Sammy Hagar is about to launch a track that contains a guitar lick he says Eddie Van Halen confirmed him in a dream.
“Encore, Thank You, Goodnight” will probably be launched on Friday, April 25. It finds Hagar joined by three-quarters of his Better of All Worlds band: Guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist and fellow Van Halen alumni Michael Anthony and drummer Kenny Aronoff.
Hagar revealed the origins of the track to UCR almost three years in the past, in an August 2022 interview. “About two months in the past, I had this dream and Eddie got here,” he defined. “He’s going, ‘Man, let’s write some music!’ I stated, ‘Yeah, fuck it, man. Right here, let’s go!'”
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Within the dream, “[Eddie] did this harmonic factor and he slid it as much as a chord, like a slide guitar. We wrote a track with that lick,” Hagar continued. “I remembered it. I received up within the morning and I wrote the track. I used the fuckin’ lick that he confirmed me within the track.”
Hagar served for Van Halen’s lead singer for over a decade, fronting the band for 4 chart-topping albums: 1986’s 5150, 1988’s OU812, 1991’s For Illegal Carnal Data and 1995’s Steadiness.
He and the band broke up in a extremely acrimonious method in 1996, and their 2004 reunion tour ended much more disastrously. However shortly earlier than Eddie’s 2020 demise, he and Hagar made peace, and final summer time the singer mounted the Better of All Worlds tour to pay tribute to his time in Van Halen.
Two years later, Hagar had the dream that impressed the brand new “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight” single. “This track is my last bow to that a part of my life,” he explains in a press launch. “It’s not meant to be something greater than a thank-you – with love, with respect, and with one hell of a guitar solo.”
He additionally shared that Satriani’s contribution to the observe introduced a novel emotional vitality. “Joe was the proper accomplice to assist me form the sound – he introduced in that massive, emotional, guitar-driven vitality that appears like Eddie’s spirit however is solely of Joe’s creation.”
Hagar and his bandmates have a busy April arising. On Sunday April twenty seventh they will headline the Palamino stage at Stagecoach pageant, and three days later they launch their Better of All Worlds Las Vegas residency at Dolby Stay, Park MGM.
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