Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar's Standing Hampton is programmer-tested rock Muzak for the Eighties:
high-gloss production, a minimum of counterpoint and clutter, riffs hammered home along
clean lines of sound. If only it weren't so damn derivative of Journey, Foreigner, the
Jefferson Starship, et al. Though the single "I'll Fall in Love Again" is a full-throttle car-radio
delight, the rest of the record sounds as if Hagar were deliberately underachiev... More >