| CABO WABO!! SAMMY HAGAR!! |
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| Back where the Musos fly |
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| If ya wanna get home, you better do what it says!!!! |
| After meeting Metallica and Van Halen, Sammy Hagar decided to come to town, kinda weird that he followed Van Halen here as they�d actually never been here before, but you get that! Sammy was also staying at the Hotel Windsor where Metallica were, we got a tip again and went and milled. There were only 3 guys there as it was raining, but we weren�t gonna miss meeting Sammy! He�s the man! So waiting, waiting, waiting as you do, we saw a few of his band members come out, said G�day and they went off and did some shopping. Only a couple of hours after getting there, Sammy came out, he is so cool, and short, he�s short! Spent about 10 minutes with the 5 of us out the front, signing stuff, taking pics (the milfton who took it never sent it to me!) and asking us about the gig. �So what do ya wanna hear tonight?� We�re rattling off songs, he�s like �Yeah� �No, the band doesn�t know it� so we�re planing a set list for him! We asked him why Van Halen had never been to Australia, his answer �Well someone didn�t want to come.� Yeah wow that sounds like what Eddie said! But he was here now and was a dude! Gig time, we rock up and get out possie up the front, Sammy comes on, we�re right in front of Mona, his big bass player, she recognised us from the day and was hamming it up to us and waving and stuff. Sammy so many times came over to us and would yell, scream and stuck his tongue out at me so many times it�s not funny. He was a great showman and can play a mean guitar! Ripped thru all the songs he wanted us to play and gave us a wink every now and then. I can�t say enough of how good it was and how much of a top bloke he is. So, the show finishes. Anthony and myself go on a mission, he knows the support band, I know the manager of the other support band and we manage to go Back Stage, yeah, I know, just lucky. So we go and bug Sammy, Anth is a bit pissed and just walks into his dressing room, Sammy is a towel, Um Anth, close the door dude. The security guard gets the shits at us and says �How�d you get here?� We show him the passes, he gruffed and said �Guys you can�t just do that�, I didn�t, it was Anthony! Sammy said from his room, �Gimme stuff, I�ll sign it for em.� So we gave the security guard the stuff, Sammy signed it, we said Thanx and left. He gave us a smile and a wave and we left. So we hung out with the band �Kings of the Sun� for a while. They�re cool. On the way home I was on another mission, to get a Richie Sambora tour poster from a wall, now I�m talkin one of those big ass promotional ones that come in 2 parts and glued to a wall. We�d already ripped 5 during the day trying to get one. BUT at 2:00am anything is possible. So we find one, and slowly, slowly pull it off, the rain had softened the glue and it came off in one go, this thing is 2 metres long and 1.5 metres high and I got it in one piece! Rolled it up it wouldn�t fit in the car, made it fit in the car and took it home. That for me was almost as exciting as meeting Sammy, I still have that poster, but ended up buying some newies from the printer! So, I met Sammy, he was cool, he�s got a funny lookin tongue! |