Sammy Hagar's new song w/Joe Satriani, inspired by a dream visit from Eddie Van Halen (video + Rolling Stone article)

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Rolling Stone article with an earlier video, the lyric video.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sammy-hagar-eddie-van-halen-dream-song-1235323518/

About a year after Eddie Van Halen died in 2020, Sammy Hagar had a dream that they were sharing a chill moment together. “He had a guitar around his neck and we were having a love fest since we hadn’t seen each other in a long time,” Hagar tells Rolling Stone. “And he just started playing this riff, and I started singing.”

It took several years, but Hagar ultimately finished the song, which he wound up calling “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight,” with help from guitarist Joe Satriani, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Kenny Aronoff. The video will premiere April 27 when Hagar performs at Stagecoach, and he’ll play it live for the first time at the kickoff to his Best of All Worlds Las Vegas residency on April 30. But you can hear it right now.

To Hagar, the dream wasn’t merely an amalgamation of Eddie Van Halen memories seeping out of his subconsciousness. “This was one hundred percent a communication from the beyond,” he says. “There is no question about it. I dream about Eddie all the time, quite honestly.”

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For two years, the song remained little more than a rough iPhone recording, some scribbles, and a vivid memory of a dream. But earlier this year, he decided it was time to finish it with help from Satriani. “I thought, ‘I’ll never write a song with Eddie again. This is the closest I can come to it,'” Hagar says. “When I told Joe about the dream and played him the thing he went, ‘Oh man. Hell yeah. Let’s finish that. That’s a cool song.'”

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