I played it for Dave and he really dug it. Van Halen's "OU812" ("Oh You Ate One Too") Album Title is allegedly a joke on Van Halen's previous lead singer David Lee Roth's 1986 debut album "Eat 'Em and Smile". Sheehan recalls telling Roth that day, The hell with it. With Sheehan, Vai and Bissonette looking on, Roth marveled at the droves of the wildly attired actors and scantily dressed actresses, telling the Los Angeles Times, This is a hell of a way to spend a Sunday, isnt it? Bissonette, who like Vai and Sheehan, had never experienced this kind of rock pandemonium, says, There were just lines of girls in bikinis., Bissonettes week only would get better. Instead of looking like a cool, rugged, mysterious warrior, Aragorn looks like a yuppie real estate agent in a Halloween costume, because it was a period when . The drummer, whod gotten an invite call from Vai thanks to a referral from former Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent, had a rsum that at first glance seemed ill-suited for a hard rock outfit like the David Lee Roth Band. That is a great song. The Sophies choice of catchy, bombastic and flamboyant rock has me drafting "Yankee Rose," "Shyboy," "Ladies' Nite In Buffalo?," "Goin' Crazy!," "Tobacco Road," Elephant Gun and "Big Trouble" from Dave and "Why Can't This Be Love," "Summer Nights," and "Best of Both Worlds from Sam. When we came up with musical ideas wed say, Thats kind of a Hendrix-y thing or Thats kind of a Bowie-thing. The ZZ Top shuffle and the ZZ Top feel was a big part of the influence too., Roth, listening through the floor, would regularly join them to review the new material. We get two awesome albums instead of one." Re: Eat 'Em and Smile ~~~ David Lee Roth Groovy, I was just going to write how I thought this album blew away '5150' but you beat me to it. Save. The album brought Steve Vai into the public eye as a contender with Eddie Van Halen, the previous guitarist who worked with Roth. Sheehan says, Dave would come downstairs and tell us what he liked, and what he didnt like. Angelus says, When we put the phone down, I remember we were both kind of speechless for a moment. Studios. Sheehan, whod gotten to know Roth back in 1980 when Talas had toured with Van Halen, made plans to arrive in L.A. a couple of days early. Im Easy, a spirited big-band song originally recorded by Australian singer Billy Field, came into Roths orbit thanks to Templeman, who thought it fit perfectly with Roths Gigolo persona. Decades later, how do these critical first moments in their post classic-era journey hold up? After releasing Crazy from the Heat, an EP of lounge standards that became a surprise hit during early 1985, and subsequently parting ways with Van Halen while the band was at its commercial zenith, Roth assembled a new backing band: bassist Billy Sheehan (later of Mr. Big); drummer Gregg Bissonette (later of Ringo Starr's All-Star Band); and virtuoso guitarist Steve Vai, who had played with Frank Zappa, PiL, and Alcatrazz. Ted and I usually tracked everything in the first couple of days, so the band could just get a feel for things. [11] Indeed, many of the reviews of Eat 'Em and Smile compared it directly with Van Halen's synth-heavy 5150, often favorably.[13]. Fact is, "Diamond" Dave had already assembled his own all-star rock band, featuring not just former Frank Zappa guitar whiz Steve Vai, but an equally dexterous and dynamic bass player, Billy Sheehan, as well as drum prodigy Gregg Bissonette. Oh, he wants to have a meeting with me at his house., Really? At the start of the tour, I did my solo the same way I always did it, and Steve did his own solo, too. By. There is no known studio version of Roth's cover available to the public. The remainder of the songs were written by Roth and Vai. I will always think 5150 is better than it actually is because of the power of nostalgia. Wilkening: He could hit "Tobacco Road" out of the park for sure and, of course, his performance would be more earnest with less winking. But then again, sometimes youd hear that a certain track would need a lot of work, or even that a track isnt going to work at all.. So now its time to just bump it up to 90 minutes. But now it seemed unlikely that his movie would ever arrive in theaters. Theres no real answer. The movie was just one part of a whole program, he explained to Creem. It sits right between Van Halens Beautiful Girls and standout solo track Damn Good. The idea of Roth singing Dreams, of singing standin' on broken dreams, never losin' sight well, just spread your wings, is so wrong it hurts my head to even consider it. Eat 'Em and Smile, his first solo effort, doesn't have the blazing impact of Van Halen's imaginative metal, but it might be more fun, and it is certainly truer . By August, Vai, along with his drummer Chris Frazier, would appear at the Roth mansion to jam with Sheehan and Roth. DAVID LEE ROTH EAT EM AND SMILE Released on July 7, 1986 (Warner) Review by Metal Mike: Well, Diamond Dave's debut full-length solo album is turning 30. OU812 By Van Halen You must be registered for see images Eat Em And Smile By David Lee Roth You must be registered for see images attach Dec 3, 2010 #2 T In late September, however, Roth abruptly decided to audition other drummers rather than giving Frazier the gig. He said, It will be you and me. It was from one of his mindblowing Rockpalast