anyone else ever here of the story that went round years ago that david lee roth sent the chemicals a tape of him dancing to there songs in the hope that they would do a collaboration with him. if that is true it must be one of the funniest things ever.

haha, Yeah, I remember reading that. Something along the lines of David Lee Roth sending them a video of him singing over Chems tracks, and being "up to no good".



Apparently Mr. Roth must be a big fan!

yeah i heard that to X-D fuck , i would LOVE to see that X-D

This is my all-time favourite bit of Chems anecdotal trivia and I tell everyone.



The blurb came from a 2002 Guardian interview. Quotes as follows:

Nevertheless, they have become used to their music's unpredictable effects on others. The unfortunately coiffeured "world's fastest heavy metal guitarist" Joe Satriani sent them a cassette featuring him frantically soloing over one of their tracks ("I think that's one for the Chemical Brothers Anthology box set," says Rowlands). Then they received a puzzling video from former Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth "of himself, running around his house, getting up to no good, with one of our tunes in the background and him singing over the top of it".



Even Roth's curious behaviour was topped by an Australian fan who calls himself Dan Rad. "He used to rap over our records and then send us the tapes," says Rowlands, shaking his head. "It was just him shouting all this obscene stuff. 'She tells me I'm listening to my music too loud so I say faack off yew baaah-sted! My eardrums are fackin' bleeding, yew drongo!' We haven't heard from him in a while, but we're going to Australia soon. Perhaps he could get onstage with us, do a bit of MC-ing."

Hahaha, that's the one, Darkstarexodus!



I do wonder how many of these voice-overs and video dubs of their tunes they've received over the years. It might be interesting to hear the Satriani take on this whole Chems business! I wonder if David Lee Roth did his famous stage splits in the video... I wonder... wonder...



Here's what I dug up from Launch:

David Lee Roth has begun sending out his latest project, David Lee Roth's No Holds Bar-B-Que, to music-industry insiders. It's an hour-plus-long videotape that Roth previously described this way: "The idea was to invent a new kind of television. It's not really a show, it's not really a video, it's Diamond David Lee Roth. Watch this tape once all the way thru--and you will never look at other video artists again through the same eyes. Ever."



The package features the videos the erstwhile Van Halen frontman has already posted on his davidleeroth.com website, including his cover versions of the Lords Of Acid's "The Crablouse," which is credited on the package as "Flex," and the Chemical Brothers' "Dig Your Own Hole," which he calls "'How About A Little Fire' Scarecrow?"

And just a simple search of david lee roth + chemical brothers reveals he wanted his band to sound more like the Chems a few years back when they were scheduling a reunion. hehehe, you know, for all the cheese that David Lee Roth has been reduced to over the years because he still has that 80's rock image, you gotta give him credit for wanting to try new things!

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you all know he took over Howard Sterns radio show in new york, and is apperently sucking ass at it... I guess he was so broke that he was working as an EMT for a while.

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Ahaha, the likeness is uncanny but I wouldn't doubt if the crypt keeper was modelled after this:

This topic takes me back. I remeber seeing something about it on TV and posting a bit about it on the anarchy-forum (which this one is turning into w/porn links).



Satriani's music has a lot of energy to it and he's a cool guy (met him while working at the record store, he did a show there). I know that in that genre of guitar solo emphasized rock that Buckethead did a live cover of Leave Home. I think it's pretty good but then again the guy is talented at what he does. Doesn't have the depth of the chems version but I will put it on the FTP one of these days.

I came across these David Lee Rothisms and he is now my hero:

"The violence and everything and Eddie Van Halen constantly calling me out, screaming into a camera lens from three thousand, two hundred and twenty six miles away, 'I'm gonna kick you in your nuts! You better wear a cup. You better watch your balls.' This causes me to ask, because we're talking to a very articulate magazine here, with an articulate audience readership, and an entirely articulate interviewer here. What kind of balls is he imagining? What kind of testicles are haunting Eddie Van Halen's sleep? Are these giant turbo-prop monster truck nards that smash Chevies and Buicks and are now rolling over his front gate right now up there at 5150 and crushing his designer sports car and the family pet as it squeals a short, brief, glorious warning? Or are these highly trained, super-mobile, small, but highly maneuverable Belgian assault nards that even now are swarming under the gates and are about to sail into the nerve center of the gangland stronghold! The mind fairly reels, sire."





