Sammy Hagar sang Bad Motor Scooter while in Ronnie Montrose' truly great band. he could've died right after that album came out and he would still deserve a seat in Valhalla.
Great piece. I interviewed Sammy in 2002, and found him equally likable. I got him talking a bit about his alien encounters — "They essentially downloaded my brain" — but he didn't want to reveal too much because he said he was saving the whole story for his autobiography. Sadly, he barely talks about it in the book; I suspect his editor or personal handlers headed that one off at the pass.
That book had some other hands in it for sure -- the last 1/4 of it covers all of the riveting business strategy of Sammy's various enterprises, which was kinda dullsville and really should have been saved for another book. I thought Joel did a good job on it though.
Yeah, parts of it were very entertaining, and I got a much better sense of who the guy was/is from it. But give me brain-downloading aliens over business strategies any day of the damn week!
Awesome piece!
Sammy Hagar sang Bad Motor Scooter while in Ronnie Montrose' truly great band. he could've died right after that album came out and he would still deserve a seat in Valhalla.
Great piece. I interviewed Sammy in 2002, and found him equally likable. I got him talking a bit about his alien encounters — "They essentially downloaded my brain" — but he didn't want to reveal too much because he said he was saving the whole story for his autobiography. Sadly, he barely talks about it in the book; I suspect his editor or personal handlers headed that one off at the pass.
That book had some other hands in it for sure -- the last 1/4 of it covers all of the riveting business strategy of Sammy's various enterprises, which was kinda dullsville and really should have been saved for another book. I thought Joel did a good job on it though.
Yeah, parts of it were very entertaining, and I got a much better sense of who the guy was/is from it. But give me brain-downloading aliens over business strategies any day of the damn week!