No one can say Joe Satriani went into Sammy Hagar’s Best Of All Worlds Tour underprepared. Playing Eddie Van Halen’s guitar parts was not a job Satch took lightly. Indeed, he took it so seriously he collaborated with 3rd Power on a custom tube amp just for the tour.
But as the tour rolls on and songs are swapped in and out of the setlist, new challenges keep coming up. Like when Hagar says they should revisit his final studio album as Van Halen frontman, 1995’s Balance, and put its most successful single, Can’t Stop Lovin’ You, into the set.
