A few fun facts: this Ferrari used in this video belonged to Sammy, and he still owns it to this very day :) Also, the mechanic in yellow at the beginning of the video (Claudio) was the person who introduced Sammy to Eddie Van Halen in '85.
My brother John, who died last year at 67 loved fast cars and really loved this song. He even bought me and him T shirts that said "Support Civil Disobedience. Repeal the 55, VOTE with your FOOT......It's a shame he never got to meet Sammy. I think they would have had a lot to talk about. Rest in Peace my brother 😞. Bryan
Very cool story, unfortunately, and inevitably, everyone has the time to go, but the memory remains and when we remember, we smile, and that's the sign of good times together. Sorry for your loss. Cheers from Brazil.
Omg, I'm walking around Hill Valley Courthouse Square but it's all different now. The courthouse has been turned into a hotel and man, this isn't the 1985 I remember!
‘I Can’t Drive 55,’ as Hagar has explained many times, was inspired by a real-life incident that found him pulled over for doing 62 late at night on an empty highway in upstate New York. I'm guessing record sales from this song have paid for that ticket many times over by now.
yeah, Sammy did say how he did get bagged a few times for going way over the speed limit. and he also got the idea to write the song from not being able to go 55. lol
Fun fact: this song was inspired by true life event's. After getting pulled over for speeding, the highway patrolman told Sammy that the speed limit was 55 miles an hour. As the officer wen't to his vehicle to retrieve something Sammy thought to himself, "I can't drive 55." He knew in an instant that he had the germ of a new song. The cop came back to Hagar's vehicle and gave him the speeding ticket. Sammy thanked the officer as the whole thing had inspired one of his biggest hits.
Sammy should have sent the cop a copy of his royalty check from the song and video and said "thanks for writing me that ticket. This is more money than you make in a year, isn't it."
Nice! Happy belated b day to him! Too bad there’s not a song I can’t drive 88 or 68 I’d dedicate those to my mom cuz she’s both a cop and she’s 68 as of March 31st 2023 lol. She loves Sammy. And she’s biracial and Scottish not that last part matters .? She knows I love the Back To The Future trilogy lol
Happy 55th! birthday to him...I'Il be 55 this month and I've never been called tasty! 😄 That was the coolest comment or compliment by a wife on her man! 💙💓
i remember when i was going 85 in a 50 in my '14 GT like 3 years ago...when the state trooper pulled me over i was blaring this song and when he went to give me back my license he just looked at me with this big smile on his face and said "great song man! now keep your speed down and have a nice day" out of respect for him i definitely stopped going that fast on that stretch of road!
Wtf dude? “Boy am I going to miss her!” Why would you put it that way? You sound like a high schooler in a Disney sitcom who just found out his crush is switching schools. Your wife of 20 years who had a terminal illness left you and all you can say is “Boy am I going to miss her!”
RIP Claudio and not only did you know your way around Italian sports cars like a legend, you helped bring together Sammy and Eddie Van Halen and the rest is history. If it wasn't for you giving Sammy's phone number to Eddie VH and pressuring him to call from your garage, Van Hagar might have never happened. Thank you, Claudio and may you always be at peace.
Wish it never happened that was the LAME version of Van Halen. Eddie & Alex would have had to beg Dave back into the band and we would have gotten more great Van Halen music like the first 4 Albums.
Nobody can sing like Sammy Hagar he is the best I've ever heard I live through that 55 Mi an hour BS and I understand it took forever to get anywhere but I'm going back to the video enjoy Sammy Hagar when he was a young Red Rocker
The song came out in response to the the national speed limit being reduced to 55. Some states didn’t like the change but had to enforce it, so instead of a speeding ticket , Nevada would issue a wasting energy ticket if you were going between 55 & 70 (in some areas) it was a good time to live in Nevada.
Back then Hagar wrote this song because he got a ticket doing 62, he had just came back to the US from a foreign tour and they had changed the speed limit down to 55
I got a ticket on the i5 freeway and had to see the judge in King City it's a speed trap for the CHP, I was driving my friends 1990 Suzuki 750 GSXR motorcycle back from Bakersfield to San Jose, Cal, and I told him before the trip to keep it at the speed limit as I followed him in his truck.
One thing about Sammy...he knows how to enjoy life. I saw him before he joined Van Halen. He opened for ZZ Top. Lots of energy, climbing all over the stage. I think he was more fun as a solo artist
Just saw him in concert for the first time 2 weeks ago. 74 years old and still up stage slashing and killing it. Glad my dad raised me on this music and i was able to see this show with him! 🤘🏼
73 and not woke, not living in the past, and carved his path forward, and he thrived! Lesson? - stop whining and get moving! Nobody owes anybody anything!
@@mark_beastpriest5539 Kurt Cobain was a 80s teenager too. Yet he hated the 80s faux and cheese and went on to change culture, or was part of the inevitable change anyway cause he was hardly the only one that hated the 80s popular aesthetic, is my only point, that there wasn’t an all encompassing “we” that loved these things a lot of people were against it.
@@tylurmackinnon6217 True. I only liked real '80's metal anyway, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate...he was right about the hair metal sh*t, though.
