Van Halen released the album “A Different Kind Of Truth” in 2012. Seven of the album’s 13 songs are musically re-worked and lyrically re-written songs that had been demoed in the late-1970s/early 1980s, but never officially released.
The record debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was generally received well by critics and fans.
One person who didn’t think as highly of the record, however, was singer David Lee Roth. Wolfgang Van Halen, who played bass on the record, made the revelation in an interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM last week. The album is the only Van Halen record that is unavailable streaming services, and it appears that Roth is the reason why.
“The contract ran out on putting it up on streaming services,” Wolfgang said. “So we’ve been working on getting it back, but there are some people involved who do not like that record and are not making it easy to get it back up.”
When pressed on if it was Roth he was referring to, Wolfgang continued: “I mean, yeah, you can put it together. I hate to say it because people will think I’m making stuff up, but it’s, like, man, I’d love to have the record back up there, but he doesn’t like it, and he’s not working with us to get it back up there. So I hope people who like it have a physical version of it.”
Wolfgang Van Halen recently released his second album, “Mammoth II” under the Mammoth WVH moniker, and he’s currently touring in support of it.
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