David Lee Roth - Big Trouble

[WARF]

Hands down my favorite song on "EEAS"

Anyone else agree?

[Coyote]

I'm still trying to nail the solo... 'Tis a challenging one.

[lesfunk]

Hands down my favorite song on "EEAS"

Anyone else agree?

No...

[lesfunk]

Elephant Gun
Shyboy
Tobacco Road
Bump and Grind
I'm easy
all greater than...

[WARF]

Elephant Gun
Shyboy
Tobacco Road
Bump and Grind
I'm easy
all greater than...

Every song is pretty awesome! I would have EEAS ranked just as high as any album from the "6 pack" but I think That's Life should have been on the Crazy From The Heat ep. I ain't saying I don't like that song, it just doesn't fit well on the album.

Believe it or not "Ladies Night In Buffalo" I'd rank as my second favorite after "Big Trouble". I love the Vai solo in that song. It's just plain awesome.... pretty much like everything on Eat Em And Smile.

[sandy toes]

Agreement here. Roth has a great vibe going on this song. Steve Vai's best tone on the album is on this song.

[Terry]

I'm still trying to nail the solo... 'Tis a challenging one.

It was actually kind of amazing hearing boots of the 1986 tour and listening to Vai nail it note-for-note just like on the album: that solo sounded like something he totally improvised (and maybe he did), but if that's the case to be able to go back and play it with that much accuracy is pretty astounding.

[Terry]

Every song is pretty awesome! I would have EEAS ranked just as high as any album from the "6 pack" but I think That's Life should have been on the Crazy From The Heat ep. I ain't saying I don't like that song, it just doesn't fit well on the album.

Believe it or not "Ladies Night In Buffalo" I'd rank as my second favorite after "Big Trouble". I love the Vai solo in that song. It's just plain awesome.... pretty much like everything on Eat Em And Smile.

That's Life and I'm Easy both kinda sound like they would have fit a little better on Crazy From The Heat...

Not bad tunes, agreed, but considering how slammingly brutal the rest of the proceedings are, they both seem out of place...I'm Easy even more so than That's Life...

I mean, Yankee Rose, Shyboy and then...I'm Easy (?)...followed by Ladies Night in Buffalo...kind of odd sequencing.

[WARF]

Here's the Demo for "Big Trouble"

[WARF]

That's Life and I'm Easy both kinda sound like they would have fit a little better on Crazy From The Heat...

Not bad tunes, agreed, but considering how slammingly brutal the rest of the proceedings are, they both seem out of place...I'm Easy even more so than That's Life...

I mean, Yankee Rose, Shyboy and then...I'm Easy (?)...followed by Ladies Night in Buffalo...kind of odd sequencing.

I meant to include, "I'm Easy" to that list.

I agree with you a 100% take out those two and you got a flawless album. Hell, let's take out "Hina" and "Damn Good" from skyscraper and replace them. Imagine That!

[WARF]

Steve Vai telling a story about some chick funneling beer in her ass from the "Eat Em' And Smile" tour!

[thismusicsux]

Every song is pretty awesome! I would have EEAS ranked just as high as any album from the "6 pack" but I think That's Life should have been on the Crazy From The Heat ep. I ain't saying I don't like that song, it just doesn't fit well on the album.

Believe it or not "Ladies Night In Buffalo" I'd rank as my second favorite after "Big Trouble". I love the Vai solo in that song. It's just plain awesome.... pretty much like everything on Eat Em And Smile.

yup.. I'd say these are my fav
1. Big Trouble
2. Ladies Night -- great solo
3. elephant gun
etc...

I don't mind the 2 big band songs. yeah they wouldve fit perfectly on the EP though.

[atlantakat]

I'm with WARF on this one.

I used to blast Big Trouble in the car singing along with Dave and then hit rewind and do it again and again. While I liked the rest of EEAS, Big Trouble was by far my favorite song.

It's funny, tells a story, the guitar comments on the characters (love Vai speaking as the "Mouse" character throughout the song), it has a killer punchy power chord chorus and then that soaring magical bridge -- for me, the best combination of Dave's melodic/philosophic side with Vai's compositional grandeur captured on record.

Vai was and is a complete Monster and his solo beginning with the octaves interlude is an absolutely killer tour de force. I too spent many a moon reviewing the transcription of that solo and never got anywhere near playing it cleanly, let alone at tempo. The dude can make the most difficult passages seem absolutely effortless.

[Lose The Dress]

My favorite from EEAS changes from time to time. Right now I would tend to agree on Big Trouble, with Ladies Nite and Bump N Grind right behind it. I can listen to that album all day every day and never grow tired of it.

[Coyote]

It was actually kind of amazing hearing boots of the 1986 tour and listening to Vai nail it note-for-note just like on the album: that solo sounded like something he totally improvised (and maybe he did), but if that's the case to be able to go back and play it with that much accuracy is pretty astounding.

Apparently, that's the side-effect of attending Berklee... And kickstarting a career with Frank Zappa...

(I still haven't nailed that last tapping part of the solo, BTW. But it is within reach.)