Sammy Hagar has revealed that the late-Eddie Van Halen came to him in a dream and wrote a song with him. Hagar, who'll release Crazy Times, his latest album with the Circle on September 30th, spoke about the visitation to Ultimate Classic Rock.
Hagar explained, “About two months ago, I had this dream and Eddie came. . . We hadn’t seen each other for a while. He’s going, 'Man, let’s write some music!' I said, 'Yeah, f*** 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 s***,' because every time I’d be around him I’d say, 'Show me your newest s***.' He’d say, 'Oh, check this out!'”
He went on to say, “(In the dream) he did this harmonic thing 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 f***in’ lick that he showed me in the song. . . I’ve got goosebumps, head to toe, (talking about it). So I wrote it (about that experience), and we’ll do that song someday.”