@sha broussard Are you basing that on raw numbers or per capita? There's a ton more white people in America so of course the numbers are going to be higher overall. You have to look at percentages.
it's still 55 mph on I-10 somewhere in Texas, despite that same interstate having an 80 mph speed limit, in Beaumont, it's 55 for a one mile stretch going east on I-10 as you turn right and US 69 leaves the interstate/ or going west on I-10 as US 69 joins the interstate.
in the late 80's, I-20 was 55 mph for a mile and a quarter stretch in Longview, I-80 in the Quad Cities area was 55 mph from I-280 to the Illinois state line at the Mississippi River crossing, (now it's 65 east of I-280/70 west of I-280), and until 2015, the Tri State Tollway I-94 was 55 mph all the way until just 3 miles south of the Wisconsin state line, only 3 mi. of I-94 was 65 mph. Now most of the Tri-State is posted over 55. I-94 is 70 mph north of IL-132 near Six Flags Great America, 65 mph in most of Lake County, I-294 is 60 mph north of I-90 and south of I-55 until I-57.
Just turned 55, so I had to look this song up and hear it. Never thought I would make it. And it is so hard to drive 55, still. Lol. Sing it Sammy, Whoo HOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
Just ate at Sammy’s in the Maui OGG airport. Never heard of Sammy before that. Sammy has a bunch of restaurants and he shares his proceeds with the staff , he helps the local communities and provides resources to people in need. My server for the day Marlho told me of Sammy's generosity! She did a great job. She was fast, polite, professional and accurate. Whenever I come back to Maui OGG Im eating at Sammy’s!!!
My first concert. The VOA TOUR in Minnesota! So called "co-headlining" with Krokus! I don't think so...Mr. Hagar was and is always the headliner! Still killing it to this day and sounding great.
An all time great driving song. Makes you roll down the windows and just let it ride because you know it's a song just about anybody wouldn't mind listening to regardless of their preference of music; then, when others do hear it, they start bangin' their heads, give ya a smile, and are ready to hit the gas waiting for that light to just...turn...green. 😎
I was a senior in high school and driving a 1970 GTO convertible with a 400CI, 4bbl, 375 HP, ram air factory engine when the national speed limit got dropped to 55. I would have been BLASTING this song every time I pulled out of the driveway! I still push down on the accelerator every time it comes on now almost fifty years later. 8-)
@@allensamuel4127 ~ Oh how I wish I did. That's about $75k plus worth of wheels now. Unfortunately, after getting to tool around in it for only ten months, a jackass in a three ton farm flatbed ran a stop sign on me and I never even had the chance to touch the brakes. I was doing something north of 50 mph when I tee-boned him. I managed to pry the fender wells out enough to be able to limp it home but the damage was just too severe to be repaired...especially when they discovered the frame was bent in two places. I took the insurance settlement and replaced it with a '69 Catalina convertible that I drove for the next twelve years.
Sammy's vocals are supernaturally powerful - I think if he shrieked "I can't drive 55!" that close to my face, my face would fly right off my skull and what's left of my ears would fall out on the floor.
My daughter is getting married in Oct, 2019. My grand daughters will scream out '55' when the song comes on. Yes, I am programming the music that night. What a great song to kick off a party..... Thanks fer a great song, Sammy.
PA Turnpike......17 years old. State Trooper clocked me at 117 in a 65......with this song blaring on the radio. Trooper pulled me out of the car, cuffed me, slapped me around a bit till I was good and scared, and LET ME GO.
@@rearspeaker6364 They’d just arrest him. he’d go to court and definitely get a HUGE fine and jail time. Add lawyer fees to that... It could be upwards of a 30k thrill.
That stupid nation wide law of 55 was awful!, No one could just drive 55! I was leaving KC one Monday morning in 1981 w a 4 hour drive ahead and was at about 75 mph and got stopped. Luckily, I didn't get a ticket and smiling real sweet and being easy on the eyes likely helped a little.. Several cars passed me while I was stopped and then I passed them by on down the road and one of them just looked at me as if they were thinking... who the heck is 'she'? (no one important) I kept on going hoping I wouldn't get stopped again. I was lucky!
Happy Birthday to my boy one of my favorite vocalists and singers in Rock and Roll number 4 on my list and in music period The Red Rocker Sammy Hagar Happy Rockin 73d Sir and also my heart goes out to You Mikey Alex Wolfie Jan Val and the the rest of the Van Halen Family ,You and Mikey’s Family as well for the loss of your best friend Eddie Van Halen ❤️🎸.
DJ Granny Trump is the Establishment....He's always been a part of the Establishment, he might be President, but the real decisions will be made by Pence and his Republican benefactors... in Trumps own words...Trump will be Russia and Pence's PUPPET, HE'S A PUPPET FOLKS...his campaign biggest points are financially and physically impossible, you got Fooled by a snake oil salesman
Back then to save gasoline, the feds mandated all highways to be 55mph. Sammy was singing what we all were thinking. Quickly the speed limit became the most ignored and defiantly broken law in the country.
In upstate NY. He just played in the Albany area. He was trying to see if he could see the officer that wrote him the ticket l. The inspiration for the song.
