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Disaster Dave: Roth’s radio debut is a morning-drive Hindenburg
By John Gorman
MIGHT AS WELL JUMP David Lee Roth.
DAVID LEE ROTH? It makes you ponder how out of touch the CBS Radio chieftains are for even considering him as a Howard Stern morning-drive replacement. Here’s the guy who was dismissed from Van Halen; had a solo career that produced “Yankee Rose,” a song whose rotation belongs only in Hell, and a 14-piece revue that got canned after a week’s run at Bally’s in Las Vegas. Maybe the CBS brass believed Roth had a coolness factor for getting busted in Washington Square for trying to buy ganja from an undercover cop.
Roth, whose show debuted a week and a half ago, opened his debut show with a pre-recorded sultry-sounding female saying, “Welcome to David Lee Roth. Prepare to feel filthy, ashamed and completely alive.” It should’ve ended there. Roth introduced himself by saying, “Where do you start out a gig like this?” That led to a puerile discussion with his unidentified sidekicks on the best food to eat for a hangover.
Roth bragged about learning how to fly a helicopter and his emergency medical technician training (though I doubt he’ll resuscitate CBS Radio with this show). He acknowledged his predecessor by saying, “Howard Stern has gone off into the front edge of American culture,” whatever that means. The show bottomed out when Roth introduced his uncle, Manny Roth, who spent the rest of the show talking about his military duty and running a Greenwich Village folk club in the early ’60s.
Roth was not the expected flamboyant, testosterone-charged Diamond Dave of his Van Halen days, when he the epitome of a contemptuous rock star. What we heard was an ego-deflated, 51-year old has-been rock star who alluded to his best days being behind him and said not one word about his future. This show gives flops a bad name.
Roth showed no improvement in days two, three or four, and by his fifth show — and his first opposite Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite debut — he resorted to telling ten-year-old jokes about George Michael and whining about being replaced by Sammy Hagar in Van Halen. Let it go, David. Let it go. Roth did prove that sometimes first impressions are accurate.
In some parts of the country, CBS replaced Stern with unfunny comedian Adam Corolla or former WXTM morning host Rover, who now broadcasts his morning show from Chicago. Corolla delivers a poor imitation of a dated “Morning Zoo,” and by his second show, was taking predictable potshots at lesbians and Mexicans. Original. Rover’s material was so flat that he better play the “cat tethered by helium balloons flying over Chicago” card soon.
Howard, on the other hand, free of the shackles of terrestrial radio, fulfilled all expectations. Following a few minutes of technical difficulties, he recovered with a reinvigorated energy without having to worry about the FCC fining him for adult material and language.
He played unedited excerpts of the lecherous voice mail messages that Access Hollywood co-host Pat O’Brien left on a woman’s voice mail last year, a few prank phone calls, and a Dave Letterman imitator describing his sexual fantasies.
Stern introduced actor George Takei as one of his new announcers. Takei, who played Sulu on the original Star Trek TV show, made news recently for admitting to a long-term relationship with another man. Stern also introduced former Playboy bunny Heidi Cortez, who hosts a nighttime phone-sex show on Howard 100, one of the two Sirius channels he oversees. He also admitted that an item in the New York Post’s Page Six column reporting his marriage in Mexico to model girlfriend Beth Ostrosky was false.
For those who feel Howard’s material is too risqué, I suggest eavesdropping on some of the conversations at middle schools these days.
Prior to Howard’s official debut on Monday, he and his wack pack did two unscripted “soundcheck” shows on Sirius to familiarize themselves with the new facilities. One secret to Stern’s success is surrounding himself with a creative team, paying them well and, though he’s clearly in charge, allowing them to actively participate in the show.
If Roth, Carolla and Rover proved anything, it’s that they’re not going to replace Howard Stern.
By John Gorman
MIGHT AS WELL JUMP David Lee Roth.
DAVID LEE ROTH? It makes you ponder how out of touch the CBS Radio chieftains are for even considering him as a Howard Stern morning-drive replacement. Here’s the guy who was dismissed from Van Halen; had a solo career that produced “Yankee Rose,” a song whose rotation belongs only in Hell, and a 14-piece revue that got canned after a week’s run at Bally’s in Las Vegas. Maybe the CBS brass believed Roth had a coolness factor for getting busted in Washington Square for trying to buy ganja from an undercover cop.
Roth, whose show debuted a week and a half ago, opened his debut show with a pre-recorded sultry-sounding female saying, “Welcome to David Lee Roth. Prepare to feel filthy, ashamed and completely alive.” It should’ve ended there. Roth introduced himself by saying, “Where do you start out a gig like this?” That led to a puerile discussion with his unidentified sidekicks on the best food to eat for a hangover.
Roth bragged about learning how to fly a helicopter and his emergency medical technician training (though I doubt he’ll resuscitate CBS Radio with this show). He acknowledged his predecessor by saying, “Howard Stern has gone off into the front edge of American culture,” whatever that means. The show bottomed out when Roth introduced his uncle, Manny Roth, who spent the rest of the show talking about his military duty and running a Greenwich Village folk club in the early ’60s.
Roth was not the expected flamboyant, testosterone-charged Diamond Dave of his Van Halen days, when he the epitome of a contemptuous rock star. What we heard was an ego-deflated, 51-year old has-been rock star who alluded to his best days being behind him and said not one word about his future. This show gives flops a bad name.
Roth showed no improvement in days two, three or four, and by his fifth show — and his first opposite Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite debut — he resorted to telling ten-year-old jokes about George Michael and whining about being replaced by Sammy Hagar in Van Halen. Let it go, David. Let it go. Roth did prove that sometimes first impressions are accurate.
In some parts of the country, CBS replaced Stern with unfunny comedian Adam Corolla or former WXTM morning host Rover, who now broadcasts his morning show from Chicago. Corolla delivers a poor imitation of a dated “Morning Zoo,” and by his second show, was taking predictable potshots at lesbians and Mexicans. Original. Rover’s material was so flat that he better play the “cat tethered by helium balloons flying over Chicago” card soon.
Howard, on the other hand, free of the shackles of terrestrial radio, fulfilled all expectations. Following a few minutes of technical difficulties, he recovered with a reinvigorated energy without having to worry about the FCC fining him for adult material and language.
He played unedited excerpts of the lecherous voice mail messages that Access Hollywood co-host Pat O’Brien left on a woman’s voice mail last year, a few prank phone calls, and a Dave Letterman imitator describing his sexual fantasies.
Stern introduced actor George Takei as one of his new announcers. Takei, who played Sulu on the original Star Trek TV show, made news recently for admitting to a long-term relationship with another man. Stern also introduced former Playboy bunny Heidi Cortez, who hosts a nighttime phone-sex show on Howard 100, one of the two Sirius channels he oversees. He also admitted that an item in the New York Post’s Page Six column reporting his marriage in Mexico to model girlfriend Beth Ostrosky was false.
For those who feel Howard’s material is too risqué, I suggest eavesdropping on some of the conversations at middle schools these days.
Prior to Howard’s official debut on Monday, he and his wack pack did two unscripted “soundcheck” shows on Sirius to familiarize themselves with the new facilities. One secret to Stern’s success is surrounding himself with a creative team, paying them well and, though he’s clearly in charge, allowing them to actively participate in the show.
If Roth, Carolla and Rover proved anything, it’s that they’re not going to replace Howard Stern.
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