Brad Roberts, the deep baritone singer of Canada's Crash Test Dummies, is releasing a live solo album of CTD songs and eclectic covers. Featuring Roberts accompanied by Dummies touring guitarist Murray Pulver, the V2 album "Crash Test Dude - Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits," due Oct. 10, was recorded in November 1999 at the Toronto club Ted's Wrecking Yard.
Interspersed amongst the band's hits "Superman's Song" and "MmmMmmMmmMmm" are covers of Britney Spears' "... Baby One More Time," ZZ Top's "La Grange," and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes," as well as pieces of Roberts' poetry and his banter with the audience. Other covers include Johnny Cash's "Understand Your Man," Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart," and the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron."
"The idea is that me and my buddy Murray would go out and do a drunk acoustic tour," Roberts says of the trek that produced the album. "This is a raw crude recording... It's full of satire, self-deprecation and obscenity: So play it for your children, and prepare them for the raw crude thing which becomes everyone's life."
Interspersed amongst the band's hits "Superman's Song" and "MmmMmmMmmMmm" are covers of Britney Spears' "... Baby One More Time," ZZ Top's "La Grange," and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes," as well as pieces of Roberts' poetry and his banter with the audience. Other covers include Johnny Cash's "Understand Your Man," Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart," and the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron."
"The idea is that me and my buddy Murray would go out and do a drunk acoustic tour," Roberts says of the trek that produced the album. "This is a raw crude recording... It's full of satire, self-deprecation and obscenity: So play it for your children, and prepare them for the raw crude thing which becomes everyone's life."
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