In case you go to see Sammy Hagar in live performance this summer season on his Better of All Worlds Tour, you may discover a slight change within the band lineup.
As a substitute of the standard Rai Thistlethwayte, keyboard duties shall be dealt with by Greg Phillinganes from Toto. On a latest social media submit, one fan requested why Thistlethwayte wouldn’t be on this tour, and Hagar replied with the ironic motive.
“He joined Toto,” Hagar stated, “so we swapped keyboard gamers.”
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At current, Hagar is scheduled to carry out six live shows this coming March at Dolby Reside in Las Vegas, a part of an ongoing residency the Crimson Rocker has been doing since final 12 months. For these exhibits, Thistlethwayte will nonetheless be a part of the band.
After that, Hagar will launch a summer season tour on June 13 in St. Louis, performing alongside fellow Van Halen alumni Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Kenny Aronoff. That is the place Phillinganes will come on board, and that leg of the tour will run till June 27.
Then in September, Hagar will return to his Vegas residency, with exhibits scheduled via September.
Hagar Will not Do a Farewell Tour
In 2025, Hagar spoke with Rolling Stone about his future touring plans.
“All issues should finish. I am ready, fingers crossed that it would not occur, for the time once I stroll as much as the microphone and it simply ain’t there,” he defined. “Or simply stroll out on stage and it is not there. It is acquired to be bodily, psychological and non secular. It is a three-lock field. And so proper now, I’ve nonetheless acquired my three-lock field. All the pieces’s good. I can sing, I can soar round, I can bodily do the entire present, however the journey kills me.
“What I am attending to is that I’d by no means ever announce retirement,” he continued. “I’d simply go away. But when I had 50 extra exhibits left in me…I consider if I went to Vegas and did residences with out all of the journey, the packing and the unpacking, the dangerous meals, the dangerous beds, the dangerous resort rooms, all of the crap that beats the shit out of you on tour, I would be capable of do 75 exhibits as a substitute of fifty.”
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