Watch Sammy Hagar Fight 114-Degree Heat in Texas
Sammy Hagar launched a video clip displaying how his spouse helped him cope with excessive warmth throughout a live performance in Texas Thursday evening.
His Best of All Worlds Tour – a tribute to late bandmate Eddie Van Halen – arrived on the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas, the place the temperature reached 114º. The anticipated excessive in the world right now of yr is 96º.
The video under exhibits a coolbox with the phrases “Cool down, Sammy, cool down” written on the highest. His spouse, Kari Karte, is then seen serving to him apply ice packs to his legs and giving him water to drink, whereas the band proceed to play.
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He applies a towel to his face whereas she places one over his again, then helps him change shirts and tidies his hair. With the routine accomplished, Hagar places his shades on and heads again onto the stage, telling the digital camera: “A hundred and fourteen fucking degrees.”
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The clip is captioned: “My faithful trainer working the backstage cool down… we still had a blast. What a great audience.” He later added one other publish, saying: “Texas has a way of converting you within a couple hours… it was hot as the devil’s crotch tonight but as awesome as rock ’n’ roll gets.”
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Hagar beforehand stated he’d hoped the Best of All Worlds tour would function Alex Van Halen in any means the drummer wished to be included. “We reached out to him a dozen times,” he reported. “[W]e made every offer to get together or to just talk or to have breakfast, lunch or dinner. Go to the studio and play. Come to my house or I’ll come to your house. Go ride horses, go sit on the beach. What do you want to do? Let’s just do something. Let’s get together. And nothing.”
He added: “I was saying, ‘He’ll come to a show – he’s got to, in L.A. or something. I’m sure he’ll come.’ But no… he sold all of his equipment. That was his statement. That was like, ‘Nah, I ain’t coming nowhere.’”
Six U.S. exhibits stay on the tour, with additional dates in Japan earlier than wrapping up in Japan on Sept. 23.
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