Sammy Hagar appeared on Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast for a career-spanning interview and fortunately for us, Steve-O is a big Van Halen fan with lots of Van Halen questions.
Here’s a rundown of what Sammy talks about in the interview, which you can watch above:
- The Montrose days
- The slow rise to success as a solo artist
- On joining Van Halen in 1985
- The current resurgence of the Van Hagar era
- On Eddie & Alex Van Halen’s relationship
- The David Lee Roth era songs Sammy wanted to sing & didn’t want to sing
- Sammy’s grass-roots Philanthropy philisophy
- Touring with Dave in 2002 (The Sam & Dave Tour)
- Still being frozen out by Alex
- What a Van Halen tribute could and should be
- Sammy’s friendship with Mickey Hart & Bob Weir of Grateful Dead
- Steve-O & Sammy share their love of the band Free
- Playing in stadiums vs amphitheaters: which is better?
- Looking back on Van Halen’s 1988 Monsters of Rock tour
- The 2004 Van Halen reunion tour struggles