YouTube Clip of Week: Sammy Hagar

In honor of the Red Rocker admitting he's an alien abduction victim, here's a video for the song "Winner Takes It All" from the 1987 Sylvester Stallone flick about the competitive world of arm-wrestling, produced by the winning team of Golan and Globus. Sly appears throughout the video...

Sammy Hagar - Winner Takes It All
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PuUflTcJzA

Sammy Hagar: Alien Abduction Victim

The community of Close Encounters members just became one larger officially, and a cool member at that. Sammy Hagar, promoting his new book Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, came out of the closet as an alien abductee. "It was real. Aliens were plugged into me."

Don't worry though, you won't have to endure any nightmarish visions of the former Van Halen lead singer with an anal probe up his butt. This was all done Wi-Fi: "It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren't even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was like, 'Fuck, they downloaded something into me!' Or they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment. 'See what this guy knows.'"

My personal guess is they just wanted to get a copy of "I Can't Drive 55" on their UFO and the Napster Intergalactica had been shut down by the recording industry. (Their lawyers are literally everywhere.)

No word if David Lee Roth was a victim of evil aliens as well, but come on, who are we kidding, of course he was...

Sammy Hagar Claims He Was Abducted by Aliens
Mark Cina
3/21/2011
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sammy-hagar-claims-he-was-169601

Cabo Wabo in Planet Hollywood

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2009/jul/17/sammy-hagar-prepares-open-cabo-wabo-planet-hollywo

July 17, 2009
Sammy Hagar prepares to open Cabo Wabo in Planet Hollywood
By Robin Leach

It’s now been officially confirmed! As Vegas DeLuxe first reported, rocker Sammy Hagar is bringing his Cabo Wabo Cantina this fall to center Strip, replacing Trader Vic’s in Planet Hollywood. It will be a two-level, 15,000-square-foot nightclub and restaurant -- and, as Sammy himself says, he’s ready to rock Las Vegas Cabo-style!

“It will be a hard rockin’ dining and nightlife experience,” Sammy commented. “Just as Cabo Wabo Cantina transformed Cabo San Lucas from a sleepy Mexican town into a major tourism and party destination, this new Vegas offshoot will have the same vibrancy and laid-back attitude. We’ll have live music and coastal Mexican fare served up as an all-day, all-night party at a price that won’t break the budget.”

The interior of Cabo Wabo.

Obviously, Cabo Wabo will be laced with Sammy's favorite spirit, tequila, with an array of margaritas! “I am ecstatic to finally introduce Las Vegas to the Cabo Wabo lifestyle,” said its Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and founder. “The cantina’s fun-loving, fiesta atmosphere will bring a rock and roll vibe to the heart of the Strip like people have never seen before.”

Cabo Wabo Cantina in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile will be the flagship U.S. location. The original opened in Cabo San Lucas nearly 20 years ago.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

— From Vegas Deluxe

Hagar says new supergroup could "rival Zep"

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/sammy-hagar-says-new-supergroup-could-rival-zep-156990

Sammy Hagar says new supergroup could "rival Zep"
There's only one way to Zep
MusicRadar, Wed 28 May, 2008
By Joe Bosso

Sammy Hagar is excited about his new supergroup, Chickenfoot, so much so that he says the band "could rival Zep."

Comprised of acclaimed guitarist Joe Satriani, Red Hot Chili Peppers's drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Hagar, Chickenfoot have written "around eight or nine songs so far" and are due to enter the recording studio in September..

"When people hear the music, it's Led Zeppelin," Hagar enthuses. "I know that's a bold statement, but it's as good as that." The Red Rocker then compares the group to another musical entity, one he has had some experience with: "It's ten times Van Halen, because it's functional - we all like each other."

For his part, Joe Satriani is jazzed about the project but is less hyperbolic than Cabo man Hagar: "We're having a very fun time. For years now I've wanted to do something with a real vocalist and a real band, and I came close a few times but nothing really panned out. This time is different. What I'm doing with Sammy and the rest of the guys feels right. We get together, we have a lot of laughs, and great things happen musically. I'm thrilled, and I can't wait to get our ideas recorded."

Interestingly, MusicRadar has just figured out that the intials of Chickenfoot's members - H.S.A.S. - are exactly the same as another supergroup in Hagar's past. Coincidence?