David Lee Roth : Eat 'Em and Smile (Expanded Edition)



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 Eat 'Em and Smile 

is the debut

 studio album 

by former 

Van Halen

 singer

 David Lee Roth 

released on 

July 7, 1986. 

It follows his

 successful 

debut EP

 Crazy from the Heat

 (1985). 

The album was 

certified platinum

 in the U.S.,

 selling over 

a million copies.

History

Background

After releasing 

Crazy from the Heat

an EP

of lounge standards

 that became a

 surprise hit

 during early 1985, 

and subsequently 

parting ways with

 Van Halen 

while the band 

was at 

its commercial zenith,

 Roth assembled 

a new backing band:

 bassist 

Billy Sheehan 

(later of Mr. Big); 

drummer 

Gregg Bissonette

 (later of Ringo Starr's All-Star Band);

 and virtuoso

 guitarist 

Steve Vai, 

who had played 

with 

Frank Zappa, 

PiL,

 and 

Alcatrazz.

Roth later said that

 the songs written 

for the album were 

originally intended 

to form

 the soundtrack 

to a film, 

Crazy from the Heat

which was never made.

The phrase

 "Eat 'Em and Smile" 

was part of a 

trademark registered

 in 1928 

by the now-defunct 

Ward-Owsley Co 

candy company

 in Aberdeen, 

South Dakota.

Production

Two of the album's 

original songs

 became its biggest hits. 

"Yankee Rose", 

a tongue-in-cheek tribute

 to the Statue of Liberty, 

became an MTV

 and radio hit, 

rising into

 the Billboard Top 20.

The would-be theme

 to Roth's 

then-planned movie,

 "Goin' Crazy!", 

also became an 

MTV staple

that reached #66 

on Billboard's

 Hot 100

 in October 1986.

Similar to his preceding EP, 

Roth included two

 lounge song covers

 on

 Eat 'Em and Smile

"That's Life", 

which became a minor hit 

at the end of 1986, 

with a 

video featuring clips 

of previous 

Roth and Van Halen videos 

being in heavy rotation 

on MTV, 

and

 "I'm Easy".

 A third cover is 

John D. Loudermilk's f

olk-blues song

 "Tobacco Road", 

and

 Billy Sheehan

 brought in

 "Shy Boy", 

a composition from

 his previous band 

Talas. 

The remainder

 of the songs

 were written by

 Roth and Vai.


This is the first of two

 Roth albums

 to feature the duo

 of Steve Vai

 and Billy Sheehan 

on guitar 

and bass respectively. 

Throughout the album

 the two often 

synced complicated

 bass lines

 and lead guitar parts, 

as on tracks

 such as 

"Shyboy" 

and

 "Elephant Gun". 

The album brought 

Steve Vai

 into the public eye 

as a contender

 with 

Eddie Van Halen, 

the previous guitarist 

who worked with Roth. 

This album features 

some of Steve Vai's 

most renowned

 guitar work.

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