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Speaker 1: Jumps with Joins and Amanda Well.

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Speaker 2: Van Halen are behind hits like Jump and Hot for Teacher.

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Speaker 2: They've sold more than eighty million albums worldwide. We're very excited.

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Speaker 2: They're coming to Australia for the Stone Music Festival next

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Speaker 2: month and Eddie and Alex van Halen join us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hi guys, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: Morning went very well.

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Speaker 2: And along with the two of you, there's David Lee

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Speaker 2: Roth and there's Wolfgang. He's your son, Eddie, Yes.

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Speaker 1: He is, who just turned twenty two last week.

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Speaker 2: And how do you feel about him being on the road.

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Speaker 1: I'm the one who took him out of school.

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Speaker 2: And put him on the road at the age of five.

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Speaker 1: That. Yeah, it's good having wolf in the bat. It

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Speaker 1: gives a generational perspective on the music. You know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of music from twenty five thirty years ago it

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Speaker 1: doesn't quite hold up today for a number for a

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Speaker 1: variety of reasons. But the stuff that the first six records, Man,

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Speaker 1: it's just as exciting and just as unpredictable as it

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Speaker 1: was back then.

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Speaker 3: Does cheering with your son does that cramp your style?

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Speaker 3: Or does that does that cramp his style? Whose style

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Speaker 3: is getting cramped.

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Speaker 1: We're hoping that it cramps his because I'm not giving

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Speaker 1: up anything.

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Speaker 2: I was reading this and I didn't know that the

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Speaker 2: only real reason that David Lee Roth got a gig

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Speaker 2: first time round with you guys was because he had

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Speaker 2: his own sound system.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's how we originally joined the band. Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 1: this was interesting about the four of us is that

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Speaker 1: we were all very much of like mind. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can be in backyard party bands and all that,

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Speaker 1: but it comes a certain point where you got to

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Speaker 1: make up your mind, what are you really going to

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Speaker 1: do with your life? And Ed and I actually ran

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Speaker 1: into day while we were in the junior college. We

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Speaker 1: were all studying music one one form or another, and

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Speaker 1: Dave was also there, and you know, we was a

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Speaker 1: kind of spirit and we as much as we were different,

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Speaker 1: we were as much alike. So it worked very well creatively,

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Speaker 1: and the willingness to work, you know, we worked twenty

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Speaker 1: five hours a day, eight days a week in a

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Speaker 1: funny way, you know, when we were all in different

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Speaker 1: bands growing up. You know, after a certain amount of time,

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Speaker 1: when you do realize that you want to take it seriously.

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Speaker 1: We were the only ones in Pasadena left so we

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Speaker 1: were kind of stuck with each other.

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Speaker 3: Is that the way it feels now because it hasn't

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Speaker 3: always been smooth stiling for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's that's not necessarily true. I mean we argue

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Speaker 1: about the normal things that bands argue about, you know,

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Speaker 1: about the music and how we want things to go.

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Speaker 1: You know, nothing out of the ordinary. God forbid we

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Speaker 1: should all think alike, Yeah, there are many that's what

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Speaker 1: makes man. I think, that's what makes man hail, you know,

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Speaker 1: for individual opinions and approaches to things. You know, if

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Speaker 1: we were all the same, everything would be the same. Well,

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Speaker 1: we probably argue more than anybody and then do that

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Speaker 1: behind closed doors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look a lot with your musical legacy. There's another

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Speaker 2: interesting legacy about contract riders. Is it true that you

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Speaker 2: guys were the first ones to have riders in your contract?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think we were the first, but I

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Speaker 1: think after what we asked for it, we may have

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Speaker 1: been the last.

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Speaker 2: Well tell us about that.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a serious side to it, and you know

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Speaker 1: there's also a humor side. But the serious side is

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Speaker 1: we were on tour eleven twelve months a year, and

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Speaker 1: backstage is your home and is it too much to

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Speaker 1: ask for a couple of six packs, you know, and

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Speaker 1: a towel. And apparently it wasn't too much to ask

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Speaker 1: because half the time you wouldn't get it. So we

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Speaker 1: put something into the rider that was definitive, is whether

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Speaker 1: they had read it or not. And then it took

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Speaker 1: on a life of its own. It became something of

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Speaker 1: a people found out about it, and the urban legends,

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Speaker 1: you know started.

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Speaker 3: I'd said, the ball of M and m's is what

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Speaker 3: we're talking about. So were all the brown ones removed?

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Speaker 1: Correct? Yes, you see you see about twenty twenty old

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Speaker 1: ladies sitting backstage, separating them all.

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Speaker 2: They didn't just suck all the colors off the top

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Speaker 2: and put them back, Let's hope. Well, look, we're very

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Speaker 2: excited about the Stone Music Festival April twenty and twenty

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Speaker 2: one at A and Z Stadium. Gentlemen, it's been a

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Speaker 2: pleasure to talk to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: See when you get here, you got it, okay, Thanks,

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Speaker 2: bye

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Speaker 1: Bye bye, with Jones and Amanda