Sammy Hagar has announced a new live album that will capture his band’s Las Vegas residency from earlier this year.
The former Van Halen frontman played nine shows at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in April and May, backed by guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Kenny Aronoff.
Now, it has been confirmed that the 19-track live album ‘Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band – The Residency’ will be released on October 10.
The first taster of the record has been shared in the form of ‘Summer Nights’, the track from Van Halen’s 1986 album ‘5150’. “‘Summer Nights’ was one of the first songs we wrote for the ‘5150’ record, on our very first day in the studio,” Hagar has said. “Eddie [Van Halen] played me that guitar riff and I just started singing ‘summer nights and my radio’, and the rest of the lyrics just came out like a river of consciousness.”
He added: “I don’t think there’s a better theme song for a beautiful summer night, so it had to be the first track this summer from the live album.”
Listen here:
‘Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band – The Residency’ tracklist:
- ‘Encore, Thank You, Goodnight’
- ‘Top Of The World’
- ‘Panama’
- ‘Summer Nights’
- ‘There’s Only One Way To Rock’
- ‘Humans Being’
- ‘Right Now’
- ‘5150’
- ‘Poundcake’
- ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’
- ‘Eagles Fly’
- ‘Best Of Both Worlds’
- ‘Why Can’t This Be Love’
- ‘Rock Candy’
- ‘Mas Tequila’
- ‘Heavy Metal’
- ‘I Can’t Drive 55’
- ‘Love Walks In’
- ‘When It’s Love’
Last November, Hagar and Guy Fieri’s joint tequila business Santo Tequila experienced a hijack, with thieves stealing two trucks with roughly $1million of merchandise in Texas. A total of 4,040 were reportedly stolen.
Elsewhere, Hagar’s public feud with Alex Van Halen is ongoing, with the two apparently not having spoken in 21 years. After the latter left the singer’s years in Van Halen out of his memoir Brothers, Hagar recently speculated that the root cause of the beef might be jealousy.
Hagar was also part of a supergroup that performed at Black Sabbath’s poignant final show in July, singing ‘Flying High Again’ and ‘Rock Candy’ with Tom Morello, Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, Quiet Riot’s Rudy Sarzo, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Ozzy Osbourne’s band’s Adam Wakeman.
