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Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, Jason Bonham The Best of All Worlds Summer 2024 Tour

With Special Guest Loverboy 

Tickets on sale friday, november 17 at 10 a.m. local time via livenation.com  , pre-sale tickets available starting wednesday, november 15 at 10 a.m., presented by beach bar co., santo tequila, & red rocker brewing co..

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer SAMMY HAGAR today announced the long-awaited “THE BEST OF ALL WORLD’S” 2024 tour. Hagar will be joined by rock heavyweights and longtime bandmates MICHAEL ANTHONY (bass, backing vocals), JASON BONHAM (drums) and revealed exclusively on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show this morning that JOE SATRIANI, one of the best guitar players in the world, will complete the band. Produced by Live Nation and featuring special guests Loverboy, the 28-date tour will commence on July 13 in West Palm Beach, FL and will conclude on August 31 in St. Louis, MO.  Pre-sales begin on Wednesday, November 15 at 10 am. General on-sale begins Friday, November 17 at 10am local. For tickets and more details, go to RedRocker.com .

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Following their interview and performance on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Channel 100, Hagar, Anthony, Satriani and Bonham will participate in a press conference starting at 10am PT from SiriusXM’s Hollywood Studios, hosted by Eddie Trunk and airing on Wednesday, Nov. 15 on Trunk Nation/Faction Talk Channel 103. In addition on Wednesday, Sammy will be interviewed on Access Hollywood and Access Daily, and on Thursday, Nov. 16 , he chats with Rob Lowe on his podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe .

The tour follows on the heels of the chart-topping success of THE COLLECTION II, the box set released October 6 featuring newly remastered versions of the four consecutive #1 albums released during the Hagar era of Van Halen: 5150 (1986), OU812 (1988), FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1991), and BALANCE (1995). A reminder to fans of the arsenal of hits, many which haven’t been played live since the band’s 2004 reunion tour. Collectively, Anthony, Satriani and Bonham have played together in nearly every phase of Hagar’s career including Van Halen, Chickenfoot and The Circle, so fans can expect a setlist which draws from some of the biggest rock anthems of the last 4-decades, including, Finish What Ya Started, 5150, Your Love is Driving Me Crazy, Best of Both Worlds, Poundcake, Sexy Little Thing, One Way To Rock, Right Now, Good Enough, Eagles Fly and more. They’ve also enlisted legendary Australian musician, Rai Thistlethwayte on keyboard and backing vocals. The tour represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this band of brothers deliver one of the most legendary hits-packed live shows of their career.

“It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played these songs with Van Halen on the 04’ Best of Both Worlds Tour,” said Hagar. “With Joe on board, we can take a deeper dive into those years. We’re going to touch on some hits from my entire career but seeing fans old and new really embrace the new collection set off something in Mikey and I. We were at my Birthday Bash in Cabo for my 76 th and looked at each other and high fived, like ‘let’s do it.’ We pulled out a couple of them and it was an instant lovefest with the fans from our first riffs. The music we created is going to outlive us all. They deserve to be heard so it’s time we go out and serve the fans that music, while we still can.”

2024 TOUR ITINERARY

July 13            West Palm Beach, FL                     iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

July 14            Tampa, FL                                         MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

July 16            Alpharetta, GA                                 Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

July 19            Charlotte, NC                                   PNC Music Pavilion

July 20           Bristow, VA                                       Jiffy Lube Live

July 22            Saratoga Springs, NY                     Saratoga Performing Arts Center

July 24           Bridgeport, CT                                 Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater

July 26,           Mansfield, MA                                  Xfinity Center

July 27            Holmdel, NJ                                      PNC Bank Arts Center

July 29           Cuyahoga Falls, OH                        Blossom Music Center

July 31            Toronto, ON                                      Budweiser Stage

August 2        Clarkston, MI                                    Pine Knob Music Theatre

August 3        Tinley Park, IL                                   Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre

August 9       Las Vegas, NV                                  MGM Grand Garden Arena

August 11       Morrison, CO                                    Red Rocks Amphitheatre

August 13      Spokane, WA                                     Airway Heights, WA BECU Live at Northern Quest

August 14      Ridgefield, WA                                 RV Inn Style Resort Amphitheater

August 16      Wheatland, CA                                Toyota Amphitheatre

August 17      Concord, CA                                     Toyota Pavilion at Concord

August 19      Los Angeles, CA                               Kia Forum

August 20     Phoenix, AZ                                      Talking Stick Resorts Amphitheatre

August 22     Dallas, TX                                           Dos Equis Pavilion

August 23      Houston, TX                                      Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

August 25     Rogers, AR                                        Walmart AMP

Tour dates continued

August 27     Cincinnati, OH                                 Riverbend Music Center

