Wabo

"Cabo Wabo Tequila's association with rock music is well known," said Hagar.

Taryn Haight: Mick Fleetwood and Nicole Atkins Bond in First Episode of Cabo Wabo's "Off The Record" Series Taryn Haight 2011

Conversely, rainfall around Wabo averages a staggering 26 feet a year: enough to fill Sydney Harbor in about 2½ days and to provide stable electricity supply around the clock.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

The pairing of "rock's royalty" with "rock's future" is the premise behind Cabo Wabo Tequila's Off The Record series -- a collection of filmed conversations and jam sessions between two musicians of similar stylings, separated only by their generations.

Taryn Haight: Mick Fleetwood and Nicole Atkins Bond in First Episode of Cabo Wabo's "Off The Record" Series Taryn Haight 2011

Wabo is in lush jungle with vibrant bird life, and a dam would flood the sparsely populated banks of the Purari River.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

The bodies of a dozen men from Wabo washed up in the Purari last year, near the wellhead for gas projects operated by InterOil Corp., as landowner tensions spiraled out of control.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

The exceptional pairing could have never been certain, but with Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer and Van Halen frontman, Sammy Hagar, behind Cabo Wabo, it was clearly not left up to chance.

Taryn Haight: Mick Fleetwood and Nicole Atkins Bond in First Episode of Cabo Wabo's "Off The Record" Series Taryn Haight 2011

There's no word yet who Cabo Wabo will pull together for episode two of Off The Record, but cheers to hoping it's two more artists, similar to Mick and Nicole in the sense that they can be inspired and driven by their introduction.

Taryn Haight: Mick Fleetwood and Nicole Atkins Bond in First Episode of Cabo Wabo's "Off The Record" Series Taryn Haight 2011

Origin's plan, which analysts estimate would cost more than US$5 billion, involves laying a cable from Wabo, near the Purari River in Papua New Guinea, along the seabed of the Torres Strait and on to Townsville, where it would connect with Queensland's electricity grid.

Tapping Into the Jungle Ross Kelly 2011

They switched singers and became semi-crappy except for the middle four songs on 5150 and the booze classic “Cabo Wabo”, and nobody aggressively disputes that reality.

Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

They switched singers and became semi-crappy except for the middle four songs on 5150 and the booze classic “Cabo Wabo”, and nobody aggressively disputes that reality.

Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009