Sammy Hagar Says He Would Have Been Embarrassed If Van Halen Had Changed Band Name To Van Hagar After He Joined blabbermouth.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blabbermouth.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Singer Sammy Hagar has recollected the meeting Van Halen held with their former record label, Warner Bros., about potentially changing the band name when he joined in 1985 in place of David Lee Roth. Hagar said he would ve been embarrassed if it was changed to Van Hagar.
Estranged Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony recently revealed the news of this decades-old meeting in a radio interview and Hagar, as a guest on 95.5 KLOS, was asked if he was part of those internal discussions about the band adopting a new moniker to go along with their new frontman.
The Red Rocker stated (transcription via Blabbermouth, audio below), Yeah, we were all in a room. And I think [head of Warner Bros.] Mo Austin said, Why don t we be careful here…? Our managers and lawyers and the president of the record company and the band [were] all in a room when we asked for permission for me to join the band it was official. Everybody came and said, We wanna have a meeting.
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