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So Sammy Hagar, I have to ask you, the story that came out, I think it was actually in your book, um, talking about being abducted by aliens. Is that true? And can you expand on that story for us?
Is it true? Yes, it is true. You don't go around saying stuff like that, you know, people call you nuts. Uh, I've been, you know, everybody that's ever asked me about that expects me to try to back pedal. 100%. Happened 4 o'clock in the morning, pitch black, dead sleep. I felt like I was being programmed. Uh, I like someone was tapping into me like it was a string from my head to 13 miles up on a mountain, place called Lyle Creek. And I know right where it was, this little foothills, at the foothills. There was an object there. There were two people in it, two creatures in it. And it was 19, I want to say it was '64, '65. It was that. So there was no remote control. Yeah, there's no satellites. There was no computers. But I sensed they were tapping into me somehow. And they went, "Oh, he's waking up." All mental telepathy, you know, they just, the communication went in my head. "He's waking up." They, they yelled out a numerical code, not of our numerical system. It's like, "Oh, did you believe it?" Look, I know. And it went, and I could almost feel the plug, like an electrical charge leaving, zapped into their ship. Put a light on in the ship where I see shadows of these creatures. And I woke up in my house, in my bed. My room was infinity white. I couldn't move. It completely paralyzed. My eyes were open. And all of a sudden, bam, it just went black. And it was the time it was. And I broke sweat, and I was shaken, and I felt like my body was so drained. And I, from that moment on, I believed in UFOs. I started looking into astronomy, astra. I became a junior astronomer. And I started figuring. Up until before that day, I never even looked at the sky and thought of anything except, "But what, there's a lot of stars out tonight." You know, looking at the ground, looking at the ground. But yeah, very unique experience. And, um, from that day on, I believed hard. And, you know, the universe and UFOs and creatures. The, the thought of us being the only ones in this giant universe, when you know a little bit about astronomy, you know how big the universe is and what a speck of nothing we are. Yeah, that, um, to think that we're the only ones is pretty screwy. Those people are crazier than the guys that believe in UFOs. But I think there's a whole bunch of different ones. It's not just, it wasn't, there's not just one. There's, they're all over out there. There's all kinds of dimensions. And I don't think they were programmed, Grammy. I think they were just interested, like, you know, we do with animals. You know, which, so they, they had, uh, advanced technology where they were sucking my brain to see what I knew. And by, by me catching them, enlightened me. I didn't learn anything. They didn't put something in my brain, make me special. I don't believe that at all. I just believe that by having that experience and realizing that it happened, my brain went, you know, like taking acid, my mind expanded. And I started searching for, um, you know, the truth and things like that. And they still am. And that was in the early 60s.
Early 60s. Do you ever have any experience after that?
Oh, no. That was the only time. Oh, no. I've had a couple since then, different ones. They're different people. These little gray creatures that were hanging out in Lake Placid. I had a house out in the wilderness, and they had just no electricity, a log cabin back in the 80s, late 70s, early 80s, '81, '82. And these little guys are hanging around in that cabin, man. One night, and, you know, even slamming doors. And I'm not saying, yeah, they were physical guys. I don't know if they were robots or what, but, uh, it was freaky. Uh, it scared me to death.
And is it true, like, do you have on every single one of your albums, is there, uh, a song that's titled after space or something with frontier? And do you have a theme going that maybe not everyone picks up on, but is there a theme going with every one of your albums?
Yeah, Space Station V5, first Montrose album. Uh, second Montrose album, 1975, was, uh, uh, Space Age Sacrifice. My first solo album, uh, Hot Rocks, uh, which changed into another song, but, uh, Silver Lights is about the return of the aliens coming back to, uh, see, check out their planet that they plant, that they populated somehow, you know, propagated with, you know, planted seeds. The next album, Red, had "Someone Out There." Uh, the next, uh, Turn Up the Music, had "A Crack in the World" on, uh, that record, as far as I can remember. That, you know, a little. Then I stopped doing it. Every album, yeah. But every now and then, I, I got one on there.
Awesome. Well, thank you, Sammy. Appreciate it. Anybody that doesn't believe is crazy.