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Sammy Hagar leaves nary venue unturned. He’s performed astatine his Cabo Wabo nine astatine Miracle Mile Shops astatine Planet Hollywood, connected the extortion of Beer Park astatine Paris Las Vegas, and for six shows astatine The Strat Theater. And that’s conscionable successful the past 2 months.
The Red Rocker is donning the metallic and achromatic Sunday for his biggest Vegas assemblage yet, astatine Allegiant Stadium during halftime of the Raiders-Cincinnati Bengals game.
“I’m really nervous. I’ll archer you that now,” Hagar said successful a telephone chat Monday. “When they asked I said, ‘Yes!’ Then I went to my manager, ‘Wait, What americium I going to do?’”
Hagar answered his ain question by saying, “I’m going to shriek my (butt) off.”
Hagar and guitarist Vic Johnson from Hagar’s set The Circle volition jam with David Perrico and the Raiders House Band.
“I’ve had a large speech with Dave and I cognize that set is great,” Hagar said. “Who knows, aft this, we mightiness person to adhd immoderate backup singers.”
Hagar plans to play immoderate of his “stadium songs,” among them “Right Now” and “There’s Only One Way to Rock.”
“I’ll beryllium playing to astir 100 times much radical than I’ve been utilized to playing for successful Vegas,” Hagar said. “Who knows? I mightiness consciousness a small anemic successful the knees. But I cognize what the squad wants, and they privation a stone show.”
Perrico is penning 2 caller arrangements for the Hagar hits. The set person spent 16 hours Wednesday re-charting the classics.
“It goes to the imaginativeness of the Raiders, it’s been their imaginativeness of however the location set tin beryllium integral to the crippled experience,” Perrico said. “It’s precise overmuch similar the Doc Severinsen ‘Tonight Show’ set scenario, successful that we are acceptable to play whoever they bring in.”
The squad has brought successful Carlos Santana, Ice Cube, Steve Aoki, Ludacris, Too Short, Marshmello and Grambling’s “World Famed Marching Band for pre-game and halftime shows. Criss Angel has performed an flight stunt 100 feet supra the field. Gladys Knight, Marie Osmond, Yolanda Adams, Tinashe and Journey’s Neal Schon person been among the nationalist anthem singers.
But Hagar is the archetypal creator to really execute with the Perrico band. This besides is his archetypal halftime amusement with the franchise.
Hagar has known Raiders proprietor Mark Davis for years and has followed the squad done its past successful Oakland, Los Angeles, backmost to the Bay Area and yet Las Vegas.
“The Raiders are a spot of an underdog successful the NFL,” Hagar said. “I tin subordinate to that.”
The “Sammy Hagar and Friends” conception has been a deed astatine The Strat. Hagar has welcomed specified collaborators arsenic Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, Rick Springfield and Stephen Pearcy of Ratt. Hagar, Springfield and existent Encore Theater headliner Bryan Adams partied astatine Cabo Wabo aft past Friday’s show.
“I americium truthful grateful that Las Vegas has accepted maine into the community, that’s what’s truly large astir this,” the 74-year-old Hagar said. “I truly consciousness similar I’m portion of the city, and these shows marque maine consciousness similar I’m 26 again.”
Hagar plans to instrumentality to residency successful Las Vegas successful 2022. The details are to beryllium sorted out, arsenic Hagar wiped retired The Strat Theater performances. The room’s seating was astir doubled to 900 for his shows, and adjacent that couldn’t lucifer demand.
The erstwhile Montrose and Van Halen beforehand antheral says he’d beryllium successful favour of returning to a tented structure, akin to the defunct “Celestia” amusement that closed and hauled retired during COVID. Or, he’d beryllium up for an evolved Cabo enactment acquisition successful if the existing theatre is expanded.
“The person each that country successful the lobby, adjacent the entrance, and we could instrumentality implicit a batch of that space,” Hagar said. “If they did that, I would ne'er permission Las Vegas.”
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