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Fact #153951

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When Sammy Hagar performs onstage with Eddie Van Halen at Farm Aid in Champaign, Illinois, USA, it marks their first live performance together. It is announced from the stage that Hagar will be Van Halen's new vocalist.

Full article:

Sammy Hagar : Eddie flew up to my house in Northern California and he rehearsed with my band - I had a studio in my basement back then. I’d already went down and rehearsed with Ed, Al [Van Halen] and Mike [Anthony] at 5150 [Studios]. We were working on some songs, but we hadn’t really done anything. We had ‘Summer Nights’ and ‘Good Enough,’ but they weren’t finished. We had just jammed them.

He came out with us and he played a little guitar solo with two or three of his little pieces and then we went into Rock and Roll and we rehearsed it. That same day, Eddie and I wrote two or three more song ideas, and one of them never went anywhere. … Eddie and I, in the early days, man. It got bogged down with each record. The first two records really went fast, and then it bogged down. But the chemistry at the Farm Aid thing was phenomenal.

There was a classic picture in People magazine of Eddie standing there in his torn up jeans and his classic pose with his guitar neck up in the air, kind of leaning back a little bit, legs together, not far apart, that’s the way he used to stand - and me with my hand on his shoulder, and I jumped so fuckin’ high, my feet are about up to his shoulders and my hand is on his shoulder, so I’m way above him with my legs all tucked up. … It was a classic bad-ass shot, and it kind of said it all.

The energy level between the two of us came way up, let me tell you.
(Source : http://ultimateclassicrock.com/sammy-hagar-van-halen-farm-aid/?trackback=tsmclip)