Dave's big solo gig !

[78/84 guy]

Where's all the excitement ?

[78/84 guy]

5 years ago this gig would have been the topic of the week/month. What a drag it is getting old.....

[speedtruckermf]

Where's all the excitement ?

$1500 a ticket/ $15000 for a table.
Anybody want to split a table

[Jérôme Frenchise]

$1500 a ticket/ $15000 for a table.
Anybody want to split a table

Karate style?

[ZahZoo]

What big solo gig..?

[Seshmeister]

https://www.houstongrandopera.org/scheduletickets/specialevents/opera-ball

Opera Ball 2018
An Evening in Old Hollywood


Saturday, April 14, 2018│7 p.m.
The Post Oak at Uptown Houston

Chairmen: Doctors Liz Grimm and Jack Roth
Attire: White Tie
Tickets from $1,500, Tables from $15,000

Always a premier occasion on Houston’s gala calendar, Opera Ball brings together the city’s most notable movers, shakers, and tastemakers for an epic evening in support of HGO. 2018 will pay tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood as we walk the red carpet to a swanky supper club on Sunset, where stars were born and glitz set the stage. Palm trees and the Polo Lounge…cocktail shakers and deal-makers. Fred and Ginger, Garbo, Grant, and Garland...dancing cheek to cheek under the glamorous glow of the Hollywood Hills.


Announcing: Special celebrity guest entertainment by David Lee Roth

In a fitting nod to the bright lights and big stars of southern California, this spectacular night will also feature a rare, private performance by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, David Lee Roth, sharing hits from his Gold and Platinum solo career and days as lead singer of Van Halen.

[Seshmeister]

California Girls and Jump to a backing tape maybe?

[78/84 guy]

California Girls and Jump to a backing tape maybe?

Probably use the same band he had at that last benefit he played ? Then again it doesn't seem like anyone cares though. LOL ! If he comes out singing out of register on half the songs I can see why. Should start rethinking the name of this website. Looks like the Roth Army is almost gone. About all I see on here anymore is people bitching about politics ( get the fuck over it NOTHING is going to change, go enjoy your life ) and that cunt Krusty running her jaw like the cunt she is. Perhaps the Rock Army ? Then again not much going on in the house of music forum either. I guess I see why bitching about politics is the main topic around here......Good luck tonight Dave. I think you might need it.

[DavidLeeNatra]

5 years ago this gig would have been the topic of the week/month. What a drag it is getting old.....

I was listening to the Dave interview in the Mohr podcast these days. One of the really enjoyable talks. Mohr keeps up with Dave's motormouth and even if Dave uses a lot of his standard lines it's interesting.

But yeah...most of the bastards here enjoy themselves bashing our hero these days.

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[Terry]

I was listening to the Dave interview in the Mohr podcast these days. One of the really enjoyable talks. Mohr keeps up with Dave's motormouth and even if Dave uses a lot of his standard lines it's interesting.

But yeah...most of the bastards here enjoy themselves bashing our hero these days.

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I wouldn't say I really enjoy bashing Roth these days...

He just strikes me as a really odd, self-absorbed person to the utmost degree.

Odd in how he still tries to come across like the stud frontman version of himself circa 1986. Almost as if he's not comfortable aging, or comfortable inside his own skin. And the older he gets, the sillier it comes across.

And, strictly for myself, what Roth brings to the stage now isn't worth seeing. Certainly not worth more than $25 a ticket. It's been that way for me since (and including) the ADKOT/2012 tour.

I mean, one of my personal favorite top rock frontmen of all time. Always will be. But he just got weird as he got old. And his quippy interview one-liners lost their luster after being repeated over a period of thirty years. I think Roth is just one of those types of entertainers where his act was never going to grow old gracefully, or age well, or however you want to put it.

[Nitro Express]

Dave shows all the signs of being a grandiose Narcissist. I think David Lee Roth suffers from mental illness and no I'm not joking. He was treated for hyperactivity as a child and started behaving as a narcissist as he got older. I had the misfortune of having a college roommate who was a narcissist. They can be brilliant and hard working but they are hell to be around. My roommate was popular with people who didn't have the misfortune of having to actually live with him. He was a good looking guy who kept himself in shape and was always concerned with how he looked. He was able to get hot looking chicks all the time but he couldn't stay in a relationship. He was the best bullshitter I have ever seen. From the outside such people seem great but if you have to live with them it's pure hell. I think Dave is one of these people. He's probably hell to be around. Probably explains why the guy is a loner with a dog. Only the dog can tolerate him.

[Terry]

I dunno. All of that may well be true. I don't know the man, but I do know the type you've described.

For me, Roth just got less funny and more weird as he got older. Or maybe it was because I got older and he basically stayed the same. The first time I thought the guy was a bit off was the whole Bar-B-Que video and that early 2000's period. In terms of the point of it. Maybe it was just little more than Roth enjoying hanging out with midgets and models, cavorting around his back yard. It was just this odd sort of tribute to himself...like, you can tell Roth really enjoys his own company, and thinks his every utterance is brilliantly comical and insightful. Then he started wearing that goofy looking platinum blonde hair weave and Krusty The Klown spandex for the Sam and Dave tour a year later, and he began moving into a mildly pathetic realm of an aging rockstar past his prime who can't let go of the past. Then, with the Diamond Dave CD, he apparently was no longer able to come up with enough decent musical ideas to sustain a full-length CD of new material.

He pulled his shit together for the 2007-2008 Van Halen tour. I'll give him that. Really tempered his act, made an effort with the vocals, singing all the lyrics, keeping the onstage rapping to a minimum. Ever since that first Van Halen reunion tour, Roth has basically coasted. Caught an interview of his with Joe Rogan several years back, and there he was, laughing at everything he said, speed rapping a mile a minute about nothing in particular.

I guess the one thing I could say about his post-1996 to 2006 career, uneven as it was in terms of results for me, is that Roth was still doing stuff. I guess with the money he made off the last 3 Van Halen tours, he doesn't have to do stuff anymore.

Whatever. He is entitled to do whatever he wants, or nothing if he wants. He's...what...65? 64? 63? Somewhere in there.

I'd be interested in Van Halen with Roth releasing new material. I don't even really care if they tour anymore. Or if Dave did some new solo stuff and didn't half ass it like the Diamond Dave cd. I'd frankly be more interested in either a new Van Halen album of new material or a new Roth album of new material than another Van Halen Greatest Hits tour. I just don't have that much interest in Roth fronting some random band of nobodys singing Jump in some small venue anymore: I can barely be bothered to watch a youtube clip of that stuff, much less drag my ass out of my house to see it live.

[Nitro Express]

What we saw in pubic was a show. What's interesting is Sammy Hagar made an observation on that Sam and Dave tour that says a lot. Sammy thought Dave would be a fun party guy. Dave was just the opposite. He just stayed in his dressing room and only hung with a tight group. His security kept everyone away. With Dave everything is calculated and he's not really as free wheeling as he claims. He puts on a show but who is the real Dave? Not even people who were in bands with him can tell you an answer on that. Much like Ronald Reagan. People who worked with Ronald Reagan said the real Ron was someone you never really saw. What you saw was a well polished image. These types of people can put a great show on in front of a crowd but they become recluses in real life. They have their little circle of insiders which tends to be surprisingly small. They plot and plan and practice their image and presentation. In Dave's case he then says I'm just free wheeling through life when in actuality he has been busting his ass behind the scenes to be Diamond Dave.

[Nitro Express]

But why Van Halen was so good is sure there was a certain amount of natural talent there but everyone in that band busted their ass. They didn't want people to see it. They hid that part from the public eye. Maybe that was Dave's idea who knows but on stage and in the studio they took no prisoners. You don't become that good without busting ass. In a way VH had a secret bunker where they hid in and practiced. Haha!

[Terry]

I have gotten the sense as the years have passed that the image Roth presents has less to do with the offstage reality, whereas it always felt back in the Van Halen and early solo days that the image was less of a construct.

And the image is what earns him his bread, so I understand the construct. I think the irony is that on the whole the people who still buy tickets to Van Halen shows really don't care about that image anymore. Yet there he is with his Wacky Uncle Dave Funky Chicken dance routines onstage as he's pushing 60 years old. He goes with what he knows.

Juxtapose that with Hagar, who by all accounts is who he is and is comfortable with who he is.