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Sammy Hagar kicked off his Best of All Worlds tour on Saturday with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Rai Thistlethwayte in tow, focusing on his Van Halen tenure while sprinkling in a handful of other hits from his five-decade career. Van Halen fans have eagerly awaited this trek since Hagar announced it, and unsurprisingly, Saturday’s 21-song performance sparked plenty of online chatter, both positive and negative. Now that Hagar and Co. have two shows under their belts and a whole lot more on the horizon, UCR’s resident Van Halen fanatics are answering five burning questions ab...
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Shinedown drummer Barry Kerch, whose band opened for Van Halen during their bad-tempered reunion tour with Sammy Hagar in 2004, recalled how the dream-come-true experience also had a downside. While Kerch said he had a great time with Hagar,Eddie Van Halen and Michael Anthony, plus Wolfgang Van Halen and his mom Valerie Bertinelli, there was no denying the negative energy between the two factions in the headline act. And he recalled the moment Eddie Van Halen assaulted Hagar onstage while the singer was partway through the line of a song. “It was one of the most amazing times of my life – it w...
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Sammy Hagar kicked off the Best of All Worlds tour last night in West Palm Beach with a 21-song set packed with Van Halen classics. Hagar was accompanied by longtime musical partners Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Jason Bonham, plus multi-instrumentalist Rai Thistlethwayte. After an introductory video full of musical, backstage and award show moments from Hagar’s career played on the massive screen behind the stage, the band launched into “Good Enough,” the opening track from 5150, Hagar’s first album with Van Halen. Watch Sammy Hagar Perform ‘Good Enough’ Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock...
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Sammy Hagar will kick off his Best of All Worlds tour with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham this week, promising to focus on a mix of classics and deep cuts from his time with Van Halen. Despite the nature of the tour, fans shouldn’t expect to see any guest appearances from Alex Van Halen along the way — but it isn’t for a lack of trying on Hagar’s part. “Mike and I reached out to Alex before we did this,” Hagar tells UCR. “We reached out to him a dozen times before this tour, in every way. Email, text message, phone call, message on the machine, okay? No response. No response. I...
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Sammy Hagar knows it can be frustrating being a Van Halen fan. That’s why he’s offering up this summer’s Best of All Worlds trek as a reward for their patience. “This is the ‘thank you’ tour, for all of the fans who followed us for all of those years and have been waiting 20 years for some other kind of a reunion — my era, anyway, for sure,” he tells UCR. Hagar and his longtime Van Halen compadre, bassist Michael Anthony, are leading the charge with their Chickenfoot bandmate Joe Satriani taking on the monumental task of playing Eddie Van Halen’s legendary riffs. Alex Van Halen was invited, bu...
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As he prepares to pay tribute to his old band with this summer’s Best of All Worlds Tour, Sammy Hagar says he’s over the PTSD from the 2004 Van Halen reunion trek — a nightmare experience that he documented in detail in his memoir Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. It was, in fact, the 20th anniversary of that outing — a commercially successful endeavor that played 80 shows over four legs between June and November of that year — that inspired this year’s tour. “Mike and I were in Cabo (Wabo), sitting the dressing room drinking some tequila, getting ready to go play some music,” Hagar tells UCR. ...
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Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony had already assembled one hell of a band for this summer’s Best of All Worlds tour, which will celebrate their decade-long run together in Van Halen. In addition to their Circle partner Jason Bonham on drums, the duo recruited guitar wizard Joe Satriani – another former bandmate, this time from Chickenfoot – to tackle Eddie Van Halen‘s famous and challenging guitar parts. The tour kicks off this Saturday in West Palm Beach. But a fifth band member has been present in the social media video previews Hagar’s been posting from tour rehearsals: multi-instrumentalist...
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Sammy Hagar will kick off his Best of All Worlds tour with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham this week, promising to focus on a mix of classics and deep cuts from his time with Van Halen. Despite the nature of the tour, fans shouldn’t expect to see any guest appearances from Alex Van Halen along the way — but it isn’t for a lack of trying on Hagar’s part. “Mike and I reached out to Alex before we did this,” Hagar tells UCR. “We reached out to him a dozen times before this tour, in every way. Email, text message, phone call, message on the machine, OK? No response. No response. I m...
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How many speeding tickets did Sammy Hagar get before and after writing “I Can’t Drive 55″? The difference in the totals is almost unbelievable, mainly because Hagar had racked up nearly three dozen such offenses before writing the 1984 single, which was bolstered by a music video that was in heavy rotation on TV. Prior to releasing the VOA standout “I Can’t Drive 55,” the Red Rocker received a whopping 34 speeding tickets, as he reveals in a social media post containing a video clip of the song’s origin story. He had even had his license revoked three times and his yearly car insurance totaled...
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Sammy Hagar got an early sign of how contentious his 2004 reunion with Van Halen would be when he was banned from wearing Cabo Wabo clothing onstage. Hagar and his Van Halen bandmates launched the Cabo Wabo cantina in 1990 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after the singer fell in love with the town. Years later, with the club in financial and legal distress, Hagar bought out his bandmates’ interests. He was not only able to turn around the venue’s fortunes but also launched a highly successful tequila brand under the same name. He departed Van Halen in 1996 after a series of escalating creative and c...
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