{"id":469,"date":"2010-03-03T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T02:50:09","slug":"song-of-the-day-big-trouble-by-david-lee-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day &#8211; &#8220;Big Trouble&#8221; by David Lee Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love this guy.\u00a0 THAT&#8217;S AN ORDER!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/050707_davidLeeRoth_vmed_4p.widec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-470\" title=\"050707_davidLeeRoth_vmed_4p.widec\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/050707_davidLeeRoth_vmed_4p.widec-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/050707_davidLeeRoth_vmed_4p.widec-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/050707_davidLeeRoth_vmed_4p.widec.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t feel like reading my prattle, my twaddle, my blabber, my chatter today, just check out this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geaky.com\/262-David-Lee-Roth-SoundBoard.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/geaky.com\/262-David-Lee-Roth-SoundBoard.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While all the children are playing at the above link, I shall now gather the responsible adults around me, and we shall rationally discuss the merits and demerits of this lyrical and musical work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ad-plato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-471\" title=\"ad-plato\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ad-plato-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ad-plato-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ad-plato.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hark!\u00a0 The Muses gift us with tidings of RAWK.\u00a0 David Lee Roth is the Alpha and Omega.\u00a0 In David Lee Roth&#8217;s eyes are one thousand thousand burning Suns.\u00a0 David Lee Roth shall light the way for all Mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously\u00b9 now, most of what DLR put out solo is cheesy.\u00a0 We&#8217;re talking aerosol cheese here, folks.\u00a0 This song is off his second solo venture, his first full-length venture.\u00a0 That was his best, I believe, but I have only heard his first 3 solo albums.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a YouTube link for this song.\u00a0 Meh.\u00a0 Google it if you really want to hear it, or if you have the album, dig it out of your collection and play it.\u00a0 Instead, I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9UyOlxWrFLs\" target=\"_blank\">a song by the exact same title<\/a> performed by some band called &#8220;Von Halen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve never heard of this &#8220;Von Halen&#8221; either.\u00a0 My guess is that was Lawrence Welk&#8217;s European touring orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously\u00b2, they were so much better with Dave.\u00a0 Even that &#8217;78 demo stuff kicks ass.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about VH.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s talk about V8, and how I can buy it again because it no longer gives me headaches!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/V8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-472\" title=\"V8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/V8-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/V8-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/V8.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGood stuff.\u00a0 Delicious and nutritious, much like food.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, you can&#8217;t expect me to talk about the actual SONG twice in one week now!\u00a0 Go read the &#8220;Song of the Day&#8221; post for &#8220;Starless&#8221; by King Crimson.\u00a0 That one really discusses the song.<\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230;. seriously\u00b3 DLR raps in this song.\u00a0 I never noticed it as &#8220;rapping&#8221; at first because he pulls it off rather well, and basically he sounds like DLR talking instead of singing over the music.\u00a0 Which is good.\u00a0 The music, not the fact that he&#8217;s talking and not singing.\u00a0\u00a0 He also sings.\u00a0 He raps and sings.<\/p>\n<p>Am I still making sense?\u00a0 I stopped paying attention a while back.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Who am I kidding.\u00a0 No one&#8217;s reading this!<\/p>\n<p>Hey Uncle Furry, here&#8217;s that link I was telling you about today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kuh6kiVrqpc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kuh6kiVrqpc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impatient to finish this because I am the proud owner of a new Android!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Frog114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-473\" title=\"Frog114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Frog114-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Frog114-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Frog114.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo, not that kind.\u00a0 Unfortunately.\u00a0 I got my new phone today.<\/p>\n<p>And Joey is fine.\u00a0 See below.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an expensive cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love this guy.\u00a0 THAT&#8217;S AN ORDER!!! If you don&#8217;t feel like reading my prattle, my twaddle, my blabber, my chatter today, just check out this link: http:\/\/geaky.com\/262-David-Lee-Roth-SoundBoard.html While all the children are playing at the above link, I shall now gather the responsible adults around me, and we shall rationally discuss the merits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[101,46,215,216],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-song-of-the-day","tag-70s","tag-80s","tag-david-lee-roth","tag-van-halen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}