Sammy Hagar says that he is willing to die, and that others die too, so that the economy returns to normal.
In that sense, he says he would be willing to play at a concert even before there is a COVID-19 shot, “if it’s declining and appears to be fading,” says the Bay Area music icon in a Rolling article. Stone that addresses how musicians handle life without touring. “I am going to make a radical statement here. This is hard to say without shaking someone up, but honestly, I would rather get personally sick and even die if that’s what is needed.
“We have to save the world and this country from this economic thing that is going to kill more people in the long run,” says Hagar. “I prefer to see everyone go back to work. If some of us have to sacrifice ourselves for that, that’s fine. I will die so that my children and grandchildren have a life close to the life I had in this wonderful country. ”
The vocalist who sold platinum, who is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen, adds that “he will not be spreading the disease” but “there may be a time when we have to sacrifice ourselves.”
“I mean, how many people die on Earth every day? I have no idea, ”says Hagar, who owns a house in Marin County. “I’m sorry to say it, but we all have to die, man.”
Hagar’s perspective is very different from that of another Bay Area rock icon, John Fogerty, who says in that same Rolling Stone article that any “opening talk is pretty scary to me” and is “afraid that he probably let’s end up going backwards. “
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