The song is the 12th release in two years
David Lee Roth has released another song with John 5 called “Hi-Fashion Girl.” Like its predecessors, the song appears exclusively on YouTube and features Roth on vocals and John 5 on acoustic guitar.
The song, along with “Somewhere Over The Rainbow Bar And Grill,” “Low-Rez Sunset,” “Giddy-Up!,” “Alligator Pants,” “Pointing At The Moon,” “Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then,” (a song about Van Halen), and the recently released “Manda Bala” and “The Shit That Killed Elvis” were all recorded during a 2007 recording session. Five of the songs were released as part of The Roth Project in 2020, with the others dropping sporadically over the past two years.
“I think what’s magical about those songs is it’s just me and Dave — it’s just me and Dave playing and recording live, and I think that’s what you don’t really hear a lot today,” John 5 tells Eddie Trunk in a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation.
He continues, “Whenever I hear this stuff, I can visualize it. And it’s pretty magical that way, ’cause it’s, like, ‘Okay.’ It reminds me of back in the day when they were recording and the records were spinning and they were making the record as it was recording because you can’t mess up. And especially you don’t wanna mess up around David Lee Roth. So it’s really cool that way. I could just visualize just me and Dave going through these songs and recording ’em that way.”
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 any of the songs together in an album format. This is the twelfth release in two years by Roth.
