Sammy Hagar said Metallica still owes him $200 for a bet he placed with the thrash icons in 1988.
In a recent Instagram post, the former Van Halen singer shared a press photo taken ahead of the Monsters of Rock ’88 tour — which featured Van Halen, Scorpions, Dokken, Metallica and Kingdom Come — and explained the wager he’d placed on Metallica’s future success.
“This was the press conference for the Monsters of Rock stadium tour,” Hagar wrote. “I must admit we had a good time that day hanging out with all these guys. Metallica hadn’t [broken] yet with ‘Enter Sandman,’ but they crushed it every night [and] put a big hurt on Dokken, who had to follow them — ouch!”
Hagar knew even back then that Metallica was going to be huge. “I bet the members of Metallica $100 each that at the end of this tour their next record would go platinum,” he added. “So far, Lars [Ulrich] and Kirk [Hammett] are the only ones that paid up.”
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