Chapter Nineteen. Source of Infection. I refuse to take stock of. I've accomplished.
You would never catch me shouting, ! Look where I've come from and what I have done. I'm. worth this much money, and I have this much power. I don't care about what I've done in the past. I'm. only concerned with what I can do in the future. It's not that I take. I believe that when you die, you are shown an.
When his condition suddenly took aturn for the worse, no words could describe the anguish and pain thatgripped Hagar after his death. The Van Halen brothers were equallydevastated. After the funeral, the band got together for an informaldiscussion about their future.
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They were all curious about one thing. Inthe past, had Leffler mentioned to anyone who he thought should succeedhim as manager in case something happened?
When the answer turned up no,they all looked at each other with some misgivings. During theirmanager's entire stay in the hospital, no one had mustered up the courageto pose the management succession question to him. Up to his lastbreath, everyone had tried to convince themselves (and Leffler) thateverything would be all right. When the worse case scenario came to pass,it left the four musicians entirely clueless as to how their businessaffairs had been run.
No one, including the accountants, could provideanyone with answers. Ed Leffler's business sense and management styleallowed Van Halen to fully flourish. That unique level of trust betweenthe band and its manager played a critical role in the development of. Eddie and Sammy as one of the most prolific songwriting teams in rock.
Their partnership had produced three straight, chart- topping albums. Outside of the Rolling Stones seven consecutive No. Led Zeppelin had come remotely closeto matching the remarkable streak. The incredible chemistry that existedbetween guitarist and singer was as formidable a duo as any Page and. Plant, Townshend and Daltry, or Richards and Jagger combination.
Leffler's presence was the thread that bound everything together. When hedied, the fabric of the band began to unravel. His losing battle withcancer threw the group into a tailspin the likes of which they'd neverrecover. Now you would think that as much as Leffler and I talked everyday, this kind of thing would have come up. Not once did Iever say, ? Who do you talk to there?
Who did you make the deal withat Warner/Chappell? We often talked about my personal problemswith Betsy, or our kids. For some strange reason, it just never crossedmy mind to ask him any questions about our business.
We wrote the musicand completely trusted him to run our affairs. There was no reason toask him any questions about a successor, because he was going to be withus to the end (or so we hought.). We had decided to delay looking for a newmanager until the start of the new year. No one seemed to be in anyhurry, least of all myself. To this day, it's still hard for me tobelieve he's gone.
It is true that you never appreciate how much someonetruly means to you until they're gone. Although Ed's death was especiallyhard on me, it really had a demoralizing effect on Eddie and Alex. Theyloved the man and would have done anything for him. I honestly believethat Eddie stopped trusting me the day Leffler died. He had always beenthere to ease his worries and to reassure him that the projects Iinvolved myself with, outside the Van Halen framework, were okay. With Edgone, the balance of power he always maintained between the brothers andmyself, started to tilt in an ugly direction.
He and Kari flew off to Maui, where the couple rented a house, withplans to stay there a few months. Outside of a November 5 appearance at. Neil Young's seventh annual Bridge School Benefit Show at the Shoreline.
Amphitheater near San Francisco, Sammy remained isolated on the tropicalisle. Shortly after Leffler's death, his private utopia was interruptedby a disturbing call from Cabo San Lucas concerning the club. The Cabo. Wabo needed another cash injection to continue operating. An outraged. Hagar lowered the boom on the manager. He had just been down there forhis birthday bash and raised tens of thousands of dollars for the bar. How could it possibly need more money with the holiday seasonapproaching, and tourists starting to pour in?
When Ed Lefflerdied, he kept hitting me up for money. Close the club on Monday and Tuesday; fire half theemployees; do whatever you have to do but cut expenses. I'm not puttingany more money into the club. The club had been goingdown for a long time.
It was losing money every month, and because wetoured so much that year, Mike and I couldn't go down and support it. Mybirthday bash was the only time we were down there in 1. In addition to making a new album,there was also the business of selecting a new manager for the band. Theprocess was not going to be easy, and he knew it.
It was going on threeyears since Van Halen put out its last record. Sammy and Eddie'ssongwriting skills would be put to the test, especially in the absence of. Leffler's fatherly influence. Unfortunately for Hagar, he was about toface a year of adversity he would not soon forget.
