Dave TV Video with Dave's Commentary

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Just a heads up, just got the email from Shelly....

She's going to be uploading Dave TV special, along with Dave's commentary, to Dave's Youtube channel later on today.....

I'll post it here when I see it....

[Romeo Delight]

Nice!

[VAiN]

Sweet! Looking forward to some Dave later!

[DONNIEP]

New commentary, perhaps?

[Va Beach VH Fan]

New commentary, perhaps?

Yes, that's what it sounds like....

Here's what Shelly said....

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"So, the Rhino collection that was put out recently had the old Dave TV special as part of the DVD, but that wasn't the version DLR had originally wanted to be part of that project.

Originally we had also provided them with a version that had Dave's commentary running underneath. Someone from Rhino said "No" to that because of explicit language. Not sure why that was a big deal to them but it was.

Later today I will be posting the version with commentary on DLR's YouTube, Itunes & Roku channels."

[big fatty]

Alright, Dave TV. It's about freakin' time. :cool1:

Let the good times roll. :high5:

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[katina]

Great !!!:cheer:

[Zing!]

Just what the doctor ordered! Suffering through brutal temps here in the Northstar State - need a little sunshine my way. Time for a little Club Dave!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Here ya go....

[DlocRoth]

You da man, T!

Shit was off the chains!!!!!

[Monkeeman]

Just watched it. Great stuff! Thanks Shelly.

[vandeleur]

And that ladies and gentlemen is why we are here ... Stellavision

[DONNIEP]

Sounds like Dave misses those days as much as some of us do.

[DONNIEP]

And that ladies and gentlemen is why we are here ... Stellavision

Stellas at 3 in the afternoon?? Wifey better lock the doors tonite hahahaha!

[vandeleur]

My wife would kill me lol .... Tho I may partake in a drink or two later :D

That vid reminds me when Dave was the coolest person on the planet

[Von Halen]

That was fucking GREAT!

Maybe Dave will do the same with some CVH stuff!

[DONNIEP]

My wife would kill me lol .... Tho I may partake in a drink or two later :D

That vid reminds me when Dave was the coolest person on the planet

That video, and the time period in which it was shot, was the sweet spot of the 80s that Dave was built for. Ah, I wish it could have lasted forever...

[DONNIEP]

That was fucking GREAT!

Maybe Dave will do the same with some CVH stuff!

Fat chance. I can hear Ed right now, screaming out his bedroom window..."Baby steps, Von! BABY STEPS!!"

[VHscraps]

And that ladies and gentlemen is why we are here ... Stellavision

Ah - that vid with the 'Boy George' scene just reminded me of this picture. I think you might need some of that Stellavision now ...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7441/11368246484_7175ff95d6_b.jpg

That dude sitting opposite Boy George is Marilyn - yeah, Marilyn (for you Americans who have never heard / seen him).

Anyone got a guess at when / where this might have been taken?

[VHscraps]

And what the fuck is Dave wearing?!

[vandeleur]

Not sure what to make of that pic scraps

[VHscraps]

haha -haha. We could always rely on Dave to be ... Dave

[VHscraps]

The dude, Marilyn in action - from about 50 secs.

I hearby declare this I post this merely as evidence to try and clarify the above colourful pic of our man, Dave ... i will forever remember this because when it came on Top of the Pops in 1983 my brother burst into my room and screamed "what the FUCK is THAT!?"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMw_iosf5QI

[DONNIEP]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7441/11368246484_7175ff95d6_b.jpg

Anyone got a guess at when / where this might have been taken?

A New York City bath house?

[VHscraps]

A New York City bath house?

:confused1:
:confused1:
:confused1:

[vandeleur]

Man scraps stop with the posts your killing my buzz ... I was all Dave is cool .
Now am please scraps step away from the keyboard :D

[DONNIEP]

Man scraps stop with the posts your killing my buzz ... I was all Dave is cool .
Now am please scraps step away from the keyboard :D

Sometimes that peek behind the curtain doesn't turn out to be what you expected :biggrin:

[vandeleur]

Fuck u Donniep Dave is straight and it's still the 80's I don't care what you say !