"These two new songs on the "Best Of," for example, should come with a kit including a bong, a thesaurus, and a driver's side air-bag!"



"'DLR Band' means Dave, Lowery, and Ray. I named it that because it sounds more like a band then 'David Lee Roth,' which just sounds like a person. When you hear 'David Lee Roth'--you think of a person. When you hear 'DLR Band'--you think of a band. Just like when you hear 'Eddie Van Halen' you think of a person, and when you hear 'Van Halen'--you think of David Lee Roth."



"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."



"People think I have this strange concept of women, but they're wrong. I'm a family-oriented kind of guy. I've personally started four or five this year already!"



"It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again."



"The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!"

I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm listening to various clips from his show (come on, I'm trying to find him singing his version of Dig Your Own Hole... for you guys. YOU!!) And me of course.



I'm not having any luck. Apparently his version of Dig Your Own Hole is called "How About A Little Fire Scarecrow" and I need to hear this. I'm obsessing and won't stop.

Ha ha I read an article about Van Halen early today and I got this part out of it

It was like a big d�j� vu because it was the original band playing again and it sounded pretty fuckin' good too! But then of course the longer we spent in the studio, you know we had two or three different producers in there trying to work with us and DaIve would just come in with tapes of the CHEMICAL BROTHERS, all different kinds of weird stuff and say 'Hey, let's do a song like this,' and Ed was having a hard time dealing with him, a real hard time dealing with him and Al was saying, 'Well, let's do a couple of things that Roth likes to do and then let's just do our thing.' I don't know if we had a complete album's worth of stuff but we were pretty damn close and unfortunately, there you go with Dave again and we just couldn't finish it and all those old reasons why he left the band in the first place they started surfacing you know. He went right back to his old ways.

The rest is here:



http://www.roadrunne...ewsitemID=49721

you can get David Lee Roth's No Holds Bar-B-Que dvd on ebay with his version of dig your own hole. :D

Not really David Lee Roth/Chemical Brothers news, but definitely a bit of trivia that's completely useless in the real world. X-D



May have mentioned before in my ramblings how the Chems turned down an offer to play for Hillary Clinton during a senate bid party in 2000, I know my mind isn't playing tricks on me - but it's ever so hard to find anything about this. I should have saved that old Astralwerks newsletter.



Anyway. I managed to find a poorly translated article that has a mention of this:

Chemical Brothers

Chemical reaction



Text: J. Olarte

12/06/2000



And l success of their last Surrender delivery (n� 1 in the United Kingdom and almost two copy million and means) the past led the Chemical Brothers from year to a demanding calendar of concerts and sessions, almost uninterrupted.





The most influential group of the music of dance of the ninety acts Thursday in Bilbao. "we have never tried to change nothing, but we have demonstrated that success can be had doing pure discs"







Telephone esponsorizaci�n of by means, the group that with more fortune has approached the electronics to the pop one crosses the next week the Pyrenees to offer three concerts again: Valencia (Tuesday), Zaragoza (Wednesday) and Bilbao (Thursday, the Square, 22.00h, 2,900 pesetas anti cipada/3,400 ticket office).



Experts in moving between two waters, Ed Simons (high and curly hair) and Tom Rowlands (still more high and melena blonde) will advance new material, although, foreseeably, they will recreate its last work, with which already they have surpassed the levels obtained by rocking beats of its second disc, Dig your own hole. An album that, supported in the collaboration of herman�simo Noel Gallagher in Setting Sun, also surpassed both million sold copies.

Guaranteed by the simple Hey boy, hey girl, the third disc of study of the chemical brothers invited to surrender to a crushing cat�rquica of synthetic sounds with more concessions to the pop one and to an electronic rock of psicod�lico and narcotic cut.



Surrender was the result of a year of work that the Chemical Brothers they interrupted precise to add to the names of Mercury Rev and the original Dust Brothers (those that forced their name change) to his overwhelming catalogue of remezclas, that it includes, among others, to Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Manic Street Preachers, Charlatans, Prodigy, St Etienne or Letfield. A lapse in which Ed and Tom acted, mainly, like djs, "pastime" that its alliance in Manchester caused and that glossed in the album of Brothers mixtures gonna work it out.



