New Sammy Hagar interviews

Three recent Sammy Hagar interviews:

1) Backstage at Common Ground with Span from Q106 (July 13th):

2) Lamont with 107.7 The Bone (San Francisco) at the Oakland Arena (July 23nd):

3) July 30th Interview with Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Sammy Hagar: I’ve been to Cabo Wabo more than Jimmy Buffett’s been to Margaritaville

Posted by Doug Elfman
Friday, Jul. 30, 2010 at 05:24 AM

Can you believe Sammy Hagar doesn’t own a house in Las Vegas? He has a Cabo Wabo Cantina here (he performs there tonight). So what gives?

“Vegas, man, is too hard on you! It is the ultimate 24-7 party town. If I had a house there, it’d shorten my lifespan. Places like Cabo [San Lucas in Mexico], where I have homes — I slow down. You get to Vegas, it’s accelerated evolution. I can take it in short spurts. I go there for two or three days, then swing back and stay in bed for a day.”

Here are his weekend plans. Tonight: “Throw a damn party” at Cabo Wabo. He’s walking a red carpet there around 8:30 p.m.

Since opening Cabo Wabo here, he’s been there only three times, but, he adds:

“That’s probably more than Jimmy Buffett’s been to Margaritaville [on the Strip].”

Saturday night, he opens for Aerosmith at the MGM. When he got the opening gig, he figured he’d try to blow Aerosmith off the stage. But he says he learned his lesson.

“This Aerosmith tour is cool,” he says. “I really thought I was gonna rip the place apart and they were gonna throw me off the tour. But you can’t blow them off the stage. They’re great. They’re back at the top of their game. Steven [Tyler] is singing his ass off. It’s a great concert.”

He says the last great Aerosmith show he saw was in Vegas about five years ago. It’s nice to see Aerosmith back in form, he says.

“We’ve all seen ‘em in the toilet a couple times. That’s what drugs and alcohol do for you. … But right now, they’re really on top of their game.”

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Quite possibly the most unpolitically correct rockstar.. He may be just speaking the truth, but harsh words for Aerosmith (considering they are letting him tag along, sorry a Wobbo show is nothing like Chickenfoot). Was the stab at Jimmy Buffet really needed?
KTC5150

I saw them when they did their “Done With Mirrors” tour… they were STILL H-’d out… the beginning to the tour… I STILL have a guitar pick that Joe Perry threw at me after he did “Red House”… one of my fave Aerosmith moments…
My best HAS to be the G&R/Deep Purple/Aerosmith show @ Giant Stadium in Sept, 1988…. “SHOW FROM HELL”!!!!
As for Bette Midler…eh….\\\\~~~~~////… “WHATEVA!!!”
The Doctor

Unpolitically correct?

“Aerosmith” back to the top of their game? Yeah, right……A wise man once said “Aerosmith is what 14 year old girls think is a hard rock band” If that’s what drugs and alcohol does for you, how do you explain everything a “clean” Aerosmith have done post “Pump”??

If that’s what drugs and alcohol does to you, how do you explain Keith Richards??

Jeez, Sammy. You’re starting to sound like a real wowser. I was staggered to hear on the “Chickenfoot” DVD that Sam “never touches weed”…….Huh? The “Shaka Doobie” man? The guy who would pick up reefers thrown on stage and smoke away like there’s no tomorrow? The same guy who used to talk about growing weed on the Stern show?? WTF???

Sorry, if all that sounds politically incorrect!
The Doctor

….and yes, any stab at Jimmy Buffet is warranted.
Santuli

Except 14 year old girls don’t even know what Aerosmith is. Not these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOr65jRm0w Skutch

@Santuli – that’s the truth
Matteau23

also FYI, the Vegas Cantina is horrible. I was there in May, it has no vibe at all like the original one does. It feels totally mass produced and Chain-ish. The drinks and food are insanely overpriced, the food is like Applebees mass produced garbage. Even the bartenders/waitstaff suck and are completely unfriendly.

Hard to blame Sam, I think its just part of what Vegas has become (the whole place has become a giant strip mall.. so overdone), but it just feels like a cash grab.
phillster

SammY Hagar:”Celebrety Apprentice”
Place your bets
Bridge

The Doctor- And who could forget those fine crafted words to “Amsterdam”? Just hearing him yammerin’ on about “keepin the Wobbos on the payroll” was so lame. Such a saint providing work for the hired help. They’ll live. He’s over focused and tries to do too much which is the opposite problem the other batch of loonies has. As the logo crested globe over the body builder turns…
The Doctor

Apologies for giving “Aerosmith” too much credit for having ANY relevance in 2010.

Actually with all the “he said/she said” crap going on between Tyler and the rest of the band lately it does seem reminiscent of those “Greatest Hits/VH3″ days. No doubt Tyler will look at Hagar and realise that there’s life beyond fronting a solitary band who he no longer cares for beyond a dollar, and then Perry will approach Hagar about fronting “Aerosmith” again…..He’s asked everybody else!

