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You've seen Russell. He's the Australian Cattle Dog Dave shows in his "Dave Scrapbook #1", the video given exclusively to the Roth Army.
At one point in the video, Dave falls backwards while dancing and Russell the dog runs over to see if Dave is hurt. Check it out, it's true.
So Shoes knew from that, that Dave has discovered the love of a dog, and from his video of Russell herding cattle, and knows that Dave enjoys something Shoes loves immensely. The joy of watching what a dog is bred to do. NOTHING like watching a herding dog herd, or a sporting dog hunt birds. Sheer joy.
So it is time to retell a story about good (Van HALEN) versus evil (Van HAGAR) and how good prevailed with one of Shoe's dogs thanks to Van Halen.
It was 2007. Shoes went to 3 VH concerts with her great DDLR friends. During "Jump" every night, Shoes would stand under the confetti and let it fill up her little purse with the Irish Setter on it. It would also fill up her cleavage and that would go into the little purse as well.
Then, it was 2009. Shoes had a dog named Emily. Emily would eventually become #3 dog in the nation, all breeds. But in 2009, she was a little known upstart with only 1 Best in Show under her belt. WE knew she was a star, but the Irish Setter community didn't.
We were at the Irish Setter Club of America's national specialty, held in Lancaster PA that year. This is a BIG honkin' deal - competing against 500 Irish Setters from all over the country. Since its inception in 1970, there are a total of 43 dogs who have won it. Shoes simply hoped Emily would get an Award of Merit, something reasonable, something to be proud of.
So Shoes is talking to her handler when we got there. Nice kid, young, always had seen him in suits up to this day where there was a golf tourney. He had been playing and had shorts on. And Shoes sees, to her HORROR, a tattoo on the guy's ankle. Why horror, you ask? Well the fucking tattoo is of the CABO WABO CHICKEN.
The handler is despondent trying to figure out why Shoes is wailing out loud. "It's from a trip to Cabo with my brother - we both got them" he says helplessly as I am still screaming.
"It's the bad Sammy Hagar mojo," I said, "we are DOOMED." I try to explain about Dave and Sammy, but he still thinks I have lost my mind, and I am quite serious about my melt-down.
So I leave him, realizing he thinks I am completely nuts. And I cannot imagine how this will end well ........UNTIL......
I look in my suitcase the morning of the big show and there is the Irish Setter purse I carried to the Van Halen concerts in 2007. And it is FILLED with confetti from "Jump".
So I grab some. Black and white tissue and blue metallic. If you were there, you remember it. And I take it to the handler and INSIST he put some in his shirt pocket to counteract the Bad Sammy Mojo. And to shut me up, he does it.
No blow by blow necessary. We won it all. Not a cut, not an Award of Merit, not Best of Opposite sex. We won BEST OF BREED at the Irish Setter CLub of America's National Specialty, going down in history as one of the best dogs of all time.
Emily would do WAY more in her career, but nothing will top that moment. And only *I* know it was because David Lee Roth's confetti squashed the bad mojo of the Cabo Wabo Chicken.
Dolemite, Motherfucker.
If you are the DDE rep, please share this story with Dave. If you can't tell him now, I will tell him someday myself.
At one point in the video, Dave falls backwards while dancing and Russell the dog runs over to see if Dave is hurt. Check it out, it's true.
So Shoes knew from that, that Dave has discovered the love of a dog, and from his video of Russell herding cattle, and knows that Dave enjoys something Shoes loves immensely. The joy of watching what a dog is bred to do. NOTHING like watching a herding dog herd, or a sporting dog hunt birds. Sheer joy.
So it is time to retell a story about good (Van HALEN) versus evil (Van HAGAR) and how good prevailed with one of Shoe's dogs thanks to Van Halen.
It was 2007. Shoes went to 3 VH concerts with her great DDLR friends. During "Jump" every night, Shoes would stand under the confetti and let it fill up her little purse with the Irish Setter on it. It would also fill up her cleavage and that would go into the little purse as well.
Then, it was 2009. Shoes had a dog named Emily. Emily would eventually become #3 dog in the nation, all breeds. But in 2009, she was a little known upstart with only 1 Best in Show under her belt. WE knew she was a star, but the Irish Setter community didn't.
We were at the Irish Setter Club of America's national specialty, held in Lancaster PA that year. This is a BIG honkin' deal - competing against 500 Irish Setters from all over the country. Since its inception in 1970, there are a total of 43 dogs who have won it. Shoes simply hoped Emily would get an Award of Merit, something reasonable, something to be proud of.
So Shoes is talking to her handler when we got there. Nice kid, young, always had seen him in suits up to this day where there was a golf tourney. He had been playing and had shorts on. And Shoes sees, to her HORROR, a tattoo on the guy's ankle. Why horror, you ask? Well the fucking tattoo is of the CABO WABO CHICKEN.
The handler is despondent trying to figure out why Shoes is wailing out loud. "It's from a trip to Cabo with my brother - we both got them" he says helplessly as I am still screaming.
"It's the bad Sammy Hagar mojo," I said, "we are DOOMED." I try to explain about Dave and Sammy, but he still thinks I have lost my mind, and I am quite serious about my melt-down.
So I leave him, realizing he thinks I am completely nuts. And I cannot imagine how this will end well ........UNTIL......
I look in my suitcase the morning of the big show and there is the Irish Setter purse I carried to the Van Halen concerts in 2007. And it is FILLED with confetti from "Jump".
So I grab some. Black and white tissue and blue metallic. If you were there, you remember it. And I take it to the handler and INSIST he put some in his shirt pocket to counteract the Bad Sammy Mojo. And to shut me up, he does it.
No blow by blow necessary. We won it all. Not a cut, not an Award of Merit, not Best of Opposite sex. We won BEST OF BREED at the Irish Setter CLub of America's National Specialty, going down in history as one of the best dogs of all time.
Emily would do WAY more in her career, but nothing will top that moment. And only *I* know it was because David Lee Roth's confetti squashed the bad mojo of the Cabo Wabo Chicken.
Dolemite, Motherfucker.
If you are the DDE rep, please share this story with Dave. If you can't tell him now, I will tell him someday myself.
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