In 1983, a reporter accused Van Halen’s David Lee Roth of only writing songs about “women, partying, and fast cars.” Roth realized that he never actually had written a song about a fast car so he wrote one about “Panama Express,” a car that he had seen race in Las Vegas.
The majority of this video was shot over two night at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. A few clips were taken from a performance that Van Halen gave at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
This video was directed by Pete Angelus, a long-time associate of the band. Along with directing most of Van Halen’s early videos, he also directed the videos for David Lee Roth’s Just a Gigolo and California Girls.
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Through the Shattered Lens 