#Roth's smile!

[mndvx]

TITANS – Caul's Folly (S04E07) ››› Brenton Thwaites as Dick Grayson / Nightwing ››› Teagan Croft as Rachel Roth / Raven ››› Mame-Anna Diop as Koriand'r / Starfire

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Family night out? In a fancy restaurant on a rooftop?!THE best thing that ever happened to me. Chef's kiss. 10/10. All sins forgiven. I am clutching this scene to my chest like my favorite teddy bear. The way I REJOICED when I realized everyone is actually here?! That it's a family night out?! What an incredible feeling! What a relief. A night of celebration. Oh my God, my found family heart is still on cloud nine.

[2charmides2furious]

HHHAPPYY BIRTHDAY DIAMOND DAVEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[redstreetsahead]

You know that really hot couple at the coffee shop that looks like they’re judging you but they seem so perfect reading their classics that honestly you feel like ‘yeah they definitely are better than me’? That’s Damian and Raven.

[clowningaroundmars]

just enrolled in my job's 401k, opened a brokerage acct and will invest in an IRA soon after that account is all set 😌

#adultthings #adulting #adultlife #allgrownup #ifuckinghatecapitalismbutihavetodothisagainstmywill #midlifecrisis #girlboss #financeguru

[metalsongoftheday]

Monday, July 29: David Lee Roth, "Shyboy"

Billy Sheehan wrote “Shyboy” for Talas a few years before joining David Lee Roth’s band, but as the second track on Eat ‘Em and Smile it successfully worked alongside the opening “Yankee Rose” in establishing the template and sound of Diamond Dave’s first post-Van Halen outfit.  In other words, the tune was a full-on freakout that emulated Van Halen to some extent but went way over the top in defining this group as more shred than song, since Eddie and Alex never overplayed like this.  To be sure, Ted Templeman’s production, with its perfect mix of precision and space, gave everyone room to jump out of the speakers, and no doubt this was a total barnburner on stage, especially since Dave didn’t bother attempting to sing actual verses or a chorus.  And of course Steve Vai, Gregg Bissonette and Sheehan were master players who individually and collectively came pretty close to outdoing the Van Halen brothers with their coked-out ridiculousness.  The sheer ludicrousness of “Shyboy” was arguably the platonic ideal for David Lee Roth’s solo career, though it was also clear this group could barely make to the end of the song, let alone sustain themselves for more than a couple albums.

[whocarloto]

Never thought Tim Roth in She-Hulk will be my new comfort character but here we are

[duranduratulsa]

On the turntable today...

Eat 'Em And Smile by David Lee Roth (1986)

Go With The Greats (1962)

Be Yourself by Patti LaBelle (1989)

Get Lucky by Loverboy (1981)

The Reflex by Duran Duran (1984) (12" Single)

#davidleeroth #DLR #eatemandsmile #gowiththegreats #PattiLabelle #beyourself #loverboy #GetLucky #duranduran #thereflex #60s #80s #records #album #LP #12inch #12inchvinyl #vinylrecords #vinyl

[ztan-31]

i have such an urge to change my name to Princess Silk Feather rn

[fazbearedits]

Art dump from last week

Smiling critters oc

Mya Peterson fanart

Me before watching the animated series (oh how dumb I was)

Ms delight (she was so hard to draw)

Melanie Martinez fanart :D

(Turn your device) me AFTER watching the series

(Turn your device) the sack Nicky wears over his head in ep 6

That’s all!

[retro-radio]

Scenario inspired by @ghostly-knight Fantasy au!

Ted: *holding a pawn in his hand* This is you. *places it down on the board* and this is Aaron *holding a knight* You are both just piece's in my game.

Nicky: *fiddling with his own knight* why do you do this?...hold Aaron over my head!

Ted: *rolls eyes* because of this... *takes the knight with a pawn* Even though you are below me you can overthrow me...

Nicky: *angry* is this what this is all about?! Control?!

Ted: *looks at the pawns and moves them around* yes...keeping everyone beneath me... because if I can't... *he snaps the pawn in half and throws it on the ground* people get hurt.

Nicky: *grasps his knight close* You would never hurt Aaron!

Ted: *laughs* Ohhhhhh but I would... *moves the queen forward* You may hate me Roth but this game represents us, two sides trying to win. Taking whatever is in their path to get to their goal. You may think I'm tyrannical and cruel but in the end... *Moves queen forward* I believe that is checkmate-

Nicky: *takes the queen with his knight* You are right your majesty Someone who is beneath you can always overthrow you. *motions to Teds ancestors* Look at them...I may be a thorn in your side and yes you may hold the cards and make me play your twisted games but you have one fatal flaw....

Ted: Please, pray tell what is that?

Nicky: *takes several other pieces* You get so distracted with your prize that it will lead to your downfall, because being cruel will never pay off. *Throws the chessboard off the table and leans close* and the kingdom will fall. *still holding the knight and places it on the table* Checkmate.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre as Dr. Karl Rothe in "Der Verlorene," 1951

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Imagine working with both Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth during the most turbulent time in Van Halen history. Jesse Harms doesn't have to imagine it. He lived it and oh, the stories he has to tell.

