{"id":806115,"date":"2020-04-06T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979239"},"modified":"2020-04-06T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:24:30","slug":"watch-sammy-hagar-and-the-circle-cover-wont-get-fooled-again-from-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-sammy-hagar-and-the-circle-cover-wont-get-fooled-again-from-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Sammy Hagar and the Circle Cover \u2018Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u2019 From Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GrabberRaster-0014W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sammy-hagar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sammy-hagar\" data-tag=\"sammy-hagar\">Sammy Hagar<\/a> and the Circle are still officially booked to tour North American amphitheaters this summer on a bill with Whitesnake and Night Ranger, but odds are rather high they\u2019ll be forced to either cancel or postpone it due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>As they wait to learn the fate of their tour \u2014 along with the rest of us \u2014 Hagar and bandmates Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson have teamed up via the internet to record a cover of the Who\u2019s \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again.\u201d They shave about six minutes off the song by skipping many verses and the long instrumental section, but they still get the point across.<\/p>\n<p>Hagar and Anthony played \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u201d a handful of times during their tenure in Van Halen. One of those performances appears on the 1993 concert album <em>Live: Right Here, Right Now.<\/em> In his 2011 memoir <em>Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock<\/em>, Hagar admitted that much of the album was actually recorded in the studio since Eddie Van Halen\u2019s guitar was out of tune and Alex Van Halen wasn\u2019t always playing drums at the right speed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly now that Eddie was playing in tune, my singing\u2019s off-key,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd where Al sped up in \u2018Runaround,\u2019 now I\u2019m singing ahead of the beat. Now I had to go back in the studio and redo all my vocals. I wanted to kill those guys. They put me in a room with the video of the concert, gave me my microphone, and I stood there and sang the whole fucking concert one time through. Just like it was a live performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagar and Anthony haven\u2019t performed with Van Halen since the group\u2019s 2004 reunion tour. They formed the Circle with Bonham and Johnson in 2014 and play sets heavy on songs by Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and Hagar\u2019s solo catalog. They released their debut studio LP, <em>Space Between,<\/em> in May 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-sammy-hagar-the-circle-cover-wont-get-fooled-again-live-from-lockdown-979239\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammy Hagar and the Circle are still officially booked to tour North American amphitheaters this summer on a bill with Whitesnake and Night Ranger, but odds are rather high they\u2019ll be forced to either cancel or postpone it due to the coronavirus. As they wait to learn the fate of their tour \u2014 along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 01:30:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}