Sammy Hagar
11.17.2008
SAMMY HAGAR LIVE VIDEO WITIH BILLY DUFFY!
Check out this exclusive live footage of the Red Rocker and Sammy Hagar performing Rock Candy with Billy Duffy of The Cult at the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, CA from August this year.
GO HERE to check it out!
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11.10.2008
SAMMY HAGAR LISTENING PARTY TOMORROW!
Get a sneak peak of Sammy Hagar's new album, Cosmic Universal Fashion , before it hits stores on November 18th!
Meet The Wabos- Mona, Vic & Dave!
The Listening party is hosted by AMI Entertainment Digital Jukeboxes and Roadrunner Records. Giveaways and drink special throughout the night.
Cosmic Universal Fashion Listening Party
November 11th, 2008
8-10pm
Horseshoe Tavern
2024 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND!
RSVP to akyuz@roadrunnerrecords.com
Please do not RSVP unless you're sure you can attend as space is limited!
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11.04.2008
SAMMY HAGAR TO APPEAR ON ROCKLINE
Sammy Hagar, rocker extraordinaire, will be Rockline's guest Wednesday November 5th from 8 - 10PM Pacific. Check out the Rockline site for details.
10.21.2008
SAMMY'S TWO WEEK BIRTHDAY BASH AT CABO WABO
Sammy enjoyed another great year at his infamous Birthday Bash in Cabo, San Lucas. The Bash commenced at the Cabo Wabo Cantina on Sammy's birthday on 10/13 and lasted for 2 weeks. Even with Hurricane Norbert brewing, the event went off without a hitch with fans and friends alike that included none other than Pantera's Vinnie Paul, Van Halen's Michael Anthony and famed chef Emeril Lagasse. GO HERE and click on the Photogallery tab to check out some photos of Sammy's performance!
10.06.2008
NEW SITE CHANGES!
You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.
A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!
Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).
The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?
Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.
Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!
We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.
Please feel free to leave comments here below!
Cheers!
Jeremy Rosen
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"The reason I got into this wasn't to be a rock star, it was just to play music," Sammy Hagar recalled to Rolling Stone in 2000. "The first time I ever picked up a guitar, I dug it. In my first band, we could only play one song, “Misirlou” by Dick Dale, but we played it all day long. Finally we learned another one, and then we had two songs we'd play again and again and again."
That unpretentious spirit has carried Hagar through a colorful three-decade career that has established him as one of America's most beloved hard rockers. From his trailblazing early work with Montrose, to his prolific and popular solo career, his massively successful time with Van Halen, and currently as front man for his band Sammy Hagar and The Wabos, the veteran singer/guitarist has continued to make melodic, hard-charging rock that's short on subtlety but long on punch and personality. Performing to hundreds of thousands of concert fans, selling a hundred million CDs, winning Grammy and MTV Awards and, now, being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are all stats that add up to one spectacular career.
Many critics consider Montrose to be America's first full-fledged heavy metal act that achieved a level of respect and influence that carries through to this day. On the group's first two albums, 1973's Montrose and 1974's Paper Money, Hagar's fiery vocals and nascent songwriting skills were well-suited to Montrose's inventive guitar work. Sammy was now on the national stage. His solo records over the next 10 years are remembered for hits like “I Can’t Drive 55,” “One Way To Rock,” “I’ll Fall In Love Again,” “Heavy Metal,” and super soundtrack songs including “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “The Girl Gets Around” from Footloose. Hagar’s single “55” sealed his status as a solo star. Three Lock Box, VOA and Standing Hampton were three hard rocking albums. His ‘70’s anthem “Red” has followed him through the years giving him his nickname “The Red Rocker” and given his fans their own identity as the “Redheads.”
In 1985, he surprised fans and industry observers by accepting an offer to join Van Halen. Hagar would remain Van Halen's frontman for the next decade. During that period, all Van Halen studio albums, 5150, OU812, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, and Balance, shot straight to #1 on the Billboard charts. Live: Right Here, Right Now peaked at #5 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge won a GRAMMY Award for “Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal” in 1991. In 2004 Hagar rejoined Van Halen for a reunion tour that wowed audiences across America.
In the interim, Sammy formed The Wabos, the band he plays with to this day. With The Wabos, he produced more great CDs and more great concerts. Hagar continued to invent numerous ways to live the fun-filled party and music-centered life. His most recent Birthday Bash celebration was anything but usual at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in the sunny climes of Cabo San Lucas. A few thousand fans and some friends including Kenny Chesney, Chad Kroeger from Nickelback, fellow Van Halen-ite Michael Anthony, Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains, Chad Smith from the Chili Peppers, Billy Duffy from The Cult, as well as Ted Nugent and Toby Keith joined in the fun.
Hagar has further shown his entrepreneurial talents as he owns and markets one of the world’s finest tequilas – Cabo Wabo. Introduced into the US in the late 1990’s, Cabo Wabo tequila has become one of the fastest growing and most sought after brands in the distilled spirits industry. The tequila is currently one of the top two selling ultra premium tequilas in the country, with sales growing in double digits for a number of years. Now, Sammy has a new partner, Campari that will take Cabo Wabo Tequila to the global market. Always expanding his world, Sammy has just launched Cabo Wabo Radio, an internet station that originates straight from the Cantina in Mexico. You never know what the Red Rocker will do next. But stay tuned.
Sammy remains one of music’s most beloved personalities, definitely one of the happiest and shows no sign of losing the passion that first inspired him to rock. As he told CNN in 2002, "The blues guys—John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters and all those guys—they sang and played until they died. They got onstage and played the blues and no one asked them, 'Hey are you getting too old for this?' But for some reason people think rock is different. Well, it's not."
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Format: CD Release Date: 11.18.2008
Cosmic Universal Fashion
Cosmic Universal Fashion marks the first official release for Loud & Proud, a Roadrunner Records imprint focusing on established artists. The title track and first single, "Cosmic Universal Fashion," was written as an online collaboration between Hagar and a young Iraqi rock and roller by the name of Steven Lost. Released via Sammy's website RedRocker.com and already a YouTube sensation, the video was produced in the same spirit as the classic Van Halen video for "Right Now, " and strikes a timely chord with November's upcoming Presidential election.
Tracks:
1. Cosmic Universal Fashion [ listen/comment ]
2. Psycho Vertigo
3. Peephole
4. LOUD [ listen/comment ]
5. Fight For Your Right To Party
6. Switch On The Light
7. When The Sun Don't Shine
8. 24365
9. I'm On A Roll
10. Dreams/Cabo
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1. ERIC SAID...
I know I'm up here talking a lot of shit, and I truly don't mean disrespect, just bored at work. But what happened to the old Roadrunner label? It used to be so fuckin awesome with a lot of my favorite (and best) bands. Who made the decision to start fucking it up by signing shit ass bands? Not even a metal label anymore........
October 13, 3:46 PM
Eric
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