WOLFGANG VAN HALEN was asked to play “Eruption” as a tribute to his dad during the In Memoriam segment of the “Grammys”, but he DECLINED.
In an Instagram post he said, quote, “I don’t think anyone could have lived up to what my father did for music but himself.”
He also expressed disappointment that they only showed Eddie, quote, “for 15 seconds in the middle of four full performances for others we had lost.”
He added, quote, “What hurt the most was that he wasn’t even mentioned when they talked about artists we lost in the beginning of the show.”
While he acknowledged that rock isn’t the most popular genre right now, he thinks Eddie deserved better. And he wants to speak to the Recording Academy about, quote, “the legacy of my father [and] the legacy of the Rock genre moving forward.”
At the same time, he doesn’t think his father would have cared about ANY of this. Quote, “I know Pop would probably just laugh it off and say ‘Ehh who gives a [crap]?’ He was only about the music anyway. The rest didn’t matter.”
(People)
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