David Lee Roth - Eat 'Em and Smile POLL!

I don't own the album but "Yankee Rose" is awesome.

...and after PiL's Album the only decent context for Steve Vai

Tobacco Road, no second thoughts. I'd vote for Yankee Rose if we were polling the Spanish language version.

I started this poll because, surprisingly, there isn't even a thread on this album yet! When it comes down to the initial split between Van Halen and David Lee Roth, I side with Roth when it comes to a choice between this album and 5150. I personally find it far more fun to listen to, and it's not short of musicality either. I don't know about anyone else, but I feel this contains some of Steve Vai's most tasteful playing.

Steve Vai is decent on some mediocre Zappa records, too. And stunningly good on the live Buffalo archival release the Zappa Family Trust put out a few years ago.

I haven't heard the Spanish language version, is it worth hearing? Voted for 'Goin' Crazy!'...

Sup guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0iq8q92swY

RoboVai! Nuking evil villains with flashy widdly guitar solos!

Weird that I never hear any solo Roth on the radio, ever.

He seems to hardly feature on rock compilations, either. Although I think I saw 'Just Like Paradise' on one once, but that's it...

The Spanish version is a fun oddity, if not much more. Worth hearing if you like this album.

dunno about satellite eadio, but yeah, I never hear this or Just Like Paradise anymore. Van Halen won the sales and PR war after 1988

Love this album. Voted predictably but really no duds here except maybe "That's Life"

"Shy Boy" because I gotta give some love to Talas who originally recorded it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HetVuWN3MA

Here is the actual best context for Vai's playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHR-SI7Bv0

I read somewhere that they did "Shy Boy" in order to cement Billy Sheehan joining the band. Steve and Dave had already written most of the record and Billy wanted some publishing money from album sales.

Goin' Crazy was the song that immediately came to mind, so I voted that, but I suspect Yankee Rose may actually be a better tune.

Ladies Night in Buffalo is a sleeper

Yanqui Rose, though Shy Boy is great too

Yanqui U.X.O. Rose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN38EmSf_pQ

Was Carmine Appice in this band, too, or did I dream that?

dreaming, I believe. Gregg Bissonette was the drummer on this record.

Oh right...

Anyway, Carmine Appice and Tom Savini are the same person, true or false?

http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/5/n/5nxlb36phzdyn5lz.jpg http://greenobles.com/data_images/carmine-appice/carmine-appice-07.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacNgIzymAw

Yankee Rose!

Can't talk about the song without the video imo.
Gimme a bottle of anything and a glazed donut....
TA GO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsC7oEjCHAM

I always tried to get into Vai solo but I only ever really dug him with DLR
I appreciate him, but all that guitar flash gets kinda boring on its own? Kinda like drum solos. Like, that's cool but can I have the rest of the song now plz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znw1lop4Lkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRrFPlK4bPY

Those DLR-interviews are genius.

I've been watching quite a fair amount of DLR interviews on Youtube recently... I don't think I've ever been as entertained watching anyone else being interviewed ever. You can pretty much guarantee in every interview he'll say either something which will be so WTF you'll laugh out loud, or say something so incredibly and unexpectedly thoughtful that you'll think "where the hell did that come from?"...

There are a bunch of clips from the bizarre No Holds Bar-B-Q thing he sent out on VHS back in 2002 or thereabouts (I got a copy in the mail, but didn't hold onto it)...not the whole thing, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXJasUEDE9U

Yeah, that's got to have been one of his more bizarre ideas!

I think I still have my VHS copy... Haven't watched in years though.

or say something so incredibly and unexpectedly thoughtful that you'll think "where the hell did that come from?"...

He's a ravenous bookworm, from what I've heard. And only someone truly brilliant could come up with the brown M&M solution to safe concert staging.

he's a bookworm?!

Yeah, I think it was in an AV Club interview (I'll have to look for it) where he went on and on about how much he loves to read.

Someone makes an attempt at compiling various witty quotes from Roth interviews here

http://www.avclub.com/articles/david-lee-roth,13772/

That's the one. I'd like to see Hagar reference Kant and Kurosawa.

I've watched so many Roth interviews recently that I'm actually reading this in his voice. When I got to this bit...

I revere contact sports and history, both classic and popular, and I participate in these things constantly. You know, in the Bible it doesn't say, "Waddle forth and calcify." That sounds like a legal firm!

I actually fucking cracked up laughing!

Steve Vai is the worst in pretty much any context. He also seems like the sort of dude who totally wouldn't get why someone thinks he sucks, and in fact would probably demonstrate his not-suckiness by just doing more of what makes someone thinks he sucks, only faster.

but he can make his guitar make laughing sounds!

MWA MWAH MWAAAA

Steve Vai is one of the few "guitar heroes" that don't bore the shit out of me.
Take those lightning fast Yngwie Malmsteen chops and have fun with that. All a yawnfest as far as I am concerned.

Wanna hear a slightly disturbing story from the first night of the Eat 'Em And Smile tour? Over to you, Mr. Vai...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Mg1YexwSg

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team that's life

also team the spanish-language version of this album

I only ever heard the hits but I hold "Yankee Rose" in very high esteem, killer single

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/dlr.jpg

feral

where's that from???

screen grab from one of those videos of DLR interviewing Eddie & Alex they did when promoting ADKOT

Voted "Tobacco Road."

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cool anecdote from greg bissonette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui-QABXVcTc

also this is so ridic and amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfFv6bc23o

That's amazing!

i was really hoping that when Vai was telling Bissonette all the stuff that would probably happen soon (#1 videos, magazine covers), the anecdote would end with..."aaaand none of that happened, but i still got to play with DLR."

"Shy Boy" rules so hard. God, what a performance!

http://i.imgur.com/bNs3R6o.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woin2TBl4Pc