{"id":1469,"date":"2017-06-13T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/13\/a-conversation-with-sammy-hagar-at-the-2017-sxsw-conference-video\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T21:30:21","slug":"a-conversation-with-sammy-hagar-at-the-2017-sxsw-conference-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/13\/a-conversation-with-sammy-hagar-at-the-2017-sxsw-conference-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Sammy Hagar at the 2017 SXSW Conference [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI&#8217;ve had more people in the last 10 years say, \u2018Sammy I love your tequila,\u2019 more than they say, \u2018love your music\u2019 . . . It doesn\u2019t bum me out, but it\u2019s weird.\u201d \u2013 Sammy Hagar<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong> \u2013 former frontman of <strong>Van Halen<\/strong>, philanthropist, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and notoriously fast driver \u2013 takes the audience on a cruise through his rock legacy and passion projects. <em>USA Today<\/em> reporter <strong>Mike Snider<\/strong> moderates the conversation in this <strong>Featured Session<\/strong> at the <strong>2017<\/strong> <a href=\"\/conference\"><strong>SXSW Conference<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We were selling 160,000 cases of six-packs a year, if I was selling records like that I&#8217;d still be in the record business.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hagar&#8217;s conversation at the SXSW Conference is as diverse as the speaker&#8217;s passion projects. Rock fans will enjoy personal stories about his time in Van Halen and Montrose, and appreciate his suggestion of an all-star reunion tour. Hagar&#8217;s energy and enthusiasm are contagious, and make it easy to see how his personal projects, such as <strong>Cabo Wabo Cantina<\/strong> and his business <strong>Santo Mezquila<\/strong> in partnership with <strong>Adam Levine<\/strong>, have a tendency to snowball into large businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Hagar is perhaps at his best when talking about the ways that his interests converge into new projects, such as his non-profit work. Hagar collaborates with <strong>Metallica<\/strong> vocalist <strong>James Hetfield<\/strong> on the annual benefit concert <strong>Acoustic-4-A-Cure<\/strong>. The event raises funds and awareness for The Pediatric Cancer Program at UCSF Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital. Check out the <strong>Featured Session<\/strong> to hear more about the life and work of The Red Rocker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sammy-Hagar-and-Mike-Snider-photo-by-Danny-Matson-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Hagar and Mike Snider photo by Danny Matson\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above for the full <strong>2017 SXSW Conference Session<\/strong> with Featured Speaker <strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong>. Get inspired by a multitude of diverse visionaries at SXSW \u2013 browse more 2017 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&amp;A\u2019s on our <a href=\"\/video\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sxswfestival\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sxsw\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sxsw\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/news\">SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SXSW coverage, recaps, announcements, and SXSW 2018 updates.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>2017 SXSW Conference Session, Sammy Hagar \u2013 Photo by Danny Matson<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2017\/panelpicker-sxsw-2018-opens-june-26\/\">PanelPicker Opens on June 26 for the 2018 SXSW Conference<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/video\">Watch 2017 Keynotes, Red Carpets, and Showcases on the SXSW YouTube Channel<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/newsletters\/\">Sign Up for SXSW Event Updates<\/a>  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/music\/2017\/conversation-sammy-hagar-2017-sxsw-conference-video\/\">A Conversation with Sammy Hagar at the 2017 SXSW Conference [Video]<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SxSW Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve had more people in the last 10 years say, \u2018Sammy I love your tequila,\u2019 more than they say, \u2018love your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/06\/Sundara-Karma-photo-by-Amy-E.-PriceGetty-Images-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-nH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}