August 28     Nashville, TN                                     Bridgestone Arena

August 30     Noblesville, IN                                  Ruoff Music Center

August 31      St. Louis, MO                                    Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

About Loverboy:

For more than 40 years, Loverboy has been “Working for the Weekend” (and on the weekend), delighting audiences around the world since forming in 1979, when vocalist Mike Reno was introduced to guitar hot shot Paul Dean – both veterans of several bands on the Canadian scene – at Calgary’s Refinery Night Club.  Along with Reno and Dean, Loverboy still includes original members Doug Johnson on keyboards and Matt Frenette on drums, with Ken “Spider” Sinnaeve replacing the late Scott Smith on bass.

With their trademark red leather pants, bandannas, big rock sound and high-energy live shows, Loverboy has sold more than 10 million albums, earning four multi-platinum plaques, including the four-million-selling GET LUCKY, and a trio of double-Platinum releases in their self-titled 1980 debut, 1983’s KEEP IT UP and 1985’s LOVIN’ EVERY MINUTE OF IT. Their string of hits includes, in addition to the anthem “Working for the Weekend,” such arena rock staples as “Lovin’ Every Minute of It,” “This Could Be the Night,” “Hot Girls in Love,” “The Kid is Hot Tonite,” “Notorious”, “Turn Me Loose,” “When It’s Over,” “Heaven In Your Eyes” and “Queen of the Broken Hearts.” In September of this year, the group was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, ON.

About Sammy Hagar:

For more than four decades, Sammy Hagar has been recognized as one of the best and most accomplished lead singers and songwriters in rock music. From breaking into the industry with the seminal hard rock band Montrose, to his multi-platinum solo career, to his ride as the frontman of Van Halen, Chickenfoot and his latest best-selling supergroup, The Circle, Hagar has amassed 25 Platinum albums on sales surpassing 50 million worldwide. Along his journey, he has set the tone for some of the greatest rock anthems ever written with songs like “I Can’t Drive 55,” “Right Now,” and “Why Can’t This Be Love,” and earned the highest respect of the music industry with a Grammy Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since opening his flagship Cabo Wabo Cantina in 1990, he’s turned a lifelong passion for great food, music and spirits into a thriving and iconic lifestyle brand encompassing restaurants and spirits. A pioneer in the spirits industry, he launched Cabo Wabo Tequila in 1996 and catapulted it into the #2-selling premium tequila brand in the United States. In 2010, Hagar sold his interests in Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari in a 9-figure deal that’s widely credited as the start of the celebrity-owned spirits trend. He now owns an award-winning portfolio of top-shelf spirits and beer that embody that same spirit of Baja beach life and rock ‘n’ roll. They include Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, a partnership with rock icon Rick Springfield, Santo Spirits, a partnership with tastemaker Guy Fieri, Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co. and Red Rocker Brewing Co. Never one to hit the brakes, Sammy’s also expanded his successes into publishing, TV, radio and beyond, including five seasons of his hit TV show “Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar” and as host of “Sammy Hagar’s Top Rock Countdown,” a weekly syndicated radio show on 90+ US stations. He’s a #1 NYT bestselling author and his cocktail book, “Sammy Hagar’s Greatest Cocktail Hits,” was awarded the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He’s also a dedicated philanthropist, donating millions back to local communities through his private non-profit Hagar Family Foundation, and the first Honorary Ambassador to Los Cabos, an honor he was bestowed in 2022 in recognition of his longtime investment in the people and economy of Mexico. Visit RedRocker.com for more information.

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Sammy Hagar’s Almost Van Halen: Red Rocker Plots Tour With Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, Jason Bonham

Sammy Hagar  will celebrate the music of  Van Halen  with a new band featuring longtime bassist Michael Anthony  on the  Best of All Worlds Tour . The summer trek set to hit arenas and amphitheaters next summer will see the Red Rocker team up with guitarist  Joe Satriani  and drummer Jason Bonham .

As  Rolling Stone pointed out, this new venture is made up of pieces of previous Hagar/Anthony projects. The two have toured together for the better part of 20 years (since being let go from Van Halen) and previously collaborated with Satriani in the supergroup Chickenfoot which also featured  Red Hot Chili Peppers  drummer  Chad Smith . While Chickenfoot never played a Van Halen song across multiple world tours, Hagar and Anthony did touch on the VH catalog in their next project Sammy Hagar and the Circle  with guitarist  Vic Johnson  and Jason Bonham on drums. For the  Best of All Worlds Tour , Hagar and Anthony have essentially merged the lineups from their previous endeavors to focus on honoring Van Halen songs, among other selections from Hagar’s wider catalog.

