Revelations from Sammy Hagar's New Book

While the press focuses on Sammy's alien abduction story and the sex tents under the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour stage, I'm focusing on the stuff that never appeared in the Van Halen Encyclopedia, because I either didn't know about it or didn't have a source to confirm it.

Here's a few things I'll be updating the site with that were news to me:

• Valerie forced Eddie to listen to the lyrics of Love Walks In. Eddie didn't care at all about lyrics during the Dave years. This is point when Eddie and Sammy first starting really collaborating as writers.
• The band had an intervention for Alex after the 5150 Tour and he went to rehab.
• For the F.U.C.K. album, Sammy says of their famous (Led Zeppelin veteran) producer, "Andy Johns was a disaster." Sammy hated him (at the time, that is - he would return to him many years later). Sammy brought in Ted Templeman to help produce the vocals and mix the album.
• Sucker in a 3-Piece was written in Cabo, when Sammy and beautiful woman exchanged glances - she was with a rich, old man wearing a 3-piece, but seemingly interested in Sammy.
• Cabo Wabo was originally written to the music of Make It Last (the vocals) and Eddie and Alex wrote music the night before independently, which also sounded like Make It Last. The two creations were combined to create the song.
• Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do was originally titled "I Want to Show You What Love Can Do" (more along of what the song was really about - Kurt Cobain's suicide), but Eddie and Alex lobbied against the title.
• Mike apparently volunteered to take a lesser cut of the band's royalties earlier than thought during the Sammy era, long before the much publicized huge cut he took in 2004 to play on the reunion tour. The original cut was due to his lack of participation in the band's songwriting.