Wolfgang Van Halen Responds To Comments Made By David Lee Roth

Wolfgang Van Halen has finally responded to a story recently shared by David Lee Roth via his YouTube channel.

In January, Roth shared a video to his YouTube channel titled "This Crazy Kid." In the video, he talks about two incidents involving Wolfgang from Van Halen's final tour.

Roth starts this story by referring to Wolfgang as "The f---in' kid." (Note: Wolfgang was about 24 in Roth's story.) Diamond Dave accused Wolfgang of complaining throughout the tour that he wasn't paying enough attention to him on stage. DLR refutes that and says he was giving Wolfgang " ... the best, everything I've got in front of 20-30,000 people at a clip."

Roth then alleges that at a tour stop in New York, Wolfgang had security kick out two women who were Diamond Dave's guests. However, Roth claims these two women also work at the accounting firm that represents Van Halen. He then accuses Wolfgang of doing this as a way of "teaching me a lesson." According to Roth, these women had the paychecks of the road crew on them. When he found that out, Roth said he laughed so hard he spilled his Snapple.

Cut to the final shows of this tour, which are hometown gigs at the legendary Hollywood Bowl. Roth alleges Wolfgang pulled the same move and had a guest of his removed from the venue.

"Wolfie Van Halen's going to teach me a less by throwing out what he thinks is my girlfriend, but guess what? Not only is she an accountant again, and not only is she carrying the paychecks for 82 of us on the road crew, but she's carrying cash bonuses for everybody there ... and that's how I remember my last show with Eddie Van Halen."

It's taken about six weeks for Wolfgang Van Halen to say anything about DLR's comments. He was finally asked about them in a new interview. The Mammoth WVH leader he was "honored" Diamond Dave even thinks about him. However, he also said any comments from Roth should be taken "with a grain of salt" and cited how the former Van Halen frontman said he came up with Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" track and all of his solos. Roth also took credit for the classic red-white-and-black-stripe "Frankenstein" pattern on his guitars.

Wolfgang then said, " ... I seem to have been born into this Van Halen drama that has come way before me. And I guess now that my dad isn't here to be a target, I guess he went to the next best thing."

For what it's worth, Sammy Hagar had some remarks about Roth's comments. Speaking to People at the MusiCares' Person of the Year gala honoring Jon Bon Jovi, Hagar said, "Look, if you really think about what he said, it's like do I sense a little tinge of jealousy in there or something?"

The Red Rocker added, "I mean, honestly, the only thing I can say without being cruel is he needs to find a new dispensary." (That dispensary line is a reference to a recent video released by DLR where he claims he racked up a $92,000 bill at a cannabis dispensary.)

Eddie Van Halen was the most influential guitarist of our generation.

Of course, flashy, fleet-fingered guitarists were a dime a dozen in the late ‘70s and ‘80s. Eddie was better than all of them, but he was more than that. A songwriter, a keyboardist, a studio wizard, ¼ of Van Halen’s four-part harmony team and a band leader that was able to guide VH through losing the most distinctive frontman of the ‘80s and led them to four chart-topping albums with Sammy Hagar.

Here, we take on the tough task of ranking their top 30 songs. (It was really, really tough to cut any of the songs on the first six albums from this list.)