It’s not meant to be anything more than a thank you — with love, with respect and with one hell of a guitar solo,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer shared.

Sammy Hagar‘s guitar playing on his upcoming single "Encore. Thank You. Goodnight." was divinely inspired. That is, if you are one of the many who believe that his late Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen was our greatest six-string god.

Van Halen fired Hagar in 1996, after which the singer returned to making music under his own name and focused on his bars — including a flagship cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — and a tequila brand he’d later sell for $80 million.