About a month before the album was finished, Wolfgang Van Halen, currently the Van Halen bass player, was born to Eddie and his wife Valerie Bertinelli on March 16, 1991. The timing worked perfectly; the album would include the acoustic song with the title "316" as a dedication to his newborn son.
Wolfgang himself has weighed in on the subject of the song dedication in 2019 when online trolls took to Twitter to try and poke a hole in the sweet sentiment. He wrote in a reply, "Going out of your way to tell me that the song my father dedicated to me, isn't for me, just because it was an idea he had played before I was born, doesn't make it any less dedicated to me. Y'all don't get to decide that. You people blow my mind" (via iHeartRadio).
It was on Wolfgang's 25th birthday that Bertinelli posted a pic of Eddie playing "316" to her pregnant belly and captioned it, "Ed playing 316 on my growing tummy, before he knew he would call it 316" (via Facebook). Take a listen and feel the love of father for son.
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