Around 1985-1986 someone defaced a 55 MPH speed limit sign exactly like the one at the end of the video. It was on the Garden State parkway in NJ around mile marker 135 +/- 5 or so. It took them a year to replace it. Not too long after, the 55 MPH limit law was revoked nationwide. Good Job Sammy!
I just discovered that this song was written a couple hours from my hometown, based on a local experience traveling from Albany NY to Lake Placid! I grew up listening to this and never had a clue it had a connection that's so close to home, pretty neat! 🤓
Well Mr Ford man.. You need to get a hot badass PONTIAC and see what driving in the 1960s and 1970s was really about.. A GTO, a 1962 Catalina 2 + 2, a 1966 Bonneville, a 1974 TRANS AM with the 455 SD Super Duty or Tri-Power 421 HO Grand Prix lol PONTIAC FOREVER !!
If you have not checked out Sammy and the Circle please do so.. As a life long fan, I believe it is some of his best work! Love seeing Sammy still rocking!
Back in the late 90s, this was #1 on MTV's Most Law-Breaking videos. Apparently, 20 laws were broken in the video alone. But I can't remember them all when watching.
I remember hearing rumors of Sammy joining Van Halen in 1985 and I thought....Van Halen + Sammy Hagar?? I loved the Idea and so began 10 of the best years of my life music wise followed them from the beginning till the end.
This song should come on every radio station every Friday at 5 pm . To help you get home in a good mood . PARTY ON SAMMY . 3 LOCK BOX ALSO ROCKS MY RADIO .
I remember taking an interest in cars at a young age and my dad showed me this video because of the Ferarri. To this day it still sounds like the first time hearing it and I cant help but drop a gear if I hear it in the car. 🏎💨 🚓 🚓 🚓
Crystal Price Nope, It was the law, but eventually enough people voted with their right foot and it was raised. I had a string of Camaro’s and Corvette’s in the 80’s so 55 really sucked !
I remember listening to this on the radio with my friend. He asked "is this all the song is about?". Well... Yeah. Not all songs are about love, hate, or a political message. Some are just about personal faults.
I'll be LONG dead before this song is!!! Sammy Hagar still rocks the planet!!! Saw him at 'Texas Jam' with Triumph, Ted Nugent, Uriah Heap, Styx... When Sammy hit the stage and blew up the Trans Am to make his entrance... AWESOME!!! Unsurpassed by any other!!!
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A few fun facts: this Ferrari used in this video belonged to Sammy, and he still owns it to this very day :)
Also, the mechanic in yellow at the beginning of the video (Claudio) was the person who introduced Sammy to Eddie Van Halen in '85.
was at the Tahoe Wabo Cantina forever.....
I just seen a pawn stars episode with a guy selling a speeding ticket for Sammy Hagar in an 84 black Ferrari. The ticket was issued in 1990
And the judge is John Kalodner
Awesome fun facts!!!
Frank wow cool
My brother John, who died last year at 67 loved fast cars and really loved this song. He even bought me and him T shirts that said "Support Civil Disobedience. Repeal the 55, VOTE with your FOOT......It's a shame he never got to meet Sammy. I think they would have had a lot to talk about. Rest in Peace my brother 😞.
Bryan
Very cool story, unfortunately, and inevitably, everyone has the time to go, but the memory remains and when we remember, we smile, and that's the sign of good times together.
Sorry for your loss.
Cheers from Brazil.
@@DIZAZZOdon't spank her ass 😂😂😂
👍
RIP your brother and my Dad
Meus sentimentos mas lembre-se sãs dicas de seu irmão faça jus 😅
I turned 55 today! Love this song! Happy 55th birthday to me!! Oh yeah!!
October 21, 2022
Happy belated birthday! 🎂
I did 2 weeks ago and that went through my head for days!
Today is my 55th birthday and I've been singing it all day!!! 😂🎉
You are two days older than me! ❤
Same! Jan 31, 2024.
Omg, I'm walking around Hill Valley Courthouse Square but it's all different now. The courthouse has been turned into a hotel and man, this isn't the 1985 I remember!
Man, what a voice!
Can you imagine singing and sounding like that? The man is blessed.
To me he was at his best with Van Halem, and VH was at his best with him
SAMMY absolute LEGEND He has been a musician like 50 years now, LEGEND............
When you listen VH song Dreams, Sammy shows he is a legend.
When you listen VH song Dreams, Sammy shows he is a legend.
When you listen VH song Dreams, Sammy shows he is a legend.
‘I Can’t Drive 55,’ as Hagar has explained many times, was inspired by a real-life incident that found him pulled over for doing 62 late at night on an empty highway in upstate New York. I'm guessing record sales from this song have paid for that ticket many times over by now.
Jim Marshall ya and dooberchuckman made stippy rattle with a cang funagle dipshaster. It sus man wudanerously qiutahouille ramshaster results l0L!!!
yeah, Sammy did say how he did get bagged a few times for going way over the speed limit. and he also got the idea to write the song from not being able to go 55. lol
It happened near Albany, New York
@@davidgibson7615 Albany is not upstate !!
Jim Marshall what’s your profile pic?
