{"id":29890,"date":"2024-07-10T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halens-equipment-auction-i-think-that-was-his-statement-to-me\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:03:13","slug":"sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halens-equipment-auction-i-think-that-was-his-statement-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-on-alex-van-halens-equipment-auction-i-think-that-was-his-statement-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Hagar on Alex Van Halen\u2019s equipment auction: \u201cI think that was his statement to me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sammy Hagar<\/strong> is set to kick off his The Best of All Worlds Tour on Saturday.\u00a0The rocker and his band will be playing Van Halen<\/strong> songs during the show,\u00a0and while\u00a0he may have originally hoped that former Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen<\/strong>\u00a0would stop by,\u00a0<\/strong>he knows it isn’t about to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hagar tells <\/span>Classic Rock<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> that\u00a0when he started\u00a0planning the tour with Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony<\/strong> he “immediately reached out to Al” but heard nothing back.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo response,” Hagar says. “I hit him again. No response. I called (manager) Irving Azoff<\/strong>; he goes, ‘Al doesn’t want to play with anybody. He’s still mourning his brother’s death… I don’t think he’s ready.’ And I said, ‘Well, get him to talk to me.’\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0in May, Alex announced he was selling\u00a0off\u00a0all his equipment at an auction that closed June 9. Hagar is taking that personally.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think that was his statement to me,” he says. “I think that was his way of saying, ‘I’m over. I’m done.’ It’s a shame.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“There’s a time I was saying, ‘Oh, he’ll show up. You watch, he’ll f*****’ show up at the (Los Angeles) Forum or something,\u2019\u201d Sammy adds. \u201cMike and I had this running joke that we were gonna put him on the guest list every night of every show, just for fun. But, no, after selling his drums, he ain’t showing up nowhere, I can guarantee you that.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hagar\u2019s The Best of All Worlds tour kicks off July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at\u00a0<\/span>redrocker.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images Sammy Hagar is set to kick off his The Best of All Worlds Tour on Saturday.\u00a0The rocker and his band will be playing Van Halen songs during the show,\u00a0and while\u00a0he may have originally hoped that former Van Halen drummer Alex Van Halen\u00a0would stop by,\u00a0he knowsRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}