Sammy Hagar says he’s willing to die — and have others die as well — in order to get the economy back on track.
In that regard, the Mill Valley resident says he’d be willing to play a concert even before there is a COVID-19 vaccine, “if it’s declining and seems to be going away,” the Bay Area music icon says in a Rolling Stone article that addresses how musicians are handling life without touring. “I’m going to make a radical statement here. This is hard to say without stirring somebody up, but truthfully, I’d rather personally get sick and even die, if that’s what it takes.
“We have to save the world and this country from this economic thing that’s going to kill more people in the long run,” hagar says. “I would rather see everyone go back to work. If some of us have to sacrifice on that, OK. I will die for my children and my grandchildren to have a life anywhere close to the life that I had in this wonderful country.”
The platinum-selling vocalist, who’s enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen, adds that he’s “not going to go around spreading the disease” yet “there may be a time where we have to sacrifice.”
“I mean, how many people die on the Earth every day? I have no idea,” says Hagar, who owns a home in Marin County. “I’m sorry to say it, but we all gotta die, man.”
Hagar’s perspective is very different than that of another Bay Area rock icon, John Fogerty, who says in that same Rolling Stone article that all of “opening-up talk is pretty scary to me” and he is “afraid we’re probably end up going backwards.”
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