“It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played these songs with Van Halen on the 04’ Best of Both Worlds Tour ,” Hagar said in a statement. “With Joe on board, we can take a deeper dive into those years. We’re going to touch on some hits from my entire career, but seeing fans old and new really embrace the new collection set off something in Mikey and I. We were at my Birthday Bash in Cabo for my 76th and looked at each other and high-fived, like, ‘Let’s do it.’ We pulled out a couple of them, and it was an instant lovefest with the fans from our first riffs. The music we created is going to outlive us all. They deserve to be heard, so it’s time we go out and serve the fans that music, while we still can.”

A press release states that the new band will play Van Hagar hitters “Finish What Ya Started”, “5150”, “Best of Both Worlds”, “Poundcake”, “One Way To Rock”, “Right Now”, and “Good Enough” on this tour. Hagar enlisted Australia’s Rai Thistlethwayte on keyboards and backing vocals, with  Loverboy  serving as the opening act.

This news comes three years after the death of guitar hero  Eddie Van Halen   whose supercharged playing powered the Van Halen machine for over 40 years. Though there has been plenty of talk of Van Halen reunions or tribute shows in the years since, the Best of All Worlds Tour  is the closest thing to materialize. Satriani has publicly stated that he was approached for a tribute show with  David Lee Roth  and  Alex Van Halen  in 2022 which never came to fruition. Eddie’s son  Wolfgang Van Halen , who leads his own original  Mammoth WVH  and toured with Van Halen for years, has remained adamant about not playing his dad’s songs live (other than at the Taylor Hawkins  tribute in L.A. ).

“That’s a big reason why I don’t ever want to play Van Halen songs,” Wolfgang told  Today . “Because I only want to play with [my father]. And he’s not here to play it.”

Tickets for the Sammy Hagar  Best of All Worlds Tour  go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time See below for a full list of tour dates. Watch the band perform on The Howard Stern Show in support of the tour announcement.

The Best Of All Worlds Tour Dates

July 13 – West Palm Beach @ FL iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre July 14 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre July 16 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre July 19 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion July 20 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live July 22 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center July 24 – Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater July 26 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center July 27 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center July 29 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center July 31 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage August 2 – Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre August 3 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre August 9 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena August 11 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre August 13 – Spokane, WA @ Airway Heights, WA BECU Live at Northern Quest August 14 – Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resort Amphitheater August 16 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheatre August 17 – Concord, CA @ Toyota Pavilion at Concord August 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum August 20 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resorts Amphitheatre August 22 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion August 23 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion August 25 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP August 27 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center August 28 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena August 30 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center August 31 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

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Sammy Hagar (The Red Rocker) Biography

Sammy Hagar Reflects on Red Rocker Roots and How Fontana Hometown Shaped His Art

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They say, “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there,” but newly minted Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree Sammy Hagar not only remembers the ’60s, but the ’50s as well. As someone who grew up in that same era in Hagar’s hood, the former hometown of America’s biggest steel mill west of the Mississippi and birthplace of the Hells Angels — Fontana — I can attest to the veracity of Hagar’s crystal-clear total recall. 

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Most important of all, Hagar — whose career not only includes stints in great bands like Montrose and Van Halen and a successful restaurant chain and tequila brand — has roots planted in the soil that once featured bounteous citrus groves, almond and peach orchards and sprawling grape vineyards. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has ample, sharply recollected fond memories of his Fontana (aka Fontucky) youth and his musical coming of age there. 

“I loved growing up in Fontana,” says the seemingly eternally ebullient Hagar. “If you think about it, it’s got an incredible location: an hour to the mountains, to Joshua Tree, to the beach, to Hollywood. My friends and I used to pool our gas money and head out to all those places. I loved the mountains in the summer and the desert in the winter. I started out as a greaser but then I got hip and became a hodad. I got white shoes and white jeans and started to spend my time at the beach.” 

With two older sisters, the pre-teen Hagar joined the 1950s rock and roll revolution. 

A few years later, Hagar was rocking on stages around the Inland Empire, long before he made the trek up the coast in 1969 to San Francisco and wound up with a major label deal as a member of hard-rock outfit Montrose in the 1970s.

It all started, as we so many nascent ’60s rockers, in 1964, when the Elvis allure faded and the British Invasion kicked into high gear.

“The Beatles led the British Invasion happened, but what really got me was when the Rolling Stones hit. They looked like tough guys from Fontana. I had an older friend, Ed Matson, who played guitar well and helped me learn all those Stone songs,” Hagar says.

