Sammy Hagar, ‘I Can’t Drive 55’ – Butch’s Way Back Wednesday

I know what you are thinking… Butch, bro, it’s not Wednesday! I am aware, but we are pretending it’s Wednesday all week in celebration of Sammy Hagar coming to the Budweiser Events Center this summer. Come inside, enjoy some Hagar, and find out how to buy your tickets to the show.

As a music fan there is always something new and great, but there really is something special about the songs you grew up listening to. For me, that was 70′s and 80′s classic rock. If I am in a shi**y mood, I throw in a little Zeppelin or Rush and take a trip back to rolling in my mom’s T-Bird. Now every Wednesday you get to take that trip with me. It’s Way Back Wednesday with Butch, and the final feature for Hagar week is a song we rocked out to back in 1984!… “I Can't Drive 55.”

The lead single and first track from Sammy Hagar's eighth studio album VOA in 1984. Perpetuated by a very successful music video, it became a concert staple that continued throughout Sammy's tours as a member of Van Halen. The song is a reference to the National Maximum Speed Law in the United States, that originally set speed limits at 55 miles per hour.

It is the 100th song on VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs.

Now take a trip back to 1984 with us…