About five months after Sammy Hagar announced he’d written and recorded a song in tribute to Eddie Van Halen and now comes “Encore. Thank You. Goodnight.” from the Red Rocker and features his Best of All Worlds tour band — bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, and drummer Kenny Aronoff.
The song Hagar says came to him in a dream he had in 2022 where he and Eddie discussed writing a song together, with Eddie even playing him a guitar lick.
Hagar wrote it the next day and even conveyed the lick to Satriani, who’s credited as co-writer.
The song opens with Satriani playing an “Eruption”-style lick, and there’s also a section in the middle where you hear an audience chanting “Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!”
It’s an absolute ripper you can hear below + the story behind it with Hagar and Co.
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