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Sammy Hagar on Rocking with Van Halen, Building His Cabo Wabo Empire, and Why Live Music Will Be The ‘Ultimate Savior of Art’
Sammy Hagar reflects on Van Halen days, building his Cabo Wabo empire, and why live music will always beat anything digitally made.
He became a platinum-selling arena act during rock’s dizzy commercial peak in the 1980s, joined one of the biggest bands in history, and then continued into the current millennium, rebuilding his solo career all over again. “You can have all this AI stuff, you can do so many things with computers, but then when you see a Bob Dylan-type walk out with a guitar and a harmonica around his neck and start singing about something that matters, with heart and soul and truth in it… that’s always going to be valuable to people. And just as it was in his earliest days, as a kid in Fontana who saw Elvis on television and immediately wanted to pick up a guitar, that act of creation remains the central driver for Hagar, no matter the venue or the audience.
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