Sammy Hagar was asked again, this time by the San Francisco Chronicle, about whether there's a possibility of a Van Halen reunion that includes him anytime soon -- and his answer was more positive than negative.
Hagar replied, "That whole Van Halen thing lurking in the woods out there, I feel there’s a sniper out there — any minute the bullet is going to come flying in that says 'VH' on it, 'You’re it!' We’ll see what happens. I don’t understand them. I haven’t understood them in a long time. I would only do it with Sam and Dave anyway. I’d rather Dave (David Lee Roth) go out and sing his own songs. I’ll sing my songs. That would be the ultimate show, I think. If we could do it that way, I would suck it up. It would be fun."
Hagar and James Hetfield’s fourth annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is this Monday at the Fillmore in San Francisco -- only Hetfield can't be there. The bill features Hagar, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Don Felder, Mick Fleetwood, Vic Johnson, Sarah McLachlan, Steve Vai and Bob Weir. Dave Grohl is subbing for Hetfield, who's on tour with Metallica.