Sammy Hagar Reveals Which Van Halen Album Will Be Reissued Next
Sammy Hagar has revealed which Van Halen album will get the expanded reissue remedy subsequent – and promised that the band he put collectively for his present tour celebrating his time within the band will file an album collectively.
He’s presently main the Best of All Worlds Tour with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Ray Thistlethwaite, taking part in a set that celebrates the music of Van Halen by means of a salute to late guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
In a current interview with The Bogus Otis Show (beneath), Hagar was requested if the quintet had thought-about writing new music together with his present bandmates. “Yes. I guarantee it,” he mentioned, including: “I don’t know when and why because records don’t sell!”
He continued: “I’ve made a couple of [the] best records of my life the last two solo records (2019’s Space Between and 2022’s Crazy Times), and they’re lucky to sell 50, 60,000. You go and make a record nowadays just to lose a couple hundred thousand bucks.
“It’s all good – but, you know, I need a tax write-off, so it really helps. I go, ‘Look, I made too much this year… let’s go make a record!’”
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Van Halen Pay-Per-View Show Could Finally Be Released
In the identical interview, Hagar mentioned Van Halen’s 1995 album Balance – the final one to function his voice – was subsequent on the reissue schedule. The album featured the singles “Don’t Tell Me (What Love Can Do),” “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You,” “Amsterdam” and “Not Enough.”
He was requested about plans for that 12 months’s pay-per-view live performance, shot in Toronto and aired in Canada and later within the U.S. It had been scheduled for a business launch which by no means occurred due to his departure from the band.
“I didn’t know about that,” Hagar replied. “So I’ll bring that up. That’s a very good idea.”
Watch Van Halen’s 1995 Toronto Concert
Van Halen Lineup Changes
Three completely different singers and two completely different bassists joined the Van Halen brothers over time.