Sammy Hagar setlist rocks through Van Halen, solo hits in Vegas

Sammy Hagar has rounded up his ace band including Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani to storm Vegas again. Here's what the band is rocking.

LAS VEGAS - Whether singing Van Halen, Chickenfoot or his robust solo material, Sammy Hagar still wants to rock.

The veteran yowler and a stacked band of all-stars - Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, ace guitar hero Joe Satriani, powerhouse drummer Kenny Aronoff and keyboardist extraordinaire Greg Phillinganes − are storming Las Vegas with the return of “The Best of All Worlds” residency.

On opening night Wednesday, March 11, at Dolby Live at Park MGM, Hagar, 78, and his merry crew attacked an 18-song set list that included rarities (Chickenfoot’s “Soap On a Rope,” Van Halen’s “Mine All Mine”), fist-pumping Van Halen classics (“Right Now,” “Panama”) and “I Can’t Drive 55,” the Hagar MTV staple that prefaced his replacing David Lee Roth as Van Halen’s frontman in 1985.

At the third date of the run on Saturday, March 14, Hagar mixed up the set list, opening with the thoughtful "Right Now," dropping in the title track from 1986's "5150" and handing lead vocal duties to Anthony - who seems unchanged from the '80s in hair and high harmonies - for the Van Halen stomper, "Somebody Get Me a Doctor."

Throughout the 100-minute show, the gregarious Hagar clowned with band members while singing into his red-tipped microphone, dropped shots of tequila into cups for fans in an onstage corral during "Mas Tequila" and amusingly thanked Satriani "for teaching me my own song" after a crisp "There's Only One Way to Rock."