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Aerosmith (e: Van Halen) banned brown M&Ms from their dressing room for shows and wouldn’t play if they were present. It was a sign that the venue hadn’t read t
by lelandfe 1y ago
Aerosmith (e: Van Halen) banned brown M&Ms from their dressing room for shows and wouldn’t play if they were present. It was a sign that the venue hadn’t read the rider thoroughly and thus possibly an unsafe one (what else had they missed?)
- wrp 1y agoVan Halen. I think there are multiple videos of David Lee Roth telling the story. Entertaining in the details.
- theyinwhy 1y agoVan Halen ;)
- seadan83 1y agoWas it actually Van Halen? > As lead singer David Lee Roth explained in a 2012 interview, the bowl of M&Ms was an indicator of whether the concert promoter had actually read the band's complicated contract. [1] [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contrac...
- SoftTalker 1y agoI wonder if they had to change that as the word leaked out. I can just see the promoter pointing out the bowl of M&Ms and then Roth saying "great, thank you, but the contract didn't say anything about M&Ms, now where is the bowl of tangerenes we asked for?"
- pinoy420 1y ago[dead]
- nerdsniper 1y agoBy that point they may have had a good idea of which venues and crew they could trust and focus energy on those that hadn’t made the whitelist.
- dgfitz 1y agoTo add to this, sometimes people would approach Van and ask about the brown M&Ms thing as soon as they received the contract. He would respond that the color wasn’t important, and he was glad they read the contract.
- SoftTalker 1y agoWho is "Van" ?
- LambdaComplex 1y agoEddie, you mean? Or Alex. They're Dutch; "Van" is the first part of their surname "Van Halen." (As opposed to "Van Morrison;" his middle name was Ivan and he actually went by Van)
- acheron 1y agoHuh, I didn’t know “Van” Morrison was short for Ivan. Also found out recently “Gram” Parsons was short for Ingram.
- thro230-0 1y ago[flagged]