David Lee Roth Talking About Van Halen's Notorious "No Brown M&Ms" Tour Rider Created by Kenny on 2/20/2012 8:36:28 AM DAVID LEE ROTH is talking about VAN HALEN'S tour rider from the '80s, which notoriously demanded M&Ms . . . but warned, quote, "ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES."
For those who have never heard the story: Van Halen DID make the promoters remove the brown M&Ms, but they weren't trying to be jerks, necessarily. It was just a TEST. They included that line to make sure that the promoters were paying attention, and had actually combed through the entire rider. So basically, if there was a bowl of M&M's . . . with all the brown ones removed . . . the band figured that the promoter had also meticulously taken care of the more IMPORTANT aspects of the rider, such as lighting, staging, security, ticketing. Van Halen has released a video in which Dave brags about this clever plan
Brown M&Ms from Van Halen on Vimeo.
