First of all, the guy’s not a great singer and he acts like he’s the coolest, hottest guy in the world when, to me, he looks gay.”ĭuring the initial Hagar era Van Halen released four multiplatinum studio albums, all of which hit #1 on Billboard, but many longtime fans decried the poppier direction the band took in comparison to its raunchy early style.

He was the opposite of what I believed in and what I am. The guy was a great front man, great attitude in rock, and had an image from hell, but I just couldn’t stand the guy. I’m sure I rub all kinds of people wrong, so it’s not like I’m putting him down. Neither is Hagar complimentary toward David Lee Roth, the original (and now current) Van Halen vocalist, whose position he took over in 1985. His boots were so worn out he had gaffer’s tape wrapped around them and his big toe still stuck out.” He was missing a number of teeth and the ones he had left were black. He had on a giant overcoat and army pants, tattered and ripped at the cuffs, held up with a piece of rope.

He certainly hadn’t changed his clothes in at least that long. “He looked like he hadn’t bathed in a week. “I hadn’t seen him in 10 years,” writes Hagar. On March 15 Sammy Hagar’s autobiography, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, will hit bookshelves, but you can bet his old bandmate Eddie Van Halen won’t be racing out to score a copy.Īccording to excerpts published recently in the Marin Independent Journal, the 63-year-old “Red Rocker” holds nothing back about the guitar hero-like how he looked before their Van Halen reunion tour in 2003.

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