This song never gets old 😀
@Dawn You know that's true!! 💯
Timeless🎸
it will NEVER get old
Turned 55 today, and this song popped in my head. See you in August Sammy, In Dallas.!!!
Happy belated Birthday!
Happy birthday old dude 🤘
Happy late birthday to another era added to your life this next decade sir 🫡
so many friends are turning 55 this year! It's been in my head for most of 2024!!
@@tednugentlives happy late birthday 🎈
I can't drive 55 either.. I have a KIA spectra. :(
+RavnerRavner Me'n either ...I drive a moped :)
+RavnerRavner Unfortunately it took me like... 2 minutes to NOT read that as Killed in Action. o-o
oooohhhh k SMH
RavnerRavner
😅😅DEAD!😅😅
Yeah, I passed a KIA the other day on a Moped. NO, I wasn't on the MOPED the KIA was on the Moped. LOL!
"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
"Because I let you."
Zack Garner Gabriel Iglesias?! What are you doing here?
Simply because one says what another does gives no cause for relation.
Officer : ok ok sir get out of the car and put your hands up
Gabriel Iglesias for the win
Agree! Been there done that.
Fun fact: this song was inspired by true life event's. After getting pulled over for speeding, the highway patrolman told Sammy that the speed limit was 55 miles an hour. As the officer wen't to his vehicle to retrieve something Sammy thought to himself, "I can't drive 55." He knew in an instant that he had the germ of a new song. The cop came back to Hagar's vehicle and gave him the speeding ticket. Sammy thanked the officer as the whole thing had inspired one of his biggest hits.
i didn't know.
@John Patriot eagle freedom boner Fun fact - I've never heard this song before and I'm certainly not a kid...
@John Patriot eagle freedom boner Been a while since anyone said that :D But yeah, its all relative.....
Yep. The story is recounted in Hagar’s bio. A good read for any of his fans and anyone who loves rock.
Sammy should have sent the cop a copy of his royalty check from the song and video and said "thanks for writing me that ticket. This is more money than you make in a year, isn't it."
Dedicating this AWESOMELY-80s song to my tasty husband who’s rockin’ 55 years of age today!
Happy belated :)
Husband GenX is best!
Nice! Happy belated b day to him! Too bad there’s not a song I can’t drive 88 or 68 I’d dedicate those to my mom cuz she’s both a cop and she’s 68 as of March 31st 2023 lol. She loves Sammy. And she’s biracial and Scottish not that last part matters .? She knows I love the Back To The Future trilogy lol
this is an amazing comment 😂
Happy 55th! birthday to him...I'Il be 55 this month and I've never been called tasty! 😄 That was the coolest comment or compliment by a wife on her man! 💙💓
i remember when i was going 85 in a 50 in my '14 GT like 3 years ago...when the state trooper pulled me over i was blaring this song and when he went to give me back my license he just looked at me with this big smile on his face and said "great song man! now keep your speed down and have a nice day" out of respect for him i definitely stopped going that fast on that stretch of road!
That's awesome
That's cool
That's cool
You're lucky you didn't get arrested! more than 30 over is criminal
Cool story, bro
My beautiful wife of 20 years who is dying of cancer wants this song played as the final song in her funeral! Boy am I going to miss her!
She sounds like a lovely woman.
Does your boyfriend like the song also?
I'm sorry. I hope it was peaceful for her.
Why? Odd choice for a funeral...I at least have my list funeral oriented. Be like wanting Britney Spears Oops I Did it Again being played.
Wtf dude? “Boy am I going to miss her!” Why would you put it that way? You sound like a high schooler in a Disney sitcom who just found out his crush is switching schools. Your wife of 20 years who had a terminal illness left you and all you can say is “Boy am I going to miss her!”
80's MUSIC NEVER DIES !
I own the world's only time machine, and I'm giving free rides back to the 80s. Who wants to come along ???
Hey wait for me. 😀
I’ll go. I’ve got some do-overs to address.
@@steveespinola7652 lol
Born in 84 and I’d love to see life when it was awesome.
Let's go back to 1985!
Welcome to the Biff's, Tannen Museum !
Classic. I always wished I could go to that museum
@Valentin Vasil Stelmakh Danchak Watch where you're going you crazy, drunk, pedestrian!
ShyNexSTUDIO classic biff
EAT LEAD, SLACKERS!!!
I love that movie, even though this did not make me think of Back to the Future II.
RIP Claudio and not only did you know your way around Italian sports cars like a legend, you helped bring together Sammy and Eddie Van Halen and the rest is history. If it wasn't for you giving Sammy's phone number to Eddie VH and pressuring him to call from your garage, Van Hagar might have never happened. Thank you, Claudio and may you always be at peace.
Talk more about Claudio, please!
@@pehbs3224 claudio zampolli is his name, i would link you to the articles about this but can't on youtube
@@pehbs3224 ruclips.net/video/y1gH0V4AOCo/видео.html
Wish it never happened that was the LAME version of Van Halen. Eddie & Alex would have had to beg Dave back into the band and we would have gotten more great Van Halen music like the first 4 Albums.
@@BankofAmericaLIARS Wasn't going to happen with their personalities.
