Former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth has launched a brand new blues music, Forgiveness. In what’s change into customary observe for Diamond Dave, the music was launched by way of his social media channels with out fanfare or rationalization, leaving followers to ponder its origins and that means.
Forgiveness initially surfaced again in February, when Roth launched Lavender Forgiveness, singing Forgiveness‘s lyrics over the unique audio from Taylor Swift’s Lavender Haze, the opening observe from her 2023 album Midnights. The brand new model loses the Swift audio, which has been changed by acoustic guitar. It is unclear whether or not the music is asking for forgiveness or providing it, or is autobiographical or not, however the lyrics aren’t precisely Ice Cream Man.
I took a protracted journey South on that whiskey prepare
I took Jesus Christ’s title in useless
I blew a fortune on cocaine
And I brought on my complete household heartbreak and disgrace
And after I was on the verge of going insane I discovered forgiveness
Forgiveness fall down like rain on a sun-scorched land
Forgiveness compelled in like air to a drowning man
Forgiveness like dwelling from a journey of a thousand miles
Forgiveness like milk and honey to a ravenous baby
This is not the primary time Roth has blessed followers with a brand new music at Christmas. Final yr he launched Speaking Christmas Blues, which discovered him studying traces over an acoustic guitar and harmonica.
In different Roth-related information, greater than 4 hours of dwell footage has appeared on YouTube this month, all remastered from bootleg VHS tape. The footage comes from three performances: a Van Halen present at Estadio Obras Sanitarias in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Disguise Your Sheep tour in February 1983 (a date filmed for native TV) and two Canadian Roth exhibits – one filmed on the Montreal Discussion board on the Eat ‘Em & Smile tour in 1986, and one shot two years later on the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on the Skyscraper tour.
