Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve

Ever since a 15-year-old Neal Schon erupted on-stage with Santana at Woodstock, the guitarist always sought to rock harder. His dazzling runs and killer chops balanced nicely with Steve Perry's pop predilection for ten years of juicy Journey records, but even a couple albums with Jan Hammer couldn't satisfy Schon's axe-god aspirations. His yearning for a four-piece Van Halen/Montrose environment was met by meat-and-potatoes metalhead Sammy Hagar on one heavily doctored live document, the creatively titled Through the Fire. Aaronson looked cool and played bass on tour with Bill...