{"id":2446037,"date":"2019-07-05T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=855890"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:57:01","slug":"hear-beck-join-bird-and-the-bee-on-campy-cover-of-van-halens-hot-for-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-beck-join-bird-and-the-bee-on-campy-cover-of-van-halens-hot-for-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Beck Join Bird and the Bee on Campy Cover of Van Halen\u2019s \u2018Hot for Teacher\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bird and the Bee \u2014 the duo of singer Inara George and producer Greg Kurstin \u2014 have tapped Beck<\/a> for a delightfully campy cover of Van Halen<\/a>\u2019s \u201cHot for Teacher.\u201d The track will appear on the Bird and the Bee\u2019s upcoming covers album<\/a>, Interpreting the Masters: A Tribute to Van Halen<\/em>, out August 8th via No Expectations\/Release Me Records.<\/p>\n

The Bird and the Bee\u2019s version of \u201cHot for Teacher\u201d cleverly flips the hair metal classic into a hot jazz tune, with Eddie Van Halen\u2019s iconic guitar riff transformed into a rollicking organ rumble while George croons the tune as if she\u2019s on stage at a smokey lounge. The duo also do away with David Lee Roth\u2019s delightfully juvenile spoken word part, but in place of \u201cI dropped my pencil!\u201d it\u2019s Beck playing a substitute teacher named Mr. Goodbody who comes to class with a very specific lesson plan: \u201cWe\u2019ll be reviewing the text from Moby Dick<\/em>, so please turn now to page\u2026 69.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beck \u2014 who worked with Kurstin on his 2017 album Colors<\/em><\/a> \u2014 said of the collaboration, \u201cThe Bird and The Bee bring unforeseen angles to the Van Halen song book. Makes sense because, like Eddie Van Halen, Greg is a kind of musical wunderkind in his own right and Inara\u2019s vocals bring a cool counterpart to Diamond Dave\u2019s <\/span> pyrotechnics. Making a cameo on their version of \u2018Hot For Teacher\u2019 felt like an extension of the kind of riffing and fooling around we do in the studio on a normal session.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bird and the Bee\u2019s version of \u201cHot for Teacher\u201d follows previously released covers of \u201cPanama\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t Talking \u2018Bout Love<\/a>.\u201d The duo will also embark on a 15-date tour later this year, starting with a special show in Los Angeles on August 2nd that will feature Dave Grohl on drums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass. George will then continue the tour with a backing band August 11th in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n

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The Bird and the Bee \u2014 the duo of singer Inara George and producer Greg Kurstin \u2014 have tapped Beck for a delightfully campy cover of Van Halen\u2019s \u201cHot for Teacher.\u201d The track will appear on the Bird and the Bee\u2019s upcoming covers album, Interpreting the Masters: A Tribute to Van Halen, out August 8th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:34:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}