The Van Halen News Desk has provided fans with an excerpt from Guitar World’s recent interview with bassist Wolfgang Van Halen. A sampling follows:

Guitar World: You played a major role in making A Different Kind Of Truth happen. How did the process begin?

Wolfgang: "We took about three months off after the last show we played on the last tour, then we all got together and started jamming again. Just to warm up we played 'Drop Dead Legs', 'Outta Love Again' and 'Unchained' at the first rehearsal we did, and we recorded it. It almost felt brand new. That got us all thinking that maybe we should record something new, especially since we have been playing all of the old songs for so long. I knew that Van Halen had this incredible catalog of music they’ve recorded and written that nobody has ever heard. Some people have heard a few of the unreleased demos, but there’s so much more that they haven’t. When you walk into the studio there are endless shelves of recordings. I grabbed a bunch of random tapes and picked out a few songs that I had known and liked. We started changing them around and writing new parts for them. We recorded the first demo of 'She’s The Woman' in August 2009, and it felt really awesome. It felt like classic Van Halen that was written today. It had the right next of old and new. Then everything started falling together and we went to work on more songs."

Guitar World: In the studio you allegedly became a co-producer of the album.

Wolfgang: "I guess Dad likes to think of me as some sort of leader now. He was always going, 'Do we have to do that? Are you sure?' I’d be like, 'Yes, we should rehearse this, let’s do this, let’s change that, how about this?' I assumed that position. For a while people were going, 'Okay, Wolf, shut up. You’re coming up with too much. Chill out.' I was just so excited, but a lot of it was just because I thought something else might sound good and we should try it."

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Van Halen will return to the concert stage later this year with three shows in Japan:

November

20 - Osaka, Japan - Osaka Chuo Gymnasium (sold out)
22 - Osaka, Japan - Osaka Chuo Gymnasium
27 - Tokyo, Japan - Tokyo Dome