THESE days the trick is to keep the reader on the page for as long as possible but the Miami Herald got straight to the point in a short feature it ran on Sammy Hagar a couple of days ago.
“I don’t think I want to go on tour anymore,” was the first quote the newspaper ran from an interview conducted in Las Vegas. “I hate to say that, because I don’t want to piss my fans off.”
It’s significant that the interview was conducted in Las Vegas since she is the minx tempting the 77-year-old former Van Halen singer away from the rest of us. He has a residency coming up there and anyone can understand how doing that is preferable to traipsing around the world when you are Hagar’s age.
“I’ll go out and do a one-off show and do things like that but the residency is going to give me a good extension of my career,” he continued. “That’s what I’m hoping for.
“With this, I don’t have to travel, I don’t have to unpack and pack and get on an airplane every day. You know, at my age, it hurts my shoulders to do all this. And I have to perform. I’m a performer, at the end of the day.
This development shouldn’t be shocking but it is, considering the success of his Best Of All Worlds Tour (see our review HERE) last year and the anticipation around the world that it would continue.
“I keep telling my manager, ‘Don’t take any tours, let me do this residency,'” he is further quoted as saying. “If I like it enough, I’ll do another one. And if that’s successful I’ll do another one, and I can squeeze a few more years out of my career.”
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