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    Explorer1 Music Group CEO Paul Woolnough and Wolfgang Van Halen.

    by Gary Graf

    Wolfgang Van Halen is one step closer to his long-awaited solo album.

    The singer and multi-instrumentalist -- the 28-year-old son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli who's a member of Van Halen and former member of Tremonti -- has signed an exclusive deal with Explorer1 Music Group for an album he's in "the final stages" of recording with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette at Van Halen's 5150 Studios in California. The announcement calls the set "a collection of diverse material...original songs ranging from haunting ballads to stomping rock classics, on which (Van Halen) recorded all the instruments and vocals himself."

    No title, release date or other details have been announced.

    Van Halen started out playing drums when he was nine years old, then picked up guitar at age 12. "My dad taught me power chords and I just took it from there," Van Halen told Billboard a few years back. "Same with drumming; My dad just taught me a straightforward, 'Black in Black'-like AC/DC drum beat and I just kind of took it from there. Then I picked up bass when I was 15."

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    Van Halen came on board his father and uncle's band for its 2007-2008 reunion tour and appears on the albums A Different Kind of Truth and Tokyo Dome Live in Concert. He was part of Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's band during the mid 2000s, playing on the albums Cauterize and Dust, and the idea of making his own music was always part of Van Halen's agenda.

    "I've always loved the whole Dave Grohl story of how he started Foo Fighters and just did a whole demo album by himself. I'd love to do that," Van Halen said. "I feel like I can play drums, bass, guitar, kinda sing, I guess. I can kinda decide whatever I want to do. I feel like it's just kind of open-ended. I definitely would like to be a drummer in a band at some point. There's no limit, really."

    In the announcement, Van Halen notes that, "It's been a long time coming and I can't wait for everyone to hear what I've been working on." Explorer1 Music Group CEO Paul Woolnough says, "While I knew it was going to be something special, when I was first invited to the studio, nothing prepared me for the quality, uniqueness and maturity of the songs that blasted out of the monitors. It's an absolute honor to be working with Wolfgang and his team and being part of the next chapter in the Van Halen family legacy."

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    1 minute ago, AJW said:

    Keep this forum Ben. I read you were thinking of reviving the one one. This one looks better and is more current than technology wise.

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    This is pretty much custom.  So it mine so to speak different that what I did used before  either it was Ubb or Vbulletin . I could build off this and make it huge  either add a store which I’m planning too soon  or anything else has Club feature  which is tied to the fb page  name wise . I gonna tried to get the page there to get members there to be here just have to look in on it more ..

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    You are fifteen years old. You are about to play your first rehearsal with Van Halen, on an instrument you've only been playing seriously for a couple of months. You're a little nervous, right?

    Well, then you are not Wolfgang Van Halen. According to Eruption in the Canyon author Andrew Bennett, who was there to film the youngster's first day playing with his father Eddie's famous rock band, Wolfgang was cool as a cucumber.

    "I was more nervous about my summer jobs mowing lawns than this kid was about joining Van Halen," remembers Bennett. "Wolfgang really enjoyed being there, he was having a great time. You would think a teenager would be like, 'I can't believe I'm about to join Van Halen and play stadiums, I'm nervous about the big crowds.' But Wolfgang was just like, 'nah, man, let's do this.'"

    Eruption in the Canyon features photos and stories from Bennett's two stints working at Eddie Van Halen's 5150 studios. In addition to the instantly infamous tale of Eddie allegedly putting a gun to the head of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, the book covers the band's tense and brief 2004 studio reunion with Sammy Hagar, and Wolfgang taking over for Michael Anthony on bass two years later.

    "Eddie reached out and said, 'I've kicked Michael Anthony out of the band, I've replaced him with my son, I want you to come up here and film this.' What was supposed to be one day turned into three, turned into a month, turned into months. I was there from day one, I was there for Wolfgang's first rehearsal, I filmed it."

    Despite what Bennett describes as very little prep time, Wolfgang's ability to hang with his guitar hero father and drumming uncle Alex Van Halen was immediately apparent to everybody in the tiny studio. "My understanding was that he had rehearsed the catalog on his own for a month or two, and then he showed up for rehearsal and just nailed it."

    The first song the trio played together was 1984's "Panama." "If you could see the footage, the look on Ed's face is priceless," says Bennett. "He was excited. Now here he is with his brother and his son, not just like fucking around or noodling around, instead this kid is some kind of a savant. It was so cool to see Eddie so happy and so into it. Usually he just stands still, he doesn't move around in rehearsal. But there was days where he was so excited with Wolf right there, you would see him doing these little stage moves. It was fun to see him happy like that."

    The trio spent the next six months rehearsing the biggest songs from Van Halen's David Lee Roth-era catalog two or three times a day. According to Bennett, Wolfgang didn't require much coaching. "There were a couple of times where Ed would point something out to him, or show him how to move his fingers. But those were few and far between. The best part was just watching this 15-year-old kid, who can't even drive a car, who had just learned the Van Halen catalog, and he's standing there, I kid you not, looking like he's bored out of his mind. Don't get me wrong, he was very happy to be there, but he looked like a kid who was at summer school, except his summer school was, 'you have to join Van Halen.'


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    But remember not everyone post on forum no matter how many u really have look at the forum boards , I’m trying my best to be a little different than the other boards, this is a whole different forum better than the Vb.
    I think. It’s very custom to do what ever u want. so let’s hope this be worth it. again I wasn’t going to open this again unless the band came back or something but I was really done with it. Spent many night working on the old one and Many years maybe longer than most. Just hope it worth it I do miss you guys cause we have a lot history here we was like family.. So it good to have u back


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