The "Goin' Crazy!" video features Roth in typical grandstanding fashion, cartwheeling and roughhousing around a soundstage with his bandmates like an Aqua Netted Rat Pack. Watch David Lee Roth's 'Goin' Crazy!' Video Eat 'Em and Smile hit shelves in July 1986 and became a Top 5 platinum hit, and the videos for "Yankee Rose" and "Goin' Crazy!" received heavy airplay on MTV. Undaunted, Roth went about assembling his red-hot backing band to work on his debut full-length. But in November 1985, days before shooting was scheduled to begin, CBS announced that it was shuttering its film division and yanked its funding for the project. "Goin' Crazy!" and several other Eat ‘Em and Smile songs had been slated to appear in Roth's debut feature film, also titled Crazy From the Heat, for which the singer had written a screenplay and secured a $10 million budget from CBS Theatrical Films (and for which he had left Van Halen, putting his career on the line). With Billy, Steve and Gregg, I knew I could do it all." The album we'd make could never match a Van Halen album by the original four guys, but I wanted to try to get as close as we could. "I figured we could make an album that could tap into Van Halen's traditional sound, kind of like Diver Down meets Fair Warning.
"Now, even though we’d stayed away from anything resembling heavy rock on the EP, I thought, Let's go balls-to-the-wall with metal and stack that alongside the big band, vaudeville stuff that bad been on the EP," Templeman recalled in his 2020 memoir. The musical smorgasbord Roth delivered on Eat 'Em and Smile was intentional, according to producer Ted Templeman, who also produced all six Roth-era Van Halen albums. "Goin' Crazy!" is the most straightforward pop-rock tune, anchored by the singer's boisterous shrieks, Vai's playful guitar riffs and airy keyboards a la vintage Van Halen. Within a year the album had sold 65,000 copies.From there, the album ventures into smoky jazz-rock ("Ladies' Nite in Buffalo?"), lounge and blues standards ("That's Life," "Tobacco Road") and cocksure pop-metal ("Bump and Grind"). This led to it being colloquially referred to as the Bettie Page album.ĭLR Band debuted at #172 on the charts with 8,000 copies sold in the first week. The album's cover artwork features a picture of model Bettie Page taken by Bunny Yeager, who receives credit in the liner notes. Written by Hartman, both tracks would be remixed and made instrumental for Hartman's release. Two tracks from DLR Band, "King of the Hill" and "Indeedido", would later appear on Mike Hartman's solo release, Black Glue, as "Southern Romp" and "Stomp", respectively.
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Also on the album was a then virtually unknown drummer Ray Luzier, later a full member of Korn. Lowery actually performed double duty for the record, performing bass guitar under the "B'ourbon Bob" pseudonym. John Lowery (aka John 5), Mike Hartman, and Terry Kilgore played guitar on the record. It was released in 1998 and remains the only installment on Roth's own Wawazat!! label.ĭLR Band was recorded and mixed in ten days, a technique Roth had not utilized since 1979's Van Halen II. Mama Jo's Studios and Royaltone Studios (North Hollywood, California)ĭLR Band is the fifth full-length studio album by David Lee Roth, the former vocalist of Van Halen, and the first and only credited to the DLR Band.
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