You Know Its Gonna Be A Great Summer When Sammy Hagar Wants To Rock

How many times have you been caught in a conversation about how the rich keep getting richer? What happens if they're a Rocker? Can the magicians of writing and strings be allowed too much space to race through Rock's everyday chapters? Look at Dave Grohl! Cranking up the volume at the Democratic Convention with Foo Fighters, jamming with Paul McCartney and his ex-Nirvana bass guitarist while sliding out the frames of a new Hollywood movie. He ain't the only business maker in the music biz. Sammy Hager has always kept himself busy in the afterlife of a solo career turned Van Halen whipped into whatever his heart desires. He’s got his membership in Chickenfoot and a burgeoning booze empire to keep him busy, but that doesn’t mean Sammy Hagar has forgotten about his solo career. According to Classic Rock Magazine Hagar hasn’t released an album on his own since ‘Cosmic Universal Fashion’ in 2008, and according to comments he made during a recent interview with Las Vegas Magazine, it seems like he’s starting to get the itch again. Celebrating the three-year anniversary of his rather awkwardly named Cabo Wabo Cantina in Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort, he talked about looking forward to “a big rum and tequila party” while reminding us that, hard-partying image aside, he’s still one of the more consistently prolific rock artists of his generation. “I’m in the studio right now with my band, The Wabos, and we’re rehearsing and writing songs,” Hagar revealed when asked about his plans for 2013. “We’re putting something out this year and we’ll probably go out and do 25-30 shows.” Of course, Hagar being Hagar, music isn’t all he’s up to — aside from launching his new Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum, he’d also like to expand his cantina empire (“We’re opening another Cabo Wabo in Los Angeles at Hollywood and Vine”) as well as follow up his recent memoir with “a lifestyle cookbook with some of my chef friends.”