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“Man, it is a fucking tight rope to walk, with the shadow I’m under and the expectations,” Wolfgang<\/strong> Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong> explained during a Q&A in New Jersey on May 11th about dropping the ‘WVH’ from his band Mammoth<\/strong>‘s name, “I wanna be able to have the opportunity to reference my lineage, but not copy it and just put a flag in it and sit there and play “Panama” for everybody every night. I wanna be able to be my own person.”<\/p>\n The Q&A session took place at WDHA<\/em>‘s event “Mammoth For Ya Mama,” where Eddie<\/strong> Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong>‘s son, Wolfgang<\/strong> Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong>, opened up about his music career with his band, Mammoth<\/strong>, and the inevitable ties to his father’s own legendary career in Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “It was supposed to be a direct reference,” Wolfgang<\/strong> explains of his band Mammoth<\/strong>. Inspired by his father and uncle’s \u2013\u00a0Alex<\/strong> Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong> \u2013 first band with David<\/strong> Lee<\/strong> Roth<\/strong> with the same name, Wolfgang<\/strong> confirms the obvious link between the band names. He even asked his father for permission: “I think we were on that last [Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong>] tour. And I was like, “Hey, Pop, is that cool if I call my band Mammoth<\/strong>?’ And he was like, ‘Fuck, yeah.'”<\/p>\n Wolfgang<\/strong> had the first demo for Mammoth<\/strong> in 2013, but couldn’t build up the courage to ask his father to use the band name until 2016 \u2013\u00a0“I don’t know why I was so nervous to ask him because, God, he was the most supportive person other than my mom in my life.”<\/p>\n And now Mammoth<\/strong> is on their third record. And it’s not going to be the same as previous material Wolfgang<\/strong> Van<\/strong> Halen<\/strong> had written. He found himself challenged this time, “I think what I recognized during this past recording for what may or may not be coming soon, was I was uncomfortable, and I thought that was a cool thing because I was starting to tread ground that I don’t think I would normally just be doing the same thing. I was enjoying the comfortability of going, like, ‘Is this what I would do? Or is this something new or something more mature?”<\/p>\n Mammoth<\/strong> dropped their first single, “The End,” off the unannounced, vaguely-referred-to, upcoming record two weeks ago while the band was on tour. And, they’ve already announced another tour for their upcoming record. You can check out their tour dates below.<\/p>\n 11\/1 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues \n
11\/4 Dallas, TX House of Blues
11\/5 Houston, TX House of Blues
11\/7 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
11\/8 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
11\/9 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
11\/11 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore Silver Spring
11\/12 More info coming soon
11\/14 Montclair, NJ The Wellmont Theater
11\/15 Pittsburgh, PA Roxian Theatre
11\/18 Cleveland, OH The Agora
11\/19 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
11\/20 Columbus, OH KEMBA Live!
11\/22 Onamia, MN Grand Casino Mille Lacs Event Center
11\/23 Green Bay, WI EPIC Event Center
11\/25 Chesterfield, MO The Factory at The District
11\/26 Chicago, IL House of Blues
11\/28 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
11\/29 More info coming soon
12\/2 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
12\/3 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
12\/6 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre<\/p>\n