Sammy Hagar on Eddie Trunk radio talking Eddie and VH!

[James in New York]

[James in New York]

Eddie sent his love to Mike and told Sammy to tell Mike he misses him...

[James in New York]

Sammy confirms there are four songs for sure recorded with vocals and all that didn't make it to an album and that there are tons of recordings of the band jamming up at 5150...

[James in New York]

Sammy says the vault has the first meeting of him and VAN HALEN where they jammed Summer Nights, Good Enough, and a blues jam where Sammy made up lyrics...he said hours of THAT is in the vault at 5150 and he can't wait to hear that again!

He says there's plenty in the vault and Wolf has a goldmine on his hands there!

[Jedi McFly]

Eddie sent his love to Mike and told Sammy to tell Mike he misses him...

This is comforting.

Sammy confirms there are four songs for sure recorded with vocals and all that didn't make it to an album and that there are tons of recordings of the band jamming up at 5150...

Yes! Whenever Wolf is ready...bring those on.

Sammy says the vault has the first meeting of him and VAN HALEN where they jammed Summer Nights, Good Enough, and a blues jam where Sammy made up lyrics...he said hours of THAT is in the vault at 5150 and he can't wait to hear that again!

He says there's plenty in the vault and Wolf has a goldmine on his hands there!

Ditto the above. This sounds promising.

[PT 5150]

Great stuff.....

[JMJ]

Man

there’s part of me now that really believes Sam and Ed were musical soulmates

You can feel it


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[Dave's Dreidel]

The other original members of VH will probably be dead before anything comes out of the vaults.

If a Van Halen says "a decade", that's a lifetime to everyone else.

[James in New York]

Ultimate Classic Rock

HOW SAMMY HAGAR REGROUPED ONSTAGE AFTER EDDIE VAN HALEN’S DEATH

Eddie Van Halen's death coincided with Sammy Hagar's annual Birthday Bash this year, and the singer recently described the difficulty in trying to perform the Van Halen songs the two wrote together at the show.

As Hagar explained on Eddie Trunk's SiriusXM show, he and his band the Circle were rehearsing on Catalina Island when the news of Van Halen's death broke. A pall was instantly cast on the sessions. It became too emotional for Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony to play those songs. "So I started shuffling the songs," Hagar said. "I started taking songs out of the set, trying to make a set list."


Then came the dress rehearsal, which was filmed so in case there was some problem during the real show, it could be seamlessly edited into the performance. But the set was, in Hagar's estimation, "unusable. It was lifeless. You could just see it."

Backstage, Hagar and Anthony realized time was running out, and they had no choice but to focus on doing as good a job as possible. It wasn't until the piano part for "Right Now" started and Hagar called for a moment of silence that everything fell into place. After hearing the boats go silent, Hagar said, "I just fucking looked at Mike, he looked at me. I just said wow."

Hagar continued: "We had work to do, and that was carry on the music And we did it ... and it was one of the greatest performances of the song 'Right Now' and 'Good Enough' and any of the songs that we played - the Van Halen stuff - that was as good as it's ever been, maybe better than the Circle was playing them before. It had purpose. Sometimes, that's what happens, though adversity and stuff you get stronger. You dig in to some other place and we did it."

Hagar added that comedian George Lopez, a mutual friend of both Hagar and Van Halen, was the one who brought the pair back together. In February, Lopez told Hagar he had just seen Eddie and that his health was getting worse; it was time, he told Hagar, for a reconciliation.


Lopez gave Hagar Van Halen's phone number, and the singer took it from there. Eddie had talked about the two of them getting together to "make some noise" again when his health improved; Hagar joked that, at 73, he may not be able to sing a Van Halen set anymore. "I just can't believe that I'll never play with that guy again," Hagar said. "I thought it was inevitable once we patched everything up at the first of the year. Eddie and I were definitely talking a lot and texting like teenagers."

Fans who missed the original pay-per-view stream of Hagar's Birthday Bash - where fans were placed on boats to social distance - can purchase a Nov. 25 rebroadcast at nugs.tv in HD and 4K. You can preview it below with the set's opening song, "There's Only One Way to Rock."

Hagar is also participating in a benefit for those affected by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in Santa Cruz, Calif. Joining him for the streaming event on Dec. 5 are Bonnie Raitt, Joe Satriani, Boz Scaggs, Kevin Cronin and Los Lobos. You can find more information at the benefit's website.



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[Michaels]

ALEX must really really not like Sammy

[Daisy Hill]

The other original members of VH will probably be dead before anything comes out of the vaults.

If a Van Halen says "a decade", that's a lifetime to everyone else.

Which is what makes me think it will be sooner than that. Wolf doesn't have to do this alone. There are probably a dozen people who could be involved and help him. I just think the idea of him sitting in a studio listening to all of those archived tapes is not how it is going to happen

[belikemike]

Which is what makes me think it will be sooner than that. Wolf doesn't have to do this alone. There are probably a dozen people who could be involved and help him. I just think the idea of him sitting in a studio listening to all of those archived tapes is not how it is going to happen

Agree completely. If Al has any interest whatsoever, he could easily start while Wolf is working on Mammoth WVH (tour, record, promoting, etc.).

Wolfe and Al could turn the initial process over to somebody like Ted Templeman, or maybe even Bruck, or somebody they trust to make a first pass at getting the stuff listenable, and even making judgements as to what might be something that could/should be reasonably released. That would make the task of Alex and Wolf deciding what is good enough, when they get around to it, a lot quicker. Especially if that process began while Wolf was active with Mammoth WVH. Granted, this is an optimistic view of the timeline, but doesn’t seem impossible to me.

It just doesn’t seem all that likely to me that they will bring in one of the old singers to either complete songs that were unfinished for release. Certainly doesn’t feel like the relationship with Dave is very solid. Same with Hagar. And, if either singer were asked to do that, I’m guessing they’d need to re-record all of the vocals. Neither singer can sing in the range today that was recorded back then. The music may be in a key neither guy could hit currently?

Hagar did say he believed there were 4 songs from his era that were recorded and not released. He mentioned a couple were from the FUCK sessions, and assume I Want Some Action would be another one. But he also noted there was a reason they weren’t released at the time, basically they didn’t think they were up to par.

Wolf made a similar comment about how the stuff that hasn’t been released probably wasn’t for a reason. He also said Ed had made clear his wishes on what should be done with unreleased music. And Ed has commented at least once before that someday “all of this stuff will come out”. Makes me curious as to what eventually will come out.

[belikemike]

ALEX must really really not like Sammy

It was interesting that Sammy said he reached out to Alex a couple times since Ed passed, with no response. You could be right.

[E-roc]

I'm not interested in new vocals being added to anything. Just release whatever's releasable as is. I'd rather hear Ed's tunes in their unadulterated form than some cobbled together monstrosity. Something like that might work, but too much room for disaster. I'm sure there's other stuff that already has vocals from whoever was the singer at the time. Bring that on as well.

[VH1986]

I asked Sam on IG about The Wish and You Never Know and he said they were in the brothers' hands. Those may be two of the tunes. Who knows.