Up next an interview with one of the greatest rock vocalists ever Sammy Hagar on a song that changed everything. Right Now by Van Halen. After joining of the the mighty Van Halen and having back to back #1 albums with 5150 and 0U812, the band needed to evolve with the changing times. Sammy had the lyrics to this song in his head for months but his cowriter Eddie Van Halen wasn’t on board. one night Sammy was playing video games and heard Eddie playing something on the piano instead of the guitar … the Red Rocker walked in and started singing his lyrics over the piano figure and the game changing song was born. It had a legendary music video to go along with it, but the Sammy HATED it until he didn’t;. they put it in on an album he wanted to call the F word. Sammy tells the story in this exclusive interview coming up on Professor Of Rock.
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In 1991 Van Halen released For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Their third album with Sammy Hagar at the helm and their first album of the 90s. Famed producer Ted Templeman came back in to produce, something he hadn’t done since the album 1984. Van Halen had Foreigner’s Mick Jones and Don Landee behind the console for 1986’s 5150 and Landee again on 1988’s 0u812.
Ted was a welcome addition…after their first producer Andy Johns had some issues. Johns had quite a history having worked with everyone from the stones to zeppelin. but Templemen helped get it finished. Van Halen was coming off of two straight #1 albums since Sammy had come aboard and had continued to dominate the concert circuit with sold out shows across the nation. On 1988’s 0U812, the band had two big hits on the radio, as well as on MTV with the top 5 hit When It’s Love: and the bluesy classic Finish What Ya Started just missing the top 10 at #13. the First single off the album, the heaviest of the three was Black and Blue which went to #34 along with Feels so Good the other top 40 hit from the record,. All of those singles from 0u812 were about love and sex.
When Eddie and Sammy reconvened to prepare for the next album, they were looking to do something a little different. A different kind of truth if you will… The album title For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge actually came from Sammy who was thinking about the subject of censorship, with more and more albums at that time getting stickers with the Parental Advisory warning, the red rocker wanted to use a vulgarity as the title to challenge the status quo and was going all in, wanting to name the record, the f word.
Straight up. But as time went on he decided to change course from the very bold idea. He still did it, in a slightly different way. A friend of his, champion boxer Ray boom Boom Mancini told him the F word was an acronym for the phrase For UnLawful Carnal Knowledge, which is actually inaccurate as is the urban legend that it was an acronym for the phrase Fornicating under the consent of the king, from the middle ages. Anyway, the album title was more about an answer to the censor ship of the time than any urban legend and this is a video on Van Halen not the F Word. So moving on .
18 янв 2023
