They weren’t hot for Eddie Van Halen.
The U.S. Senate once watched the …
They weren’t hot for Eddie Van Halen. The U.S. Senate once watched the late guitar god’s music video “Hot for Teacher” at a hearing about too much sex, violence and Satanism in rock music. During the Sept.19,1985, meeting, the Senate Commerce Committee tuned into the mildly steamy footage — which showed a bespectacled student fantasizing about his teacher in a bathing suit as the rocker wailed. Amusing footage of the so-called “porn rock” hearing recirculated online Tuesday after news broke of Eddie Van Halen’s death, tweeted out by C-SPAN Communications Director Howard Mortman. “One criticism of the rock industry is the way it portrays values in rock videos which are viewed by the kids,” Sen.
