{"id":116472,"date":"2025-06-26T14:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116472"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:55:18","slug":"wolfgang-van-halen-pulls-out-of-black-sabbath-and-ozzys-farewell-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116472","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Van Halen Pulls Out of Black Sabbath and Ozzy&#8217;s Farewell Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Wolfgang Van Halen<\/strong> has withdrawn from his planned performance at <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong> and <strong>Ozzy Osbourne<\/strong>&#8216;s forthcoming farewell show, \u2018<strong>Back To The Beginning<\/strong>\u2018. The second generation rocker was originally booked to take part in the all-star jam portion of the festival, which is being led by <strong>Rage Against The Machine<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Tom Morello<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, according <strong>Van Halen<\/strong> himself, scheduling conflicts with his band <strong>Mammoth<\/strong>\u2018s summer tour with <strong>Creed<\/strong> and more have seen him withdraw from the live sendoff. He recently told <strong>WRIF<\/strong>\u2018s <strong>Meltdown<\/strong> of that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cI, unfortunately, had to back out because the <strong>Creed<\/strong> tour starts the day after, and I [wouldn\u2019t] be able to pull it off \u2014 unfortunately. I\u2019m very excited to watch it, but I unfortunately had to back out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Wolfgang<\/strong> did however get to take part in a special performance for <strong>Ozzy<\/strong> late last year, serving as one of the many musical guests who helped induct the Prince Of Darkness into the <strong>Rock &amp; Roll Hall Of Fame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Van Halen has withdrawn from his planned performance at Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne&#8216;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116476,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116472\/revisions\/116476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}