THE CIRCLE, Sammy Hagar‘s critically acclaimed supergroup also featuring Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, and Vic Johnson, will release its first album of all-original material, “Space Between”, on May 10 via BMG. The disc’s first single, “Trust Fund Baby”, can now be streamed below.
Hagar said: “Play it on whatever system suits you and crank it up, it fucking rocks like the rest of the album!”
Hagar told the Broward Palm Beach New Times last year about the lyrical themes covered on “Space Between”: “It’s about the misconception that money is the root of all evil because the truth of the matter is that it isn’t money at all. You can feed the poor, you can heal the sick, you can make people happy, you can stop a war with money, but it’s greed that is the problem. That’s what the whole record is about. It’s what I discovered by being both rich and poor.”
Hagar added that “Space Between”, which will be followed by a “large-scale tour of North America,” will likely be his last album, and he hopes to get a Grammy for it.
Bonham told Sonic Perspectives in an interview that THE CIRCLE‘s upcoming disc is a “concept kind of album” that needs to be listened to “in a specific order, which kind of tells the story.”
The drummer added that Hagar has “been really inspired as of late, and I think it’s gonna be some of his best stuff. It’s definitely diverse,” he said. “As I said when you listen to it in the order… It’s gonna be incredible… What he wanted to do was do something very different than he’s ever done, which sends you on a journey, like the old days. When you put on an album, you listened to it from start to finish instead of just a song — where the placement of each [song] is vital for it to make sense.”
THE CIRCLE released a concert album, “At Your Service”, in May 2015. Recorded on tour in 2014, it features live performances of hits from Sammy‘s four decades of rock (MONTROSE, solo, VAN HALEN, THE WABORITAS, CHICKENFOOT) as well as classic tracks from the LED ZEPPELIN catalog.
