VHND Video: Dave Explains "Tattoo" Lyrics

[Va Beach VH Fan]

http://www.vhnd.com/2012/01/20/exclu...tattoo-lyrics/

[Mr Walker]

"My song"... uh oh!

[Northern Girl]

Awesome!

[Jetstream]

Dave is fucking awesome, he would have been the best professor in college I never had lol

[Northern Girl]

I love the way this is shot with the cityscape in the back.

[fourthcoming]

Dave is fucking awesome, he would have been the best professor in college I never had lol

Couldn't agree more.....that dude knows how to capture an audience...whether its 50 people in a classroom setting or 20,000 at Madison Square garden. That dude has a gift.

[kwame k]

Damn....the hits keep coming!

Awesome explanation.....Dave can sure write some decent lyrics and paint a picture using words.

[Northern Girl]

Dave can sure write some decent lyrics and paint a picture using words.

And he has a story or a reason behind all of them. Wouldn't you love to just sit a have a beer or 12 with him and listen to his stories?

[kwame k]

And he has a story or a reason behind all of them. Wouldn't you love to just sit a have a beer or 12 with him and listen to his stories?

Hell yes!

Not only would it be extremely entertaining but informative and educational as well!

[Romeo Delight]

I dunno, part of me doesn't want to know. I like Dave's lyrics because we all take from them what applies to us in our lives. Sometimes, not knowing what the hell he is singing about is better and leaves much to the imagination. That grey area is what kept this site going these many years, lol

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I agree, I still want to hear some more "Owwwww", "Dig it Ya'll" and "Oooh Baby" in there.....

[Romeo Delight]

Funny. Case in point...it seems Pojo has some experience/affinity with "Swampmeat Sally" versus 'Swap Meet Sally"

Some things are just better left to the imagination...

Still, this is all so very cool

[guwapo_rocker]

Brilliant!! Song by song? Looks like they might have taped one for each song. Sure hope so.

[VAiN]

What a fantastic video! There's only 1 Diamond Dave... this is so good!!!

'Song by song' makes me think he's going to roll through the album with us. Stellar, Dave!!!

[Jetstream]

I'm glad Dave is doing this for the mere fact that 90% of the masses are complete idiots and I have had enough of all the morons going on about the lyrics are stupid and do not make sense on some of the sites concerning Van Halen (mostly some of Hagar's sheep that got loose from the pen). The lyrics are intelligent, entertaining and witty...something those people are lacking. And when Dave does something like this, it is like a giant locomotive running them down with shut the F#CK up written on the cowcatcher (or rather sheep catcher) in front of that steam engine.

[DavidLeeNatra]

when was the last time we've seen Dave that mature and quiet...I like it...don't need the all time hyperactivity...

[Vinnie Velvet]

EPIC.

That is all.

[SunisinuS]

http://www.vhnd.com/2012/01/20/exclu...tattoo-lyrics/

This is so fucking kewl. Wow. All the idiot haters (even heard a DJ say the lyrics were idiotic) fuck you!

[DLR'sCock]

This is so fantastic, and I gather that this and everything else we have seen will all be apart of the documentary they are filming that Dave mentioned in the intro to the You Really Got Me acoustic clip. This is the Dave I wish he would show the world more often........

[Va Beach VH Fan]

This is so fucking kewl. Wow. All the idiot haters (even heard a DJ say the lyrics were idiotic) fuck you!

Then I would respond to that saying the DJ in question has never seen the lyrics of one Samuel Roy Hagar.....

[guwapo_rocker]

Then I would respond to that saying the DJ in question has never seen the lyrics of one Samuel Roy Hagar.....

It's about BACON!!! MMMM slurp BACON!!!!!

[lurker..]

I can see Sammy polishing off a few dozen deep fried bananas coated in peanut butter like 1976 Elvis used to pad his gut with....

[chefcraig]

I dunno, part of me doesn't want to know. I like Dave's lyrics because we all take from them what applies to us in our lives. Sometimes, not knowing what the hell he is singing about is better and leaves much to the imagination. That grey area is what kept this site going these many years, lol

I agree. About the last thing I want is for an artist to explain "what it all means" with regard to a piece of work. It's why I usually skip over those dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks prefaces or afterword sections many writers begin or end their novels with. They run on and on like some damned award show acceptance speech, and make about as much sense. People you've never heard of are thanked repeatedly, and you wind up discovering the reason for the book's existence was because the author had a brief discussion with a plumber who happened to have had a nasty, blood-like stain on his work pants.

