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WTF?! Bluegrass Van Halen?!

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    • I was listening to "Nights with Alice" (Alice Cooper's syndicated night time rock show) on my way home tonight, and he was going off on David Lee Roth recording an album of old VH hits with a bluegrass band, including "Jamie's Crying" and "Panama". At first I thought he was joking around, but he then proceeded to play a cover of "Jump" from the album. Holy...fucking...shit. He actually recorded Jump bluegrass style...it was one of the goofiest things I ever heard. It scored a perfect 10 on the "What the fuck was that?!" scale. DLR must be either extremely desperate or extremely drugged out...
     
    I have been hearing about this for a while on the "Bluegrass forums" I frequent. I am a bluegrasser and I don't like it. Can't answer why he would do something like this. Its to weird. I think he needs to stick to his own genre.
     
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    Wednesday, June 28, 2006<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
    DAVID LEE ROTH's "STRUMMING WITH THE DEVIL": IS THIS THE WORST ALBUM EVER RECORDED?<o:p></o:p>
    Brad Kava, 02:16 PM in Brad Kava, Celebrities, Concerts, Music <o:p></o:p>
    It's sometimes hard to pick out the great albums...but the turkeys, well, it's like that rotten egg smell. You just can't miss it.<o:p></o:p>
    I submit that David Lee Roth's latest set subtitled "The Southern Side of Van Halen,' may not just be the worst album released this year. It may be the worst thing ever recorded. <o:p></o:p>
    And yes, I've heard Leonard Nimoy and WIlliam Shatner doing cover songs and Neil Young and Lou Reed doing feedback.<o:p></o:p>
    The sad thing for the people involved, a notable group of fine bluegrass players, is that when Roth isn't singing, the album is OK. But when Diamond Dave opens his mouth on "Jump" and "Jamie's Cryin','' well, this diamond is still coal.

    It's worse than his radio show. It's worse than Eddie Van Halen's playing on the last tour. It would be worse than that Van Halen disc with the guy from Extreme singing, except, that Roth only sings on three cuts.

    The disc is another in a new tradition of musicians trying unlikely genres. We've got classical and reggae Radiohead, lesbian and bluegrass AC/DC, bluegrass and reggae Pink Floyd. The joke wears thin quickly, but they make great fillers on mixtapes.

    The trouble with bluegrass Van Halen, at least when Diamond Dave sings, is that he is wailing as if he's playing with Van Halen, with bluegrass in the backround. It's like clueless karaoke. No sense of irony, or that the songs and the delivery should change backed by fiddles and banjos of the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band.<o:p></o:p>
    And, I should add: I'm a Roth fan. He's a funny interview and is, for my money, the best Van Halen singer.

    But he's struggled for a foothold in his post Van Halen life, trying swing, lounge, salsa, straight covers of VH, being a paramedic and a radio deejay, and now he's hit bottom.

    But he does know the way to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Jose</st1:place></st1:City>...like the character in the famous song, he's playing here July 29, as part of San Jose's Grand Prix. <o:p></o:p>
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