‘Cruisin and Boozin’: Dissecting Sammy Hagar’s troubling 1970’s hit
A controversial track.
Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar claims he rejected opportunities to front Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead and Aerosmith
“I wouldn’t be caught dead trying to replace Robert Plant.”
The one artist Sammy Hagar never wanted to tour with again: “I would never bother”
Not the match made in heaven.
The song that saw Van Halen turn their back on sex and hedonism: “I wanted to get serious”
“They’re great words”.
The artist that made Sammy Hagar want to leave hard rock
“I was really learning how to write, sing and play guitar.”
The album Sammy Hagar has always wanted to sound like: “Blew my mind and changed my life”
A groundbreaking record.
The album Sammy Hagar called “the best psychedelic record ever made”
From heavy rock to contact high.