Nobody can sing like Sammy Hagar he is the best I've ever heard I live through that 55 Mi an hour BS and I understand it took forever to get anywhere but I'm going back to the video enjoy Sammy Hagar when he was a young Red Rocker
Hagar said that at one point in his life he was paying $125,000 in car insurance because of 36 speeding tickets and multiple suspensions of license.
125k per year or per month? I'm sure he had a bunch of sports cars so I can definitely believe that.
Go Sammy wish I had his cars and money ! Can not drive 55 !!!!!!!
I can believe.. he drives a LaFerrari now.
@Jem Harper yeeeeaah but it aint the same
lmfao. Well....sure it wasn't much. x'D !
Insane that this legend is 71 years old. Wow
As still having fun. His Road Show is a good time.
Sammy's the man!!
I just turned 55. 80's kids rock!
I can't drive 55 because the speed limits are much higher now. Sammy was a prophet
Idk if it's true or not, but i read somewhere that the speed limit was changed because of this song.
The song came out in response to the the national speed limit being reduced to 55. Some states didn’t like the change but had to enforce it, so instead of a speeding ticket , Nevada would issue a wasting energy ticket if you were going between 55 & 70 (in some areas) it was a good time to live in Nevada.
Or a profit.
80mph in west Texas. Means we drive 90. 😀
Back then Hagar wrote this song because he got a ticket doing 62, he had just came back to the US from a foreign tour and they had changed the speed limit down to 55
Back when music videos actually felt like watching an actual movie
They don't make them like this anymore
They rarely do these days
They rarely do these days
Truth ❤🎉.
One of my proudest moments is a judge in King City, California, saying to me, "You, sir, are a ticket magnet."
Badass
I got a ticket on the i5 freeway and had to see the judge in King City it's a speed trap for the CHP, I was driving my friends 1990 Suzuki 750 GSXR motorcycle back from Bakersfield to San Jose, Cal, and I told him before the trip to keep it at the speed limit as I followed him in his truck.
One thing about Sammy...he knows how to enjoy life. I saw him before he joined Van Halen. He opened for ZZ Top. Lots of energy, climbing all over the stage. I think he was more fun as a solo artist
He was in so many bands and Van Halen kicked him out. No class cause Sammy has it all.
Don't forget Montrose's first album!
Sammy solo was the Best Sammy.
@@kevinmontgomery1383 He was on the first two Montrose albums.
@@gringo3002 Thanks! I did not know that. Was Paper Money, the second?
The ultimate highway song.
Right behind Ozzy Osbourne - Desire
Up there with Motley Crue's Kickstart my Heart
When you beat the traffic and out run a ticket
How can you listen to this song and not think of Back to the Future?
Strickland with the 12 gauge "EAT LEAD, SLACKERS!" badass
The cat in back to the future was a Deloreon..
I miss the 80s. 😔
Eddie Van Halen's death brought me here.
Im so so sorry... 80's the best time ever
Sorry about what???
Eddie Van Halen's life brought me here .
Back to the Future 2 " alternate 1985"
73 years old this year still looks great, rock &'rolling Sammy!!!!!!
Just saw him in concert for the first time 2 weeks ago. 74 years old and still up stage slashing and killing it. Glad my dad raised me on this music and i was able to see this show with him! 🤘🏼
I am sixty eight,still rocking
73 and not woke, not living in the past, and carved his path forward, and he thrived! Lesson? - stop whining and get moving! Nobody owes anybody anything!
The red rocker!
The best driving song...ever..Never get tired of hearing it..Any gearheads out there?
That would be Golden earring a Dutch band
I am GEARHEADTOOL
Hell yeah I made a music video of me racing legends cars on iRacing with this song
Unfortunately it makes me drive faster.... and risk ending up like slammer like Sammy.
Yes, one of the cars in my garage is a police package '77 Dodge Monaco like the one in this clip.
Fkn awesome. Sammy is the man!
Wow what inspiration for a most world changing song. Just memorable,timeless, unforgettable,and unfortunately,unforgivable.
This song sums up my experience as a truck driver in California.
Hmm intresting
it reminds me of several members of my family one of who is now deceased
Videos in the 80's were so corny, but we loved them. One of Sammy's best loved songs.
You look like Jackson galaxy dude
Not everyone did. Like Kurt Cobain for instance.
@@tylurmackinnon6217 I've never been a fan of Cobain, or grunge as a movement. I was an '80's teenager.
@@mark_beastpriest5539 Kurt Cobain was a 80s teenager too. Yet he hated the 80s faux and cheese and went on to change culture, or was part of the inevitable change anyway cause he was hardly the only one that hated the 80s popular aesthetic, is my only point, that there wasn’t an all encompassing “we” that loved these things a lot of people were against it.
@@tylurmackinnon6217 True. I only liked real '80's metal anyway, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate...he was right about the hair metal sh*t, though.
