A Different Kind of Truth is the upcoming 12th studio album from American hard rock band veterans Van Halen, it will be releasead on February 7, 2012. It is the band's first album of new material since 1998's Van Halen III, as well as their first album since 1984's "1984" to feature David Lee Roth on lead vocals and the first album to feature Wolfgang Van Halen on bass guitar. It will also be Van Halen's first album on their new label Interscope Records.
The song "She's the Woman" was re-recorded from a 1976 Zero demo. The new version of this song was played in its entirety at the band's intimate press show at the Cafe Wha? on January 5, 2012.
A deluxe version of the album will be released, containing a bonus Acoustic DVD called The Downtown Sessions, which will contain acoustic versions of popular Van Halen songs such as "Panama", "You and Your Blues", "Beautiful Girls", and "You Really Got Me".
Todays tune and the first single of the album, "Tattoo", was released online on January 10, 2012.
Music video by Van Halen performing Tattoo.
A little story off the record.
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Van Halen had a notable effect on the modern rock music tour with their use of the concert technical contract rider. They were one of the first bands to use contract riders to specify a "wish list", a practice now used throughout the music industry. They pioneered extensive requirements including power availability and stage construction details. The band's demands were not limited to technical issues; their now-infamous rider specified that a bowl of M&M's, with all of the brown M&M's removed, was to be placed in their dressing room. According to David Lee Roth, this was listed in the technical portion of the contract not because the band wanted to make capricious demands of the venue, but rather as a test of whether the venue had actually read and honored the terms of the contract, as it contained other requirements involving legitimate safety concerns.
On earlier tours, inadequate compliance by local organizers to the safety requirements of the rider had placed members of Van Halen's road crew in danger which was occasionally life-threatening. Because of these incidents, the band developed the M&M's demand as a means of checking whether the venue was properly honoring the terms of the contract to their satisfaction. Subsequently, if the bowl was missing, or if there were brown M&M's present, they had reason to suspect that the venue might not have honored legitimate technical and safety concerns within the contract. As a result, the band would be within their rights to inspect the technical side of the performance prior to going on stage, and/or request the venue redo their work properly.
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3 comments:
Very interesting reading about the rider. I never knew.
The rider info was interesting as Slusk said.
The song wasn't in my taste at all, and the Video was a real letdown. Might had passed if it was from a small unknown band, but from a group with this amount of expectations on them as Van Halen it was really poor.
Yeah the Rider stuff was very interesting info. The video is not much to hang in a christmas three. And i could agree with u "Spader Ess" that the tune is a bit poor to be a Van Halen track and especially as a single release.
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