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Sammy Hagar & The Waboritas - Red Voodoo Audio CD

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Sammy Hagar & The Waboritas Band: Sammy Hagar & The Waboritas
Title: Red Voodoo
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Release Date: 1999-03-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mas Tequila 2: Shag 3: Sympathy For The Human 4: Red Voodoo 5: Lay Your Hand on Me 6: High And Dry Again 7: Revival 8: Don't Fight It (Feel It) 9: Love 10: Right On Right 11: Returning Of the Wish

Red Voodoo Rocks like a Rock n Roll Party!
I am a big fan of Hagar/Van Halen and Montrose and the newly found Chickenfoot so if you are too than this album is your glass of Tequila-Mas Tequila! The title track is enough to buy the record alone being that is a Smash single before it even ends its Hard Rockin Hagar to the Max!! And there's alot of other party rockers on here to add to your collection of his hits.


Medicinal Tequila
His first, "Marching to Mars," was driven by his feelings of betrayal, loss, bitterness, and looking forward. This is Sammy's second album after the storied split from Van Halen. Touring for that album, he assembled the backing band known by this point as the "Waboritas" (later, the Wabos), and this is their debut album together.

Clearly in a better mental space, and happy to have the stability of a regular crew again, this album is a lot more upbeat. A lot of celebration songs, like the made-for-bar-jukebox "Mas Tequila," the overtly named "Shag" (no time for subtlety on this one, I guess), "The Revival" and the upbeat "Red Voodoo. "

Mixed in are some good tunes in the classic Hagar style - more artistic than most hard rock, not "pop" enough for radio. These include "Sympathy for the Human" (which evokes both the obvious Stones reference and also Sgt. Pepper), "Lay Your Hand On Me" / "High and Dry Again" (which flow uninterrupted on cd), "Right on Right" and "Returning of the Wish. "

"Right on Right" is a rocker recorded live.

"Don't Fight It (Feel It)" features the nifty slide guitar of Roy Rogers, a frequent collaborator these days, and the legendary Tower of Power horn section, which gives it a great crossover appeal. Sammy is always good for songs like this - it won't appeal to his hardcore "guitar-only" fans, but it's just good musicianship.

"The Love" is a mix of power ballad / up-tempo number and probably would've dominated the airwaves during the hairband era.

This is mostly solid, and probably the right album for him to make at this time, but I do have enough knocks to make it a 3-star:

- Too many "borrowed" rhythms. Blatant Gary Glitter rip-off on "Mas Tequila" and "Right on Right" is too similar to the classic "55. "

- The music in "Shag" is great but the teenage lyrics make it a guilty pleasure at best - it's cringe-worthy.

So that's 3 out of 11 songs I probably won't listen to, but the rest of the album is pretty good Sammy Hagar music.

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I don't care what anyone says about Hagar
He is awesome and Van Halen had their best music when he was with them!!.


red voodoo
Nothing complex or epic, but that's not what Sammy is all about. I really enjoyed this album. Straight ahead good tunes about drinking, lovin' and partying. Pretty standard Sammy stuff. It's good to see Sammy moving forward from VH and doing what he loves and having fun. David Lee and the VH brothers could take a lesson from this guy instead of continuing to hurl insults at each other, wallowing in misery and making music that is boring. .


Sammy's The Best.
I believe he's the best rock singer out there today. This is truly a great cd song for song. If you like Sammy you will love his cds. Also check him out in concert if you get the chance.


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