Old Enough to Forget

Good old Sammy. I knew of Sammy at least a year or two before I ever heard the opening riff to "Heavy Metal" from the soundtrack album. It was a song I should have loved, but it always sort of stuck in my craw like a spoonful of cinnamon. It should have been tasty ... I'd seen Sammy's name in the credits of a couple of albums I had back in the day. I think the first time I saw his name was in the credits on a Servant record. Servant had incorrectly attributed "Rich Man" to Sammy on their debut album Shallow Water ... I was this many days old when I learned Dan Hartman wrote the song, not Sammy. His name also popped up on Working Class Dog . Rick Springfield covered "I've Done Everything for You" and absolutely made it his own. A few years later, when Sammy replaced Dave in Van Halen, everyone knew who the Red Rocker was. Sammy is cool. Absolutely and unequivocally cool. For whatever reason, I never really clicked with Sammy's stuff. I had ...