''DLR Band'' is the fifth full-length studio album by
David Lee Roth, the former
vocalist
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of
Van Halen
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. It was released in 1998 and remains the only installment on Roth's own Wawazat!! label.
Information
''DLR Band'' was recorded and mixed in ten days, a technique Roth had not utilized since 1979's ''
Van Halen II
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''.
John Lowery (aka John 5), Mike Hartman, and Terry Kilgore played guitar on the record. Lowery actually performed double duty for the record, performing bass guitar under the "B'ourbon Bob" pseudonym.
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, Van Halen News Desk, 1999. Also on the album a then virtually unknown drummer
Ray Luzier
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, now a full member of
Korn
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.
Two tracks from ''DLR Band'', "Indeedido" and "King of the Hill," would later appear on Mike Hartman's solo release, ''Black Glue'', as "Southern Romp" and "Stomp," respectively.
Penned by Hartman, both tracks would be remixed and made instrumental for Hartman's release.
The album's cover artwork features a picture of model
Bettie Page
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Bunny Yeager
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, who receives credit in the liner notes. This led to it being colloquially referred to as the Bettie Page album.
''DLR Band'' debuted at #172 on the charts with 8,000 copies sold in the first week. Within a year the album had sold 65,000 copies.
Track listing
Personnel
*
David Lee Roth - harmonica (track 2), vocals, cover art concept
*
John Lowery - guitar (tracks 1 - 3, 5, 8, 9, 13) & bass (tracks 1-10, 12 & 13)
*
Terry Kilgore
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- guitar (tracks 4, 7, 11, 12, 14), synthesizer (track 14)
*Mike Hartman - guitar (tracks 6, 10)
*Tom Lilly - bass (tracks 11, 14)
*
Ray Luzier
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Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
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* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point
* Ray (gr ...
- drums
; Production
*
Bob Marlette
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- producer
*EA Management - Eddie Anderson
*Jeffrey Thomas - assistant engineer
*Erich Gobel - assistant engineer
*DeVal Day - assistant engineer
*Kendall Johnson - art direction, design
*Kieren McClelland - mastering
*Michael Migliozzi - art direction, design
*Erwin Musper - engineer, mastering, mixing
*
Bunny Yeager
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Early life and career
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- photography
References
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David Lee Roth albums
1998 albums
Albums produced by Bob Marlette