Why has my local record store not heard of this CD.?
Why has my local record store not heard of this CD.?
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Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
DAMMIT JIM !! THIS IS A ROCKET NOT A RECORD STORE !!Originally Posted by Ruprecht
You must have done seen that look I see when I go to home depot and ask the 15 yr old who has worked there for 11 min where the (____________,
And Emo Dude looks back at me and like ([__]) < insert picture of dumbass now).
You may have been at a store that has a record isle stuck in the middle of 500 electronic wiggits.
If a real Record Store still exists..they would probably know how to order a copy or would have one in stock.
DAMMIT ON MUTHAS!!!
Sheesh! I got it on CD and, yes, cassette! I also have the limited-edition double single of Slam Dunk/King Of The Hill. I know, I'm pathetic. But I'm having fun.
I seem to recall reading an interview with Ray Luzier where he tells a story about bumping into Alex Van Halen sometime after that record came out. Al, apparently, said he really dug it - it reminded him of old VH.
I think it has some good stuff on it, and it's got a certain verve about it.
This one has some of Dave's best and worst lines:
Guns and guitars, bikinis and fast cars. Slide behind the wheel and go!! -Great
I'm gonna fax you into the atom age. -Bad
My first time in the spotlight was from a helicopter. -Great
There goes my beeper. -Uhhgg
He did seem to venture out of his vocal comfort range at times. Sometimes pushing the vocal chords boundaries yields impressive results. Not so on the chorus to Relentless. The chorus to Little Texas was a vintage delivery by Dave.
anyone remember VHND has interviewed Mike Hartman who played on this album?
http://vhnd.com/old/interviews/990305mikehartman.shtml
Don't notice most of my posts are less than 2 lines...
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Last edited by ThrillsNSpills; 12-05-2011 at 02:21 PM.
Starwood played it once - that was enough. Great drumming, though...
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First Roth Army Kiwi To See Van Halen Live 6/16/2012 Phoenix Arizona.
To check in on some old friends, flame some rookies, and enjoy the view. Starwood usually checks in about 4x per year to be amused by the weekly Halen rumors and the desperate wheezing of the uninformed. Let not Starwood be your troubles, Little Man. Carry on.
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Agreed. I dug it, but definitely effects, effects, and more effects. I remember thinking to myself when I first listened to it, "Gee, I wonder if Dave is actually going to try this one live!"
I dig this tune as well. Just cranked it up LOUD this morning.
Lyrics are classic Dave.
Too close to mommy
He grew up square
All the spine of a chocolate eclair
I can see clearly now
The rain has disappeared
Blind man follows
Blind man goes
Pencil weenie in elephant clothes
Got a steel toe
Says place butt here
I got no taste
For second place
And i lead with my face, well
I been places with my face
You wouldn't go
Without a pistol
Relentless
Look into my eyes
Relentless
I will not be denied
Change fumblin'
Heel rocker
El presidente
De chimichanga
Click my heels
And make a wish.
Stop stop
They gonna ask ya
You in the future
They're in the pasture
What the Asian call
All soup and no fish
I got no taste
For second place
And i lead with my face, well
I been places with my face
You wouldn't go
Without a pistol
Relentless
Black Sands
I cranked up the whole album on the CD player today. Black Sand is a very cool song.
Christ, I can't imagine him trying to play that one live...it sounded like he blew an o-ring in the studio just recording the thing...
Scramby eggs and bacon.
I absolutely love the DLR Band lp, own two copies and tracks like Relentless, Wat Waz Dat, Little Texas, Evening With the Babysitter are what really one came to expect from a Classic Van Halen frame of mine. The lyrics are Dave at his best, cool and cryptic and hit you as Dave says years down the line still with meaning that resonate. And Blacksand, adore that tune
Didn't know where else to put this but...some press brand new:
http://www.spin.com/articles/viva-va...s-vocal-genius
Viva Van Halen! A Second-by-Second Analysis of David Lee Roth's Vocal Genius
After some false starts and misleading tweets, the Van Halen reunion becomes a reality on January 5, when the hard-rocking and legendarily harder-partying legends take the stage at Manhattan's Café Wha. (Check back on January 6 for a report from the show!)
Presumably, the intimate set will be accompanied by a specific announcement about the band's 2012 tour and studio album. I can't wait! Eddie Van Halen's fingertapping guitar genius! Alex Van Halen's larger-than-average drum-set! Wolfgang Van Halen's last name! And, of course, my favorite part of the band's sound: Diamond David Lee Roth's gloriously hammy vocals.
Hammy's the wrong word. DLR's not a ham. He's pork shoulder, belly, ribs, and loins topped with a heaping hunk of smoked guanciale. And Van Halen is where Roth's unctuous genius shines most brightly.
And below you can hear it in its most unadorned state. This clip of Roth's naked vocal track for 1978's "Runnin' With the Devil" has been kicking around (and brightening my days) for a while now, but it's a perfect pre-VH reunion primer. Below is my second-by-second analysis. Listen. Read. Learn.
00:00 to 0:19: No one sings "yeah" with more brio. Roth kicks things off with a guttural Satchmo-styled "aw, yes," follows that with an "aw yais" (switching from "yeah" to "yes" mid-syllable), rolls into a spiky "yeah yeah" and then ratchets up into a falsetto "Ha, yeah!" Theme-and-variation, folks. That's what Mozart did.
00:20 to 00:39>: The verse. Roth uses a guitar player's trick here, punctuating the end of each line with some raspy, sassy vibrato, saving the widest vocal wobble for the final, "I'm living at a pace that KILLLLLS." He's easing into the song, building his performance line-by-line.
00:40 to 00:57: A series of exclamations that my description will fail to capture: he sounds like he's just discovered the gift of his own voice. Or perhaps like he put his finger in an electrical socket while getting a beej. I don't know. How do you describe the color blue? This is David Lee Roth at his David Lee Rothiest.
00:58 to 1:00: He drawls, "I'll tell you all about it."
1:01 to 1:20: He tells us all about it in the second verse.
1:21 to 1:33: Seemingly in a contest with himself to see how much swagger he can emit with one breath, Roth sings, "GoddamitbabyyouknowIain'tlyingtoyouI'monlygonnatel lyouonetimeaaaaaaaahyeah!" It's a lot of swagger.
1:34 to 1:58: This is an instrumental part of the song. So except for a couple tossed-off "yeahs," Diamond Dave lays back. He's got something up his sleeve, though.
1:59 to 2:02: David Lee Roth blows a penny whistle.
2:03 to 2:04: "Wooooo!" The pennywhistle is very charming.
2:05 to 2:37: Third verse. This Roth quote, I think, generally captures the vibe here: "I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged."
2:38 to 3:00: Some subtle exhortatory grunts. He is just feeling the music now.
3:01 to 3:28: The Spanish call it duende. For the Irish, it's yarragh. It means a particular quality of passion. Think of a basketball player screaming after throwing down a vicious dunk or a Muezzin's call to prayer. Those sounds come from a special place deep inside one's soul. David Lee Roth gets there in this passage. May he do so again on the road in 2012.
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Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.
Same here try Ebay.
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''And a fierce cry rings out across the Manhattan skyline''
- David Lee Roth 1/5/12 Cafe Wha, New York City
Cuz they stupid! Amazon.com has it on CD, mp3 download, and yes, even cassette.
I didn't know they still made cassettes.
I was wanting to let a pal hear an old demo cassette recently and had to go out and sit in the car...
This album is awesome. I was just telling some CVH fans at a party 2 weeks ago that they need to listen to it. I don't see how any VH fan or Roth fan can't find at LEAST 8 or 9 songs to enjoy on this album. Bravo.
I don't think they do. The ones on Amazon.com are used.
I didn't know cars still had cassette players...I didn't know they still made cassettes.
I was wanting to let a pal hear an old demo cassette recently and had to go out and sit in the car...
A few years ago I drove in an Opel Frontera with radio/dvd & cassette player, not anymore...but still miss that cassette-recorder 'cause my tapes are useless right now
Try Ebay. Or the local junk yard!...but still miss that cassette-recorder 'cause my tapes are useless right now
Hot damn. I remember it like it was yesterday ....when it was actually last summer....
I had finally buckled down and got my hands on Best of Vol. 1, got a buddy to spend a whoppin' $2.50 on it. I had been on the fence for a while...I just couldn't bring myself to owning anything with Spambo's voice on it. However, I had purchased YFLM a few months prior and had been on a Dave KICK ever since. I was starved brothers (and sisters!)!
Anyway, after playing the fuck out of the new tunes with Dave (CGTSNM>>MWM imo), I decided it was time to purchase what I'd later call the "8th Van Halen album we never got. (EEAS was the 7th)" Damn....popping that thing into my car's CD player and the opening riff to Slam Dunk!......Gah! I can safely say, that album never left my side throughout the summer. That being said, I could tell it was a rushed production, but for some reason, I loved it that much more. Dave was hungry and God-damn did it show here.
All of that being said...With ADOKT out...I think I may have a new summer album. Good times. Good tunes.
Goin' Places and Black Sand are top 10 DLR solo tunes...I still larve this album. A true DLR spirit album. Listening to this is like reading Crazy From The Heat - the book.
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Much like yourself as the Jim Morrison of Nazi bunker flies
Best years of my life to that album.
Dave being Dave. Fantastical.
Fuck Scott Weiland. Fucking asshole. I get trashed all the time and still go to work. And my job sucks ass. -ODShowtime
I absolutely could NOT have said it better. Seriously. If you only knew how right you are!
This is, by far, DLR's best solo album in my opinion. It's the only one that still feels fresh after all these years, and that's probably because it's the closest he ever got to sounding like classic Van Halen. It has its flaws (the strained singing on some of the tracks) and with 14 tracks, not all of them are equally strong, but there's a lot to like. Definitely DLR at his heaviest and the two acoustic numbers (Going Places and Black Sand) that close sides 1 and 2 of the album respectively work beautifully. It's a shame the only song he ever played off it was "Slam Dunk!" and that was only for a handful of shows in 1999.
Have to agree with most of you as the DLR Band is the best VHish recording since 1984. Of course "Truth" is the Ultimate now, but DLR Band is extremely good and Dave could have dropped a couple songs from the list and maybe tamed down the straining on a couple tunes but big deal. Many classics on this recording for sure.
1984 to 1998 (DLR Band released) = 14 years.
1998 to 2012 (ADKOT released) = 14 years.
DLR Band was a great album, set right in the middle (LITTERALLY) of actual VH releases with Dave. It's almost as if it was done, strategically, to tide us over.
And something else that's on my mind right now...I remember when DLR Band was released...and MTV saying something to the effect that Dave had just released the best Van Halen album since 1984.
Ahhh, just love that album, and will always keep posting to this thread to keep it alive!
I still can't believe this album only sold about 50,000 copies.....what a shame. This is such an underrated album. I remember buying the single to Slam Dunk and the B side was King of the Hill....I was so pumped for the entire album to come out. So much attitude on this album, and absolutely love John Lowery's playing on it. I was lucky enough to see this tour at a club out in the Hamptons.....phenomenal show....All classic VH and Diamond Dave tunes....but not one song played from DLR Band except Slam Dunk.
Last edited by fourthcoming; 06-06-2012 at 09:40 PM.
Distribution of the DLR Band album was terrible. It wasn't released anywhere outside of the US and maybe Canada until 2002. And even the record stores that got the CD in may have been staffed by teenage clerks who didn't know that "DLR" meant David Lee Roth, which means they placed the CD in the generic "D" bin rather than next to Eat Em and Smile or Skycrapper or whatever. Dave contributed to this problem himself by putting Betty Page on the cover instead of himself. Not that the cover art was bad... it just wasn't an album cover that easily identified it as a David Lee Roth album unless you actually heard "Slam Dunk" on the radio, and were in the store specifically looking for the CD.
BTW, this album never did get an official release in Hell. I only have a bootleg copy because FORD sent one down to me.
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Great fucking record! I know Relentless gets a bad rap around here but damn, that song kicks ass!
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
http://www.amazon.com/DLR-Band-Dlr/d...9075661&sr=8-1BTW, this album never did get an official release in Hell. I only have a bootleg copy because FORD sent one down to me.
Not sure if they'll ship it to where you are, but if not...
http://www.amazon.com/Dlr-Band/dp/B0...9075661&sr=8-2
...you could always download the entire album.
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