David Lee Roth Vents About Van Halen's Future

[DLR Bridge]

I'm confident everything's gonna...

Hey what the!? A whole shit load of confetti and balloons dropped on my head.

Ohhh it's my 2000 post celebration. Thanks guys!

[TJMKID]

David Lee Roth is one of the few true rock stars. He lives life on his terms and does what he wants. He persues his passions with a vengeance. Most people are just too scared to exercise their freedom in such ways. Dave is not and that is why Dave has never been and never will be a slave.

I still can't figure out why people admire assholes like Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons and EVH. Sure, they got a lot of money in the bank but they're basically boring homebody fucks shuffling around as the old lady barks orders at them. Nothing exciting to see here.

Dave read "Huckleberry Finn" at age 8 and decided he was going to make that his life and not just a book he read. All you can really take to the next life is memories and Dave sure got a lot of colorful ones to take with him.

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I'll bet! I'd love to hear that. There's been mention of VH doing that tune in the club days, but I never heard a boot of it. I can envision Dave kicking ass on that one.

VH used to do several songs from They Only Come Out At Night back then, yet I've never run across "Free Ride" out side of the Vegas shows. The Edgar Winter Group must have cast a pretty big shadow over California kids at the time (I'm still convinced VH started playing "YRGM" after hearing it on a Rick Derringer live album). Hell, Dave even covered "Easy Street" from Winter's follow-up album Shock Treatment on the Crazy From The Heat EP.

Sadly, this crummy version is also the best sounding audio from that era.

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That would have been a better choice than Where Have All The Good Times Gone. More shake to it and, needless to say, a more positive sentiment about the God damn fun they and we should all be having!!!!

Dang it all.

[Zing!]

I'm confident everything's gonna...

Hey what the!? A whole shit load of confetti and balloons dropped on my head.

Ohhh it's my 2000 post celebration. Thanks guys!

Hmmm... Must have pushed the wrong button. I thought I hit Sharks With Lasers. Must be your lucky day.

Congrats!

[VHscraps]

VH used to do several songs from They Only Come Out At Night back then, yet I've never run across "Free Ride" out side of the Vegas shows. The Edgar Winter Group must have cast a pretty big shadow over California kids at the time (I'm still convinced VH started playing "YRGM" after hearing it on a Rick Derringer live album). Hell, Dave even covered "Easy Street" from Winter's follow-up album Shock Treatment on the Crazy From The Heat EP.

Sadly, this crummy version is also the best sounding audio from that era.

D'yall know of Pete Frame's 'Rock Family Trees'? As the name implies ... family trees about rock bands! Anyhow, there are Van Halen family tree connections in addition to Roth and Edgar Winter - his They Only Come Out at Night band featured two guys who went on to play with Hagar - Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff.

We need a draughtsman, or someone handy with a pen who has as much time to kill as we spend on here, to do one of these:

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I still can't figure out why people admire assholes like Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons and EVH. Sure, they got a lot of money in the bank but they're basically boring homebody fucks shuffling around as the old lady barks orders at them. Nothing exciting to see here.

Dave read "Huckleberry Finn" at age 8 and decided he was going to make that his life and not just a book he read. All you can really take to the next life is memories and Dave sure got a lot of colorful ones to take with him.

Most people don't have the balls to go down the river. It never was about money for Dave. It was always about the adventure. The money will make you fat and domesticated.

[chefcraig]

D'yall know of Pete Frame's 'Rock Family Trees'? As the name implies ... family trees about rock bands! Anyhow, there are Van Halen family tree connections in addition to Roth and Edgar Winter - his They Only Come Out at Night band featured two guys who went on to play with Hagar - Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff.

It's quite complicated (the whole Edgar Winter/Derringer/Van Halen deal). Derringer started in the McCoys, who had one big and one less than big hit ("Hang On Sloopy" & a cover of Peggy Lee's "Fever"). That band morphed into Johnny Winter And, which then turned into plain old Johnny Winter after Derringer quit. Thing is, he (Derringer) stayed around long enough to produce J. Winter's best album ever, Still Alive And Well. Next thing ya know, Derringer is helping produce and playing with Edgar Winter's band on They Only Come Out At Night. Ronnie Montrose bails, so Derringer replaces him in the Edgar Winter Group for the next two albums, before forming his own self-named band.

Van Halen would soon cover tunes by Edgar Winter's White Trash, The Edgar Winter Group, Rick Derringer as well as a couple of Johnny Winter songs. Roth went on in his solo career to cover Edgar's version of "Tobacco Road" and "Easy Street." To bring things full circle, Edgar wound up playing on three of Roth's solo albums, and I think he even played with the guy during the Vegas shows.

Oh, and Rick Derringer wound up playing Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo on Weird Al's version of "Beat It", called "Eat It."

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Didn't Derringer open for The Stones on one of their earlier tours when he was a still a teenager?

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Didn't Derringer open for The Stones on one of their earlier tours when he was a still a teenager?

Yep, back when the McCoys' "Hang On Sloopy" was a hit. I think they opened for the whole 1966 tour.

[big fatty]

They could of done a mean badass version of " I'm An Animal " from Shock Treatment. It would've been fast, loose and raunchy full of reckless abandon and high velocity torque, somewhat like " Romeo Delight " or " Loss Of Control ".

[PETE'S BROTHER]

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[chefcraig]

They could of done a mean badass version of " I'm An Animal " from Shock Treatment. It would've been fast, loose and raunchy full of reckless abandon and high velocity torque, somewhat like " Romeo Delight " or " Loss Of Control ".

Friend, imagine how cool this would have sounded with Alex's drums and Ed doing dive bombs all over the place.

[Northern Girl]

TJMKID, I think I love you!

[big fatty]

Dave never became a paramedic in NYC because he was hard up for cash. I've always hated that bullshit notion being propagated by the Hagarita Sheep and their ilk. Paramedics only make around $50,000/year and I'm sure Dave makes 4 or 5 times that yearly on VH royalties from all those multi-platinum albums that he has songwriting credits.

Dave became an inner city medic because he admired his father's selfless work as an eye surgeon treating inmates in the California prison system. Dave just wanted to give back to the community in his own way. From his speech at the Cafe Wha gig last January, it sounds like he also regretted never going to college for a degree and wanted to add that to his bucket list. Bravo to a true Renaissance Man like Sir Diamond Roth!

Dave is not motivated by money. He has always been worth around $50 million even during the leanest times of his music career so he's not hard up for cash like Eddie and Alex have been.

Awesome post right there. You said it right.

That always picked me too, how so many snotty little critics fail to mention the full story, and omit the fact that he was a VOLUNTEER, doing something positive to give back to the community.

Most likley he has done other good deeds as well, but the snivelling little snotrag pukes never mention that. They just smirk and snicker as though he has stumbled into some hard times or whatever. Meanwhile those goofball critics and jerkoff mouthpieces probably do jack shit with their lives, other than sit around and bitch. Oh well , fuck them all to hell. Can't let the bastards get you down.

I sometimes think Diamond Dave is sort of like the Rodney Dangerfield of Rock, he gets no respect, even though he is the best at what he does. The dictionary should put a 1982 picture of him next to the definition of Rockstar.