“Chickenfoot”:The Ultimate Party Band led by the Ultimate Tea Totaller..

The only reason I can think of explaining Sam’s baffling about-face on weed must be he’s realised that he can’t put a “Cabo” logo on it and sell it. Yet.

Go California!!
Def B. Loud

Better stir in more sugar, Sammy…the Red
Kool-Aid’s gone sour!!!
Santuli

Yes, I’m sure that’s what’s gonna happen.
Cam Winston

If that’s what drugs and alcohol does for you, how do you explain everything a “clean” Aerosmith have done post “Pump”??

Really?
My fellow Van Halen fans ragging on a band that hasn’t done much hard rock of late? With no note of irony, at all?

If that’s what drugs and alcohol does to you, how do you explain Keith Richards??

Dude hasn’t written a guitar riff noteworthy since “Wicked as it seems” and speaks so incoherently he makes Bob Dylan sound like Morgan Freeman.

Yeah, drugs and alcohol screw up your talents. Tyler & Perry will tell you all about that, as they lost several years to them. People need reminding of that, still?
Cam Winston

….and yes, any stab at Jimmy Buffet is warranted.

F’n A.
The Doctor

Don’t worry, the irony is evident everywhere…..most comically is Mr Tequila Party Man himself, Sammy magically becoming an outspoken advocate for a healthy lifestyle all of a sudden!

Sorry, it may be “unpolitically correct” and old fashioned of me but give me “Sex, Drugs & RocknRoll” everytime.

Sure, Tyler, Perry, Richards and co may have “lost years”, but shit the music was good back then!

Again, I wouldn’t waste my time defending the musical output of a cleaned up “Aerosmith”, “Stones”, or “VH” to be honest
Cam Winston

Sure, Tyler, Perry, Richards and co may have “lost years”, but shit the music was good back then!

A. You obviously never listened to “Done with Mirrors”.
B. You weren’t one of the fans who got screwed by a bunch of lit musicians banging away during an abysmal concert in the 70′s, when they were so incoherent that they couldn’t play all the “good” music live.
C. Permanent Vacation rocked, so did Pump, so did Get a Grip. They were clean w/them and put out some innovative stuff. Granted, they started slipping w/9 lives, although that can partially be blamed on the record company that made them go back into the studio because their initial try wasn’t radio-friendly enough (we all know what that means). They had big problems with the song selection on that one. Finally, with “Just push play” you had a mixture of a few (very few) good rock songs (Beyond beautiful, Just push play) mixed in with a whole bunch of syrupy ballad crap like “Jaded”, which is basically what the band has become of late. That, IMO, is what is wrong with Aerosmith, that they’re too ballad oriented, especially the single releases. If you’ve seen them in concert lately, which I have, they still rock the standards just like the old days (in the case of “Draw the line”, better). BTW, the list of bands that are rocking like they did THIRTY YEARS AGO is……kinda short. Actually, it’s a rock and roll right of passage: your later stuff is never as good as your initial releases. Almost nobody sounds as good as when you first heard them, primarily because it’s no longer a “fresh” sound. G&R, VH, Aerosmith, Boston, the Stones, Zep, heck, even the Beatles. To say it’s because some of the guys finally grew up, activated their brains and got away from the poison isn’t productive, IMO. Being drunk or high doesn’t make you write better music. If that were the case, Eddie would’ve written his best stuff from 2003-2008, when he was a fall-down drunk.

most comically is Mr Tequila Party Man himself, Sammy magically becoming an outspoken advocate for a healthy lifestyle all of a sudden!

He’s no longer a kid. I think that comes thru in the lyrics of “Oh Yeah”: when I was a young man, I slept around. When I turned 30, I tried to settle down

No offense to anyone reading this, but the only things worse than aging people still trying to intoxicate themselves in order to numb their senses & act like they were young are 40+ year old men wearing earrings. There comes a time when everyone should grow up.
The Doctor

“they still rock the standards just like the old days”

The “good old” drunk days, you mean? Those crazy pre Desmond Child radio friendly “clean” days?

I will say this, it takes a brave man to defend the recent musical output of “Aerosmith”. The last time I saw “Aerosmith” was on the “Pump” tour, on a night their vocal back up tape broke down. No thanks…..

Jesus, you must be the only guy who hasn’t seen Sam mix a tequila cocktail or two. That’s the hypocrisy you keep missing here.

“Alcohol is bad. Buy my Tequila”

I wouldn’t bother taking too much from the lyrics of Sammy Hagar. Even Sam would tell you that!
Cam Winston

I will say this, it takes a brave man to defend the recent musical output of “Aerosmith”.

Actually, I think the last thing I said was still good was Get a Grip, which was released around 17 years ago.

“Alcohol is bad. Buy my Tequila”

Hence my question, was he commenting on alcohol or no longer doing drugs? There is a distinct difference between having a margarita & getting ^@#$ed up. If he’s going off on alcohol, yeah, it’s contradictory.