“I remember, he asked me, ‘How do you remember all those lyrics?’ I can still do it. I remember all my lyrics and always have. So, I could sing all those Stones hits. [Editor’s note: Including “Route 66!”] Somebody said, ‘Let’s start a band and pretty soon we had our set of seven or eight songs, which included a couple of surf songs for the locals. But I was also a soul music guy. I was into James Brown and Hendrix. And I actually saw Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival. I went there, not to see the rock groups, except maybe Eric Burdon, but I wanted to see Otis!”

Down the road, in Hawthorne, California, Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys were the American answer to the Beatles. The surf may have been an hour away, but surf music was lapping up on our Inland Empire shores.

“I used to go to the National Guard Armory in Riverside to hear Dick Dale. Around that time, I got in a band called the Fabulous Castiles and we used to play ‘Surfer Stomp’ at Brunton Hall in Fontana. We didn’t even have a drummer and we all played through one amp. The Justice Brothers came later and that’s when I wanted to get serious. We tried to make a living by playing in bars.”

As we compare notes on our teen years in the Inland Empire, my own recall kicks in and I realize that before I saw Hagar with his band the Justice Brothers at the Night Club in San Bernardino, I caught his act at a Battle of the Bands in the mid-1960s at a Fontana Shopping Center, when he was fronting a soulful combo colorfully called the Mobile Home Blues Band. “Our dream,” Hagar recalls, “was to live in a motor home and drive up and down the coast playing our music.” 

The motor home adventures didn’t happen, but the Mobile Home Blues Band scored an early Hagar victory: “We actually won one of those battles of the bands and the first prize was a Vox white teardrop guitar white teardrop guitar. It’s exactly the same one that Little Steven (Van Zandt) has today!”

Digging deeper, Hagar delineates the fine points of 1960s rock iconography. 

“‘Meet the Beatles’ changed the world, but it was the Stones for me. They changed the way I looked. Every time I joined a band, I wanted to be Keith AND Mick. Then, in my heart, I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix. Then I wanted to be Jeff Beck, but not the later-era Beck. That guy was too good. I can’t play like that. I wanted to be the Jeff Beck Group Jeff Beck. AND Rod Stewart. The two guys from that album ‘Truth.’ And I rode that bus until I heard Bob Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and I realized how important lyrics are. And then I started writing my own music.” 

Hagar, one of hard rock’s preeminent showmen, makes a surprising admission about his softer side. 

“Around the time of Dylan, I also got turned onto Donovan and to be honest, I was more of a Donovan guy than a Dylan guy. Donovan had the same feelings as I had about lost love and had a romantic streak I identified with. I actually cut a version of his song ‘Young Girl Blues’ on my first solo album. I’ve met him and I still love his music. He’s a great poet.” 

Once Hagar split from Southern California and took his act up the coast to the Bay Area, he blended well into the Haight-Ashbury peace and love scene. 

“The Grateful Dead were playing in the park for free and I wanted to be part of that. I became a hippie. I could sleep on people’s floors. No problem! I had my guitar and I wanted to play and sing, so I fit right in, except I was never a heavy drug guy.”

Soon, Hagar put away the love beads as success and fame first beckoned when he was invited to join guitar virtuoso Ronnie Montrose’s band Montrose on Warner Bros Records. The ‘60s were over and new musical influences were wafting through the streets of San Francisco.

“I saw David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Marc Bolan and all the glitter rock guys, and I loved all of them and I thought, ‘This is the future,’” says Hagar, ruefully adding, “But I was getting too glittery. I called myself Sammy Wild for a while. Ronnie was stripped down and that was the right way to go.”

As his time in Montrose drew to a close in the late 1970s and Hagar was segueing into a solo career, he found a new music hero who combined the raw soul of Hagar’s rhythm and blues heroes, the sharp edginess of Dylan and the deep, thoughtful romanticism of Donovan: Irish soul legend Van Morrison. 

“Then it was Van Morrison,” says Hagar. That’s who I wanted to be. Bowie came and went, but Van remains. One of my best songs, which I just wrote recently, ‘Father Time,’ really has my Van Morrison influence all over it.” 

As the decades of rock progressed, bands that dared pomposity in their arrangements (think Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, King Crimson) or snappy costumes (such as pre-Hagar Van Halen) were in the crosshairs of the nascent, gnarly movement out of England called “Punk.” Which a decade later had morphed into “Grunge.”

Hagar explains an important aspect of his personality that has played a key role in his continual growth and evolution as an artist: “I’m a white light, positive energy guy. I’m not bitter, I’m not angry. “

“When I saw the Sex Pistols at the Winterland [in 1978] cutting themselves, spitting on each other, they scared me. I couldn’t be farther away in outlook. But I immediately thought ‘This must be the future.’ What I think went wrong was that they were discovered too early. They needed to develop more. But what mattered was the ‘You’re all full of shit’ rawness. That was what they were selling, and it was simple and real.”  

By the time the Seattle grunge got the rock music world all shook up in the late 1980s, Hagar was the lead singer of Van Halen, one of the world’s biggest bands, but he was open to the sounds and felt a kinship with the young West Coast artists who, like him, were trying to express themselves through the wonderfully powerful medium of rock and roll.

“Kurt Cobain had a profound influence on me. As soon as I heard and saw grunge, it was like ‘I’m a Fontana guy. LET’S GO.’” 

“Cobain said in interviews that his first concert was Sammy Hagar at the Tacoma Dome. But when grunge really hit, a lot of the young guys coming up were throwing rocks and we were one of the biggest bands in the world. But it was easy for me to go back to my roots, playing barefoot and in shorts, not all dressed up like when we went the wayward way! I saw Alice in Chains and said, ‘Let’s take them on tour with us.’” 

More than the music perhaps, the tragedy of Cobain had a profound impact on Hagar, whose self-described “white light” outlook never blinds him to the realities of life learned early, where the young Hagar faced personal darkness in sunny Fontana. 

In his autobiography, “Red,” Hagar vividly details his hardscrabble early days when his family’s very existence was threatened by the raging alcoholism of his ex-boxer father. I suspect that the pungent blossoms of my memories of the long-gone Fontana orchards may not be as romantically remembered by Hagar.  

Hagar’s mother had to drive the kids into the protective cover of the orange groves to hide from the violent man whose life ended drunk and hand-cuffed in the back of a Fontana police car. 

It’s OK, I’ll do what I want/I can drive/I can shoot a gun in the streets/ Score me some heroin./I can jump/ Be the sacrifice/ Bear the cross just like Jesus Christ/And I don’t wanna hear/What love can do. 

Those words were written in a troubled time in Hagar’s life, when the speeding Van Halen megaband train derailed. 

Like every other turn in Hagar’s long and winding California road, this one led to some incredible successes, many of which seem to only be growing in a multitude of musical adventures and business initiatives. One of the most exciting, to this former IE kid at least, is Stage Red, Sammy’s new theater in Fontana.  

So the story doesn’t end in the orange groves or in a mobile home or lonely out on the dark desert highway those other Californians like to sing about.

Sammy Hagar and the Hagar Family lived, and prospered, with Prodigal Son Sammy in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and somewhere way up in the high rankings of those Forbes celebrity lists. One report has Hagar personally pocketing $125 million for selling his share of the Cabo Wabo brand — long before, we should add, the record will show, a man named Clooney scored big with a rival libation.

Revisiting Fontana with Hagar is a blast, but revisiting Hagar’s body of work yields a rich and newfound appreciation for the depth of feeling and ambitious, restless energy of a California artist who even had a hit record about not accepting any speed limit other than his own. 

From his affecting take on ‘Young Girl Blues’ on the first solo LP, up to his recent plucky, pensive and perfectly beautiful ‘Father Time,’ Hagar has always had more than one gear.

In his late 70s, is Mr. “I Can’t Drive 55” slowing down?  

Out here on Route 66, it doesn’t look that way.  

Sammy’s “Best of All Worlds” tour, which features Hagar along with rock superstars Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham, slams into the Kia Forum in Inglewood this summer. If you’re keeping track, that’s nearly 60 years and exactly 67 miles from the Fontana Square Shopping Center Battle of the Bands where “All” started. 

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The Fontana native was joined by Guy Fieri and others on Tuesday, April 30, during the ceremony

Singer John Mayer and Tom Consolo, Hager’s longtime manager, were to join him in the ceremony near Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard, which was to be emceed by chef and TV personality Guy Fieri.

Hagar’s star is across the street from Fieri’s. The two founded Tequila brand Santo Spirit in 2019.

“The idea of where I came from in life, and where my beginnings were, and to have this (star) here, the amount of people I would have to thank, it would be impossible to do in one day,” Hagar said Tuesday.

Related: Fontana’s new Sammy Hagar-backed concert venue is set to open June 15

His mother loved the Walk of Fame and would bring him and his siblings to see it when they were growing up in Fontana, he said.

“She would want to come down here and want to see the movie stars,” Hagar said. “She was really in love with the movie industry, and Clark Gable and those guys. I remember seeing this thing and to think — I mean it was just way beyond even a dream. You have dreams and then you have the dream that you didn’t dream. This is one of those dreams that come true that I didn’t dream.”

The star is the 2,779th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.

