Sammy Hagar’s new music, “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” pulls inspiration from a dream he had the place he reunited along with his late bandmate Eddie Van Halen.
In 2022, Hagar recounted being greeted by Van Halen in a dream the place they bought collectively and made a brand new observe.
The ensuing music, “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” was launched Friday by way of Huge Machine Rock. Of the discharge, his first since signing with the label, Hagar stated the brand new music “is my last bow to that a part of my life.”
“It’s not meant to be something greater than a thanks — with love, with respect and with one hell of a guitar solo,” he added in a press release. “Joe [Satriani] introduced in that huge, emotional, guitar-driven vitality that seems like Eddie’s spirit however is totally of Joe’s creation. With Michael Anthony’s thundering bass and stellar Van Halen-esque background vocals and Kenny Aronoff’s relentlessly highly effective driving rhythms, the music actually got here collectively on all ranges.”
It’s been nearly three years because the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer launched the concept for the observe, with its lyrics straight referencing his now notorious dream. “Standing proper there in entrance of me / like he’d by no means been gone / over in a nook we wrote this music / popping out of a dream / making an attempt to carry onto that melody / one other dream turns into a actuality,” he sings over the rock observe.
“About two months in the past, I had this dream and Eddie [Van Halen] got here,” Hagar first recounted to Final Basic Rock in 2022. “It was identical to he’d been gone. It was not like he was handed, however he had simply been out of my life and we hadn’t seen one another for some time. He’s going, ‘Man, let’s write some music!’ I stated, ‘Yeah, fuck it, man. Right here, let’s go!’”
Hagar co-wrote the music alongside Joe Satriani, who produced the observe with Hagar and Eric Caudieux.
Watch the lyric video beneath.
