This was a fantastic tour. There was an electricity in the air, that I had not felt in a couple of years. There was a near sold out stadium, and Cabo-Wabo signs everywhere. I stuck to Jack Daniels. And I was wearing my "Eat em & Smile" shirt, no doubts who I was there to see. Sammy took the stage and a friend of mine had somehow begged a DJ friend of his for 7th row seats, so we shared them with some other buddies, and enjoyed the last 25 minutes of Sammy Hagar in yellow pajamas having two Hooters waitresses serve him "Waboritas" while he encouraged us all to get it at "liquor stores everywhere" It looked like a big commercial. He played "Right Now" and "I cant drive 55" and some other Van Hagar stuff, and it was "ok"...The sun was still up, when he said "Thank you, Goodnight, drink Cabo Wabo TEQUILLLAAA!!!"
Then the sun started going down. Darkness fell. Remember the scene in 1976's King Kong when the natives had a scantily clad Jessica Lange and were about to sacrifice her to their God, and were having a torch lit ceremony, chanting "KONG, KONG" over and over again, while ceremonial drums and flutes and horns played in the background as the natives danced themselves into a frenzy? It was like that except the natives were screaming "ROTH ROTH!!!" and you knew that Sammy Hagar was out of there.
Finally, after way too many Jack and cokes, I was talking to ironically, an old high school girlfriend, and the lights go down....the Crowd ERUPTED and we made an impromptu decision to make it to the front. So as the crowd was screaming as a purple clad Dave, wearing painted on latex started dancing around to "Hot for Teacher" we were jumping fences and gates, and made it to about row 8 when it got too crazy, and she all of a sudden said "I've got to get back to my husband" And I somehow didnt mind.
Dave, come back and show up Van Hagar.
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