DLR Book by Darren Paltrowitz

Author:Darren Paltrowitz [Paltrowitz, Darren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: 2023-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

So in knowing that the world was ready for some classic Van Halen, what comes next from Diamond Dave? A self-directed, long-form music video filmed at his house: the No Holds Bar-B-Que. Get ready for a real head scratcher of a chapter …

No Holds Bar-B-Que

When David Lee Roth left Van Halen in 1985, he was set to direct and star in the film Crazy from the Heat, for which he cowrote the screenplay. This followed Roth’s success from directing a string of hit music videos, including Van Halen’s “Jump” and “Panama” (from the 1984 album) and his solo hits “California Girls” and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” (from the Crazy from the Heat EP). Roth would direct or codirect plenty of music videos for tracks he recorded for other Warner Bros. titles, but he did not attempt another film project for a long time. Until No Holds Bar-B-Que came along, that is.

“I try and describe it to people like, ‘I put together a puzzle, and some puzzles are harder than others,’” began acclaimed film editor Marc Elmer, who helped edit No Holds Bar-B-Que. Describing his average editing job as taking “chunks of video and chunks of audio, music, people talking, visuals” and putting “them together to tell a story,” this one would ultimately be one of Elmer’s more challenging projects. “The puzzle with Dave was not an easy one because there was no story. There was never a ‘through narrative’ that I could grab on to and go, ‘Okay, this is our train track. We’re going from point A to point B.’ There was no A, there was no B.” He later explained in our 2022 conversation: “Good storytelling is a beginning, middle, and end. We didn’t have two out of those three. We just had a middle.”

Another difficulty for Elmer was that he was on hand for the filming of No Holds Bar-B-Que. He was there for ten weeks of editing, which we will come back to.

According to publicist Mitch Schneider, who had started working with David Lee Roth in 1991 around the A Little Ain’t Enough album, No Holds Bar-B-Que was something Dave made independently without much of a game plan. “I remember laughing and thinking, ‘This is really funny and it’s very avant-garde in its own way,’” reflected Schneider after seeing the video for the first time. “Again, noting that he likes being in hip New York publications like Paper. … He asked about getting it out and I said, ‘Well aside from putting a press release out about it, we should send it to people.’ So there were like a hundred VHS copies made and we sent them out to the media and I remember like a couple weeks after people received it and had a chance to watch it, it was definitely a ‘What’s going on here?’”

Looking back at over a decade of working on Roth-related projects, Schneider still remains surprised their working relationship lasted so long. “It’s amazing, looking back, that I’d lasted

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