Dixie David Lee Roth

What the hell has happened to David Lee Roth?

TiVo caught him on the Tonight Show (which I could never watch without being able to high-speed through it, as Jay Leno’s unbelievable awfulness gives me a headache every time) playing a cover of “Jump” off his new album. It’s apparently a gimmick album, with fiddle, banjo and other “Southern” instruments standing in for Eddie Van Halen and company.

It was awful.

I know a lot of people haven’t liked Roth’s post-VH rock stuff, but I did (“Sensible Shoes” in particular is a great, great song), but if he’s going to go in another direction, it should be one that works. This was Roth grinning like he was lobotomized, surrounded by musicians who seemed incredibly bored and exposing that “Jump” is not one of the world’s most complex songs and loses a lot once a much-younger Roth isn’t squealing and howling over top of it.

What the heck is the point of this new album? Is it just to finally kill Eddie Van Halen? I figure, after how he and Sammy have been treated the last few years by the Van Halen brothers, he might be entitled to screw with Eddie like this, but ugh, do we have to buy it? Or even listen to it in promotional appearances?

Awful, awful, awful.

• In other news of the weird, MC Hammer has a blog. Warning: Turn off your office speakers before clicking that link. Please Hammer, don’t hurt everyone’s job situation.

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