concert performances. Explore more crossword clues and answers by clicking on the results or quizzes. Now with this said, he is a fine player and I like some of his stuff. But Roth swaggered in with so much cheek and charm on Eat 'Em and Smile that his solo debut quickly chipped away 5150s market share. EAT `EM AND SMILE by DAVID LEE ROTH sales and awards EAT `EM AND SMILE by DAVID LEE ROTH has sold 1,156,680 copies in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. According to the Van Halen Encyclopedia, the idea to re-record the album in Spanish was the idea of bassist Billy Sheehan, who had read an article in a magazine which reported that over half the Mexican population was between the ages of 1827, a prime record buying market. Its the same thingexcept our movies have been three minutes and twenty-eight seconds. "Yankee Rose", a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Statue of Liberty, became an MTV and radio hit, rising into the Billboard Top 20. It was Vai, who told him, Hey, youre a great guy and we love the way you play. In the United States, the album tied with Michael Jackson's Thriller. Kiyopon!" Hasebe Cheered Loudly that Everyone stopped Cheering and Looked at Her. God Bless Nuno for remembering and honoring Edward Van Halen - the G.O.A.T. [2] Of those four Hagar albums, all four hit a peak on the U.S. charts of #1. Roth's first full-length album with Van Halen since 1984, A Different Kind of Truth, was released on February 7, 2012, to widespread commercial and critical success. [11], Both a critical and commercial success, Eat 'Em and Smile was praised by Rolling Stone: "No song on the album was as slick as any of the singles from Van Halen's '5150' album" (which featured Roth's replacement, Sammy Hagar) and also opined that Eat 'Em and Smile was much more "trashy fun". We got a lot of keepers that way, Hendrickson observes, because when the band members dont feel like they are on the spot, they play like they do when theyre out on the road, and so you get a lot better feel. 40912. I had snakeskin pants on, my hair was flipped out, and I was sitting in this directors chair with a baton in one hand and a big score in another. Or why not treat yourself? Id brought my own snare, so I started writing out these figures on my snare head. Beach Boys' classic album's sales status remains a mystery. I'm old, and clearly so are you if you also have this on cassette. We threw away what he disliked, and then hed say, Okay, now come up with a chorus. We eventually came up with all of these pieces of music., Roth also helped inspire Vai and Sheehans manic and sophisticated solo parts. [19] The would-be theme to Roth's then-planned movie, "Goin' Crazy! The Clown Prince of Rock 'n' Roll schtick was a nice hook but not necessarily something to hang his hat on moving forward. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). After first saying no, Templeman did give the go-ahead. Van Halen Diver Down (1982) 6: 6. Its a masterpiece of hooks, humor, opaque wisdom and guitar stunts. Lyrics, Song Meanings, Videos, Full Albums & Bios: Cajun Queen, Love Tonight, Let Them Grow, Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, Let 'em Roll, Mess Around, Who Knows if Tomorrow Comes, Money Honey, All My Love, That's What You Do to Me, Worried While some of us grow up knowing. He says, Steve and I were into a lot of the same bands, like early Bowie and Hendrix. As the final overdubbing sessions wrapped up in the spring, Templeman and Roth looked to trim their song list down to 10 songs from the 11 theyd completed. Well find a guitar player and a drummer. Sheehan agreed to join forces with Roth as soon as his two-month tour with Talas ended, but after the singer swore him to secrecy, Sheehan realized he couldnt return an important call. I felt terrible, because I was friends with Ed.. CLUE. [15][16][17][18], Two of the album's original songs became its biggest hits. Wheres the saxophone? Sheehan says that he now realized that hed stumbled onto a minefield of inter-band politics. (Toured) Many months. All that stuff became fired up even more highly when Roth released his first post-Van Halen solo album "Eat 'Em and Smile." His first solo album was called "Crazy from the Heat," and was little better than a collection of lounge songs coupled with inventive and amusing music videos directed by Roth himself. Templeman, Ted; Renoff, Greg (2020). 04:08 5 Goin' Crazy 03:10 6 Tobacco Road 02:29 7 Elephant Gun 02:26 8 Big Trouble 03:59 9 Bump And Grind 02:32 10 That's Life 02:45 Sure, Skyscraper has more keys but a lot of those keys are concentrated on the title track, one of his least commercial songs. I Smile Slightly while giving her a Thumbs up as i said something" 23.21 Seconds" "Just Like Paradise" is also Roth's first (and only to date) number-one single on any Billboard chart. There were no hard feelings and he went on and did really well. Given the technology of the day, EP . We got together with [choreographer] Toni Basil and started working out choreography for the songs. The first four of the five tracks on side two are so well linked, sequenced and spaced that they could be nearly be considered Roth's own Abbey Roadmedley. When he played the track back for everyone, he thought the guitarist had pretty much nailed the song on his first pass. 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