The Roth Show

[DONNIEP]

Eddie who?

[ashstralia]

That's the coolest thing I've seen in months...

[DONNIEP]

Is that a Roth Army shirt in Dave's house at 22:20?

It ain't one of ours. Should be tho

[Zing!]

These just keep getting better and better, although I can't help but wonder what EVH thinks of them...

[DONNIEP]

These just keep getting better and better, although I can't help but wonder what EVH thinks of them...

I don't know, what with Dave saying the EEAS years were the best of his life

[vandeleur]

Loved it , made me wanna watch the cafe wha gig again .

[DONNIEP]

Loved it , made me wanna watch the cafe wha gig again .

Did it play for you? My copy is shaky as a shitting dog

[vandeleur]

I cheated I watched it on my iPhone as a pod cast ........ Fuck I sound all technical . Don't spoil it and tell people you send me Betamax gig tapes

[vandeleur]

How pissed am I (very) ,did you mean cafe wha gig ?

[DONNIEP]

How pissed am I (very) ,did you mean cafe wha gig ?

Yeah, the Cafe Wha? gig DVD. My copy is pretty bad - I may have messed it up when I was messed up

[DONNIEP]

The Singapore Dick Sling now has its own entry on google!!

[DLR Bridge]

Lot'so cool tid-bits in #5. Dave's background playing in the beginning (acoustic slide with a wah? release that shit m'man!) His acoustic guitar at Cafe Wha? with a nice comfy EVH strap. Never noticed the guy with the 1984 tour shirt at the end of Goin' Crazy video. The Opel Cadet looks 100% the way I imagined it when I first read the book. His clothes at the end (kinda Captain Kangaroo-ish, but that's ok) would actually make for a great stage presence. And who could over look the flash of '79 footage in there. Looked like another outdoor show.

I'm lovin' it now Dave. Keep up the good woik! "That's so fuckin' New Yawk" classic.

[DONNIEP]

I'm just glad that he's able to be Dave in these episodes!! No Eddie pulling the strings..

[DLR Bridge]

I'm just glad that he's able to be Dave in these episodes!! No Eddie pulling the strings..

They're all in a way better place right now. Nobody owns anybody or owes anybody jack shit. They're all just livin' and let livin'.

Another tid-bit. That was the same Roth Army type shirt (draped on the manequin) that some guy was wearing standing behind me at the show I was at this year. I asked him if he was on the Army and he gave me a "na. used to be, though". And that was the end of that conversation.

[clarathecarrot]

Dave sais in his video that he can't say that every 20 year old was spending his time shaking his junk around....(something like that).

I was on the dance floor 3 nights a week and much like, he.. was up on that stage, I was shaking my junk around,,...not allways for the lady I asked to dance with me.

Don't know what caused the disk issues,... perhaps the hip shake on the dance floor or the corn fed farm girls, I spent the rest of the night wrassl'n..lol.

May be some similarities to the author of the music and the responses of the end user and that connection of the majic of it all.

This vid gave me some good insight into some DLR and also gave me a contact on some of my old great times that music brought me.

Another great vid.

[ashstralia]

Wha? !!!

[Seshmeister]

Dave's house is bigger than I imagined.

I still don't get how a prison doctor could afford something like that.

[Zing!]

His clothes at the end (kinda Captain Kangaroo-ish, but that's ok) would actually make for a great stage presence.

He looks like he just left the photo-shoot for this...

vanhalen-2007.jpg

[vandeleur]

Dave's house is bigger than I imagined.

I still don't get how a prison doctor could afford something like that.

eh thought his dad was a rich surgeon ????

[Zing!]

From wiki:

Roth was born on October 10, 1954, in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the son of ophthalmologist Nathan Roth and Sibyl Roth and the brother of Allison and Lisa Roth. Dr. Nathan Roth was a renowned eye surgeon, who made millions via his practice and in real estate. Dr. Roth was even featured on the TV show, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", in 1984. On that program, Dr. Roth claims that he was Van Halen's first manager helping the group obtain gigs in the early days. Nathan owned a 14,000-square-foot home in Pasadena named "Rothwood" and a chateau named "Bradbury". He was a writer, an actor, and a surgeon.

[vandeleur]

I checked the wiki article on dave .
Am thinking tho its not like sesh to get his facts wrong there is probably a gag element to his post that i didnt pick up on

[ZahZoo]

The Singapore Dick Sling™ now has its own entry on google!!

I fixed it... we've got to protect our "Intellectual Property". Not every day a mythical legend is born...

[clarathecarrot]

A year and a half ago or so..bad brain and all..there is a thread in main here about that house we were all assembling pics that are getiing authenticated in these Roth Show vignets. (sp).

I believe it was also said that DLR's old man was a "eye surgeon" who had a contract with the prison as their doctor...?

Like a friend of mines dad had a small clinic downtown not much of anything but he had the contract for a huge union manufacturing plant and every sick call or union related accident had to go thru his office....absolutely more lucrative than specializing and being a partnership doc...he also allowed walk-ins and helped many people for free and still made housecalls into his 70s'.

Nice write up in the paper when that old dude passed away.

[DONNIEP]

I fixed it... we've got to protect our "Intellectual Property". Not every day a mythical legend is born...

How long do you think it'll be before that catch phrase shows up in a Roth Show episode?

[Monkeeman]

Best episode so far.

[Seshmeister]

I checked the wiki article on dave .
Am thinking tho its not like sesh to get his facts wrong there is probably a gag element to his post that i didnt pick up on

No it's that both things seem to be true which is confusing.