[DONNIEP]

Fuck u Donniep Dave is straight and it's still the 80's I don't care what you say !

Now, now, I didn't say Dave was gay. I simply implied that he posed for a picture with two flamers in a NYC bath house. And who amongst us hasn't done the same?

:biggrin:

[vandeleur]

:lol:

[VAiN]

Mam, that was fantastic! Thank you Shelly and Thank you Dave for sharing that with us!!

[atomicpnk47]

Ahh good times. Miss the 80's. Dave at his peak. Can't beat it. Thanks Shelly.....

[VAiN]

Ahh good times. Miss the 80's. Dave at his peak. Can't beat it. Thanks Shelly.....

For real man.. I'd give anything to be in that moment. Dave has lived the life and he's still upright!

[So this is love]

This is why he is called Diamond David Lee Roth!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VAiN]

This is why he is called Diamond David Lee Roth!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is the king!! No one is cooler than Dave!!

[big fatty]

Anyone got a guess at when / where this might have been taken?

It is from a Madonna afterparty at the Pallidium Niteclub in NYC- June, 7, 1985.

[big fatty]

Cancel Post-Delete.

How the fuck do I delete these pictures ?????

[Angel]

Now, now, I didn't say Dave was gay. I simply implied that he posed for a picture with two flamers in a NYC bath house. And who amongst us hasn't done the same?

:biggrin:

Okay...had to give you a :thumbup: on that one. ;)

[So this is love]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5w06Naq0c Hello Baby!!!!!!!!

[So this is love]

that was close.........;)

[big fatty]

Ran across this old interview article. It states that " DLR had laid plans to follow the lead of Alice Cooper by playing the grouchy chef in the Sesame Street movie back in '84. " I had never heard of this before. I wonder if it was true. Probably not. :wtf:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/jan/04/valen-halen-david-lee-roth

Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' – a classic interview from the vaults

Later this week, a re-formed Van Halen are due to make their return with a gig in New York, with a tour and album to follow. Here, in our latest visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – Mick Brown meets a chirpy David Lee Roth in 1984

Wednesday 4 January 2012 14.19 GMT

'Hey, baby, if you’re lookin’ for trouble' … Van Halen's David Lee Roth in 1985. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature

