As Sammy Hagar prepares for his upcoming Las Vegas residency, the Purple Rocker’s new single Encore, Thank You, Goodnight has been launched.
A video is ready to premiere on April 27, however the audio is now out there on streaming platforms and finds guitarist Joe Satriani intentionally channelling the spirit of the late Eddie Van Halen with a high-speed solo introduction.
“It’s a thank-you to Eddie Van Halen,” Hagar tells the Los Angeles Occasions. “It’s saying, ‘Because you’ve been gone, it’s not the identical,’ as a result of it isn’t. For the music, I believed: How can I make this a homage to Eddie? I had a dream, and I remembered a few of the music from the dream. However I can’t play guitar that means.
“So I despatched Joe these movies of me singing this little refrain and informed him how the riff goes. And Joe, man, he simply channelled Eddie. We’d simply come off a giant tour the place he’d been taking part in 14 Van Halen songs each night time, so he knew Eddie’s shit inside and outside.”
Hagar goes into extra element in a video introducing the premiere, saying, “I am nearly embarrassed to speak about this as a result of it feels like I am making an attempt to drag some shit. I ain’t pulling no shit. I had a dream, and Eddie got here to the dream and confirmed me a track.
“I begin singing the track, and I awakened and stated, ‘fuck, I gotta keep in mind what I used to be singing!’ And I remembered it, and I confirmed Joe, and he completed it.”
Hagar’s Greatest Of All Worlds residency – through which he performs solo profession highlights alongside songs by Montrose, Van Halen and Chickenfoot – will kick off on April 30 at Dolby Dwell on the Park MGM in Las Vegas, and proceed into Could. He is joined onstage by Satriani and bassist Michael Anthony from Chickenfoot, plus drummer Kenny Aronoff.
Full dates beneath. Tickets are on sale now
Apr 30: Las Vegas Dolby Dwell @ Park MGM, NV
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