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    Default Sammy Hagar: ‘I Don’t Think I Want to Go on Tour Anymore’

    Published: January 16, 2025


    After over five decades on the road, Sammy Hagar says his touring career may be at at end.

    "I don't think I want to go on tour anymore," the former Van Halen frontman told the Miami Herald. "I hate to say that, because I don't want to piss my fans off."

    Hagar traveled the United States last summer with the highly successful Van Halen-themed Best of All Worlds tour, but now says he wants to focus on residencies and one-off shows. He's bring a revamped version of the Best of All Worlds show to a nine-date Las Vegas residency that kicks off on April 30.

    "I keep telling my manager, ‘Don't take any tours, let me do this residency,'" he explained. "If I like it enough, I'll do another one. And if that's successful I'll do another one, and I can squeeze a few more years out of my career. ...With this, I don't have to travel, I don't have to unpack and pack and get on an airplane every day. You know, at my age, it hurts my shoulders to do all this. And I have to perform. I'm a performer, at the end of the day."

    Hagar has promised to switch up the set lists for his upcoming Vegas residency, which will find him performing alongside Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Kenny Aronoff and Rai Thistlethwayte.

    One of the songs he's promised to add is "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)," the lead single from Van Halen's 1995 album Balance. “Technically it's a brutal song to sing. I painted myself in a corner.” Regardless, he insisted: “[W]e will be doing it at the residency in Vegas. I’m going to add it to the show.”

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    Wise decision on his part.

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    He's toured plenty in his lifetime so I'm not surprised by this.
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    Ahead of Las Vegas Strip residency, Van Halen legend halts tour talk

    LAS VEGAS - He'd just played a sound check before a set at a new Las Vegas rock club and is mentally mapping a nine-show spree this spring on the Strip. He also wrapped a 33-date world tour in August.

    There is no denying that Sammy Hagar is a rock ‘n' roll marvel. But you wonder how long the 77-year-old Red Rocker can keep such an accelerated pace.

    He wonders that, too, and is making allowances to keep rocking in ‘25 and beyond.

    "I don't think I want to go on tour anymore. I hate to say that, because I don't want to piss my fans off," Hagar said after sound-check at Caspian's Cocktails & Caviar at Caesars Palace, where he was the surprise (well, unbilled) guest at Friday's grand-opening party. "I'll go out and do a one-off show and do things like that, but the residency is going to give me a good extension of my career. That's what I'm hoping for."

    Don't be misled by the title. This is a residency, not a tour. As Hagar says, this run is an ideal format to continue his live-performance career.
    "With this, I don't have to travel, I don't have to unpack and pack and get on an airplane every day," Hagar said. "You know, at my age, it hurts my shoulders to do all this. And I have to perform. I'm a performer, at the end of the day."

    Hagar says the Dolby Live dates won't be his final such extended engagement in Las Vegas. "I keep telling my manager, ‘Don't take any tours, let me do this residency,'" Hagar said. "If I like it enough, I'll do another one. And if that's successful I'll do another one, and I can squeeze a few more years out of my career."

    The "Best of All Worlds" set list will draw from the tour's song roster, heavy with Van Halen classics during the Hagar era ("Best of Both Worlds," "Right Now") with solo favorites ("There's Only One Way to Rock," and the one about violating the speed limit). Hagar is joined by his all-star, touring band of Van Halen original bassist, Michael Anthony; guitar great Joe Satriani; and thunder-clap drummer Kenny Aronoff.

    A new song, written by Hagar and guitar great Joe Satriani, "Thank You," is planned for the shows. The song is on target to be released just before the run. As is his custom, Hagar wants to bring the buoyancy.

    "If I bring home what I'm going to try to do, it's for people to leave my shows now with the warmest, happiest feeling," Hagar said. "This is about the right lyrics, the right performance, to feel the love. I want them to feel it, feel it, feel it."

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    I guess the hangovers are finally catching up to Sammy. His cabo has been waboed out!

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    So I guess this means Mike's retiring too, yeah?
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    Residencies are the way to go. Like it or not, our favorite rock stars have become Sammy Davis Jr. and Debbie Reynolds.

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