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Despite the album being seemingly complete, Eddie Van Halen came up with the riff at 2 in the morning and went down to his then-neighbor Sammy Hagar to show it. Hagar let Eddie in, and the two played guitars in his balcony until they had a completed song. Once Eddie left, Hagar decided to write the lyrics despite being late at night.
Although the song features some suggestive lyrics, it is about a car that Roth saw race in Las Vegas; its name was "Panama Express", hence the title of the song. [7] [6] Panama was also the name of Roth's Opel Kadett. [8] Roth wrote the song after being accused by a reporter of "singing about only women, partying, and fast cars".
OU812 (pronounced "Oh You Ate One Too") is the eighth studio album by American rock band Van Halen. It was released in 1988 and is the band's second album to feature vocalist Sammy Hagar. Van Halen began work on the album in September 1987 and completed it in April 1988, one month before its release.
Beautiful Girls (Van Halen song) ... Finish What Ya Started; Fire in the Hole (Van Halen song) The Full Bug; H. ... Panama (song) Poundcake (song) Push Comes to Shove ...
Live: Right Here, Right Now. is the first live album by American rock band Van Halen, released in 1993.It is the band's only live album featuring Sammy Hagar and the only live album by Van Halen until the release of Tokyo Dome Live in Concert in 2015.
The song was a staple on all of the tours with Roth, following its release. Often, the band would stop in the middle of the song and Roth would chat with the crowd for several minutes before finishing the song. In later years, with their later lead singers, Van Halen would use the opening drum beat from this song as an introduction into "Panama ...
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A Different Kind of Truth is the twelfth and final studio album by American rock band Van Halen.Released on February 7, 2012, by Interscope Records, this is Van Halen's only studio album on Interscope and its first full-length album of studio material with lead singer David Lee Roth since 1984.