In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, bassist Michael Anthony opened up about the only Van Halen album without him.
‘A Different Kind Of Truth’ is the band’s 12th and last album. It’s also the only album without Anthony but with Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen. However, it appears that the original bassist didn’t listen to all of it and doesn’t have much to say about it. He shared what he thought about it:
“I listened to a little bit of it. It was different. Dave was singing differently. And adding Wolfgang into the mix. It was different than what we were obviously doing when I was in the band. There’s a lot of good stuff on there. But yeah, I thought it was a good album.”
Wolfgang’s Plan To Reunite VH
Van Halen went on tours in 2007, 2012, and 2015 with Wolfgang on bass. Their final set of shows happened in the summer and fall of 2015.
Three years ago, Wolfgang shared that his dad had thought about a big Van Halen tour with Anthony, plus both Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth singing. They even talked about bringing back Gary Cherone, who was on ‘Van Halen III’ in 1998.
Wolfgang said the original plan was for him to personally ask Michael to come back to Van Halen:
“Unfortunately, [Van Halen manager] Irving [Azoff] hit [Michael] up before I had a chance to. The plan was for me to [reach out to him].”
Wolfgang also mentioned that he was the one who called Roth in 2007 to convince him to come back to Van Halen for a reunion tour.
