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It’s the afternoon. You are probably sitting at your desk and needing a little inspiration. Enter Diamond David Lee Roth. Take a spin through the 80s and 90s with some of his interview gems.

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I couldn’t help myself after Monday when I posted Roth’s Joan Rivers appearance.

I love soundboards and I love the supposed David Lee Roth raw vocals from Runin’ with the Devil released last year! Here is where I posted about those vocals.

Now someone has combined the vocals with a soundboard so you get to control Diamond Dave. Your coworkers and family better watch out and not make you mad now!

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(Thanks davidherrold)
(Image courtesy Flickr user laduylam5150)

- MÖTLEY CRÜE: Catalog Available For Streaming
MÖTLEY CRÜE reissued its complete studio catalog on September 30, 2008 on Mötley Records/Eleven Seven Music (RED Distribution). The catalog includes eight chart-topping studio albums originally released between 1981 and 2000.
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[Velvet Revolver] originally wanted to do something really heavy and it took a different turn, especially on the last record. This time around we’re not going to make any compromises.

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- Depeche Mode, new album, stadium tour in 2009…

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- EDDIE VAN HALEN Is Engaged

I’m toying with the idea of putting music videos on here everyday at lunch time this week.

Turn this one up loud so everyone in your office can hear.  It’s a live version of Van Halen’s cover of “Where Have All The Good Times Gone?” from Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland, on 10.12.1982.

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This is one of my favorite VH songs and the band does it justice live. David Lee Roth does the high kicks and Eddie pulls out the guitar tricks. Give the kids what they want, right?

Here’s my post when I saw Van Halen in Houston this year!

Want more?
- Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (Largo, ‘82)
- Velvet Revolver covering ATBL and more

(Image courtesy of Flickr user ~It’s_me!)

METALLICA: Pro-Shot Footage Of ROCK AM RING Performance Available
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The Amy Winehouse video
Watch the clip that everyone in Britain is talking about.

Radiohead goes iTunes
You can now get all of Radiohead’s stuff pre-In Rainbows on iTunes reports Wired.

DEF LEPPARD Frontman Slams MÖTLEY CRÜE, POISON; Says Most L.A. ‘Glam’ Bands Had No Substance
During a press conference at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden, DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott was asked how his band managed to avoid getting caught up in the whole “glam-rock” scene of the ’80s.

VELVET REVOLVER Singer Rumors
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JUDAS PRIEST: ‘Nostradamus’ Audio Samples Available
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MORTIFICATION To Release New Album In 2009, 20th-Anniversary CD In 2010
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Former KORN Guitarist BRIAN ‘HEAD’ WELCH Sets Release Date For Solo Debut
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KISS Hanging Out With CONDOLEEZZA RICE In Stockholm; Photos Available
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Van Halen Tour Grosses More Than 93 Mil
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You can tell this is post Van Halen brothers, because David Lee Roth is Goin’ Crazy in this video. Seriously.

This has to be one of his most over the top songs and videos ever.

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Let’s lay it out real fast:
Open longer than the actual song - CHECK
Roth in a fat suit - CHECK
Roth wearing a horse tail - CHECK
Spandex, spandex, spandex - CHECK, CHECK, CHECK
Steve Vai on guitar - CHECK

We don’t call him Diamond Dave for nothing! OK…wait a minute. His Yankee Rose video was pretty over the top too!

(Image courtesy Flickr user laduylam5150)

Van Halen puts tour on hold
Jonathan Cohen of Billboard.com reports that VAN HALEN is postponing all tour activity until April 19.

Courtney Love says someone stole Kurt Cobain’s identity
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REM puts new album online
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Beatles to hit iTunes?
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New Metallica album out in the fall
According to NME.com, drummer Lars Ulrich has stated that the new Metallica album will be released in September.

RATT Performs On ‘Rockline’; Audio Available
RATT performed live and “plugged in” on the nationally syndicated radio show “Rockline”, hosted by Bob Coburn, this past Wednesday (March 5).

(Image courtesy of Flickr user Stuart Leech)

I knew it was going to be a wild night as soon as I pulled up to the Houston Toyota Center. As I was driving through the garage, there was a guy in a Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls shirt with some kind of bottle wrapped in newspaper. He was already stumbling and it was only around 6:40 pm.

I went to go meet my friend, who was going with me to the concert, in the Hilton lobby. There were a lot of Van Halen fans gathering there, but also folks from the big Mary Kay convention that is in Houston right now. Those two crowds did not mix. Although my friend did hear one of the Mary Kay reps brag to some Van Halen fans that she had seen Night Ranger recently.

Van Halen sold out the Toyota Center, or it sure looked that way. When the band came out on stage, the audience was actually louder than the music. That’s different from last week’s Houston Foo Fighters show.

The stage was pretty simple. I anticipated something bigger for Van Halen. Like most concerts now, part of the stage came out into the audience. There was a massive HDTV screen above the stage so you could see Eddie Van Halen’s playing right up close. You know about 50% of the audience was wondering what he does on the neck of those guitars. He was amazing of course. This was my first time seeing Van Halen, so I have never seen anything like that. WATCH ERUPTION FROM THE HOUSTON SHOW

David Lee Roth had several costume changes including hats. He wore a lot of sparkles because after all he is Diamond Dave. He did a lot of high kicks and flag waving too. He handled vocal duties well. His voice never seemed to go out. It wouldn’t be a DLR performance without a few stories and he delivered. In one instance he started crying after a story from his youth. You can read more about those in his biography Crazy from the Heat.

Alex Van Halen had a good drum solo and Wolfgang played the bass just fine. I had heard they were going to pipe in pre-recorded Michael Anthony backup vocals and I believe that is totally true. I could swear I heard him in the mix.

Originally I wasn’t sure if I would get to see the band. I figured the tour would fall apart before they got to Houston, but it was really a love fest up on stage. David and Eddie were hugging all night and DLR kept praising EVH.

Through out the show I kept thinking about the time I interviewed David Lee Roth at the studios of Rock 101 KLOL in Houston. What an amazing time. READ MORE HERE

And just for those of you who couldn’t make the show, here are some Van Halen song demos:
- Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some!!(Demo Version) 1980
- Van Halen - And The Cradle Will Rock (Demo Audio)
- Van Halen - House Of Pain (Demo)

Let me know what you thought of the show in the comments below.

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Van Halen gives, feels the love in Houston

(Image courtesy of Flickr user The Dark Wizard - *image from San Antonio show)

I just sent this one out on Twitter and thought I need to put it on the blog too. This clip is all over the Internet at this point and I can’t get enough of it. I can listen to it over and over.

It’s one of David Lee Roth’s clean vocal tracks from the Van Halen song Runin’ with the Devil. That’s right, there is no music, just him. Some find it to be pure comedy, which it is.

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These vocals do not match up to the album version of the song so I guess these are not the originals.

I can’t even imagine the amount of remixes that are about to hit the Web using these David Lee Roth vocals. Some with talent could mash him into oblivion!

And oh yeah, Scott Weiland and the boys from Stone Temple Pilots are having a reunion tour this summer!

(Image courtesy Flickr user Taylor Player)

It has been announced that Van Halen is coming to Houston:

01/28 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center (on sale 11/17)

I can’t believe this is the only Texas date. I thought they would also play Dallas/Fort Worth.

Although according to the Houston Chronicle’s Handstamp, that sales date is changing. Speaking of the Chron, go over and check out mikemcguff.com blog commenter and overall web guy, Jeff Balke’s, new blog called Broken Record. He sets me straight all of the time.

(Flickr image courtesy of hama_rin_z32)