I knew his dad had worked as a prison doctor and was a rich surgeon.

I assumed it happened in that order but it seems that the prison work was maybe voluntary and that he did it after he was already rich and successful.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/02...roth-interview

My father was a prison doctor for the last 25 years of his career. We called it the Ivy League — Folsom, Quentin. And he used to joke: When one of our records would come out, both the guards and the inmates celebrated. If you carry a gun to work, whether it’s with a uniform or a pair of two-tone shoes, you telling me you don’t know me? Come on, loco!”

I thought he had worked his way up and so wondered how he afforded the house early on.

Maybe the prison gig was an occasional thing but used by Dave to sound more grounded. It's not that cool to be from a super rich family.

It seems that Nathan qualified as a doctor relatively late in life (in his early 30s?) since Roth talked onstage about remembering being with his Dad when he was an intern in Boston.

Maybe he had already made money in property or the family was plain rich as most of them seem to have been doctors.

Anyhoo that hall still seems crazy big to me even for a 10 bedroom house.

I bet most people that visit assume Dave bought it with rockstar money rather than it being the family home...

[ZahZoo]

How long do you think it'll be before that catch phrase shows up in a Roth Show episode?

Oh I don't know... that would be fun, but I think just getting WARF immortalized in an official VH band video is going to be about as good as it gets for recognition of this crazy bunch.

[Romeo Delight]

I don't know, what with Dave saying the EEAS years were the best of his life

I know. We already knew this, but it is becoming crystal clear that the whole movie thing was the main driving force for Dave leaving VH.

All the other stuff is just filler and distraction. No way the Brothers were anything other than disinterested in making a movie. Can't say that I blame them.

I can't say I am too thrilled about what Dave was doing movie/video wise that would lead to Van Halen splintering. I mean was the movie going to be more of the Picasso Bros?

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[DLR Bridge]

The movie would have been VH's Hard Day's Night or Help. Would have been amazing and the brothers shoulda went along with their creative beacon's vision. They still would have been making great rock music and it probably would have been a one shot deal. I always hated how both Ed and Al were constantly saying, "Dave wanted to be a movie star." What proves that horse shit line painfully wrong is that, after the CBS film collapsed, he never attempted to do film of any sort there after. He could have done what ever he wanted. He continued fronting his own band, doing essentially what he had been doing all along.

[Romeo Delight]

The movie would have been VH's Hard Day's Night or Help. Would have been amazing and the brothers shoulda went along with their creative beacon's vision. They still would have been making great rock music and it probably would have been a one shot deal. I always hated how both Ed and Al were constantly saying, "Dave wanted to be a movie star." What proves that horse shit line painfully wrong is that, after the CBS film collapsed, he never attempted to do film of any sort there after. He could have done what ever he wanted. He continued fronting his own band, doing essentially what he had been doing all along.

Really? How come it went nowhere? Dave made some funny videos, but a movie? Maybe...but the industry passed when he was at his height of popularity.

Dave didn't care about anything other than pursuing more and more in terms media which is great...but ill-fated.

A Van Halen movie woudl have been great, but with Dave directing, writing, etc? Hmmm. I don't know. Pete ANgelus was his main writing contributor? Yeah...I don't think so

[DLR Bridge]

I'm not under the impression the movie tanked because of Dave. His collaborative efforts with Pete were going over quite well at the time if you recall. Might a movie like that have been too goofy for you? Perhaps, but by and large, I think it would have done pretty well.

[DONNIEP]

I like wacky Dave. Love the BBQ video too!

[Coyote]

I'm not under the impression the movie tanked because of Dave. His collaborative efforts with Pete were going over quite well at the time if you recall. Might a movie like that have been too goofy for you? Perhaps, but by and large, I think it would have done pretty well.

IIRC, a version of the script was floating around the 'net sometime ago...
And don't recall it being too goofy...

[DONNIEP]

All right - here's the script:

http://mehallo.com/B/script/dlr/Craz...eat_Script.PDF

[Romeo Delight]

I loved nh BBQ as well. But pursuing the movie deal at the expense of Van Halen? That is all I am saying.

Pete might have been great for helping script a 1 or 2 minute intro to a video...quite another for a 90 minute feature film

[Romeo Delight]

All right - here's the script:

http://mehallo.com/B/script/dlr/Craz...eat_Script.PDF

I got through about 20 pages. A Hard DAY's night it isn't.

Looks more to me like 10 music videos with segues to link each other into a movie.

[DONNIEP]

I loved nh BBQ as well. But pursuing the movie deal at the expense of Van Halen? That is all I am saying.

Pete might have been great for helping script a 1 or 2 minute intro to a video...quite another for a 90 minute feature film

Nah, see I agree with you. I don't think the movie would have been worth Dave leaving VH. The movie thing was just one part of him deciding to leave.

And even I couldn't get thru 20 pages

[DLR Bridge]

I think you're thinking too hard about it. It would have been fine. No one would have been harmed. All would have enjoyed themselves in the process and then they'd all get to say, "ok, what's next." no BFD.

[DLR Bridge]

77 pages!? I'll take a look at the script on the train ride home.

[DONNIEP]

Don't get me wrong - I'm sure if he had gotten the thing off the ground it woulda been entertaining like the Picasso Bros videos. Which I still love. But regardless - movie, no movie - I think Dave was already on his way out. If you believe Mikey, Dave was already working with the EEAS band while VH was "attempting" to work up the new record. Ah, my head hurts.