Mick Brown from Rock's Backpages

It is another perfect day in paradise, and David Lee Roth has decided to go for a drive down Hollywood Boulevard. There is a certain style involved in this. Roth drives a pristine red and white 1951 Mercury, the size of the small bungalows one sees beside azure swimming pools in the more expensive Beverly Hills hotels. Every extrusion has been recessed into the body of the car, leaving its lines unbroken. Its chrome gleams in the warm midday sun. Its suspension has been lowered so that it hovers four inches above the ground, in the manner of the low riders to be found in the barrios of East Los Angeles. "Ethnic minorities love this car", he says. Roth has dressed for the drive. He is wearing red satin bathing shorts, a muscle-beach T-shirt, thick woolly socks and hiking boots. His hair hangs in a thick unruly mane around his shoulders. He is smoking a joint and cackling demonically as he feeds the Temptations' Greatest Hits into the cassette player, as if there could be nothing finer than to be bumping gently along the boulevard at 20mph, stopping at every traffic light to bask in the admiration of the driver in the next car, in the curious stares and excited squeals from bystanders on street corners. "Hey, how you doin' yourself, babe? It's a '51 Mercury, my friend –why thank you. You take care now. Howyadoin' sweetheart – an autograph? Sure. Gotta pen before the lights change? Hey darlin'..." The two teenage girls frozen on the crossing are creasing over with excitement and embarrassment. "You two girls lookin' for trouble? Well HERE I AM..." David Lee Roth was in good humour. The previous week, Van Halen – the group which he leads – had won the award for 1984's Best Video on MTV (the rock video channel on US cable TV) for their song Jump. The $1.5 m they had lately received for performing at a Californian pop music festival – the single largest pay-out in pop music history – was in the bank accruing interest at a highly favourable rate. They had, in the past six months, toured the world, including an appearance in Britain in front of 65,000 people at the aptly-named Monsters of Rock festival where, it was popularly acknowledged, they had stolen the show from the putative headliners AC/DC. David Lee Roth was working on his first solo record (a single, California Girls, to be released this week), and was about to go exploring in New Guinea. The sun was beating down on his '51 Mercury; girls were waving at him from street corners. God was in His heaven; David Lee Roth was improving his tan; and all was right with the world. "I've always been very self-motivated," he said, stating what was rapidly becoming obvious. "I never went looking for action. I always assumed it was in the glove compartment, so to speak, and all we need is a place to get it out and spread it around. It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else'. These people will never find the action. There's three kinds of folks on this planet. There's people who make things happen; there's people who watch things happen; and there's people who wonder, what happened?" Roth had burst into a gale of laughter and was banging his first delightedly on the dashboard. "Hey, babe – how you doin'..?" If it is presently hard to ignore Roth and Van Halen in the pop music papers; on video; in the best-selling record charts; and it is particularly hard to ignore them on stage, because they are so loud. "Even our slow songs," says Roth, "have got a lot of torque." This is heavy metal. The revenge of the electric guitar on the synthesizer; the revenge too of biceps and masculine virtue on the foppishness of British pop music. Now is a propitious time for such music in America. MTV bristles with groups in stud-encrusted codpieces, animal furs, chains and body oil. They are brandishing whips, foaming at the mouth and beating their chest wigs. It is a fearsome sight. For every Boy George there is a Mötley Crüe or Ratt; for every Spandau Ballet, a Thor or Quiet Riot. But in the land of the mindless power chord, Van Halen are king. "All these other guys, they're monster movies", says Roth. "They're closet impotents. Family men. They get up there and growl and make faces like an oboe player, but these are the same people who think an aneurysm is something to do with toilet training. "Y' know, there's a guy in Quiet Riot who mimics what I do. He goes out with a bottle of Jack Daniels on stage, but he has to be careful he doesn't bang it too hard on the drum riser in case it foams up and the audience know it's filled with soda pop. I hear this from the groupies, okay? They don't lie." In the battle of volume, braggadocio and excess which is now fought in the arena of American rock, Van Halen have two distinct assets. One is the guitar-playing of Edward Van Halen himself, which so defines the genre that Michael Jackson borrowed him to play the solo on the single Beat It, in order, it is said, to seduce white rock radio stations into playing the record. The other asset is David Lee Roth's ego. A '51 Mercury is barely large enough to contain it. To sit with David Lee Roth is to be confirmed with a gale force of self-congratulation, dismissive put-down of others, gimcrack philosophy. A lot of torque. This, he says, with uncharacteristic gravitas, is a public service. His fans expect it. He has lately been impressing the American rock press with selective excerpts from 200 of the World's Greatest Speeches – a compendium of discourse from Caesar to Martin Luther King. "All that stuff about storming the stadiums and fighting them on the bleachers – none of those guys know where all that's coming from." In his more contemplative moments, Roth is apt to reflect that the rise of Van Halen in general, and himself in particular, resonates with the spirit of contemporary things American. It is