Ron need you to do your work and find a link..
Guy at links says this.He has a photo there of the cover with no photo of Ed on it but the headline EDDIE VAN HALEN THE INTERVIEW.

That’s right. You are reading it correctly…Esquire magazine. The interview was done during Ed’s time in NY during the current tour. Excellent read. I think everyone is going to be a bit surprised as to why the new cd took a little while longer to do than we all would of liked.
Should hit the stands on 4/18
I didn’t want to let to much out and sort of ruin it for everyone. There are a few recycled “things” in there…mostly from the person doing the interview.Ed’s sobriety is a big part of the story.
Cmon now. You really think I would come on here and bs. sorry for the crappy pic.Bottom left hand corner of pic. My kitchen is dark. The guy doing the interview is a big EVH fan…so some of the questions is your basic knowledge type stuff. After all it is Esquire mag…not Guitar World.

More from the guy at links.

Author is David Curcurito. Here’s a little bit. “Thank God he met Janie Liszewski. She met Ed at a time he says was his absolute worst,2006 or so. Ed wanted to stop drinking yet again.The doctors put him on a horrible drug called Klonopin. Ed’s system was in such shock that he became catatonic for about a year.
From Ed; Fucked me up,you know? all I wanted to do was stop drinking. But instead I literally could not communicate. Yeah,I was gone.

From VHLinks:

May 2012 cover:

There must be a couple of different mag covers/versions, as obviously the covers don’t match.

I would suggest one is the US version and one is the UK version.

I dunno… sounds fishy.

Klonopin (clonazepam) is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines (ben-zoe-dye-AZE-eh-peens). Clonazepam affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause anxiety.

Klonopin is used alone or in combination with other medications to control certain types of seizures. It is also used to relieve panic attacks (sudden, unexpected attacks of extreme fear and worry about these attacks). Clonazepam is in a class of medications called benzodiazepines. It works by decreasing abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

More from the interview.

The author and Ed speaking about Ed’s mom.
“It’s funny,his dear old mom,God rest her soul,would do the air guitar thing and tell her son,”oh you’ll never get anywhere going boom,boom,jing,jing. when are you going to get a real job?”
You watch ,Mom. We’ll go somewhere one of these days.
when they got signed to Warner Brothers Mom goes…”Now how long will that last?
And then they changed rock n roll forever.
Still from the article:
Actually,he and his guitar knocked it right on its ass around 1978,when punk was cutting itself with razors and disco was….mother of God,check out the top ten from Billboard,1978
1.Shadow Dancing,Andy Gibb 2.Night Fever,Bee Gees 3.You Light Up My Life,Debby Boone 4.Stayin Alive,Bee Gees 5.Kiss You All Over,Exile 6.How Deep Is Your Love,Bee Gees 7.Baby Come Back,Player 8.Love Is Thicker Than Water,Andy Gibb 9.Boogie Oggie Oggie,A Taste Of Honey 10.Three Times A Lady,Commodores. And when the world heard Eruption,Ed’s one minute forty two second assault,with its dive bombs and furious precision picking,teenage boys everywhere started pounding their heads against a wall. That guitar!!

New Eddie Van Halen interview available in the May 2012 issue of Esquire Magazine, on newsstands 4-16-12.

Additional interviews with Eddie and Wolfgang at esquire.com/vanhalen, also available on 4-16-12.

Hows this guys.Poor Ed.
Makes you appreciate that he is even out there touring.
May be this is the reason why there is days off in the Tour and why no more dates have been added.

He he stays healthy and cancer free and everyone does who has it.It effects a lot of people, I lost a family member to it we I was young.

Otherwise, here goes: Ed’s cancer came back twice last year. Once in his throat and once on his tongue. To quote the article:

“And he was cancer-free until last year, when he got hit twice.
Eddie: ‘I haven’t talked about this, because I don’t talk about this.’
Last spring, doctors found cancer cells in his throat and took a scalpel to them. Last fall, the cancer came back and they took another chunk of his tongue. Every few months, he opens his mouth and doctors poke at him.”

There it is, then.

ESQ: Your brother has obviously been there for you through the hard times too. How did he try to help you?
EVH: I remember him just being in the room with me and you know staying with me. Make sure, make sure I didn’t walk off. He himself had some rough times too, you know. And I guess, I was going to say, that runs in the family too, but Wolfie, he just blows my mind. He doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, no drugs. Nothin’. I am just. I’m like in awe of him. I think a lot of people in this situation, you know, you’ve got two ways to go. Either follow what you lived, or you take the other route. He took the right route, instead of you know, followin’ my footsteps in that respect. And I’ll tell you, we had the last leg of the tour to do after I got sober in 2008, and what gave me strength was lookin’ over at my son, ‘cause I was so nervous, and I’d never in my life, you know, done a tour sober. So here, all of a sudden I am in front of 15, 18, 20 thousand people, and “What are they all lookin’ at?” Yeah, I used to be in my own little world. Nothing really mattered. I just played, had fun, boom, boom, done. And all of a sudden they were starin’ at me and I’m aware of everything. I’m talkin’ what, you know, 35, 40 years of doin’ it one way, and I’d just look over at Wolfie and go, “Oh, okay, there’s a 16 year-old over there who’s kickin’ ass. He’s sober.” Okay, I got to strap on the trousers here and get it together. You know, so between Janie and that, you know. Through example I guess ‘cause you can’t tell anyone. Oh this is going to sound wrong, but no matter how much my brother would tell me that what I was doing was wrong, words don’t do it. It’s like people ask me, “Well how did you stop?” I don’t really know. You know people say with that 12-step program, you will succeed. I disagree.

http://youtu.be/S4AxI9GbZx4

This is @ MSG, during the week of Esquire interviews…..

