Dave training to be an EMT

[Northern Girl]

This man never ceases to amaze me...

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/206086p-177878c.html

[DR CHIP]

great find...

[Snow Ho]

from the looks of recent pics of van hagar- they may need his help in more ways than one!

[Northern Girl]

Originally posted by DR CHIP
great find...

fyi. If you go to google.com you can set up an alert for Dave and you get an email every time his name comes up on the internet. Of course since every Van Halen article mentions Dave you get all those too.

[RogueHorseman]

Originally posted by Northern Girl
...Of course since every Van Halen article mentions Dave you get all those too.

Which in and of itself says it all...

[Panamark]

Legendary rocker David Lee Roth, the famed front man for the '80s megaband Van Halen, is apparently reinventing himself as an emergency medical technician.

The other night at the Four Seasons restaurant, the 48-year-old millionaire musician revealed to dinner companions that he has been living in a modest apartment on the lower East Side and showing up most days for EMT training.


"I used to be a surgical orderly in South Central L.A.," he told me yesterday. "I started that when I got out of junior college in the early '70s, and that led to a variety of things in the outdoor medical fire force and training with the Green Berets. ... My father was a surgeon and uncles and my cousins were also in the medical community, so I come by it natural."


Roth, who said he has relocated to New York from his estate in Pasadena, Calif., specifically to train as an EMT, said he hopes to obtain his certification in November and work as a volunteer one weekend per month.


"I want to be working in the outer boroughs. This city promises great color and insight in each and every neighborhood," Roth said. "On the upper East Side, it's gonna be heart attacks and stomach aches. But in other neighborhoods, it's all trauma."


Presumably Roth won't be singing "Jump!" to a distraught person on a ledge.


He said he started his EMT training last Friday under the auspices of New York safety consultant Linda Reissman. "She's got a résumé as long as your femur," Roth said. "That's a medical joke."


Speaking of jokes, fellow diner Lawrence Robins asked Roth at the table: "What would happen if you ended up having to work a rock concert and deal with somebody who had overdosed? Can you imagine the reaction when they saw you putting the oxygen mask on them?"


Roth, according to Robins, replied, "You know, it's funny, we've actually discussed what would happen if I rescued a Van Halen fan."


Yesterday Roth - who has been very low key about his new pursuit - demurred, "You're getting way off on a tangent, my friend. My dream would be to save a Scandinavian hikerette."

[Panamark]

"You're getting way off on a tangent, my friend. My dream would be to save a Scandinavian hikerette."


Thats the stuff !!

[Northern Girl]

Always learning, always giving, always funny, always inspiring !!!!!

[Panamark]

He's da Man !

[BrownSound1]

I think that's pretty cool, especially if he's going to do volunteer work with it. Who says this man cares only about himself.

[Katydid]

Well Hell, where was he when I fell down the concrete stairs in the rain Tues. morning? Have a place size of softball on my back bone. All black and blue. Exrays said I only twisted and pulled he muscles, but been out of work all week.

[55starfire]

Originally posted by Brownsound1
Who says this man cares only about himself.

van hagar weenies who know absolutely nothing about the real person behind the image...

[SoCalChelle]

That's great!

[Sarge]

Roth, according to Robins, replied, "You know, it's funny, we've actually discussed what would happen if I rescued a Van Halen fan."
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I wonder if this is really true...

[evans5150]

Wow...you guys are sad if you think that this is "inspiring" news. Take a look at the REAL EMT's for inspiration. Not another fucking celebrity trying to do something "one weekend a month" to look like the good guy.