Van Halen World’s Most Demanding Concert Rider - the Infamous Brown M&M’s

Van Halen is by far one of the best rock and roll bands of our time, they came on the scene and just blew it away whether it was playing a bar gig or playing Shea Stadium, they opened for Kiss and upstaged them on KISS’s own tour, but they had energy to burn and talent that just flowed like water. With all of the things the accomplished in rock and roll one of the things that to some was the strangest indeed was they were one of the beginning bands who began the process of unusual contract riders on their concert tours. High-profile musicians make all sorts of wild demands about their backstage set-ups at concerts: Kanye West reportedly requires a barber’s chair. Mariah Carey insists on two vases of white roses. Once they began headlining shows it gave them a little more power to dictate the things, they wanted for the band so that they would be comfortable. These included things like a cheese tray, and vegetables freshly cut as well as fruit and hot dinks right down to how many lemo
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