(L-R) Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar attend the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony honoring Sammy Hagar on April 30, 2024 in Hollywood. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Sammy Hagar, who grew up in Fontana, poses with his star during his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony on April 30, 2024, in Hollywood. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

(L-R) Guests, Andrew Hagar, Samantha Hagar, Sammy Hagar, Kari Karte, Kama Hagar and Aaron Hagar attend the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony honoring Sammy Hagar on April 30, 2024, in Hollywood. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

A view of Sammy Hagar’s star is seen during the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony honoring Sammy Hagar, who grew up in Fontana, on April 30, 2024, in Hollywood. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Born Oct. 13, 1947 in Monterey, Hagar and his family moved to Fontana when his father got a job at the Kaiser Steel Mill.

Known as the “Red Rocker,” Hagar fronted his first band, the Fabulous Castilles, when he was 14 years old.

After graduating from Fontana High School, Hagar moved to Riverside, played in several local bands and ran a store’s music department.

While playing in a San Francisco cover band, Hagar was discovered and recruited in 1973 to join the hard rock band Montrose, formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose. He appeared on the band’s first two albums, then was fired in 1975 following disputes with Montrose during a European tour.

Hagar then embarked on a solo career, recording eight studio albums between 1976 and 1984. The eighth studio album, “VOA,” included one of Hagar’s best-known songs, “I Can’t Drive 55,” which he quickly wrote after getting a ticket for driving 62 mph when the national speed limit was 55 mph.

Hagar was lead vocalist and lead guitarist for Van Halen from 1985-96 when it produced four multi-platinum, No. 1 Billboard charting albums: “5150,” “OU812,” “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,” and “Balance,” along with nine No. 1 mainstream rock hits.

After leaving Van Halen, Hagar released the solo album “Marching to Mars” in 1997, which reached 18th on the Billboard chart, then formed the long-term band, Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas, which released four albums between 1999 and 2006.

Hagar formed Sammy Hagar and the Circle in 2014. Its first album, “Space Between,” released in 2019, reached fourth on the Billboard chart. Its second album, “Crazy Times,” released in 2022, reached 95th.

Sammy Hagar and the Circle will begin the 28-stop “The Best of All Worlds” tour July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. It will include a stop at The Forum Aug. 19.

Hagar’s honors include induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Van Halen and a best hard rock performance with vocal Grammy in 1991 for “Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” with Van Halen. He was also nominated in 1984 for best album of original score written for a motion picture or a television special for “Footloose” and in 1995 for best hard rock performance for the track for “The Seventh Seal” from the Van Halen album “Balance.”

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Sammy Hagar planned to retire until he received a call from Eddie Van Halen

The red rocker joined van halen in 1985 after a successful solo career and performing with the band montrose.

Sammy Hagar planned to retire before Eddie Van Halen asked him to join band

The Red Rocker told Fox News Digital after receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that joining Van Halen in 1985 after years of success was a ‘defining moment’ for him.

Sammy Hagar and Van Halen almost never were. 

While speaking to Fox News Digital after receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday, Hagar explained he was about to pump the brakes on his music career — until Eddie Van Halen called.

"Then comes Van Halen when I was ready to retire. I hate to use that word because I swear it’s not in my DNA. But I was ready to say, ‘You know, I’m going to quit for a while. I’m going to stop. I’ve been touring my whole life,’" the rocker shared.

"This is 1985, you know. I just came off a major tour, platinum albums in a row, you know. I was rich and famous. So, I thought, ‘Why am I going to keep doing this?’ And then Eddie [Van Halen] calls. That was a defining moment."

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Sammy Hagar said he was ready to retire before Eddie Van Halen called in 1985.  (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images/Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

Before his time as Van Halen’s frontman, Hagar rose to fame playing with the band Montrose in the 1970s and then had a successful solo career. 

Hagar told Fox News Digital with a laugh that another defining moment of his career was "getting thrown out of Van Halen" in 1996 after creative differences with Eddie. "I had to roll up my sleeves and go back to work." 

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He said joining Montrose early on was also an important moment in his career. 

WATCH: Sammy Hagar planned to retire before Eddie Van Halen asked him to join band

"Joining Montrose was a big step from playing clubs, someone else's music, to writing my own music and making my own album of original material and then going on tour all over the world," he told Fox News Digital. "So, that was a big moment. I mean, that was a defining moment. I learned everything from Ronnie Montrose. How to play on stage, how to write songs, how to do all that." 

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Sammy Hagar poses with his star during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

He eventually rejoined Van Halen from 2003 to 2005 and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group in 2007. Eddie Van Halen died in 2020 .

Hagar was joined Tuesday by celebrities like fellow Van Halen member Michael Anthony, Red Hot Chili Peppers musician Chad Smith, John Mayer and Food Network star Guy Fieri.

