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<ul><li>The song is about casual sex, something David Lee Roth was known for. </li><li>He had the roadies give out backstage passes to beautiful women at Van Halen's concerts and offered a $100 reward if the roadie sent one back he slept with.</li><li><br></li><li>Van Halen played this at many of their early shows before they got a record deal. </li><li>They included it on a demo&nbsp;<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/gene-simmons-of-kiss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Gene Simmons</a>&nbsp;produced for them in 1977.</li><li><br></li><li>If you listen carefully, you can hear an electric sitar low in the mix.</li><li><br></li><li>This song gets at least as much radio play now as when it first came out. </li><li>Van Halen took a few years to get a big following, so many of their early songs are now Classic Rock staples because they were never overplayed when they first came out.</li><li><br></li><li>In 1989, Van Halen sued rap group The 2 Live Crew for stealing the riff from this for their song "The F--k Shop" (The Clean Version was called "The Funk Shop."). </li><li>The 2 Live Crew ended up selling millions of albums with the song when they became involved in a censorship controversy over their lyrics.</li><li>Velvet Revolver performed this at the 2007 ceremonies when Van Halen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. </li><li>The only Van Halen members who attended were Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, and Hagar performed "<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/van-halen/why-cant-this-be-love" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Why Can't This Be Love?</a>" at the induction. </li><li>This song represented the David Lee Roth era of the band.</li></ul><p><br></p>