UPDATE TO BELOW STORY....
Sammy Hagar has released a video for his new song, "Encore. Thank You. Goodnight," his tribute to Eddie Van Halen.
It features Sammy and his Best of All Worlds band -- Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani and Kenny Aronoff -- performing on a soundstage interspersed with Sammy dreaming about Eddie, which is what inspired the song. And interspersed are images of Eddie along with video, taken when Hagar was in Van Halen, of him and Eddie getting their hair cut by their wives -- Valerie Bertinelli (Eddie) and Kari, along with Hagar's son Aaron.
In other Hagar news, his 12-song set Sunday at the Stagecoach festival in Indio, California featured nine Van Halen songs, including “Panama,” which is from the David Lee Roth era. The other three were Hagar solo songs, and joining him on “Mas Tequila” was his partner in Santo spirits, celebrity chef Guy Fieri.
Hagar now starts his nine-date Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live @ Park MGM tomorrow night. He's been teasing it on Instagram with videos of rehearsals and a band interview.
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Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony have posted videos of them discussing Van Halen’s first album with Hagar, 5150, which celebrated its 39th anniversary last week – March 24th. Anthony also posted a video recognizing the 45th anniversary of the release of Van Halen’s third album, Women and Children First, which came out on March 26th, 1980.