Van Hagar

Just saw Sammy Hagar throwing down vox on Tonight Show, the Red Rocker been taking good care of his pipes. The dude got the job done for Van Halen but I wished they'd called it Van Hagar. Never saw them and really didn't care to -- really, it wasn't Van Halen, it was something else entirely. Sammy flogging his new book, and the bits I've read about Ed Van Halen sound quite harrowing. As Leno himself just said, rich guy out of control, no one can get through. Most illustrative stories are when EVH comes to practice just after getting hit by a car and the time he pulled his own tooth--both reflective of someone who's bought into his own myth. Easy to see As pathetic from afar, but how many of us mere mortals could deal with it? Dude knows he probably doesn't deserve it but he records himself scraping a nail against a pipe and someone would buy it. Helen Hunt meanwhile is nowhere near as fun as she used to be, ok she's no fun at all.....Sammy much more fun and he's still hitting the high notes (and clearly has original Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony in his camp, nice going Stan).