This video is pure fun. Gold from the great 80s. And what a badass song
You ever grab a cop like that today you'll be singing " I wont live past....55"
Try that if your Mexican they'll hang you
@sha broussard Are you basing that on raw numbers or per capita? There's a ton more white people in America so of course the numbers are going to be higher overall. You have to look at percentages.
imagine trying to have a civil rights argument in the comment section of a shitty sammy haggar video
it's still 55 mph on I-10 somewhere in Texas, despite that same interstate having an 80 mph speed limit, in Beaumont, it's 55 for a one mile stretch going east on I-10 as you turn right and US 69 leaves the interstate/ or going west on I-10 as US 69 joins the interstate.
in the late 80's, I-20 was 55 mph for a mile and a quarter stretch in Longview, I-80 in the Quad Cities area was 55 mph from I-280 to the Illinois state line at the Mississippi River crossing, (now it's 65 east of I-280/70 west of I-280), and until 2015, the Tri State Tollway I-94 was 55 mph all the way until just 3 miles south of the Wisconsin state line, only 3 mi. of I-94 was 65 mph. Now most of the Tri-State is posted over 55. I-94 is 70 mph north of IL-132 near Six Flags Great America, 65 mph in most of Lake County, I-294 is 60 mph north of I-90 and south of I-55 until I-57.
Unquestionably one of the greatest 80's rock songs
@@thefreestylefrEaK At least the most 80s thing that ever happened was this video.
@@thefreestylefrEaK uhhhhh yeah
nope thats definitely questionable
HAHA! Just some super fun 80's party sh*t baby!! @@Wtahc
@@chrysryce ahahaha fair point
Just turned 55, so I had to look this song up and hear it. Never thought I would make it. And it is so hard to drive 55, still. Lol. Sing it Sammy, Whoo HOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
Speed limit is 65 now although noone seems to be able to drive that either..
Just ate at Sammy’s in the Maui OGG airport. Never heard of Sammy before that. Sammy has a bunch of restaurants and he shares his proceeds with the staff , he helps the local communities and provides resources to people in need. My server for the day Marlho told me of Sammy's generosity! She did a great job. She was fast, polite, professional and accurate. Whenever I come back to Maui OGG Im eating at Sammy’s!!!
You in Hawaii 😂 🐂 BULL
This song still kicks ass!! 👍🏻🤘🏻
Agreed
One of those songs that is truly timeless; will always kick ass.
2019. Whose still loving and rockin this with the awesome old school power of MTV 😎🎵⭐️🌟🎼🎶❤️✨🎧🎤💕
GOD BLESS!
Remember when MTV actually played MUSIC??!!!
Damn, I'm old! 😂😂😂😂
When this song comes on in the car it will almost guarantee me a speeding ticket every time
I find listening to talk radio, classical, or easy listening makes me drive much slower (ie speed limit-ish). This is like cocaine in a car.
1:35 REVOKED
lol 💯💯💯💯 so true 👍
Next time tell the cop it wasn’t your fault because you were listening to this song. Maybe he’ll laugh and you’ll get a warning.
True. I found this out one day on the way to work. That's also the day I found out that 2008 v6 Dodge Dakotas are faster than I thought.
Long live Sammy Hagar! He makes the 80's feel good, which the 80's were!😂
Great times then ; these times are fkd!!
Guy hasn't aged a bit. God bless optimism and tequila.
Brandon Edwards yea he has. he really really looks young in this video.
hahaha love it!
I'd say yes on the optimism but not so much so for the tequilia about him not aging the slightest bit 😤🤔..!!
Brandon consult an optometrist
Dude didn’t start drinking until he was 60.
I got a speeding ticket to this when I was a Kid. Just makes you want to drive fast for some reason..
Highway to Hell does too
Last time i got a warning was to this @ 118 in a 45
Got a warning @ 118 in a 45 zone. With this as loud as the speakers could handle.
Got a warning for 90 in a 60... while listening to Danger Zone.
This is a 80s masterpiece . I remember being around 12 or 13 and starting to really like hard rock. I thought this was an anthem!
I first heard this in my junior year in high school in '84. Those were the days.
@Sammy Hagar Foundation 😀
@Sammy Hagar Foundation Sammy is in the building lol
Hi Cindy,hope you’re okay ?
@Sammy Hagar I am doing fine, thank you so much ! 😀
My first concert. The VOA TOUR in Minnesota! So called "co-headlining" with Krokus! I don't think so...Mr. Hagar was and is always the headliner! Still killing it to this day and sounding great.
Sammy Hagar is great solo and was a great addition to Van Halen. Truly remarkable talent and incredible voice. Love the 55 video.
Here's where I have to mention that he was also in Montrose.
An all time great driving song. Makes you roll down the windows and just let it ride because you know it's a song just about anybody wouldn't mind listening to regardless of their preference of music; then, when others do hear it, they start bangin' their heads, give ya a smile, and are ready to hit the gas waiting for that light to just...turn...green. 😎
Super Bowl 55 is coming up. Can we at least get Sammy to scream 55 during the halftime show?
He is 73 and too old now.
@@Atarian1979 He is in incredible shape, looks more like he’s 53, and can still sing and play very well.
Sammy is still the bomb!
I turn 55 next week and will try to have the bowling center where I do my league, play "I can't Drive 55" as my birthday song!
@@Atarian1979 No he's not. Doing a residency in Vegas, as we speak.
Back to the future II Biff Tanen pleasure stand.
