Mammoth WVH - Distance



It's been mere weeks since the world of music has been shaken by the loss of yet another pillar of rock music, legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. Now, his son Wolfgang, the bassist in modern incarnations of the band, has released his thoughts about his father's passing into his debut single, "Distance," released under the name Mammoth WVH as a tribute to the first name Eddie and his brother Alex used as a band.
Lyrically, it's about what you'd expect from a tribute song -- lines about Eddie being in a better place and the struggle of coping with his loss, but still finding solace "no matter what the distance is" between them, juxtaposed in its YouTube release with old home movies and footage of live concerts together. Musically, you'd be right to observe that it doesn't sound much like any era of Van Halen -- but it doesn't really need to. If anything, forgoing the bombastic self-indulgence that the band as a whole was known for, and drawing directly from the area of music that Wolfie knows best (modern post-2000s rock, as demonstrated by the guest artists he picked for Guitar Hero: Van Halen that many fans at the time were bewildered by) makes this gesture a lot more genuine.
WVH is donating all the proceeds from "Distance" to Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a charity donating musical instruments to schools with underfunded arts and music programs, and a favorite charity of Eddie Van Halen.
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