Posted on 07/17/2024 6:50:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
The "Northway" is I-87 that is widely recognized as the highway that takes you from Albany, NY North up through the Adirondacks, Lake George up to a Lake Placid exit, Plattsburg and up to Montreal Canada.
The former Van Halen singer reflects on writing the hit — and his love of upstate and the Adirondack Mountains
They had been in Greece, Italy and Egypt before a safari in Kenya. “It was a wonderful family vacation,” Hagar said.
The family had flown from Nairobi to London and then on to New York City before one last flight to Albany. All that was left to do was head up the Northway to Lake Placid where Aaron attended North Country School and where Hagar owned a log cabin. The chalet had become an oasis from an increasingly hectic (and successful) touring schedule.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...
You’d be surprised at what you can see in government police records. I remember one time when I was young (back in the 1980s) processing a missing / stolen luggage report filed by Tom Cruise. I bet there still is a file on it.
Back around 96, the steel fabrication shop allowed personal radios at work stations. Most played ‘classic rock’. That song must have been played every hour.
I got so sick of hearing ‘music’ of guys yelling at the top of their lungs into the microphone, that I left earplugs in all day.
Except the Hunter Biden stuff they deleted.
never understood the appeal of that voice (or style) myself.
Yep, no fan of the song, but as with many songs it has an interesting story behind it.
Hagar should make a new version saying, “I can’t drive. I’m Joe Biiiiiiiiden”.
Sammy Hagar - I Can’t Drive 55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
I think ‘I can’t drive 55’ was the admission of many guys like me, decades before anybody had heard that song.
Whether it was influenced from an actual experience or not, millions of people can relate to habitually speeding. So, nomatter how good or bad the song sounds, it had a ready following.
I just wasn’t one in the following.
He’s still alive?.........The trooper, not Sammy Hagar.........
They can't identify who the trooper was.
There is zero possibility the state police does not have a record of the troopers employed at the time in that district. It’s as bizarre as how the Trump assassin was mysteriously ignored if they can’t produce at least a list of names.
I think you need to think about the time period we are talking about. Records were not filed away on a computer. There were only paper copies. Imagine the storage problems of having to keep every record. Up until records were put on computer files, it was standard procedure to destroy records after so many years. In the 80s, I was told by a county records clerk that they destroyed records on on a sliding scale. For instance, a felony record it was kept forever. For a non-violent misdemeanor, it was five years and so on.
How about bringing in Bob Rivers who published the parody called, “I Can’t Drive (I’m 65)”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrD_t4rCO8
Back in the 90’s I was doing IT work and an ex-boss asked if I wanted to do a side job in the evening. It turned out to be a job for a strip bar in Jacksonville, FL. The manager was fascinated with the work I was doing with Flash animated webpages and he offered to show me what he did.
He was a licensed Bails bondman and simply by getting the number off my car’s tag he pulled up what the police can see when they run your tag. It not only showed every car I had ever owned it also showed every car my Dad had ever owned. Under know associates it showed two kids I got into a fight with at the school bus stop while I was in 8th grade. This was in the 90’s when most things were less technical than today. People would be shocked if they knew what the government knows about them...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.