I was a senior in high school and driving a 1970 GTO convertible with a 400CI, 4bbl, 375 HP, ram air factory engine when the national speed limit got dropped to 55. I would have been BLASTING this song every time I pulled out of the driveway! I still push down on the accelerator every time it comes on now almost fifty years later. 8-)
Still have the gto?
@@allensamuel4127 ~ Oh how I wish I did. That's about $75k plus worth of wheels now. Unfortunately, after getting to tool around in it for only ten months, a jackass in a three ton farm flatbed ran a stop sign on me and I never even had the chance to touch the brakes. I was doing something north of 50 mph when I tee-boned him. I managed to pry the fender wells out enough to be able to limp it home but the damage was just too severe to be repaired...especially when they discovered the frame was bent in two places. I took the insurance settlement and replaced it with a '69 Catalina convertible that I drove for the next twelve years.
This song travels thru time and still burns the road..Sammy is still cranking awesome tunes
Sammy's vocals are supernaturally powerful - I think if he shrieked "I can't drive 55!" that close to my face, my face would fly right off my skull and what's left of my ears would fall out on the floor.
🤣🤣🤣
dont forget recordings of vocals are double tracked
Awesome times the 80's with the best of times. The best of bands and talent. Right on. Rock forever!
My daughter is getting married in Oct, 2019. My grand daughters will scream out '55' when the song comes on. Yes, I am programming the music that night. What a great song to kick off a party..... Thanks fer a great song, Sammy.
"Programming the music", yup... definitely a grandfather. Hope it was an awesome wedding mate.
The good old days when rock was rock!
Exactly 🎸
Yes Sir !
1:49...erh!
the rhythm and rhyme in this song
and the vocal delivery is astonishing
Sammy Hagar is a puppet master.
Yes he is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We are Sammy's puppets
Love "Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55" inspired from when the 1973 oil embargo caused a 1974 nationwide 55 speed limit.
I remember playing this for my Dad when he turned 55. He would always go wild when this came on mtv! RIP Jeff❤
Where he at ?
This is the way!
PA Turnpike......17 years old. State Trooper clocked me at 117 in a 65......with this song blaring on the radio. Trooper pulled me out of the car, cuffed me, slapped me around a bit till I was good and scared, and LET ME GO.
you got off easy!! nowadays,geeez, what they would do to you now,it's safer to be a pinata!!
@@rearspeaker6364 They’d just arrest him. he’d go to court and definitely get a HUGE fine and jail time. Add lawyer fees to that... It could be upwards of a 30k thrill.
They took my 151 first
Sounds like a good time to me
Riding on the turnpike right now... What part was this on? 😂
Still loving this in 2020 with the awesome, jammin’ old school music power of MTV
Mr.Hagar-🌟-Congratulations! Hollywood walk of fame-💫-4/30/24..Hey Sammy-🏎️-55-"Classic"-😎..
Truck drivers driving through California think about this every day!
A stealth Radar detector, Waze, and highway radar app.
Was behind a big rig doing at least 80 on open road.
@@tmross4 nothing wrong about that ? Cant find the issue, or the truck driver.
We were going 60 in a 55 mph zone - and he was soon out of sight!
@@tmross4 good for him , no harm done as long as he keeps away from the next car and those passing next to him
I drove cars, trucks and motorcycles back then. 55 was frustrating as hell. I got a lot of tickets back then, too. You had to be there. lol!
That 55 mph gov’t imposed BS - Was the beginning of government overreach......😖😡🤬. NOW look at what they’re doing =😷
When music was real.
That stupid nation wide law of 55 was awful!, No one could just drive 55!
I was leaving KC one Monday morning in 1981 w a 4 hour drive ahead and was at about 75 mph and got stopped. Luckily, I didn't get a ticket and smiling real sweet and being easy on the eyes likely helped a little.. Several cars passed me while I was stopped and then I passed them by on down the road and one of them just looked at me as if they were thinking... who the heck is 'she'? (no one important) I kept on going hoping I wouldn't get stopped again. I was lucky!
Happy Birthday to my boy one of my favorite vocalists and singers in Rock and Roll number 4 on my list and in music period The Red Rocker Sammy Hagar Happy Rockin 73d Sir and also my heart goes out to You Mikey Alex Wolfie Jan Val and the the rest of the Van Halen Family ,You and Mikey’s Family as well for the loss of your best friend Eddie Van Halen ❤️🎸.
I was running late to work this morning.The interstate speed is 55. I was flying and this song came to my head. Jus had to hear it.
back to the future part II Biff's Pleasure Palace
Oh yeah baby biff is about to 'Merica Real Great Again... Tongue down Marty's moms throat and worse behind closed doors.
fla playa unfortunately yes, I'm sure the rest of the world is laughing at us...
+Jonathan Parker because the establishment lost
DJ Granny Trump is the Establishment....He's always been a part of the Establishment, he might be President, but the real decisions will be made by Pence and his Republican benefactors... in Trumps own words...Trump will be Russia and Pence's PUPPET, HE'S A PUPPET FOLKS...his campaign biggest points are financially and physically impossible, you got Fooled by a snake oil salesman
+Jonathan Parker lol you're a conspiracy theorist
Back then to save gasoline, the feds mandated all highways to be 55mph.
Sammy was singing what we all were thinking. Quickly the speed limit became the most ignored and defiantly broken law in the country.
