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SAMMY HAGAR Says EDDIE VAN HALEN Came To Him In A Dream And They Wrote A Song Together

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Sammy Hagar is releasing a new song he wrote with Eddie Van Halen in a dream

Sammy Hagar recently sat down with Ultimate Classic Rock and revealed that he collaborated with late VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen on a new song in a recent dream he had.

“I shouldn’t be hyping it now,” Hagar said. “Nobody knows this but [my CIRCLE bandmates] Michael Anthony, Jason [Bonham] and Vic [Johnson]. About two months ago, I had this dream and Eddie came. We were in a room like this, [with] a bunch of people around. It was just like he’d been gone. It was not like he was passed, but he had just been out of my life and we hadn’t seen each other for a while. He’s going, ‘Man, let’s write some music!’ I said, ‘Yeah, fuck it, man. Here, let’s go!’ [We] went over into a corner, in this room. He had a guitar and he played me this thing. It was like this lick — [just like] the last lick that Eddie Van Halen showed me, when I went back for the [2004] reunion tour and when he was a mess. I said, ‘Eddie, show me your newest shit,’ because every time I’d be around him I’d say, ‘Show me your newest shit.’ He’d say, ‘Oh, check this out!'”

Sammy went on to say that Eddie “did this harmonic thing” in the dream “and he slid it up to a chord, like a slide guitar. We wrote a song with that lick. I remembered it. I got up in the morning and I wrote the song. It’s called ‘Thank You’. I used the fuckin’ lick that he showed me in the song. I told Jason, ‘I just really don’t know what to say lyrically.’ I’ve got goosebumps, head to toe, [talking about it]. So I wrote it [about that experience], and we’ll do that song someday.”

Hagar says that when “Thank You” eventually gets released, Eddie Van Halen will be credited as a co-writer.

“Now, that’s going to be an Eddie-influenced song, to the point that I’m going to co-write it with him,” he explained. “I’m going to give him credit and then maybe we’ll donate the money to charity, whatever. You see, I feel so embarrassed about it because everyone’s going to say, ‘Oh, look at Sammy trying to capitalize on Eddie.’ No, I’m not. You don’t understand. This was a real fuckin’ dream, and I told you exactly what happened in it.”

Sammy Hagar claims to have mended his relationship with Eddie Van Halen in the months prior to his death in October of 2020.