Sammy Hagar with Guy Fieri at his Walk of Fame ceremony.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Fieri told Fox News Digital he was "overwhelmed" Hagar asked him to speak at the ceremony, adding that he was "more nervous" to emcee the event "than I was for my own star.

WATCH: Guy Fieri was more nervous to emcee Sammy Hagar's Walk of Fame ceremony than for his own

"But it was great. It was an amazing ceremony and so deserved by Sammy," he added. "Such a great guy, way beyond the music. He’s a philanthropist. He’s a community guy. He’s a worldly person. This was one of the highlights of my career without question."

John Mayer spoke at Sammy Hagar's Walk of Fame ceremony.  (Fox News Digital)

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Mayer also spoke about his bond with Hagar during his speech at the ceremony. 

"Sammy Hagar was already a hugely successful artist in his own right when he was asked to join Van Halen," Mayer told the audience gathered near Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard. 

"He certainly didn’t have to join another band to continue making hit records. I think the reason he took them up on the offer is for the same reason he does anything — because it sounded like fun. Sammy is driven by having fun. Sammy has the kind of fun we only dream about letting ourselves have.

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"Every time I think of him, a thought comes to mind that I’d like to share with you today: Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, Sammy Hagar is having way more fun than you." 

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Hollywood Walk of Fame star honoring Sammy Hagar to be unveiled

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Tuesday honoring hard rock and heavy metal singer, songwriter and guitarist Sammy Hagar for a career where he sold more than 50 million albums.

Singer John Mayer and Tom Consolo, Hager's longtime manager, will join him in speaking in the 11:30 a.m. ceremony adjacent to Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard which will be emceed by chef and television host Guy Fieri.

Hagar's star is across the street from Fieri's. The two founded the premium Tequila brand Santo Spirit in 2019.

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The ceremony will be streamed at walkoffame.com.

The star will be the 2,779th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.

Born Oct. 13, 1947 in Monterey, Hagar and his family moved to Fontana when his father got a job at the Kaiser Steel Mill.

Known as the "Red Rocker," Hagar fronted his first band, the Fabulous Castilles, when he was 14 years old.

After graduating from Fontana High School, Hagar moved to nearby Riverside, played in several local bands and ran a store's music department.

While playing in a San Francisco cover band, Hagar was discovered and recruited in 1973 to join the hard rock band Montrose formed by session guitarist Ronnie Montrose. He appeared on the band's first two albums, then fired in 1975 following disputes with Montrose during a European tour.

Hagar then embarked on a solo career, recording eight studio albums between 1976 and 1984. The eighth studio album, "VOA," included on of Hagar's best-known songs, "I Can't Drive 55," which he quickly wrote after getting a ticket for driving 62 mph when the national speed limit was 55 mph.

Hagar was lead vocalist and lead guitarist for Van Halen from 1985-96 when it produced four multi-platinum, No. 1 Billboard charting albums: "5150," "OU812," "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," and "Balance," along with nine No. 1 mainstream rock hits.

After leaving Van Halen, Hagar released the solo album "Marching to Mars" in 1997, which reached 18th on the Billboard chart, then formed the long- term band, Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas, which released four albums between 1999 and 2006.

Hager rejoined Van Halen from 2003-05. He formed the supergroup Chickenfoot in 2008. It released a self-titled debut album in 2009 which reached fourth on the Billboard chart, had a brief tour and released a second album, "Chickenfoot III" in 2011, which reached ninth on the Billboard chart.

Hager formed another supergroup, Sammy Hagar and the Circle in 2014. It first album, "Space Between," released in 2019, reached fourth on the Billboard chart. Its second album, "Crazy Times," released in 2022, reached 95th.

Sammy Hagar and the Circle will begin the 28-stop "The Best of All Worlds" tour July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. It will include a stop at the Forum Aug. 19.

Hagar's honors include induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Van Halen, a best hard rock performance with vocal Grammy in 1991 for "Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" with Van Halen along with nominations in 1984 for best album of original score written for a motion picture or a television special for "Footloose" and in 1995 for best hard rock performance for the track for "The Seventh Seal" from the Van Halen album "Balance."

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John Mayer Jokes Pal Sammy Hagar 'Is Always Having Way More Fun Than You' as Rocker Receives Walk of Fame Star

The Van Halen rocker received a star on the Walk of Fame on Tuesday, April 30

Rocker Sammy Hagar is making his mark on Hollywood with a little help from friend John Mayer .

The Van Halen star, 76, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, April 30, and was honored in a speech given by pal Mayer.

“As you can see, I'm a Van Halen fan,” the guitarist said, gesturing to his t-shirt as he put on his reading glasses. “But I'm an even bigger Sammy Hagar fan."