The church refers tothe seven deadly sins of man as greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, envy, wrathand pride. Starting January 1, 1. Red Rocker would come face toface with these human failings, when he unexpectedly found himself in abattle for the soul of Van Halen. The new year filled Hagar with a sense of hope. After all, how could itpossibly get any worse than the personal loss he had just suffered. Thatquestion would be answered sooner than he ever expected.
The firstindication that 1. David. Haliburton again phoned the singer's Hawaiian retreat. This time it was. New Year's Day, and he had an announcement to make. The suitcase heir wasquitting and had given the Cabo Wabo's keys to the employees the nightbefore. Jolted by the news, and somewhat relieved, Sammy immediatelychartered a flight to Cabo San Lucas to see what shape the club was in. When he walked into the bar, he was taken back by what he saw.
The placewas in utter chaos. Haliburton's total neglect of the club's businessaffairs had left it in dire financial straits. As he inspected the books and totalled up the damage, Hagar's shockturned to anger when he realized his baby needed almost $3. Leffler used to keep an eye on Haliburton, eventhough he stopped bringing money up from the club in June. He was eitherspending it or putting it in his pocket. On New Year's Day, the assholecalls me in Maui and says, .
I gave the employees the keys.? Why aren't we selling any beer? He didn't pay the governmenttheir taxes on the building, or the employees, or their workman's comp.
The club owed something like $1. None of the vendorshad been paid, so they stopped selling us beer, food for the restaurantand tee shirts for the gift shop. I kept mumbling to myself, . I don'twant to let it go. Itold him I needed his help to save the bar, and would he be my partner.
His family was pretty influential down there, plus they were politicallywell- connected. The governor of the state was a family friend. Marcointervened on my behalf, and the government had mercy on me. Instead ofgoing into my pocket to pay the back taxes, they allowed the club to make$3,0. All we had to do was staycurrent with everything else. Marco arranged all this and said, . To come in as my partner, paying off the debt would be hisequity in the place.
He even paid off the vendors off and startedremodeling the club. We shook hands on our deal and I flew back to. Hawaii. His reprieve was short& amp; #8. Toward the end of.
January, Sammy received yet another surprise phone call. This time itcame from old friend, John Kalodner. He was calling to inform him that.
Geffen Records was set to release a Sammy Hagar greatest hits album in acouple of months. Kalodner wanted to know if he would participate on theproject. Now that he's gone, we're going to do it.' Before I could object,he says, 'Would you do a couple of new songs for it?' I asked him for howmuch, but he didn't know. So, I said, 'Well, if you guys pay me $5. I'll do it. Otherwise, you can put a greatest hits record out, and Iwon't support it.' Now I wasn't sticking them up, but I figured ifthey'd give me that kind of money, it would be worth my time to work withthem on it.
Sammy had a special purpose inmind for the additional half million dollars he was requesting - - it wasearmarked for his divorce. The matter had been dragging through thecourts for over 1. Sammy's accountants were slow ingetting financial information on his various holdings to Betsy's lawyers. Since California law clearly stated that the assets of his marriage bedivided equally, Hagar was expecting to hand over a substantial amount ofcash to his wife. He figured that instead of pulling the money out ofhis pocket, he'd try his hand at picking someone else's - - namely Geffen.
Though the logic was sound at the time, the act itself was immediatelymisinterpreted by Eddie and Alex. That's when they accidentally heardabout my involvement on the greatest hits package Geffen was puttingtogether. One day, while they were speaking to Don Engel on the phone,he mentioned in passing that he was talking to Geffen Records about.
Sammy's greatest hits record. I had not told the brothers what was goingon, because I was waiting for Kalodner to call me back. If Geffenaccepted my request for an additional $5. I was going to givethem the songs. If they didn't, I would not get involved. There was noneed for me to say anything until I heard back from the record company.
Every time the subject was brought up,Leffler would tell them that Van Halen had a new album coming out and toreconsider. Since the label was getting fifty percent of the profitsfrom anything new the band recorded, they would back off. When David. Geffen sold his company to MCA Records, keeping the company at bay wasdifficult but manageable. After the manager unexpectedly died, however,the floodgates were opened and there was no control switch to stop them.
Management green- lighted the project.
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