Five months after Sammy Hagar announced he'd written and recorded a song in tribute to Eddie Van Halen comes "Encore. Thank You. Goodnight."
Featuring his Best of All Worlds tour band -- bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, and drummer Kenny Aronoff -- the song was inspired by a dream Hagar had in 2022 where he and Eddie discussed writing a song together, with Eddie even playing him a guitar lick. Hagar wrote it the next day and even conveyed the lick to Satriani, who's credited as co-writer.