{"id":502446,"date":"2026-03-29T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:58:11","slug":"the-singer-david-lee-roth-and-sammy-hagar-both-called-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502446\/","title":{"rendered":"The singer David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar both called the greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Credits: Far Out \/ Abby Gillardi \/ Sammy Hagar)<\/p>\n

Sun 29 March 2026 19:30, UK <\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t many singers who have ever seemed more at odds with each other than David Lee Roth<\/a> and Sammy Hagar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even though they both worked with the greatest guitarist that the world had ever seen, it wasn\u2019t hard to see the difference between the showmanship that \u2018Diamond Dave\u2019 had and the vocal precision that \u2018The Red Rocker\u2019 brought to the table whenever they worked in Van Halen. But even if they were polar opposites of each other when they sang, there was always some common ground there when they started talking about the best singers that came before them.<\/p>\n

But judging by what Roth was doing in his solo career,<\/a> it\u2019s not like he was trying to be anything too authentic compared to what Hagar was doing. The \u2018Van Hagar\u2019 only worked because the vocalist had spent a lot of time gaining traction in bands like Montrose, so when he started to shape Eddie\u2019s melodies into fleshed-out songs, it wasn\u2019t that hard for him to add a few vocal leaps that Roth probably wouldn\u2019t have been able to sing even if he rehearsed for years to get it right.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like Roth saw that as a disadvantage to him, either. He was born to be an entertainer in every sense of the word, and when looking at the various raps that he was doing in between shows, many of Van Halen\u2019s early sets were like watching one of the best rock and roll outfits ever made that just so happened to have a hype man like Sammy Davis Jr as their singer. But Roth could still find a handful of musicians who had a lot more taste behind what they were doing.<\/p>\n

If you break it down, Roth was always a blues singer in his truest form, and a lot of the best blues singers before him were relying on swagger. Mick Jagger didn\u2019t claim to have the best voice, and Screaming Lord Sutch managed to make records with a boatload of connections and one of the worst voices in the world, but when \u2018Diamond Dave\u2019 laid ears on Rod Stewart, he had finally found a singer who could practically sing anything he wanted to and make it sound great.<\/p>\n

Whether he was working with The Faces, singing those heartbreaking ballads, or reinterpreting the Great American Songbook, Roth felt that Stewart was one of those rare talents that could make anything work,\u00a0saying<\/a>, \u201cRod Stewart, probably one of the best vocalists in the history of any genre, altogether. That\u2019s a no-way division thing. His songs, you can have other people sing them, but it becomes something other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, almost anything Roth said about the music business would have been alien to Hagar, but even he had to admit that Stewart was one of the few singers that he modelled himself after when working with Montrose, saying<\/a>, \u201cMontrose was a heavy metal band; I was a blues, R&B singer, and then I got thrown into this heavy metal band. And I became it, and I dug it. I started trippin\u2019 on guys like Rod Stewart \u2013 I was really a big fan of Rod\u2019s. He was a great performer, and I dug the way he sang, and he had a great sense of humor with the Faces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judging by how both of them sing, though, you can hear bits and pieces of every part of Stewart\u2019s career on how they perform. Roth was always going to go for the showman angle whenever he copied some of Stewart\u2019s moves, but when you hear some of the more guttural songs that he made with The Faces, there\u2019s no doubt that Hagar could have probably done a decent version of \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 with Van Halen.<\/p>\n

So while Roth and Hagar might still not be the best of friends every single time they see each other, it\u2019s not like finding common threads between them is completely impossible. At the end of the day, they are both still rock and roll fans, and they were going to do anything to find that one singer that gave them as much of a thrill as hearing some of Stewart\u2019s biggest hits in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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