Sammy Hagar speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony

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https://www.maximotv.com  Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar speech at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard adjacent to Amoeba Music in Los Angeles, California, USA, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. This video is only available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV

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00:00On behalf of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, I now declare today Semi-Hagar Day in Hollywood!

00:19Wow.

00:20Thank you.

00:22Just simplest thing you can ever say to someone is thank you when you mean it.

00:27And believe me, I mean it right now.

00:30Not just my friends that spoke.

00:34The idea of where I came from in life and where my beginnings were, and to have this

00:42here, the amount of people that I would have to think it would be impossible to do in one

00:50day.

00:51So, that's impossible.

00:54There's so many people that aren't here that I need to thank.

00:57You know, Eddie Van Halen, Ronnie Montrose, Ed Leffler, my old manager, people like that.

01:03That did a lot for, yeah, for my musical songwriting and breaks in life and there's just so many

01:15people to thank.

01:16So, I'm going to try to keep it simple and I promise all the people that deserve a thank

01:22you on this thing right here, I will get to you on the phone or I'll get in your face

01:26somewhere.

01:27And we're going to get that done, but it's going to take a while because every person

01:30here deserves a multiple thank you.

01:35You can't do all this, you can't achieve all this without people's help.

01:42If I stood here and said I did this all myself, I wouldn't be here.

01:46You guys wouldn't let me be here.

01:49So it's an honor and the Commerce for doing this, the Selective Committee, that's the

01:54one that my publicist Hannah gave me a list of three people and, you know, Anna Martinez,

02:02because I don't like to write speeches, I just like to just talk.

02:05So, but the Walk of Fame, the Selection Committee, they deserve a thank you because they selected

02:12me, you know?

02:14Damn!

02:16I don't, I don't know how they make their selections, but hey, I'll take it.

02:22Anyway, really cool, really cool.

02:24My sisters are here.

02:26Fortunately, my mother couldn't be here.

02:28My mother was in love with the Walk of Fame in the 60s.

02:32We didn't have anything, maybe enough gas money to make it to the beach and four kids

02:36raised by a single mom.

02:38And she would want to come down here and see the movie stars.

02:42She was really in love with the movie industry and, you know, Clark Gable and those guys.

02:47And I remember seeing this thing and to think, I mean, it was just way beyond even a dream.

02:53You know, you have dreams and then you have the dream that you didn't dream.

02:58This is one of those dreams that come true that I didn't dream.

03:02And wow, I could go on and on about that.

03:06But I do want to say what people ask me, what makes you most proud?

03:12What are you, what are you the most proud of?

03:14All the things you've done, you know, when you're old like me, you can do, have done

03:17a lot of things.

03:18So I've done a lot of things.

03:20And I think, you know, raising four kids, Aaron, Andrew, Kama, Samantha, and none of

03:27them ever got in trouble.

03:28We never ever had to, you know, go bail them out of jail or take them into rehab or anything.

03:35Man, that's, I'm proud of that.

03:42They did me right.

03:43They turned out to be good human beings.

03:44And that's a great reflection on a parent.

03:46You know, when people tell you, you got great kids, oh, I love your daughter, oh, I love

03:50your sons.

03:51That's, that's very meaningful.

03:53It makes, makes me feel good about myself and about my wife.

03:57And of course, Kari, anybody that don't recognize Kari, just look for the most beautiful woman

04:02in this town, not just on this street.

04:06Well, that's her to start with, at least in my eyes.

04:11And Kari has been hanging out with me now for 32 years.

04:19And I mean, yeah, she's been holding on for dear life.

04:24It's like riding on a rocket ship being around me.

04:27I can't help myself.

04:28And I'm just one of those people that's driven.

04:32And it's partly because of my humble beginnings.

04:35But it's not just because that it's just part of my DNA.

04:38I love doing things.

04:40And I figured the more you can do in life, the more you can help other people.

04:45And that's what it always ends up to be with me.

04:48Someone says, hey, you want to start this restaurant over here?

04:52I think, yeah, I'll, you know, I'll employ some people.

04:57And I give the money away to the local community.

