But the crowd noise was then removed to make it seem like a studio affair. The one HSAS album Through The Fire was actually recorded live. the iconic debut album from Montrose took until 1984 to pass the 500,000 sales mark in America and go gold. You find the things that make you happy, and you stop doing the things that make you miserable. It can be the simplest thing: growing tomatoes, walking on a beach, whatever. You either turn to drugs and become a maniac, or you start looking for what really makes you happy. What I found in life is that once you’ve acquired all those things you were after as a young boy – being rich and famous, having all the girls and the cars and the houses – you don’t really know what you want anymore. Start his own tequila company and sing at the same time! What will be your epitaph? I would like to be remembered as someone who made people feel good and brought love and joy into this world. What can Sammy Hagar do that nobody else can? When you release all selfishness, that’s a pretty special feeling, an interesting high. You hold that baby, cut the umbilical cord, and you go, “I will do anything for this child”. My little girl, she’s eight now, but when I saw her being born I was at an age where I was no longer just thinking about myself. And the next best feeling – honestly, I really do mean it – is the feeling of unconditional love.
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But I can only get a couple out in one sitting nowadays. He’s as nutty as Eddie, but he’s consistent – consistently an asshole! Dave is a real character, one of those true rock stars. That Eddie’s a fucking nut! Dave won’t agree about it now because he’s trying to buddy up with Eddie, but as soon as he’s thrown out again he’ll be back with me going, “That fucking guy is out of his fucking mind!”. What do you and David Lee Roth agree on about Van Halen? Like a song I wrote, Dick In The Dirt, it’s so stupid it’s really clever – not just anybody can get that many clichés in one song! There’s so many silly rock clichés that we’ve all used. Hmmm, maybe Led Zeppelin, In Through The Out Door. ** Standing Hampton is your finest double entendre – what’s your favourite by someone else? ** I was asked by the cops to do a public service message to stop ’em, and I said, “Fuck you! Change it, man!“. I thought, I can’t drive 55, man – oh, that’s good! When that song was a big hit, fans were spraying the speed limit signs. I was driving to Lake Placid at 2am and a cop pulled me over and said, “We give tickets around here for going 62 miles an hour”. Ha ha ha! Not a better lyricist, but a better protest singer! Bob, I read his book and he was just moaning and groaning about how he didn’t want to be the fucking guru. Does that make you a better protest singer than Bob Dylan? Your 1984 hit I Can’t Drive 55 was a protest song that actually worked – the speed limit in the US was changed. In my head, that was as radical as the hippies protesting against the war. I was actually willing to stand up and say, “We’re Americans and we’re a good country!”. In the 80s everyone thought I was so conformist and right-wing but I thought I was so radical.
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**Where do you stand politically? On your recent solo album Cosmic Universal Fashion you collaborated with Iraqi musician Steven Lost, yet in the 80s you called yourself the Voice Of America.