CHICKENFOOT's Sammy Hagar - "It Just Blows My Mind, The Idea Of Taking Wall Street Down"

November 7, 2011, 12 years ago

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Attention Deficit Delirium's Bryan Reesman reports:

CHICKENFOOT recently released the second video from the album III, entitled 'Three And A Half Letters', which they performed this past week on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The song was inspired by letters that frontman SAMMY HAGAR was receiving from people in need during these troubling economic times. Given the fact that the new ‘Foot album was recorded prior to the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, and since the song features Hagar shouting “I need a job!” during the chorus, would resonate with many people in that movement, I thought it would be interesting to ask the Chickenfoot members I interviewed for my recent Aquarian cover story what they thought of the OWS movement. An excerpt follows:

Q: What do you think of Occupy Wall Street and the whole Occupy movement that’s been growing globally?

Sammy Hagar: "Wall Street? It just blows my mind the idea of taking Wall Street down. I’ve never been a stock guy. When I sold my tequila company, it went public then. I wasn’t public before. I don’t believe in taking other people’s money and doing things with it. Everything I’ve ever done has been my own money and my own thing. I don’t endorse. The closest thing I came to getting involved with a big corporation was when I sold the tequila company to Gruppo Campari, who gave me enough money to change my life. I did it because I was over my head. It wasn’t for sale, but they offered and I went, 'Fuck! How can I turn this down?' And the company was driving me crazy. It was too big. It exploded and was taking too much of my brainpower and my beach time. I never put my money in stocks. I’ve had some every now and then, but it’s not my game. I have a theory about what you do with your money. You invest in your family, your friends and yourself, mainly yourself. When I built Cabo Wabo, I took my own money and built it in Mexico. I went down and took my money to buy the bottles to put the tequila in. I didn’t go to the bank or take on partners to invest in it. I did it all with my own stuff, and I’m a believer in that.

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Footage of Chickenfoot performing their songs 'Three And A Half Letters' and 'Big Foot' on November 3rd on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! can be seen below:

Chickenfoot are currently out on The 2011 Road Test Tour, the first live performance dates in support of the band’s new Chickenfoot III album. Check out a quick message from their rehearsal room about the tour below:

Road Test Tour dates include:

November

8 - New York, NY - Webster Hall

January

12 - Manchester, UK - Academy
14 - Brixton, UK - Academy
16 - Paris, France - Olympia
17 - Tilburg, Netherlands - O13
19 - Dusseldorf, Germany - Electric Hall


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