''DLR Band'' is the fifth full-length studio album by

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, the former

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. It was released in 1998 and remains the only installment on Roth's own Wawazat!! label.

Information

''DLR Band'' was recorded and mixed in ten days, a technique Roth had not utilized since 1979's ''

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''.

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(aka John 5), Mike Hartman, and Terry Kilgore played guitar on the record. Lowery actually performed double duty for the record, performing bass guitar under the "B'ourbon Bob" pseudonym.Mike Hartman Interview
, Van Halen News Desk, 1999. Also on the album a then virtually unknown drummer

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, now a full member of

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. Two tracks from ''DLR Band'', "Indeedido" and "King of the Hill," would later appear on Mike Hartman's solo release, ''Black Glue'', as "Southern Romp" and "Stomp," respectively. Penned by Hartman, both tracks would be remixed and made instrumental for Hartman's release. The album's cover artwork features a picture of model

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taken by

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, who receives credit in the liner notes. This led to it being colloquially referred to as the Bettie Page album. ''DLR Band'' debuted at #172 on the charts with 8,000 copies sold in the first week. Within a year the album had sold 65,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel

- harmonica (track 2), vocals, cover art concept *

- guitar (tracks 1 - 3, 5, 8, 9, 13) & bass (tracks 1-10, 12 & 13) *

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- guitar (tracks 4, 7, 11, 12, 14), synthesizer (track 14) *Mike Hartman - guitar (tracks 6, 10) *Tom Lilly - bass (tracks 11, 14) *

- drums ; Production *

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- producer *EA Management - Eddie Anderson *Jeffrey Thomas - assistant engineer *Erich Gobel - assistant engineer *DeVal Day - assistant engineer *Kendall Johnson - art direction, design *Kieren McClelland - mastering *Michael Migliozzi - art direction, design *Erwin Musper - engineer, mastering, mixing *

- photography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dlr Band David Lee Roth albums 1998 albums Albums produced by Bob Marlette