Infallible

Engraving with guests like Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Bernard Sumner (New Order, Electronic), Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and the already almost habitual Noel Gallagher and Jonathan Donahue (Mercury Rev), the third album of study of zipi and excavates of dances combined techno, poperos remainders of the acid hippismo of Madchester, winks, disc notes funk, house inici�tico, breakbeats unstoppable, electro, tribal rates and samples to all rag. A formula of infallible results, that Thursday reproduciran in the Square. Before attending his singular electronic show of lisergia, it spoke to us from London Ed Chemical.



You are working already in new material?



Yes, we like the enough study, so we are recording continuously. Although, lately, not as much, because there are been making sessions enough. We finished finishing a tour by Australia that is very well been; it was the first time that we touched that way, like in Latin America, where we did not have either been. In any case, we have enough new material.



Surrender has been a great success. It has something to see with that direction poper than it is appraised in the album?



It has worked well, but I do not believe that the change has been so clear. People say that more she is opened, poper.

But, what means more oriented to the pop one? Pop, in fact, today it does not mean much I believe that all our discs follow a evolution natural, in Dig your own hole already were songs thus. Commercially, our better disc has been Block rocking beats, a subject of which nobody said nothing similar and, nevertheless, already is a classic one of the pop one. We have only tried to do a disc varied, to arrive at more public. From the beginning, we tried to make intense and emotional music, that moves to people.

We felt that we can be pop until a certain level, not to open more market, but to develop new ideas. We like to mix with musicians and singers to us who go to us.



If, but, peculiarly, people like Bernard Sumner, Johnathan Donahue or Noel Gallagher do not come from the world of the club music.



We have been very lucky to the power to count they; mainly, with Bernard, since we have always been fans of New Order. Something similar happens with Hope (Sandoval), of Mazzy Star. Normally, everything is reduced to a friendship question. They are people who can sing, write letters, and with that it is possible to be worked very well. For that reason we have repeated with Noel and Johnathan. We can come from different histories, but also we agreed in many things.



The disc is opened with Music: response. What type of answer you hope to obtain with your music?



In direct, one is to share a experience through music, to feel that feedback with the public. To obtain that they give in music, is something that we learned in the days of acid house. When we recorded or we do a session is different; we worked thinking more about reproducing an atmosphere.



You have been decisive the standardized today to crossover rock-dances You think that your success has contributed to alter the pop contemporary?



I believe that, for ten years, there is a pile of groups that, making music with a similar sensitivity, has caused that the pop one goes today beyond labels. People like Orbital, Underworld or we have never seted out to change nothing, but we have demonstrated that success can be had removing pure discs, rythmical.

We have always left arises music which we felt with naturalness, and from an immediate way. That explains, partly, the influence every greater time of music dances.

You have become one of the remezcladores more asked for the concept of remix has degenerated, has become a pure commercial hook?



Yes, I am not a pile that is very poor, To me either like those doubles with remezclas of Whitney Houston and thus. Like in any music, there are many things that do not give the stature. But I believe that the culture of remezcla has also produced very good music. A disc is not going to always prevail by remezclas, but some of which we have done are as good as the original ones. It is necessary to judge them by how they sound, to the margin of whom it signs them.



It is truth that Hillary Clinton invited you to the celebration of launching of its campaign to the Senate of the United States?



Yes, they offered 3,000 dollars to us and we did not have to touch.

Somebody him had to say that he would be cool to have to us there. We felt very happy, we had been going to make laughter to New York, but we could not.



In the U.S.A. they pass peculiar things to you. It makes a pair of years, until gave the Grammy you to the best instruments of rock.

If '; mainly, because we did not know that to Block rocking outside beats rock instruments.



In order to vary, it seems that this year v�is not to be in Benicassim.



He is one of our favorite festivales. It has a very good mixture of public and music, with one of the best electronic posters, but, this year, or we are preparing ourselves to act in other festivales, like Glastonbury or Punchestown and Creamfields, in Ireland.

To the margin of the one of Glastonbury, which are your immediate projects?



During the next months, we will continue working in the new disc, that will not leave until next year.

Also we are going to open our own club in London. We do not want that it is a centric site, will be in the outskirts. We will once make a session to the month, and soon they will be passing djs of all type.

hahahaha!! Would've been quite a party!