Wolfgang Van Halen

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307 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard Feb 2025

Wolfgang Van Halen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Wolfgang Van Halen | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 26 Feb 2025 podcast

So we found that.

Been there, done that.

Yeah.

So we found that the crowd responded most to tempo and obviously more heavier songs.

So we just took all the heavy songs that we could play and all the fast songs we could play in our catalog and just that's what we did.

And it worked.

Yeah.

But hell, we could open for Taylor Swift if we wanted to.

We have enough pop songs that it's like we could just play an acoustic set and there you go.

You're really asking for it there.

Even I don't have that kind of confidence.

That's my, I guess, my move is to have that sort of wide breadth where you can fit anywhere.

Yeah, I guess I'm not.

yeah i think any if it sounds my dad would always say if it sounds good then it is good yeah i think that's what i know the duke ellington quote uh there's two types of music good and bad yeah totally right yeah and i think that's so going back to your initial question i think having uh you know a breadth of of music where you can kind of chameleon your way into uh other spots but just having a good band and good songs and playing them well you know i think the biggest thing for me is

and a big criticism that i was given because nobody ever believed i was playing anything was that i was faking and i was playing to tracks or something what yeah yeah and uh you play you play super tight live thank you uh i mean that's and you're saying it important yeah it's very important for me that we don't use tracks the only thing we play to is a click track okay now um why do you play the quick track

It just kind of keeps it together.

It's just more fun.

Sometimes it's fun to not, you know... Yeah.

There's a metal band with Suga I love very much, and sometimes they just go into a song where you don't even hear a count-off, and I think that's really cool.

But...

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