Harms was a guest on the RetroZest podcast to talk about his stellar five-decade career, which included a stint as keyboardist and background vocalist for Sammy Hagar from 1982 to 1985. Harms was a full-time member of Hagar's band when his 1984 album VOA reached the top 40 on Billboard and went platinum thanks in big part to the single "I Can't Drive 55".

With the success of VOA, Harms career was in high gear. Then Hagar suddenly and unexpectedly punched the breaks. He was the new lead singer of Van Halen while Harms, guitarist Gary Phil, bassist Bill Church and drummer David Lauser were out of work.

"He just dumped us" Harms told host Curtis Lanclos. "I read his book Red. Everything in there where I was actually present didn't happen that way. There was a lot of fabrication. I think he said he paid us or whatever, but he basically just dumped us. I had just bought a house. After the VOA tour, l'd saved all my money up and bought a house there because we were supposed to do another leg of that tour in Europe and Japan but then he got the thing with Van Halen."

Despite the career hit, Harms said he was still optimistic. He certainly couldn't blame Hagar for taking the Van Halen gig and, besides, this gave him the chance to further his own career.

"From my standpoint, I had done things before Sammy," Harms said. "Sammy wasn't gonna be my whole career, I knew that. There were things I wanted to do so I just looked at it like, 'OK, well I'm just gonna learn how to do something else now.' I really wanted to work on songwriting and improving that way and so my attitude with him was, 'Hey good for you. Go ahead and do that and I'm just gonna do something else.' He actually gave me the keys to his house when he went down to LA to work with Van Halen and spent, oh, I don't know, maybe six, eight months writing songs and trying to get a record deal."

Although Harms' record deal didn't pan out right away, he was offered a gig, but not just any gig. He got a call from producer Ted Templeman, who had worked with Harms as producer of the VOA album. Templeman was now producing David Lee Roth's first solo album Eat 'Em and Smile and, as with Roth, wanted to bring in the best musicians around. Harms took the offer and would end up being credited with playing keyboards on the #12 US Rock single "Goin' Crazy."

"That was the best band ever worked with," said Harms. "Steve Vai. Billy Sheehan. Gregg Bissonette was an unbelievable drummer! Those guys were the A Team. They were the best rock players worked with throughout my whole career."

Harms said Roth offered Harms the job as ful-time member of the band but he wouldn't be performing with the band on stage, at least not right away. Harms told Roth he needed a day to think about it.

"He never talked to me again after that! Never talked to me again," said Harms. "He was insulted! It was like, 'You turned down David Lee Roth?!' So that's how it went down but I have really fond memories of Dave, he was a fantastic guy. Really interesting, super good condition. It was a fun experience."

As far as what Hagar thought of his friend and former bandmate now working with his number one rival David Lee Roth? Well, that didn't go over so well.

Harms said, "One of the deals when [recorded on Eat 'Em and Smile] was that they instructed me, 'You can't tell Sammy that you're doing this.' Sammy and were still talking. Sammy and were actually really good friends even though things kinda turned sour towards the end over money [but] we were really good friends. We hung out, we played tennis, we did everything together. We were still [talking often] on the phone when he was in Van Halen. He was calling me up and couldn't tell him that was working with David Lee Roth in the studio. But he found out. And then he called me up and he was mad at me! For moving on and getting a good [job], he should have been happy. It's like, 'Wow! That's a great gig!'"

Eventually things cooled down with Harms and Hagar and the two would work together again, this time on Hagar's 1987 album I Never Said Goodbye featuring Eddie Van Halen on bass. Harms played keyboards on the entire album and co-wrote the track "Back Into You."

"It was great hanging out with Eddie, who was a super sweet guy," said Harms. "Everything about it was really fun."

After stints with Eddie Money [Harms wrote Money's top ten single "Walk On Water"], REO Speedwagon and the McAuley Schenker Group, Harms once again teamed up with Hagar as keyboardist/co-writer beginning with 1997's Marching To Mars. He returned for Red Voodoo (1999), Ten 13 (2000) and Not 4 Sale (2002).

In 2003, Harms was a member of Hagar's touring band for the highly publicized "Heavyweights of Rock" tour, featuring Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth as co-headliners. Not surprisingly, the Sammy/Dave drama returned, and Harms was there witness it all. You can hear those stories and more from Harms on the RetroZest podcast below:

Jesse Harms, who released his first solo album Best Of What I Got in 2004, recently released the 6-CD set All Sides. It includes material featuring Harms on lead vocals, plus collaborative work with several artists including Sammy Hagar, Kevin Cronin, Robin McAuley, John Waite and Gina Schock.

[scorpioaqua]

if you can guess which song from taylor swift’s midnights i am writing a five-part teen titans character study (one for each of the main animated!titans) based on, i will dedicate the fic to you <3

[screenfashions]

The elderly woman Barbie shares a smile with is not Barbara Handler, but in fact costume designer, Ann Roth.

Ann Roth has had a long career as the costume designer for a wide range of movies, including one of my favorites, Mamma Mia!