Van Halen's Legendary 'M&M's' Rider Revealed
- Posted on Dec 12th 2008 12:00PM by David Sprague
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While some longstanding mysteries -- what's really inside Area 51, for instance -- may never be solved, the legend of Van Halen's "no brown M&M's" concert rider has finally been explained, thanks to the estate of a concert promoter, which dusted off a copy for the folks at the Smoking Gun. The 10-page document does indeed make the colorful candy demand, along with a passel of other outrageous requests -- all of which were alleged to have been concocted in order to determine if the bean-counters were actually paying attention to more important matters -- including providing four-pronged metal forks, and a few packs of a specific brand of cigarettes (but oddly, not a selection of groupies from obscure Soviet republics).
The M&M demand didn't even strike us as the oddest one in the rider, which also requires the backstage presence of canned malt liquor, herring in sour cream and a single tube of K-Y Jelly -- the last of which affirms our belief that the band that lubes together really rocks the rubes together.




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