Wolfgang Van Halen is feeling "pretty damn grateful" for his first-ever Grammy nomination. The son of late Van Halen axe-slayer Eddie Van Halen was shortlisted for Best Rock Song for his track 'Distance' about his late pop - which he released as Mammoth WVH - at the ceremony in Las Vegas on Sunday night (03.
04. 22). The prize ended up going to Foo Fighters and their song 'Waiting on a War', but Wolfgang is happy to have even received the nod alongside some of his favourite artists.
In a typed-out message on Twitter, the 31-year-old rocker - who was joined by his mom Valerie Bertinelli and girlfriend Andraia Allsop on the red carpet at the MGM Grand Garden Arena - began: “We came, we saw, but we did NOT conquer and that’s ok!
I got to have a wonderful night with the two most important women in my world. "Such an honor to be nominated for the first song I ever released on my own, in a category with artists I've looked up to my entire life.
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