From his solo-stardom in the 70s & early 80s to his glory days with hard-rock legend Van Halen and beyond, the life of Sammy Hagar has been a wild, strange ride.
So, of course, Hagar would write a memoir to encapsulate all of his escapades. In his Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, you will find the staple ingredients in any hard rocker’s story: Sex, drugs and of course, rock ‘n’ roll. But the book also contains the highly unexpected: A story about his personal experiences with multiple alien abductions.
When asked about the alien encounters during an interview with MTV Hive, Hagar says: “It was real. [Aliens] were plugged into me. It was a download situation. This was long before computers or any kind of wireless. There weren’t even wireless telephones. Looking back now, it was like, ‘F**k, they downloaded something into me!’ Or they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment. ‘See what this guy knows.’ “
The abductions started when Hagar was a child. “Another thing happened when I was about four that I didn’t put into the book. One time I saw what I considered to be, well, at the time I thought it was a car with no wheels. We lived out in the country and I saw this thing floating across a field, creating this big dust storm. I threw rocks at it and s**t. And I don’t know what happened after that.”
Hagar continues: “People say there’s no other life in the universe. But you know how big the universe is? It’s freakin’ huge! If we’re really the only ones out there, that’s scarier to me than thinking there are aliens.”Before publishing his book, he never discussed these experiences with anyone. Hagar says: “I couldn’t talk about it because I didn’t know how to explain it. I didn’t understand the technology. But now I’m pretty sure it was a wireless situation. Either a download or upload. They were tapped into my brain and the knowledge was transferred back and forth. I could see them and everything while it was happening. There was a visual involved, almost like … I don’t know. [Laughs.] Don’t get me going!”
You can read the full interview with MTV Hive here.