1986 Rock Hit Came To Legend in the Shower..Wrote it Buck Naked on Steamed Mirror!-Professor of Rock

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Sammy Hagar tell the hilarious story of writing the Van Halen Classic "Best of Both World on the shower door, sopping wet. He later took it to Eddie Van Halen and they turned it into one of the first huge rock hits the band had from their multiplatinum record 5150.

1986 was another golden year in the wondrous decade of the eighties.
Van Halen followed up their massively successful album `1984 with a new record. With the album 1984, Van Halen just missed the Number one spot because of Michael Jackson Thriller’s dominance into the year 1984.

Lead David Lee Roth left to pursue a solo career and Van Halen started looking for a new singer. We’ve covered that in depth in previous videos as Eddie considered a few different paths to go forward but in the end it was rightfully the Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar who became the new voice. The first time Sammy went down to meet with the band, He had cut off all of his hair as he had just come off his solo VOA tour. Alex Van Halen took one look at this and said and I quote: You look like somebody put a donut on your head and cut it off.” End of quote .,

As sammy would relate in his book, Red. The first time he saw alex after that comment, Alex was drunk as a skunk, he was just pounding a whole case of malt liquor. He would pass out a couple of times a day, wake up and then shot gun two of three beers, Eddie would too along with lighting up cigs. It was the rock and roll life. Eddie lived in a pretty modest house and had just converted the garage into the studio that he would deem 5150 after the police code for picking up a crazy person. According to Sammy they were recording through a homemade board that could have come out of a crackerjack box that was built by engineer don landed. Landee of course could make the board sound brilliant. Sammy would say that the studio smelt like a bar. So he came to take a shower because he stunk... That's where the inspiration for The Best of Both Worlds Came!

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