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Just finished reading Vince Neil's Book, "Tattoos & Tequila" ..... After reading The Dirt, Tommyland, The Heroin Diaries and now Vince's book, it's clear the Crue boys have a ton of respect for The Mighty Van Halen....
Anyway, DLR was in there quite a bit, EVH not as much... Here's a transcript of Dave's part;
There were plenty of big names hanging out on the Strip, but the first big name to call himself a fan was David Lee Roth of Van Halen. Later David Lee would become a fixture at our apartment, known at the Motley House - he was there all the time doing coke and trolling for an easy fuck. There's one story about him doing blow in our bedroom and this mirrored door from our closet fucking fell off and landed on his head...and he didn't flinch; he just dept on snorting.
David Lee came to a lot of our shows at the Troubadour, the Whisky, wherever. He was a huge star. I think he had some ulterior motives, though. Unlike a lot of rock bands, our crowd was always, like, a majority of women. I swear it was sometimes like 90 percent girls. So he would come to the gigs and introduce the band. Clever boy: Before we'd even started playing, everybody in the club knew he was there. Then he'd just kick back and collect pussy the rest of the night. It was a good deal for everybody. We got the boost. He got the blow jobs.
One night David Lee was like, "Vince, I want to take you out to breakfast and tell you how things are." For somebody that was that huge to take me under his wing was really cool. It was an honor. Even to an irreverent fuck like myself.
We met at Canter's Deli in Fairfax. When he drove up he was in his black Mercedes with a big skull and cross bones painted on the hood. I was like, "That's pretty fucking cool". We talked all about business. What I should do and not do. Who I should avoid. He was basically trying to give me tips to help me get started, so I wouldn't get ripped off like everyone always does. It was stuff like "you have to watch out for this or that." Or "make sure you have distribution, you know". He was talking about national distribution and deals and things - I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. It was a little bit, like, Oh My God!
And later....
At the end of 1981, we started to record our debut album, Too Fast for Love. Because we still hadn't been signed by a major label, we decided to create our own: Leathur Records.
It was cool to say we had a label - with a cool name and a cool umlaut - but what we didn't have was a distribution label. Just like David Lee Roth had warned, no one was going to hear the fucking thing!
Anyway, DLR was in there quite a bit, EVH not as much... Here's a transcript of Dave's part;
There were plenty of big names hanging out on the Strip, but the first big name to call himself a fan was David Lee Roth of Van Halen. Later David Lee would become a fixture at our apartment, known at the Motley House - he was there all the time doing coke and trolling for an easy fuck. There's one story about him doing blow in our bedroom and this mirrored door from our closet fucking fell off and landed on his head...and he didn't flinch; he just dept on snorting.
David Lee came to a lot of our shows at the Troubadour, the Whisky, wherever. He was a huge star. I think he had some ulterior motives, though. Unlike a lot of rock bands, our crowd was always, like, a majority of women. I swear it was sometimes like 90 percent girls. So he would come to the gigs and introduce the band. Clever boy: Before we'd even started playing, everybody in the club knew he was there. Then he'd just kick back and collect pussy the rest of the night. It was a good deal for everybody. We got the boost. He got the blow jobs.
One night David Lee was like, "Vince, I want to take you out to breakfast and tell you how things are." For somebody that was that huge to take me under his wing was really cool. It was an honor. Even to an irreverent fuck like myself.
We met at Canter's Deli in Fairfax. When he drove up he was in his black Mercedes with a big skull and cross bones painted on the hood. I was like, "That's pretty fucking cool". We talked all about business. What I should do and not do. Who I should avoid. He was basically trying to give me tips to help me get started, so I wouldn't get ripped off like everyone always does. It was stuff like "you have to watch out for this or that." Or "make sure you have distribution, you know". He was talking about national distribution and deals and things - I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. It was a little bit, like, Oh My God!
And later....
At the end of 1981, we started to record our debut album, Too Fast for Love. Because we still hadn't been signed by a major label, we decided to create our own: Leathur Records.
It was cool to say we had a label - with a cool name and a cool umlaut - but what we didn't have was a distribution label. Just like David Lee Roth had warned, no one was going to hear the fucking thing!
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