I only knew about this photo shoot tangentially, from the We're All Devo video collection when Rod "The Man" Rooter suggests to his daughter, Donut, that he could hook her up with Numero Uno, the lead singer of his "mega metal band, The Evil Clowns," and points to the picture below... (watch here)
"El vomito," Donut responds.
At the time, I didn't realize the poster was a Helmut Newton shot of David Lee Roth with someone else's face pasted over it. I also didn't realize that it was included in the first million copies of Van Halen's third record, Women and Children First, since I'd bought mine used, years after its release. And I certainly didn't know that this photo shoot almost broke up the band back in 1979.
You can read all about it in the first link provided above...
My favorite picture of the Newton shoot, on the grounds of David Lee Roth's palatial, Pasadena home. (Click on it for a larger image)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment