Everybody Wants Some!!

Please chek my understanding.

We say,

would anyone like a beverage with their snack? (more formal)

Does anyone want a beverage with their snack? (casual)

Both sentences mean the same thing.

Also we don't say

would anyone want ...

Does anyone like ...

Am I correct?

Also in this forum one says

in a Would anyone .... sentence you would be hoping for positive responses.

and in a Does anyone .... sentence the asking person probably would not care much if anyone wanted something or not.

are these also correct?

The inspiration for Van Halen's classic song "Everybody Wants Some!!" can be traced back to an off-color remark.

By 1979, the band already had two massively successful albums under their belt, Van Halen and Van Halen II. While touring on the latter release, producer Ted Templeman -- who helmed the band’s first six LPs -- went to see them at a concert in Phoenix.

“I’m backstage,” the producer recalled during a conversation with UCR, and Dave (Lee Roth) was out there [on stage] and he’s talking, ‘All of you guys got pussy out there, I want some too, c’mon, man!’”

Roth’s comment got a chuckle out of Templeman, who filed the moment into the back of his mind only to revisit it at a later date.

Flash forward a couple of months. Van Halen were now in the studio working on what would become 1980’s Women and Children First. As their creative process often went, the band was building a song off of a guitar part written by Eddie Van Halen.

“So we’re in the studio,” Templeman recalled, “and Ed had laid down this riff and Dave didn’t have an idea for the melody [yet].” Roth asked the producer if he had any suggestions. "I said, ‘Yeah, remember when you said that, ‘Everybody’s got pussy, I want some too?’ He goes, ‘I want some too!’”

The concept immediately clicked for the vocalist, who quickly began penning his lyrics. The result was “Everybody Wants Some!!” “He wrote that on the spot in about five minutes, bang, like that,” Templeman recalled, while also referring to Roth as a “lyrical genius.” “He could write that stuff, boom, boom, boom and just knock it down.”

“Everybody Wants Some!!” would be the second track on Women and Children First. It also served as the b-side to lead single “And the Cradle Will Rock…,” released in May 1980. “Everybody Wants Some!!” quickly became a fan favorite and mainstay of the band’s live performances. It was later included on Van Halen’s The Best of Both Worlds greatest hits album, released in 2004.

Songfacts:

David Lee Roth often wrote reasonably coherent storylines into his lyrics, but this one is a little jagged, with oblique references to subway lines and moonbeams. No matter: Eddie Van Halen's corruscating guitar riffs carry the load. The chorus if vague, but suitable for throwing your fist in the air, because "EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!" While the band was recording the music for this song, David Lee Roth recorded comments ("I like the way the line runs up the back of your stocking," etc.) onto a separate track. They were then mixed in with the song. At the end, Roth says, "Sure, I'll pay you for it, what the f--k." The obscenity fades just enough that most radio stations don't worry about editing it out. Eddie Van Halen played the solo for this with both hands on the freeboard of his guitar. At concerts, he used a board to support the guitar and free up his hands so he could play it. For the first line in the second verse, Roth meant to sing, "I've seen a lot of people just looking for a moonbeam," but forgot the words when he was recording it and just slurred out some gibberish that came close. They liked the attitude in the vocal, so they kept it anyway. The resulting lyric became the topic of wide speculation, but it couldn't be misheard because it was misspoken to begin with. The song is performed by a claymation hamburger playing an Eddie Van Halen-inspired guitar in the John Cusack movie Better Off Dead. Richard Linklater's 2016 film Everybody Wants Some!! takes its title from this song.