BuzzFeed - "Van Halen M&M Rider" http://www.buzzfeed.com BuzzFeed, Find Your New Favorite Thing en Copyright 2012 BuzzFeed, Inc. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:46:41 -0500 editor@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about) info@buzzfeed.com (http://www.buzzfeed.com/about) So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at a http://www.buzzfeed.com/nholland/so-there-i-am-in-sri-lanka-formerly-ceylon-at-a-o90-2j So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son… that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.

]]> http://www.buzzfeed.com/nholland/so-there-i-am-in-sri-lanka-formerly-ceylon-at-a-o90-2j Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:14:36 -0500 So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shopowner and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show. nholland adult Actually, this was a very clever. From Diamond Dav http://www.buzzfeed.com/waltisfrozen/actually-this-was-a-very-clever-from-diamond-dav-o90-1je

Actually, this was a very clever. From Diamond Dave himself, via Snopes : The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say “Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes …” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: “There will be no brown M&M's in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.” So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening. That doesn't explain the Godzilla-sized pack of lube. Jesus, guys. You're only in town for one night.

]]> http://www.buzzfeed.com/waltisfrozen/actually-this-was-a-very-clever-from-diamond-dav-o90-1je Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:14:53 -0500 Actually, this was a very clever. From Diamond Dave himself, via <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp">Snopes</a> : <i>The contract rider read like a version of the Chinese Yellow Pages because there was so much equipment, and so many human beings to make it function. So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say "Article 148: There will be fifteen amperage voltage sockets at twenty-foot spaces, evenly, providing nineteen amperes . . ." This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was: "There will be no brown M&amp;M&#39;s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation."</i> <i>So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&amp;M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you&#39;re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn&#39;t read the contract. Guaranteed you&#39;d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.</i> That doesn&#39;t explain the Godzilla-sized pack of lube. Jesus, guys. You&#39;re only in town for one night. waltisfrozen adult