Mayer, 46, described how the two initially met, just after he had linked up with Dead & Company, the Grateful Dead offshoot he joined in 2015.

"Sammy's studio was down the street from Bob Weir's — he and Bob were already good friends. Sammy came to visit the rehearsal. During a break, I sat down at the piano and started playing "Dreams" from the 5150 [Van Halen] album and Sammy sat down next to me and started singing the tune along with me — the first time we'd ever met. It was one of the most unforgettable moments of my life. From there we were off and running as friends."

The musician spoke of how he found a kindred spirit in Hagar as he stepped in his new role in Dead & Co., much as Hagar had when he replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen in 1985.

"Sammy understood my nervousness about joining an already established legendary rock band, and he was incredibly supportive of me," Mayer recalled. "It's not easy stepping into a position that the audience isn't quite ready to accept, and Sammy knew that and he gave me great comfort in his instant friendship, his kindness — and by letting me drive his Lotus Esprit around the neighborhood alone without even thinking twice about it."

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"Sammy shares his toys," he added, laughing.

Mayer continued, "Sammy was already a hugely successful artist in his own right. When he was asked to be the frontman of Van Halen, he certainly didn't have to join another band to continue making hit records. I think the reason he took them up on the offer was for the same reason he does anything — because it sounded like fun. Sammy is driven by having fun. Sammy has the kind of fun that we only dream about letting ourselves have, if only we could get out of our own way and simply enjoy the fact that we're alive and on this planet for a relative blink of an eye."

He continued, jokingly touching on the breadth of Hagar's lyrics — "Even when he is being a horndog, he's still monogamous" — his bands following his time in Van Halen, and the launch of his tequila brand. "In a world that promotes ruthless hustling and cold analytics, Sammy Hagar proves that living your life with generosity, curiosity and kindness pays off in every way imaginable," Mayer told the crowd.

For Hagar, keeping busy and having a good time doing it remains at the center of everything. As Mayer said, "Every time I think of him, a thought comes to mind that I'd like to share with you today. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, Sammy Hagar is having way more fun than you. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor, my friend. I love you."

Accepting the accolades, Hagar had friends and family laughing as he revealed "this old guy" often answers Mayer's phone calls shirtless.

"By the way, John Mayer — he calls me in the car on FaceTime, that handsome devil. Here I am sitting around my house in a bathing suit, no shirt at my age. He's FaceTiming me trying to tell me how cool some song that he's listening to that I wrote or sang on [is] ... he goes off and says all these wonderful things. Can you imagine, I'm sitting there — this old guy here — going this is John Mayer on the phone telling me, 'You're the greatest, man. I love you, man! Your music has changed my life!' Imagine that, OK?! That's what I have to put up with, stuff like that."

The longtime friends have previously performed together on multiple occasions, and have played hits like Van Halen's “Finish What Ya Started” and Mayer’s “Queen of California.” Before they knew each other, Mayer often covered the band's "Panama" on his Continuum tour in 2008.

In 2017, the two interviewed each other for AXS TV’s Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar , ahead of Hagar’s annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert.

Following the ceremony, Hagar told PEOPLE his own version of his and Mayer's initial meet-cute. "The first day of rehearsal I had to go over because — I’m a big fan, always have been — their studio is right across the street from mine. So I went over. Him and I sat down, he’s just playing the piano, I start singing … he’s been to Cabo, we’ve jammed at Cabo, I’ve jammed with him and the Dead a million times, he’s done my Rock & Roll Road Trip . He did my Acoustic-4-A-Cure..."

Concluded Hagar: "Call John and he shows."

Hagar’s star ceremony also included remarks by his longtime manager Tom Consolo, and was emceed by celebrity chef Guy Fieri .

"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to honor rock legend Sammy Hagar for his contributions to the world of Rock & Roll music," Ana Martinez, Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said in a statement. “From his humble beginnings in Fontana, California to strolling the Hollywood Walk of Fame as a young boy, he has truly come a long way!"

Hagar was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Van Halen in 2007, and has amassed 25 platinum albums on sales surpassing 50 million worldwide.

In May, he’s set to launch Sammy’s Island at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, and Stage Red, a performance venue renamed in his honor, will open on June 15 in his hometown of Fontana, California.

The rocker is currently set to embark on his The Best of All Worlds Tour this summer with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham.

“It’s crazy to think that it’ll be 20 years since Mikey and I played many of these songs with Van Halen on the '04 Best of Both Worlds Tour,” Hagar said in a statement. “With Joe on board, we can take a deeper dive into those years which will be really cool for the fans, and us."

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