When Sammy Hagar joined Van Halen

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00:00And I got home, and the next day, Eddie called and said,

00:03hey, come on down and join the band.

00:05I'm going, nope, not right now.

00:09I'll come to see you next week.

00:11I'd been used to being a solo artist,

00:12and you pay everybody and you keep most of the money.

00:16It's all about doing it.

00:18So when I joined the band, if anything,

00:20the first year I took a pay cut.

00:21But after that, things got really good.

00:26There's no question about it, but that's why I joined the band.

00:27But I didn't want to join the band because I was happy as a solo artist.

00:32I was saying, you know, why would I want to join the band right now?

00:35And I went down, we played music for about four or five hours,

00:39and it was awesome.

00:42Really?

00:42We all just went, oh, yeah, we're doing this.

00:45So it was all about music.