John Katsilometes, of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, wrote a feature article about Sammy Hagar, portions of the column appear below.
…“I don’t think I want to go on tour anymore. I hate to say that, because I don’t want to piss my fan[s] off,” Hagar said after [a] 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.”
That reference is to the upcoming, Van Halen-peppered Best of All Worlds Tour – The Residency scheduled for April 30th-May 17th at Dolby Live.
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…”
…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.
Read more at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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I’m not surprised at all by this news, at his age (77) Sammy deserves to go out his way, on his own terms – standing on Top Of The World!
Oh, no. What in the world will we ever do now? Gee, I am so heartbroken.