Sammy Hagar

The Sons of Bay Area Rock Royalty Want Your Help Starting a Band

5 Musicians Who Believe in Alien Life, Other Than Shaun Ryder

Shaun Ryder: ex-Happy Mondays vocalist, frequently-intoxicated loudmouth, and a man embodying so much English working class swagger, he makes Liam Gallagher look like a pansy. Mr. Ryder is an unforgettable character, but not someone you'd think about leaving in charge of documentary programming. So ... More >>

Top 21 Bay Area Metal Albums of All Time, #21-11

Thrash. Thrash. Thrash. Yes, thrash is what the Bay Area metal scene is famous for. But it doesn't all begin and end with blistering riffs -- our local bands have churned out plenty sludgy stoner metal as well, and even some very heavy shit that's damn near unclassifiable. It's all here on our list ... More >>

How Obama and Romney Are Presiding Over the Death of the Campaign Song

Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

Live Review, 6/3/12: Van Halen Finger-Taps Its Way to Glory at Oracle Arena

Van Halen Kool and the Gang Sunday, June 3, 2012 Oracle Arena Better than: Any of the still-touring Sunset Strip hair-farmers from the 1980s that Van Halen inspired. There aren't too many '70s-era hard-rock bands that can inspire the kind of unabashed hedonism -- a "bring me the skull of Sammy Hag ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

R.I.P. Ronnie Montrose, Bay Area Rock Guitarist, 1947-2012

Ronnie Montrose, the intense guitarist and songwriter who led the band Montrose and helped bring Sammy Hagar to the world's attention, died Saturday, March, 3, of complications from prostate cancer, according to a posting on his website. He was 64. Throughout a 40-year career, Montrose worked with ... More >>

Guy Fieri's Ridiculous TV Man-Fort: A Helpful Breakdown

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. Have you seen Guy Fieri's kitchen-fort on Guy's Big Bite? I love this guy. Here are some photos from the set. ​ Le grand kitchen-fort. Go ahead, whisper "Awesome sauce." See how that feels.

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Carlos Santana Endorses Tequila Brand, No Word Yet on Drink-Off With Sammy Hagar

"Bring it, Sammy"​ Carlos Santana, your local guitar god, is endorsing some expensive tequila brand called Casa Noble. Wow. Cool. Amaaazing. Okay, not really. Apparently the 10-time Grammy winner has a "passion for excellence" or something, and so do the people over at this particular Jalisc ... More >>

Catching Up with Mike Watt, Former Minuteman and Writer of Punk Operas

In Print: TV on the Radio's Apocalyptic Love, Mike Watt's World, and More

TV on the Radio​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:  TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light is also the first TV on the Radio album to be recorded away from the band's comfy boho surroundings in north Brooklyn. And then some: The band decamped to a mall-based studio near Rodeo Drive th ... More >>

The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows

Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>

Sammy Hagar: Rich on Booze and Business, Not Rock 'n' Roll

Hagar would make the raddest B-School prof, ever.​Wait, so you think that being in Van Halen made Marin County's own Sammy Hagar wealthy? Not quite. Actually, it was the booze -- Hagar's famous Cabo Wabo tequila brand and Cabo San Lucas restaurant -- and various other business ventures that now ha ... More >>

Last Night's Top Chef: All-Stars Was All Conch, No Balls

usmagazine.com Padma's flotation devices can't even keep this series above water.​We thought we were out, but we got reeled back with a determination to finish what we started ― i.e., this awfully boring season. Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars was entitled "Island Fever" and it was fitting ... More >>

Steaks for Rad Boomers, Veggies for Interior Designers

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Two from the 'Hopper today: Yes, that Sammy Hagar.​SFoodie spent Saturday mopping the kitchen floor (no, seriously ― it'd been a long time), but the Tablehopper? At Tyler Florence's 40th ... More >>

March's Literary Events

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Hometown Shredder Joe Satriani Rocks the Fox with Sammy Hagar and an Army of Fanboys

Richard HaickSatriani showing off at the Fox last night​Joe SatrianiNed Evett & Triple DoubleJanuary 13, 2010@ The Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Hearing Machine Head in high-school detention hall. There's just something about the title of Joe Satriani's new album, Black Swans and Wormhole ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Aerosmith vs. Sammy Hagar: One embodies arena-rock greatness, the other taints it

In Print: Francis & the Lights' iPad Album, Sammy Hagar is a Joke, All Shook Down Fest

Francis Farewell Starlite​Does the album matter anymore? Does anyone care? Do you know what a CD is? Okay, kidding on the last point (kinda), but clearly the music industry is looking for some new, marketable format to sell to music lovers. After all, CD sales ain't what they used to be, and it do ... More >>

Authentic amigos at Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant

Eight Great Foodies from the Bay Area Music Scene

DJ Pam the Funkstress: Cajun food queen​The Bay Area's devotion to its homegrown music and food is steadfast. The culinary creativity here is as infectious as our sonic imagination, so it should come as little surprise that there is a crossover between the two local scenes. But did you know that D ... More >>

Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani and Damian Kulash

Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March  26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Van Halen live: Diamond Dave is back! As Dr. Teeth!

Sammy Hagar's tequila paradise

Earl Greyhound

Soft Targets (Some Records)

Dead Like Me

Attempting to survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead

America's first true hard-rock god, and Canada's one true electronica nut case

Say Schwa

Spending depressed days at Tosca, eavesdropping on silly bands

Pedro Rocks

A new film catches up with legendary punk rockers the Minutemen

Best Reason to Go to a Warriors Game

Right Now

Older, wiser, and a little less drunk, Sammy Hagar and Van Halen trudge on

Bring the piNoise

Nine festival favorites

Read It and Weep

In answer to the Chronicle, we submit our own list of things that make us cry

Best Vocal Coach

Faith Winthrop

Tool(s) of the Man

Mickey Hart is still pursuing that perfect beat -- in words, sound, and even government service

The Doctor Is In

Tommy's Mexican Restaurant

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Letters

The Red Menace

Bad music. Bad press. Bad hair. Sammy Hagar's heard the insults. But for the Bay Area's Red Rocker, the best revenge is living well.

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