alt Hacker NewsAerosmith (e: Van Halen) banned brown M&Ms from their dressing room for shows and wouldn’t play if they were present. It was a sign that the venue hadn’t read the rider thoroughly and thus possibly an unsafe one (what else had they missed?)
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wrp • last Saturday at 5:24 PM
Van Halen. I think there are multiple videos of David Lee Roth telling the story. Entertaining in the details.
dgfitz • last Saturday at 5:31 PM
To add to this, sometimes people would approach Van and ask about the brown M&Ms thing as soon as they received the contract. He would respond that the color wasn’t important, and he was glad they read the contract.
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theyinwhy • last Saturday at 5:26 PM
Van Halen ;)
thro230-0 • last Saturday at 5:51 PM
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Was it actually Van Halen?
> As lead singer David Lee Roth explained in a 2012 interview, the bowl of M&Ms was an indicator of whether the concert promoter had actually read the band's complicated contract. [1]
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contrac...