While most would suggest that the seminal American hard rock debut from the Sammy Hagar-fronted Montrose is the real coming-out for the singer/guitarist, serious Hagar fans...
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One of Sammy Hagar's better early-career outings, this eponymous effort is most commonly referred to as The Red Album. Starting off with one of the most affective rock...
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One of Sammy Hagar's better early career outings, this eponymous effort is most commonly referred to as "the Red Album." Starting off with one of the most effective rock...
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When Sammy Hagar's 11 years with Van Halen came to an end, he delivered some of the best solo albums of his career. The rocker's post-Van Halen albums weren't much different...
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Evidently, being kicked out of Van Halen revitalized Sammy Hagar, since Marching to Mars is among his best solo albums. A lean, tough collection of by-the-book hard rockers,...
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Released on the struggling Beyond record label in 2000, Ten 13 wasn't exactly a well-publicized release. An impressive lists of artist joined Sammy Hagar around the turn of...
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All Night Long is better than most hard rock live albums not only because Sammy Hagar is at his best when he's on stage, but because the set list includes only his best...
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Sammy Hagar, the singer's last solo album, was released a year after his first album with Van Halen, 1986's 5150. Although it charted the highest of any of his records,...
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One of Sammy Hagar's rawest recordings, Musical Chairs features some guitars that are a treat for listeners fond of the much tougher, uncompromising music that Hagar used...
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After releasing several competent but more or less undistinguished albums on Capitol, Sammy Hagar switched to Geffen in 1981 and released Standing Hampton, a polished but...
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As Sammy Hagar's career was at its height in the early '80s, Capitol, his '70s record label, released Rematch, a compilation of highlights from his six albums with the...
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Sammy Hagar's first two albums for Geffen from the early '80s (after a bunch for Capitol) were eventually combined onto a single release as a double-LP set or single...
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A CD-era collection of Hagar's Capitol work that supplants Rematch, The Best of Sammy Hagar has a nearly identical track listing as the previous collection and suffers from...
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Continuing the sleek, driving pop-oriented sound of Hagar's breakthrough, Standing Hampton, Three Lock Box equals its predecessor, featuring such highlights as the double...
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In between his days with hard-rocking Montrose in the early '70s and his takeover of lead singing duties from David Lee Roth in Van Halen, Sammy Hagar had a moderately...
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VOA was the last album Sammy Hagar recorded before he became the lead singer of Van Halen, and this effort shows why he was invited to join the band. With songs like "I...
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The meeting of bandmates Kenny Aaronson, Michael Shrieve, and Neal Schon sounds like a law firm ("Aaronson, Shrieve & Schon"). Add in Hagar and you've got a...
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Journey axeman Neal Schon satisfies his yearning for a four-piece Van Halen/Montrose environment through meat-and-potatoes metalhead Sammy Hagar on this heavily doctored...
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Much like the guy who uses the cheesiest pick-up line on every girl who walks into the bar, Sammy Hagar has made a career out of being so damn persistent that eventually...
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You've got to hand it to Sammy Hagar for proving the Van Halen brothers wrong. When he exited the group in 1997, Alex and Eddie blamed Hagar's supposed lack of 'work ethic'...
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For his first live album in about 20 years, Sammy Hagar, according to his liner notes for Hallelujah, originally wanted to capture a full concert, but since that ran nearly...
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When it comes right down to it, Sammy Hagar doesn't have all that many hits -- he's hit the Billboard charts about 30 times as a solo artist since leaving Montrose in the...
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