![]() ![]() ![]() Hes never too busy to stop and smell the lacy bras and candy-colored panties constantly being thrown onstage, and tonight he yells fuck, shit or some macho locker-room variation thereof no less than forty-two times during the bands two-and-a-half-hour set.Īnd the way he works the room, youd think Hagar drank rocket fuel for breakfast. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen peers at the banner over Hagars left shoulder, breaks into a wide, loopy smile and nods his head in agreement.Ī veteran of fourteen years on the road, the thirty-eight-year-old Hagar has everything it takes to make these Detroit rock roll animals go berserk. It says basically that Detroit loves the idea that Im in this band. This sign gets some kind of award for the most information on the smallest piece of material, bellows Hagar from the stage as he unravels his fifth banner of the evening, a modest flag the size of a tablecloth, crammed with the Van Halen logo, the names of all four band members and a few dozen fans signatures. Some of the banners have a huge Van Halen logo roughly executed with orange Magic Marker.īut the ones that get the biggest roar have a single, unmistakable message: David Lee Roth, the former lead singer of Van Halen, is not welcome here. The kids hang them from the balcony, parade them around the arena to thunderous applause and throw them at the stage in big knotted bundles, hoping someone in the band, usually the new singer, Sammy Hagar, will unfurl them for everyone to see. You see them at nearly every stop on the current Van Halen tour, glant banners made by young fans, mostly out of Moms old white bed sheets. Not a member Click here to learn more about Rolling Stone Plus. ![]()
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