Saturday, February 11, 2012

VIDEO: Van Halen - David Lee Roth explains As Is


Another Van Halen song-by-song video has been issued.

This time out, VH frontman David Lee Roth talks about the track “As Is,” from the band’s new album, “A Different Kind Of Truth.”

’As Is’ is every car that I owned up until Van Halen sold its first million records,” explains Roth. “And keep in mind that when Van Halen had sold its first million records, we still owed a million dollars."

"The cars I owned would routinely cost somewhere between 2, 3, 400 hundred dollars," continued Dave. "The $350 station wagon that I bought, the Mercury Comet…the Mercury Vomit, as it was known – that broke down on the way to our first dinner once we signed the contract with Warner Brothers…we showed up covered with grease.”

Suffice to say, Van Halen will be traveling in far more comfortable style when the begin their 2012 world tour on February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky.




Van Van Halen

Van Halen – As Is (preview)



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