05:00Like there's nothing wrong with that.

05:01I would like to have 5,000 restaurants in every community I would be in.

05:06I give that money back to the community, mainly food banks and to hospitals of children that

05:10need help.

05:13So yeah, I'm driven.

05:16Let's go.

05:17You know, I'm, you know, Guy Fieri, my dear friend over here and partner, he's, he's worse

05:22than me, by the way.

05:24So in a good way.

05:28Well, so Bakari, she's been hanging in there.

05:32And I can't tell you how I enjoy having a partner.

05:38Every time something good happens.

05:41I don't want to share that by myself.

05:43I don't want to live in a beautiful home and drive fast cars and, and walk on a beautiful

05:50beach without my wife.

05:52You know, it's really important to have a partner that supports you, and that you want

05:58to be with and be around.

06:00And that's Kari.

06:03Now, and by the way, john Mayer, I got to say one more thing about him, he, he calls

06:13me in a car on FaceTime, that handsome devil, you know, here I'm sitting around my house

06:17in a bathing suit, you know, no shirt at my age, and I mean, he's FaceTiming me, trying

06:23to tell me how cool some song that he's listening to that I wrote or sang on.

06:27And he goes off and says all these wonderful things.

06:30And, and can you imagine I'm sitting there going, this old guy here going, this is john

06:35Mayer on the phone telling me, you're the greatest man.

06:38I love you, man.

06:39You know, your music has changed my life.

06:44Imagine that.

06:45Okay.

06:47That's what I have to put up with stuff like that.

06:52Michael Anthony over here.

06:57Mike and Sue.

07:00So Mike, you know, as my partner in crime, we've been like this uns separable since 1985.

07:06When I was 86, whatever it was, when I walked into Van Halen 5150 recording studio, Mike

07:12and I, boom, we, you know, we're, we're, we're attached

07:17at the hip.

07:18I've always said that Ed and Al are the real brothers by name, but Mike and I are the real

07:22brothers by nature.

07:23And we got work to do this summer, Mike.

07:27We got work to do.

07:28Well, we got a lot of fun to have, let me, I'm going to start, I'm going to take John's

07:32line in that.

07:33Yes, I do like to have fun.

07:34And yeah, we're, we got a lot of fun to have this summer.

07:37Chad Smith sitting over there.

07:38I'm really sorry, Chad, that guy was Guy Fieri sitting on your star, but I'm honored to have

07:45my star next to the red hot chili pepper, Chad, you know, and the chicken foot and all

07:49that stuff.

07:50Okay.

07:51So anyway, I'm running out of things to say, but I'm getting, I'm starting to, my brain

07:55is starting to like think of too many things and I'll be up here all night.

07:57But I just want to say from where I started, I'm most proud of being from Fontana, California.

08:09Started out with nothing.

08:11Okay.

08:12We never owned a home.

08:14We barely owned a car, alcoholic father, abusive.

08:19My mother raised four kids without an education.

08:24When I was young, that used to embarrass me.

08:28But now I'm so proud of that to be here with that star and come from nothing that makes

08:37me proud.

08:44I want to thank everybody.

08:45Thank you.

08:46Thank you.

08:47Thank you.

08:48And God bless you.

08:49Be healthy.

08:50The fans, the fans, listen, they're crazy.

08:57They are the most loyal people I've ever met in my life.

09:00They right up there with my family is for loyalty and they are my extended family.

09:04Everyone says, is this going to be your last tour?

09:06Everybody says, is this going to be your last tour?

09:09I don't have a last tour in me, okay?

09:12My DNA doesn't ever quit.

09:13My DNA isn't about retirement.

09:16Like John says, my DNA is let's go keep doing it, keep having fun.

09:20So the only thing, if I quit, it'd be like Gurdjieff.

09:24I don't know if anyone ever knew about Gurdjieff's story, but supposedly his followers on his

09:27death bed, he said, I was wrong, right?

09:32That would be like me retiring to my fans.

09:34It would be like me going, sorry, I quit, leave you guys hanging out here.

09:38But if I did, I would leave you on a really beautiful beach, I promise.

09:43Thank you.

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