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Making a Million Dollars In One Night
Now here's the true story about a rider, right? Back in the day, Van Halen, when they used to tour all the time, would on their riders say, we only want brown M&Ms. And so literally, if they got to the dressing room and somebody hadn't gotten only brown M&Ms, they knew that they didn't actually read the writer. And so they didn't know what else was possibly fucked up, like as far as their equipment. And that was like their way of testing whether or not the promoter actually read the rider.
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I'm new to those appearances too. So I don't know how that— like, I had a sucker in my mouth, and one of the women that was working there came up to me, and this is serious, she goes, She goes, is this the flavor? Is this the flavor that you like? And I go, y…
And she goes, because if you don't, David, we can get you only cherry.
Pick through the M&Ms and pull out every— and that's what it was. And I was like, yeah, this is great. And she's like, well, good, that's my job.
Now here's the true story about a rider, right? Back in the day, Van Halen, when they used to tour all the time, would on their riders say, we only want brown M&Ms. And so literally, if they got to the dressing room and somebody hadn't gotten only brown M&Ms, they knew that they didn't actually read the writer. And so they didn't know what else was possibly fucked up, like as far as their equipme…
Well, what was on your rider? How long did you tour for?
How long have you been touring? We're still touring. We've been touring since '97, I guess.
Holy shit. I was 1.