Originally featuring a supergroup lineup of guitarist Steve Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan, and drummer Gregg Bissonette, the band released numerous popular songs and albums from the mid-1980s until the late 1990s.
A medley of Just a Gigolo and I Ain't Got Nobody, arranged by Sam Butera and California Girls by The Beach Boys are the two most well known songs on the EP.
[7] The backing band for this EP included: Dean Parks, Eddie Martinez, Sid McGinnis, Willie Weeks, John Robinson, Sammy Figueroa, James Newton Howard, Edgar Winter, Brian Mann, Carl Wilson, and Christopher Cross Eat 'Em and Smile is Roth's debut album following 1985's EP Crazy from the Heat.
I got a call from him one day and he goes 'Hey man I'm in the studio with David Lee Roth, Ted Templeman and Steve Vai and we're covering your tune 'Kids in Action' and we need the words to the second verse'.
The album brought Steve Vai into the public eye, since his departure from Alcatrazz, as a contender with Edward Van Halen, the previous guitarist who worked with Roth.
Skyscraper was produced by Roth, who said "As you know, I'm a fully-licensed graduate of the Ted Templeman School of High Altitude Production, Engineering & Acrobatic Sound-Engineering."
"Hina", "Perfect timing" and the single, "Just Like Paradise", are more examples of the newly customed DLR sound: all of the outre': musicianship is still here, but the feeling is warmer, when it works, than anything he has so far achieved away from the steadying glow of that Eddie Van man behind him.
Roth himself quotes about the album: "Basically, we've gone for a sound that combines elements of old-style musical things mixed in with some of the new styles that we're interested in.
Produced by Bob Rock, the album featured the lead guitar work of Jason Becker, a then up-and-coming guitarist who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease) a week after joining the band.
Sales of the album were helped by the controversy surrounding the promotional music video released for the album's first single, "A Li'l Ain't Enough"; featuring barely dressed women and black-faced and oddly dressed little people, the video was banned from MTV shortly after its initial airing.Although A Little Ain't Enough went out of print on the Warner Bros. label in 1996, it was later reissued (in remastered form) in 2007 on the Friday Music label.
[9] DLR Band met with favorable reviews upon release, especially in comparison to his previous two solo efforts (1991's A Li'l Ain't Enough and 1994's Your Filthy Little Mouth).
The singer chose Bart Walsh, a Los Angeles, CA player who had previously performed as a part of the Van Halen tribute band, The Atomic Punks.
The setlists on the DLR Band tour relied heavily on Van Halen material, with some older solo cuts and various covers sprinkled in.
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.
Roth rejoined his original band Van Halen on their critically acclaimed 2007 North American reunion tour.
Following the tour's success, Dave re-entered the studio with Van Halen and recorded A Different Kind of Truth, the first album of entirely new material released with David Lee Roth as frontman and lead vocalist in 24 years.