This is Mean Street…w/ David Curcurito from Esquire

http://youtu.be/H7Tw0PaDVW4

Sorry meant to write.
Hope he stays healthy and cancer free and everyone does who has it. It affects a lot of people. I lost a family member to it when I was young.

ESQ: Have you heard Wolf’s music? Has he written some stuff?
EVH: He will. He will. He is. He’s afraid to show me, but I’ve walked by his room and heard him tinker on some stuff. It’s badass.
ESQ: You write all the music, obviously, for the band; would you be cool with your son writing, too?
EVH: He wrote a few things on this record, like the new breakdown in “She’s the Woman.”
ESQ: What if he wanted to quit?
EVH: If he wanted to quit? I’d have to ask him, “Are you starting your own band? Can I be in it? You need a guitarist? Or you need a bass player?” I’m serious. I think he’d be great. I would love to be a part of it. You know, if he wanted to play drums, I’d play bass or guitar; if he wanted to play guitar, I’d play bass. Whatever. But that’s the whole thing about music, though—it transcends all barriers. All age barriers, all language barriers. When I look over at Wolfie, I don’t see a 21-year-old; I see a musician. He’s an equal. And a motherfucking equal. You better watch out; he’ll kick your ass. He’ll surprise you with something. You better keep up. You know? So age has nothing to do with it.

ron:
ESQ: Have you heard Wolf’s music? Has he written some stuff?
EVH: He will. He will. He is. He’s afraid to show me, but I’ve walked by his room and heard him tinker on some stuff. It’s badass.
ESQ: You write all the music, obviously, for the band; would you be cool with your son writing, too?
EVH: He wrote a few things on this record, like the new breakdown in “She’s the Woman.”
ESQ: What if he wanted to quit?
EVH: If he wanted to quit? I’d have to ask him, “Are you starting your own band? Can I be in it? You need a guitarist? Or you need a bass player?” I’m serious. I think he’d be great. I would love to be a part of it. You know, if he wanted to play drums, I’d play bass or guitar; if he wanted to play guitar, I’d play bass. Whatever. But that’s the whole thing about music, though—it transcends all barriers. All age barriers, all language barriers. When I look over at Wolfie, I don’t see a 21-year-old; I see a musician. He’s an equal. And a motherfucking equal. You better watch out; he’ll kick your ass. He’ll surprise you with something. You better keep up. You know? So age has nothing to do with it.

Wow!!!

Sounds like this could be the last tour and album. If Wolf leaves for any reason, sounds like Ed is done with Van Halen.

If Ed’s cancer keeps coming back. Well…..you can figure that out.

EVH and Wolf @ Esquire Photo shoot

Did he quit smoking too? For Ed’s sake, I sure the hell hope so.

In his first interview in years, Eddie Van Halen discloses that his cancer returned twice last year, that he’s emerged victorious in his battle with alcohol, and that his son Wolfgang reminds him of his own father.

Speaking to Esquire magazine, Van Halen explains that last spring doctors found and removed cancer cells from his throat, and the following fall removed another small chunk of his tongue for the same reason. He explains, “I haven’t talked about this, because I don’t talk about this.” It had previously been thought that the guitar legend had been cancer-free for years following the initial 2000 diagnosis and treatment on his tongue.

Fortunately, the interviewer describes the guitar hero as “the healthiest fifty-seven-year-old I’ve ever seen… young and vital and happy, lean and muscled.” Van Halen also reveals that ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ is the first album he’d ever recorded sober — a change credited in large part to Janie, his wife of three years — and that doing so wrecked hell on his nerves:

“I play a solo, and afterwards I was literally shaking.” Everyone’s going ‘Are you all right?’ And I go, ‘I’m f—-ing nervous.’ ‘Yeah, but you’re Eddie Van Halen,’ they say. And I go, ‘I know who I am, but I’m still nervous.’

Much of the credit for the band’s recent flurry of activity after more than a decade away from record stores and arenas is given to Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang, who joined the band on bass at age 15. He current serves as their “field marshall,” choosing setlists, directing the band through rehearsals and helping select which songs made it to the new album.

When asked what his own departed father, himself a musician, would think if he could see his grandson now, Eddie gets choked up: “Oh, God, don’t make me cry… Sometimes I think Wolfie’s him, reincarnated. He would have been so proud.”