> *Van Halen buried a special clause in the middle of the contract. It was
> called Article 126. It read, "There will be no brown M&Ms in the backstage
> area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation." So when
> Roth would arrive at a new venue, he'd walk backstage and glance at the M&M
> bowl. If he saw a brown M&M, he'd demand a line check of the entire
> production. "Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error," he
> wrote. "They didn't read the contract.... Sometimes it would threaten to
> just destroy the whole show."*
After word of the "no brown M&Ms" clause in Van Halen's contract got out, the Rolling Stones played Los Angeles. They inserted a clause in their contract that it was okay if they had extra brown M&Ms back stage.
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