{"id":2172,"date":"2007-06-30T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2007-06-30T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T16:48:19","slug":"sammy-hagar-spotting-at-castaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Hagar spotting at Castaways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6137.jpg\" title=\"Downtown Chicago from Lake Shore Drive.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6137.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown Chicago from Lake Shore Drive.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6140.jpg\" title=\"Sammy Hagar at Castaways.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6140.jpg\" alt=\"Sammy Hagar at Castaways.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night after Julie and I <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=d&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;saddr=Addison+St+and+N+Lake+Shore+Drive,+Chicago,+Illinois&amp;daddr=N+Lake+Shore+Dr,+Chicago,+IL+60614+(Castaways)&amp;sll=41.93428,-87.649695&amp;sspn=0.033458,0.071926&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=41.935934,-87.631845&amp;spn=0.033457,0.071926&amp;z=14&amp;om=1\" title=\"Google Maps:  2.1 Mile\/1 Hour Hike.\">mistakenly<\/a> decided to walk to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefanirestaurants.com\/castaways.htm\" title=\"Castaways Bar &amp; Grille.\">Castways<\/a> where we found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redrocker.com\/\" title=\"Sammy Hagar:  Born to Rock, Built to Last.\">Sammy Hagar<\/a> (aka &#8216;The Red Rocker&#8217;) holding court.  If you&#8217;re assuming from the photograph above that Sammy only talks to the <em>ladies <\/em>you would be correct.  As most of you know I&#8217;m a huge Van Halen fan so this was the light at the end of the tunnel for me.  After missing most of the band at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=1809\" title=\"Black Hand Productions:   Valiant Effort: Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame.\">Hall of Fame Induction<\/a> in New York, last night has to be considered a huge success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6162.jpg\" title=\"Castaway\u2019s Bar &amp; Grille.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6162.jpg\" alt=\"Castaway\u2019s Bar &amp; Grille.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6148.jpg\" title=\"The Sky.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6148.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Sky.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6147.jpg\" title=\"Julie testing wings at Castaways.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6147.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Julie testing wings at Castaways.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6155.jpg\" title=\"That\u2019s how I roll.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/img_6155.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"That\u2019s how I roll.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night after Julie and I mistakenly decided to walk to Castways where we found Sammy Hagar (aka &#8216;The Red Rocker&#8217;) holding court. If you&#8217;re assuming from the photograph above that Sammy only talks to the ladies you would be correct. As most of you know I&#8217;m a huge Van Halen fan so this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[78,87,324],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bronder-luck","category-common-man","tag-castaways","tag-chicago","tag-sammy-hagar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-z2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}