By Andy Greene, Rolling Stone | Late last week, Sammy Hagar shared his new song “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” which he claims he wrote in a dream with Eddie Van Halen. “This was 100 percent a communication from the beyond,” Hagar told Rolling Stone. “There is no question about it. I dream about Eddie all the time, quite honestly.”
We dove deep into the creation of “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight” in an article a few days back, but Hagar is truly one of the most entertaining interviews in rock, rivaled perhaps only by Noel Gallagher. He wasn’t going to hop on a Zoom with Rolling Stone and speak merely on a single topic. And so during the course of the conversation we covered a lot of other ground, including his feelings toward Alex Van Halen, who hasn’t spoken with Hagar in 21 years, and refused to even mention him by name in his recent memoir, Brothers.
“I hate to say it, but I dreamt about Alex the other night, man,” he says. “It was crazy. And it was so friggin’ real. I was saying, ‘What are you pissed off at me about, man? What the fuck? Now just tell me what your problem is. What did I do? Just tell me.’”
Dream Alex merely laughed at him. “It was kind of a friendly laugh,” says Hagar. “And he goes, ‘You really don’t know, do you?’ And I said, ‘No, I don’t.’ And so then it became this game, and he was saying, ‘Well, I’ll tell you what, let’s flip a coin, and heads, I’ll tell you, tails, suffer.’ Now that’s a fucking pretty realistic dream.”
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Go here to read the full interview:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/sammy-hagar-alex-van-halen-140135001.html
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