Wolfgang Van Halen Responds to David Lee Roth’s ‘This F-ckin’ Kid’ Video: ‘Born Into This Van Halen Drama’

Six weeks after David Lee Roth released a profanity-laced video that targeted and teased Wolfgang Van Halen, the Mammoth WVH rocker has finally responded to his former band mate’s “This Fuckin’ Kid” clip.

Roth’s video, posted seemingly unprovoked in January, also called Wolfgang a “schlemiel” (“fool” in Yiddish), mocked him for benefiting from nepotism, and griped about Wolfgang allegedly ordering the removal of an accountant from a backstage area after supposedly mistaking her for Roth’s girlfriend.

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In an interview with Atlanta’s The Morning X, Wolfgang acknowledged that he has at least heard of the “This Fuckin’ Kid” video, and it doesn’t phase him much, as it’s just the latest chapter in a decades-long “Van Halen drama.”

“I guess I’m honored [Roth] even thinks about me as much as he seems to,” Wolfgang said in the radio interview (via NME). “I guess you have to take what he says with a grain of salt, considering he also said that he wrote ‘Eruption’ and came up with the Frankenstein [Eddie Van Halen’s guitar pattern]. He said he wrote all the solos that dad wrote.”

The bassist added, “I guess that’s all I can say. I seem to have been born into this Van Halen drama that has come way before me. And I guess now that my dad isn’t here to be a target, I guess he went to the next best thing.”

While Roth is releasing mocking YouTube videos, Wolfgang is usually taking the high road when it comes to his former singer, who Wolfgang insinuated is the reason why an Eddie Van Halen tribute concert didn’t happen.

“There are some people that make it very difficult to do anything when it comes to Van Halen,” Wolfgang told Rolling Stone in 2022. “From my time in Van Halen, there was always some stuff that gets in the way from just making music and having a good time. And, I think that’s what happened…. The fact that in my tenure, in Van Halen, we managed to do three tours, put an album of original material and a live album out is a fucking miracle… Apparently, some people are too full of themselves to let other people have a good time.”

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