According to ultimateclassicrock.com, Sammy Hagar claims that he wrote a new song titled, “Thank You,” using things shown to him by Eddie Van Halen in a dream. Hagar is quoted in saying, “I shouldn’t be hyping it now, Nobody knows this but Michael Anthony, Jason [Bonham] and Vic [Johnson]. About two months ago, I had this dream and Eddie came. We were in a room like this, [with] a bunch of people around. It was just like he’d been gone. It was not like he was passed, but he had just been out of my life and we hadn’t seen each other for a while. He’s going, ‘Man, let’s write some music!’ I said, ‘Yeah, f-ck it, man. Here, let’s go!'” Hagar continued to say that he, “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 sh-t,’ because every time I’d be around him I’d say, ‘Show me your newest sh-t.’ He’d say, ‘Oh, check this out!’, he did this harmonic thing and he slid it up to a chord, like a slide guitar. We wrote a song with that lick,”
Unfortunately, “Thank You,” was finished too late to be included on his upcoming album, Crazy Times, though when it does arrive he plans to share the songwriting credit with his former bandmate. Crazy Times will be Hagar’s second album with the Circle and is set to arrive on September 30th. The band is currently in the midst of touring the U.S. with support from George Thorogood. They have also already released the title track for the album, along with a cover of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up.”
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