Mammoth WVH. He was described as a ‘rhythm bassist, like I’m a rhythm guitarist and guitarist put together’ by his father. Most of the bassist’s inspirations were Les Claypool of The Who, Jack Wolstenholme of Muse, John Entwistle of Primus, and Justin Chancellor of The Primus. He has been featured in Guitar Hero: Van Halen, even replacing Michael Anthony in the past incarnation. He also appeared on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Guitar World with his father, in the magazine’s first father-son issue.
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