“The Shit That Killed Elvis” is available now
For the second time in a week, David Lee Roth has released another solo acoustic song via YouTube. “The Shit That Killed Elvis” was reportedly recorded in 2007 with guitarist John 5 and follows last week’s “Manda Bala.”
“I want the shit that killed Elvis, that’s the life for me / Give me the shit that killed Elvis, ain’t gonna let it catch me,” the rocker sings in the newly released track.
“Elvis” is the eleventh song in a series of sporadically-released tracks since July 2022. The first was “Pointing at the Moon,” a piano/acoustic guitar ballad, followed by “Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway,” a song about his former band. Five songs from those 2007 recording sessions were released as part of The Roth Project in 2020.
The rocker has also released a handful of songs that were recorded in May 2022 during a session at Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood with solo band of Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler on bass and Francis Valentino on drums. Songs include a newly recorded version of Van Halen’s “Atomic Punk,” “Unchained,” “You Really Got Me,” “Dance The Night Away,” “Panama,” “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” and “Everybody Want Some.” Each of the songs is part of a recording session at Henson Studios in Hollywood where Roth and his solo band recorded 14 songs “live” in a two-hour period on May 3, 2022, and were produced by Tom Syrowski.
It’s unclear if Roth ever plans to put the songs together in an album format.