My mom was pulled over in virginia for speeding while this song was on he radio.. I laughed hysterically for an hour or more at the irony of it all.
The best ever ! music never gets old! This is when the music was real !!!!!
Sammy got a speeding ticket late night and had this gem written by sunrise. Genius.
In upstate NY. He just played in the Albany area. He was trying to see if he could see the officer that wrote him the ticket l. The inspiration for the song.
One of the coolest rock videos ever.
Heck yeah this song makes you feel good and it rocks to.
This song is the main reason they increase the speed limit to 70 mph.
Sara Winters and now with safer modern day cars 70MPH has become outdated ... they need to make a new song I CANT DRIVE 70
Wrong
@@mikew3494 true actually.
I bet.
Autobahn laughing in German.
Still one of the most fun rock songs ever made.
❤😊💙♠️🐺
2019 speed
Around 1985-1986 someone defaced a 55 MPH speed limit sign exactly like the one at the end of the video. It was on the Garden State parkway in NJ around mile marker 135 +/- 5 or so. It took them a year to replace it. Not too long after, the 55 MPH limit law was revoked nationwide. Good Job Sammy!
I just discovered that this song was written a couple hours from my hometown, based on a local experience traveling from Albany NY to Lake Placid! I grew up listening to this and never had a clue it had a connection that's so close to home, pretty neat! 🤓
I’m too young to have seen actual music videos played on MTV, but, if this video was any indication, it was probably epic.
Well Mr Ford man.. You need to get a hot badass PONTIAC and see what driving in the 1960s and 1970s was really about.. A GTO, a 1962 Catalina 2 + 2, a 1966 Bonneville, a 1974 TRANS AM with the 455 SD Super Duty or Tri-Power 421 HO Grand Prix lol PONTIAC FOREVER !!
This song really takes me back. Just wait till it hits 88 Mph
THEN you're going to see some serious ****.
Luv this song
Truly fits as I can't drive my '55 chevy rod 55 MPH!
I love Sammy Hagar!! One of the worlds greatest singers and musicians period!!
.... "one of ..." ...agree
Steve Perry best vocalist to ever walk this planet. Period.
One of the all-time greatest from the 80's - still rock out to this song as I hit 60 years old. Always puts me in a good mood!
The 80s were the cool days !
If you have not checked out Sammy and the Circle please do so.. As a life long fan, I believe it is some of his best work! Love seeing Sammy still rocking!
Just did. Awesome!
Back in the late 90s, this was #1 on MTV's Most Law-Breaking videos. Apparently, 20 laws were broken in the video alone. But I can't remember them all when watching.
The more I watch this, the more I love it.
I remember hearing rumors of Sammy joining Van Halen in 1985 and I thought....Van Halen + Sammy Hagar?? I loved the Idea and so began 10 of the best years of my life music wise followed them from the beginning till the end.
Sammy is the man . One of the greatest vocals in rock history
I have heard this song over 1,000+ times. I just realized I had never seen this video until today. I guess I was always driving when I listened to it.
I remember when this video first came out....damn, I'm getting old
YNK.
I'm getting old, too.
Same
Same here
Well, it was 1984.
This song should come on every radio station every Friday at 5 pm . To help you get home in a good mood . PARTY ON SAMMY .
3 LOCK BOX ALSO ROCKS MY RADIO .
Yessaahh.
3 Lock Box is sick a great tune!
Lolol, 😂 lotsa tickets too!
Lololol 😂 lotsa tickets too 🎶🎶!
Sammy is the greatest front man in MUSIC history!!!!
Without a doubt!
I remember taking an interest in cars at a young age and my dad showed me this video because of the Ferarri. To this day it still sounds like the first time hearing it and I cant help but drop a gear if I hear it in the car.
🏎💨 🚓 🚓 🚓
One of baddest ass songs in rock history!
You are a fucking tasteless moron.
Or as Vevo would have it: one of the baddest *** songs in rock history
ha ha
Holymakinaw you are
… Up there with
“we built this city on rock ‘n’ roll”. LMAO
The 80s had the best music videos lol
One good thing about the 80's is that it also was the start of a couple of animated TV shows and movies
Yeah the videos... lol
becuz_im-batman1 And the stupidest speed limit!
Boat Axe, I always thought 55 was just a suggestion.
Crystal Price Nope, It was the law, but eventually enough people voted with their right foot and it was raised. I had a string of Camaro’s and Corvette’s in the 80’s so 55 really sucked !
I remember listening to this on the radio with my friend. He asked "is this all the song is about?". Well... Yeah. Not all songs are about love, hate, or a political message. Some are just about personal faults.
LOL, does your friend even drive? I sure can't drive 55!
I know I don't. For the opposite reason as Sammy.
King you was in my way my love Queen 👑 king 👑
I'll be LONG dead before this song is!!! Sammy Hagar still rocks the planet!!! Saw him at 'Texas Jam' with Triumph, Ted Nugent, Uriah Heap, Styx... When Sammy hit the stage and blew up the Trans Am to make his entrance... AWESOME!!! Unsurpassed by any other!!!
Must have been a hell of a show! Miss those days of arena shows!