According to Michael Anthony, whenever Van Halen was in the studio, someone was always ready to press the “record” button.
“Every time that we went into the studio, whether it was Donn Landee or whoever was engineering for us, we had him press record,” Anthony told Ultimate Guitar‘s Greg Prato. “We recorded everything, every idea that we had. And there’s stuff in there that…I hope Wolfgang goes through some of it because I’m sure there’s a lot of stuff that Eddie did on his own, too, that might be kind of interesting to listen to also. But there’s tons of stuff that we’ll probably never see. Or hear.”
Anthony was asked what he thought of Van Halen’s 2012 album A Different Kind Of Truth featuring Wolfgang Van Halen taking over on bass. It also included songs originally written during Anthony’s time in the band.
“I listened to a little bit of it. It was different,” said Anthony. “Dave was singing differently. And adding Wolfgang into the mix. It was different than what we were obviously doing when I was in the band. There’s a lot of good stuff on there. But yeah, I thought it was a good album.”