escapist fantasy – "the eternal Saturday night"; it is capitalism in its purest and most unadulterated from. David Lee Roth closes his eyes and thinks of hamburgers. "Y'know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing – a hamburger and fries to go – but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. I admire that, and that's how I geared myself." Roth was lighting another joint, waving to a girl on the pavement and thinking seriously about a beer. "I mean, it's not like I geared myself exactly after Ray Kroc, you understand. It wasn't like I grew up wanting to be like Mr. McDonald. Ronald McDonald maybe..." This was not, perhaps, an ambition shared by many of Roth's contemporaries as he grew up, the son of a surgeon, in a prosperous middle-class suburb in Illinois. When he was 10, the family moved to Pasadena, California, the first district in the state to introduce a programme of integrational bussing. Roth was, in his own words, "in the nose cone of the first bus into the ghetto". It was to be formative influence. He was already fluently profane in Spanish, Negro and white Anglo-Saxon protestant idioms when, at the age of 16, he discovered Alice Cooper. Cooper's souped-up heavy rock – a feverish celebration of consumption and decay, performed with the aid of a hangman's noose, a boa constrictor and baby dolls being mutilated on stage – impressed him deeply. Alice's subsequent embrace in the arms of conventional show business, being put out to pasture on the golf-links with Bob Hope, only heightened Roth's conviction that here was a role model to emulate. Van Halen won their first record contract in 1977, at a concert in Anaheim Stadium, when four hirsute figures – one with Roth's flowing blonde mane – floated gently into the stadium by parachute. Van Halen were hiding in a van, dressed in parachute suits, and took the stage moments later. As a professional gambit, it set a certain tone which they have followed assiduously ever since. The stipulation in their performance contract that the promoter remove all brown Smarties in the bowl in their dressing-room (to ensure he has read the contract properly); Roth's two black-belt midget bodyguards – such things, he suggests, are imperative for "overall ambience". He says: "When you look out of your bedroom door and a midget goes by in a bath towel, you know you're not in life insurance. And it's important for me to keep reminding myself, to keep populating this little world and adding to it. I was always disappointed when I was a little kid when I found out that other people were faking me out – they didn't really dress like that, or look like that or behave like that off stage. And I believe in leaving the door open and letting everybody have a look. A fantasy is no fun unless everybody shares it." What David Lee Roth is most anxious to impress is that he actually takes his life very seriously. "I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business – I love the business. It's mental chess, man; computer games without the grid. And I like the knocks. I knew I was a star when I got my first piece of hate mail. I got no time for Michael Jackson getting upset over people saying he's had a sex change. Stick your head above the crowd and somebody's going to throw a rock at it. I think it says that in the Bible." The expeditions which Roth and a small group of friends organise each year to remote parts of the world are something else he takes seriously. In 1983 he spent seven weeks trekking through the Amazonian jungle. Last summer he was planning a five-week exploratory trip through the Highlands of New Guinea. "It's therapy beyond belief", he says. "You don't think about anything except the most basic primal instincts and necessities. Man is at his finest and develops the fastest and in the best possible way when he is at his most basic. The natives of New Guinea have 650 separate dialects, so for me it's all down to sign language. If you can relax, you can tell some pretty good stories. And if you develop that facility it's bound to serve you well in the music industry." One could see what he meant. For Roth to mix with "the mental midgets with guitars" must be like a leviathan mingling with pygmies. The trouble with most musicians, he mused, was that, like athletes, they have trouble seeing the end until the end is near. Personally, he could see a career in writing, perhaps as a "participatory observer" in popular culture, "kind of like Will Rogers or Mark Twain. I believe in disposable culture, because it's significant of the time and place it occurs in. Van Halen – any rock band –is a historical paragraph. It's disposable not because it's bad –although these things often are – but because there are so many new things coming along and replacing it. I support that. I think it educates people, and it's an educational language. What's happening this week?" True to this bent, he has already laid plans to follow the Alice Cooper model, playing the part of a grouchy cook in the new Sesame Street film. In the world of the high-torque guitar solo, the stud-encrusted cod-piece and the midget bodyguard, such a move should not be seen as out of context. "I've always been a show-off," says Roth, "but I've also always had something to say. I will express myself through other avenues. Just so long as I'm famous. So long as the spotlight's on Dave..." We walked back to the car, having drunk the beer that Roth had been seriously thinking about. Somebody had left a Polaroid snapshot lying on the front seat, with a message. "Next time you come, Karen gives the best service." Roth put it in the glove compartment, where he keeps all the action, switched on the Temptations and nosed the car into a stream of traffic. A girl on the pavement was doing a double-take. "Hey, baby, if you're lookin' for trouble..."

