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Now that the Diamond David Lee Roth radio program has been met with almost universal derision, disinterest, and poor reviews, perhaps it's time that David Lee Roth hang up the mic and call it a day.
Let's examine for a minute:
The man has had virtually no solo success to speak of for the last 14 years or more. Every subsequent album he's released has sold worse than the one before it. He has no record label; in essence, anything he deigns to release, he pays for himself. And to ever-dwindling sales from the fan base.
Truth be told? His only moment of life came in 1996 at the hands of Van Halen's two new songs with him that were featured as the main selling point of "Best of Vol. 1" (1996, Warner Bros. Records), "Can't Get This Stuff No More" and "Me Wise Magic".
But, Roth being what he is (and that's difficult to work with, at the very best), Van Halen subsequently showed him the door after an explosion backstage at the 1996 MTV music video awards. Knowing Roth's history of being difficult to work with, this came as no real surprise to anyone in the industry, certainly.
But even with the almost-reunion under his belt, it STILL failed to push his solo career anywhere. The following years best of set, simply entitled "The Best" (and with one new track to boot, the very lazy and unaggressive "Don't Piss Me Off"), sales were a virtual nil.
So where are we at, now?
CBS, as of January 6th of this year, was ALREADY in talks to replace David across the board with Adam Corolla. So poorly reviewed and so poorly performing in his radio show that negotiations to cancel it were already happening within a week.
The question is - with Adam's show being EASILY the better of the two, why hasn't it happened yet?
It's sad how the mighty have fallen, but perhaps the train wreck that is David Lee Roth may yet prove of some amusement to rubberneck to. We can only see.
With the obvious knowledge to anyone with half of their wits that Van Halen will NEVER (for good reasons) trust Roth to front the band again, and with Roth failing at everything he does (the failed publicity stunt as an EMT, his rather lackluster casino concerts, his loss of a record label, a full time band and any interest from the majority of America), perhaps it's time that Dave left the spotlight and realized that his time is up. I think it is.
With the failed 2004 Van Hagar reunion now behind us, it's funny to think that, for as bad of business as it did, it looks like a raging, blowout success compared to ANYTHING Roth's done since 1988. Will Van Halen wise up enough to finally build the bridge with Sammy Hagar and ride off into the sunset the ONLY way they should?
We can only hope - and wait to see.
SO FUCKK ALL YOUR FAGGETS IF YOUE DONT LYKE IT!!! ROTHTARD FAGGS LYKE IT UP THE ASHOLE A LOTT, HUNH!
LMOA!!!!1
three lock rock
kcing ass and taking names
Let's examine for a minute:
The man has had virtually no solo success to speak of for the last 14 years or more. Every subsequent album he's released has sold worse than the one before it. He has no record label; in essence, anything he deigns to release, he pays for himself. And to ever-dwindling sales from the fan base.
Truth be told? His only moment of life came in 1996 at the hands of Van Halen's two new songs with him that were featured as the main selling point of "Best of Vol. 1" (1996, Warner Bros. Records), "Can't Get This Stuff No More" and "Me Wise Magic".
But, Roth being what he is (and that's difficult to work with, at the very best), Van Halen subsequently showed him the door after an explosion backstage at the 1996 MTV music video awards. Knowing Roth's history of being difficult to work with, this came as no real surprise to anyone in the industry, certainly.
But even with the almost-reunion under his belt, it STILL failed to push his solo career anywhere. The following years best of set, simply entitled "The Best" (and with one new track to boot, the very lazy and unaggressive "Don't Piss Me Off"), sales were a virtual nil.
So where are we at, now?
CBS, as of January 6th of this year, was ALREADY in talks to replace David across the board with Adam Corolla. So poorly reviewed and so poorly performing in his radio show that negotiations to cancel it were already happening within a week.
The question is - with Adam's show being EASILY the better of the two, why hasn't it happened yet?
It's sad how the mighty have fallen, but perhaps the train wreck that is David Lee Roth may yet prove of some amusement to rubberneck to. We can only see.
With the obvious knowledge to anyone with half of their wits that Van Halen will NEVER (for good reasons) trust Roth to front the band again, and with Roth failing at everything he does (the failed publicity stunt as an EMT, his rather lackluster casino concerts, his loss of a record label, a full time band and any interest from the majority of America), perhaps it's time that Dave left the spotlight and realized that his time is up. I think it is.
With the failed 2004 Van Hagar reunion now behind us, it's funny to think that, for as bad of business as it did, it looks like a raging, blowout success compared to ANYTHING Roth's done since 1988. Will Van Halen wise up enough to finally build the bridge with Sammy Hagar and ride off into the sunset the ONLY way they should?
We can only hope - and wait to see.
SO FUCKK ALL YOUR FAGGETS IF YOUE DONT LYKE IT!!! ROTHTARD FAGGS LYKE IT UP THE ASHOLE A LOTT, HUNH!
LMOA!!!!1
three lock rock
kcing ass and taking names
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