Sammy Hagar offers a brief history of crummy tequila, and why the version that he’s brought to store shelves will make you want to whip off your shirt and start singing “Poundcake.” More »
One of the hardest things to do as a human being is to parse the emotional from the rational part of your brain, especially when it comes to music. More »
In its latest bid to inflame class war, Forbes has published a list of the top 20 “celebrity paydays,” i.e. days during which the rich and famous got even richer, if not more famous. Most of the deals either involve real estate being flipped and/or people who first made their names during the tabloid era of the ’80s (seriously, every time I see Donald Trump’s name invoked in a positive way somewhere, I feel like we’re all living a bad We Got It Made rerun on endless loop). But! Somehow, three out of the top five spots were taken by musicians… although when you see what the source of those paydays was, you’ll realize that their musical roots were merely stepping stones on their way to big cash. No. 2 was 50 Cent, whose Vitamin Water payday netted him $100 million; No. 4 was Jay-Z, who made $82 million when he sold Roc-A-Wear; and No. 5 was Sammy Hagar, who made a cool $80 million when he sold an 80% stake in Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari. Madonna was at No. 8 for her $43 million Live Nation deal, although $25 million of that came in the form of stock–so there may need to be some recalculations done there. Anyway, get your class consciousness all whipped up and kick yourself for not buying that Manhattan penthouse when you could have with the full list, which is after the jump!
That cryptic “sorry, guys” to the city of St. Louis that Sammy Hagar posted on his blog today? It’s because he complained about crap-beer titan Anheuser-Busch turning down his offer to produce a Cabo Wabo-branded brew while on stage in St. Louis the other night. And then he said, “It’s Miller Time.” More »
Fresh off his Cabo Wabo payday, Sammy Hagar beats David Lee Roth-led version of Van Halen to the punch, announces fall tour dates. Opening? Michael Anthony! More »
Fresh off his Cabo Wabo payday, Sammy Hagar beats David Lee Roth-led version of Van Halen to the punch, announces fall tour dates. Opening? Michael Anthony! More »
No doubt inspired by the massive success of Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo Tequila, noted vintner Vince Neil has decided to jump into the tequila-making game as well. The West Roxbury Transcript looked at Neil’s newest sideline with a piece that made frequent references to his status as an “alcohol aficionado”–although to be fair, making wine and tequila is probably more lucrative for Neil than losing the words to his songs in a bottle:
To capitalize on his fondness for drinking, despite having at least one trip to rehab, Neil was at Gary’s Liquors on the VFW Parkway to promote his three types of tequila called Vince Neil’s Tres Rios.
Somehow we missed this Monday, despite our feed subscriptions to hagarfan.blogspot.org and hagars-really-not-the-bad.net:
Sammy Hagar, a rock ‘n’ roll legend and Mill Valley Tequila entrepreneur, is selling an 80 percent interest in his Cabo Wabo Tequila to Gruppo Campari, the world’s seventh-largest spirits company, for $80 million, the two sides said Monday.
Yes, yes, we know: Enough already with Hagar-hugging. But we couldn’t sit on this quote all weekend: “I think the Hall shoulda sent word of my induction via carrier pigeon or something, because down here, communication is a little, uh, unique,” he explained. More »
We didn’t intend for the site to become “all Hagar, all the time” this week, but you follow the news where it leads, and Sammy’s cameo in this L.A. Times story about rockers playing corporate gigs is too good not to highlight: “I mean, we used to make fun of Huey Lewis for… More »
