Sammy Hagar and Kirk Hammett Are Plotting a Collaboration: Behind “The Seven Sisters”

A major collaboration is in the works. While speaking to the UCR Podcast, Sammy Hagar revealed that he’s planning to team up with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett for a new song.

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Hagar said that, like him, Hammett is into things of the supernatural and alien variety.

“You know who’s a big fan of all of that? Kirk Hammett from Metallica,” Hagar said. “We’re writing a song right now called ‘The Seven Sisters.’ Well, we’re not writing it [yet, but] we’re talking about writing it.”

“‘The Seven Sisters,’ which is the Pleiades, where a lot of these people are coming from,” he continued. “For the ride out of the song, we’re going to go into [part of] ‘Silver Lights.’”

“Silver Lights,” which appeared on Hagar’s 1976 solo album, is one of many that the rocker has written on the topic. He also penned Van Halen’s “Love Walks In” and Montrose’s “Space Station No. 5.”

“I’m a firm believer—I have seen, have felt, have been contacted three or four different times,” Hagar previously told Guitar World. “I have received information that has been valuable in my life from those people, and they have used me. I’m gonna sound like a complete nut here, but they have used me in an experimental fashion. The easiest way to put it is that they downloaded my brain information.”

Sammy Hagar on Why He Won’t Retire

During his chat on the UCR Podcast, Hagar revealed his thoughts on retiring.

“I’ve been hinting at this,” Hagar said. “I would never say I’m retiring, because I don’t know how to do that, number one, and I don’t want to do that, number two. I’d probably be lying if I said I was and did—and then I’d come back like everybody else. I don’t want to do all that.”

Hagar will, however, stick to a residency over a tour, something he would’ve never done earlier in his career.

“I used to hate it when Van Halen played four nights at Madison Square Garden. I’m going, ‘F**k, I gotta worry about what I said last night,’” he said. “You know, I don’t want to play the same songs and we don’t have time to rehearse. I’m one of those kind of guys.”

“I’m very nervous about repeating myself. So a residency sounded like a nightmare for that. I said, ‘Man, we’ve got to play different songs every night,’” Hagar continued. “But now I’m going, ‘Well, if I don’t have to travel, I’ll be fresher, I’ll be able to eat better, I’ll be able to sleep better and I’ll be fresher for the shows.’ I think maybe it’s time for me to do that and see if that works. If that works, I can continue on.”

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