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Artist: Dlr BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-09
Music Label: Wawazat Records
Soundtracks:
- Slam Dunk!
- Blacklight
- Counter-Blast
- Lose the Dress (Keep the Shoes)
- Little Texas
- King of the Hill
- Going Places...
- Wa Wa Zat!!
- Relentless
- Indeedido
- Right Tool for the Job
- Tight
- Weekend With the Babysitter
- Black Sand
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Free Music Review: David Lee Roth = Van Halen
Hit: 5 Stars
Too bad this album was one of Dave's worst selling. It's one of his best. It's a great rock album... no pop here! He has left behind the days of Just Like Paradise and California Girls (Don't get me wrong, I LOVE those. I'm a huge fan of everything Dave) and returned to the Van Halen type mindset. The guitar work here is my favorite of any Dave solo work, and overall, it feels more like a band effort than solo Dave... maybe that's why this is the "DLR Band." I'm not going to say it's exactly Van Halen... but it is the closest sound to Van Halen that you can get without having Eddie, Alex, and Mikey on the album as well. A number of the tracks sound like they easily could have been written during the Women and Children First/Fair Warning days, thogh some of the songs sem a little heavier or darker, but those aren't quite the right words for it (the reason for what I'm trying to say is that the guitarists aren't Eddie, though a reasonable facsimile thereof).
This album was recorded during Dave's weakest years vocally. His voice still sounds great here (very interesting hearing him go very deep in some places, similar to "Me Wise Magic," one of the two newer songs recorded for the 1996 Van Halen Best of Volume 1 album, though you can tell sometimes he's really pushing himself, whereas in the old days he seemed to do it with style and ease (Note: These days, 2007, Dave is once again a member of Van Halen and his voice sounds EXACTLY like it did on the Classic Van Halen albums, screams and all). I can only imagine what this album would sound like if Van Halen took the material and re-recorded it. I also want to say that the drummer on this album, Ray Luzier sounds pretty close to Alex Van Halen.
I like to think of this as the 7th Van Halen album we never got (or at least haven't gotten yet... fingers crossed on the current incarnation of the band). It will be an album I will always go back to, just like the six Classic Van Halen albums before it. This is truly a Slam Dunk for Dave (pun fully intended)!
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Diamond David Lee Roth is back in all his self-congratulatory glory. "My game is better than ever / Winners, they come and go / Legends, they're forever," he boasts on "Slam Dunk!" while his backup musicians play a galloping, surging rhythm that sounds much like early Van Halen. This will come as good news to the legions of old-VH fans mourning the group's hastily aborted reunion effort of the mid '90s. Roth's voice still oozes with sleaze, and his charisma is palpable, even if he can't scream with the authority of days past. But bear in mind that the DLR Band features one original Van Halen member. Guitarist John Lowery is a studio whiz, capable of approximating Eddie Van Halen's harmonic squeals and lightning-fast leads, but neither he nor Roth can write like Eddie. And while tunes such as "Slam Dunk!," "Counter-Blast," and "Little Texas" sound punchy, they lack that knockout blow Van Halen once delivered so effectively. Elsewhere, the DLR Band sound like prime-era Led Zeppelin, with Roth as frontman. This is certainly a fun listen. Just don't expect the second coming of Van Halen. --Jon WiederhornClassic Rock Music CDs
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