[Full Bug]

That was awesome, nobody tells a story like Dave, all this new stuff the last few weeks is surreal....

[ZahZoo]

Is this jerky, time lapse video photography some popular creative thing?

I keep thinking my computer is having a performance issue...

Excellent insight into Dave's interpretation of his work and lyrical imagery!!

[Northern Girl]

Keep 'em coming, Dave!

Love to see you anywhere, anyhow, anytime!

[Zing!]

Outstanding. This must be what Dave is like at the end of the night when all of the coffee and Red Bull has worn off. Cool + mellow + insightful + introspective = one cool cat.

[clarathecarrot]

I would rather see this than some incredibly overpaid Jeralda Re'vero twisting his moooostachio like Enrika Coorachio asking DLR or the other band members and then giving us his interviewer tademarked, hmmmm or yesss or the increbile,, ha ha ha, as he dreams of the idea that the camera loves me.

Ophra Special ..The Interviews...this week Van Halen....Why because you love her.

Sorry I ran out of my meds last night.

[gbranton]

About the last thing I want is for an artist to explain "what it all means" with regard to a piece of work. It's why I usually skip over those dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks prefaces or afterword sections many writers begin or end their novels with.

I am usually quite the opposite. I'll read it beforehand and usually re-read it once I finish the book. Once I've experienced it I know what it means to me but I think it's interesting to see what it means to them. But I am also the guy who sits through the closing credits of every movie. I like to see what goes into making thing I enjoy.

[chefcraig]

I am usually quite the opposite. I'll read it beforehand and usually re-read it once I finish the book. Once I've experienced it I know what it means to me but I think it's interesting to see what it means to them. But I am also the guy who sits through the closing credits of every movie. I like to see what goes into making thing I enjoy.

What really killed the experience for me was the overlong "chapters" Stephen King would tack onto his recent books. The damned things would be talky as hell, going on and on over details that really didn't add anything to the work at hand. This reached a nadir in the absurd From a Buick 8 story, where he blabbered for pages about not needing to explain why an event occurs, he'd simply let it happen and go forward. This failed to cover why the book didn't make any sense, or how come certain factors could not be explained by any sort of innate, logical reasoning. It was as if he was embarrassed by the novel, and felt a need to rationalize why it came out the way it did.

This is not the same as viewing the credits at the end of a movie or reading liner notes on an album. That is something you do for yourself, in order to add some insight or grasp a few production details. In other words, you are not being manipulated by the artist, who may have a certain prearranged agenda already in mind.

[TJMKID]

Dave is fucking awesome, he would have been the best professor in college I never had lol

I was thinking the same thing ---- how cool would it be to have Dave guest lecturing a music history class at NYU? Holy fuck --- Dave would have a whole new angle for banging hot co-eds!

This video also reinforces how retarded cumstains like Jim Florentine totally miss the boat ---- calling "Tattoo" a cheesy song with cheesy lyrics.

We have to embrace these kind of moments because they are quickly disappearing ---- I mean who is gonna watch Justin Beiber sit on a stool and explain one of his songs 40 yrs. from now?

Can you see Sambo trying to wax poetic about one of his songs? "Well....umm....uh....I like my wife's pussy....so I wrote "Poundcake" you see.....she's homegrown and down-home, now that's a woman.....I'm so damn smart!"

[DavidLeeNatra]

in my best Ozzy impersonation: "I...I...I... me...me...mean...who the fuck is Justin Bieber...?"

[diamondsgirl]

Dave is a natural born story teller. I could listen for hours.

[Sensible Shoes]

It's funny, that's what all the girls say - I could talk to Dave for hours - or just listen to HIM talk.

[GreenEyedMurder]

It's funny, that's what all the girls say - I could talk to Dave for hours - or just listen to HIM talk.

Ha! Am I the only one who not only didn't mind, but actually enjoyed, his rambling on between songs a couple of times at Cafe Wha?

[Sensible Shoes]

Course not! I love when he does that!

[Bob_R]

That was cool.

I remember Springsteen did the similar thing years ago but at a college university or some sort of intimate setting in front of a couple of thousand people. He even went as far as to play guitar and piano while explaining the ideas and meanings behind some of his songs.

[DavidLeeNatra]

don't know how often I watched some intro to ice cream man from the last tour...same story and he tells it every night as if it was the first time ever he told it...great storyteller he is...and it never got old...

[Dan]

Nothing But Sweet As.

[DavidLeeNatra]

Ray Luzier called it the "School of Roth"...