Tags: Metal, Pop and rock, Van Halen

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[VHscraps]

That's one of my favourite features on Dave - I still have the original fckn copy, too, believe it or not. It was from - originally - the highly respected (London) Sunday Times Magazine. I think it was right at the turn of 1985 that it was published, so a few months before the split with Van Halen.

The Guardian reprinted it when ADKOT came out.

As for the Sesame Street story - that musta come from Dave or whoever was doing his PR at the time, I think. This was 1985, so the reporter wasn't dredging up rumours on the internet, as they do now - someone was telling him that.

You never know, with VH - at that point - almost at death's door and Dave a big MTV star, he might have been offered a role in that thing, but then it fell through because he had to leave VH and all of a sudden he was trying to put a band together and save the CFTH movie??

[VHscraps]

Because I have had too much to drink, and because the friggin' neighbours are keeping me awake ...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/11377273983_4dd90cc5d1_h.jpg

I have huge piles of this pre-internet stuff that I haul about with me every time I move! I don't know what happened to the original, but this was a photo of a photocopy ...

[Edwards3rdWife]

It's always a treat watching video of such a fine piece of manhood, then and now. And some of the best clubs in the 80's were the gay clubs, honey... they played the good stuff - funk - not disco.

[DONNIEP]

Yeah, because all the cool people hung out at the gay clubs...

[mh5150]

I never knew NEGRO was a language? ??
Read the article above...

[Zing!]

Not to be the turd in the punch bowl, but Dave's "commentary" wasn't all that for me. I guess I was hoping for a little more insight from him as a director. I wanted to know about props, extras, locations, difficulties and fuck-ups on location. This was just a bunch of random Dave one-liners and vague non-sequiturs that could apply to any Van Halen or DLR video, and they were few and far between anyways. When you're talking David Lee Roth, you expect him to be talking non-stop - a mile a minute - about every little nuance involved with each shot in every video. Instead we get 10 second quips about his hair and fashion sense and jack all to do with the actual video. Love Dave, but this didn't do it for me. Here's hoping for an actual "director's cut" commentary on all the =VH= and DLR videos somewhere down the road where he dissects these things properly instead of half-assing it.

[VAiN]

Not to be the turd in the punch bowl, but Dave's "commentary" wasn't all that for me. I guess I was hoping for a little more insight from him as a director. I wanted to know about props, extras, locations, difficulties and fuck-ups on location. This was just a bunch of random Dave one-liners and vague non-sequiturs that could apply to any Van Halen or DLR video, and they were few and far between anyways. When you're talking David Lee Roth, you expect him to be talking non-stop - a mile a minute - about every little nuance involved with each shot in every video. Instead we get 10 second quips about his hair and fashion sense and jack all to do with the actual video. Love Dave, but this didn't do it for me. Here's hoping for an actual "director's cut" commentary on all the =VH= and DLR videos somewhere down the road where he dissects these things properly instead of half-assing it.

To be fair, you're looking for a behind the scenes kind of thing - which would be great, but this clip is a commentary.. Thoughts.. I loved it. Nice to hear Dave poke fun at himself and the time. Take it for what it is.. Like flipping through pics of your youth and making a few jokes.

[katina]

Dave, thank you for the laughs and the nostalgia for the 80´s.
Thank you for being you, always. :appl:

I´m just returning the favor.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8BHoUqWMw

Please, make VH play in Brazil again.

[big fatty]

As for the Sesame Street story - that musta come from Dave or whoever was doing his PR at the time, I think. This was 1985, so the reporter wasn't dredging up rumours on the internet, as they do now - someone was telling him that.

You never know, with VH - at that point - almost at death's door and Dave a big MTV star, he might have been offered a role in that thing, but then it fell through because he had to leave VH and all of a sudden he was trying to put a band together and save the CFTH movie??

Yeah, I seem to recall him mentioning he had a few roles offered to him on occaision. Could be he considered it then changed his mind. Ironically, his then girlfriend around that time, actress Sonia Braga , got one of her first roles on the Brazillian version of Sesame Street, " Vila Sesamo " in 1972.


Because I have had too much to drink, and because the friggin' neighbours are keeping me awake ...

You should be the one keeping your neighbors awake, not the other way around, by cranking up some good old # 1 style Roth n Roll full blast. :devildance: