WTF Happened to David Lee Roth?

[Terry]

His books were all shit. Okay, maybe the one he did on Lenny Bruce was plausible reading material until you get to the end and you suddenly realize it's a god damn Albert Goldman book I'm reading here. Goldman sensationalized rock star drug abuse and made millions telling bullshit stores about John Lennon much of which Goldman provided no actual references to.

So Roth did drugs, screwed groupie pussy, indulged in the excessive lifestyle. What rock star in his position wouldn't have?

The Lenny Bruce one I never read. The Lives Of John Lennon may well have been chock full of bullshit stories, but I found those far more entertaining than the Yoko's Tales Of St. John The Bread Baker party line bullshit stories. Probably somewhere between the two lies the truth, maybe closer to Yoko's take than Goldman's. Whatever.

Far as the clip and Roth, agreed it should come as a surprise to nobody that Roth did drugs, fucked groupies and went to excess at times. I thought we all knew that already.

[Terry]

Yeah he clearly had a degree of self discipline that prevented that although I've always found it interesting that he didn't manage to stop smoking tobacco. It's possible that the coke did damage his career as maybe is caused the breakdown of key relationships in his career with band members and crucial people like Ted Templeman or Pete Angelus, who knows?

Well, everybody has their vices. Tobacco seems pretty far down the list; personally harmful, to be sure. Maybe coke wasn't particularly helpful. Think like virtually every other entertainer he had a career arc with a peak. The entertainer crests the peak of the wave than has to figure out how to navigate the career after the heights have been reached. Some people crash into the water. Some people glide down the backside of the wave and go on to surf new (and, on occasion, even taller) waves.

[Terry]

So anyone who says they know Dave I’m like fuck off, no you don’t. Maybe his dog knew him best.

Only his fey asian houseboy 'masseuse' knows for sure.

[Nitro Express]

Only his fey asian houseboy 'masseuse' knows for sure.

I think the guy has deep seated distrust and is so guarded nobody is let in. Michael Anthony once said Dave came from a dysfunctional home situation. Not too long ago Dave said after his parents divorced he lived with his mom. His mom kicked him out of her house and he moved in with his dad. Dave was a teenager at this time. When Dave went back to his mom’s place there was another teenage boy living in his room and he wasn’t allowed to get his stuff. Dave left the story there and said, you try and figure the psychology on that one out. Anyways Dave refers to his mom as this cold person who always pointed out the negative.

If you can’t trust your own mother who can you trust? In his book Dave described himself as a loner who trusts nobody by choice. So that’s Dave. What we saw was the product of his passion. Diamond Dave was one of his projects and a project he put everything into. What better way to deal with deep seated pain than to rebel?

[Terry]

Famous people aren't any different than non-celebrities.

Plenty of famous people try to manage their public images. I'd guess that some do more than others. Not much different from what some non-famous people choose to put out on social media, or how they act in public vs. private. Some let it all hang out all the time. Some get their worst moments caught on film replayed over and over again, to the point where those moments define them out of proportion to the context of the entirety of their lives.

Nothing I've said in this post should be a revelation to anybody with even a minimal capacity to engage in critical thinking.

Trust can be tough to come by. Real friends vs. social acquaintances can be hard to come by, too, although confusing the two can be easy for some.

[Nitro Express]

Famous people aren't any different than non-celebrities.

Plenty of famous people try to manage their public images. I'd guess that some do more than others. Not much different from what some non-famous people choose to put out on social media, or how they act in public vs. private. Some let it all hang out all the time. Some get their worst moments caught on film replayed over and over again, to the point where those moments define them out of proportion to the context of the entirety of their lives.

Nothing I've said in this post should be a revelation to anybody with even a minimal capacity to engage in critical thinking.

Trust can be tough to come by. Real friends vs. social acquaintances can be hard to come by, too, although confusing the two can be easy for some.

Show business is the business of illusion. That illusion is carefully handled more so now than ever. Yeah there are some celebrities that are more of themselves. My parents owned a home in Newport Beach, CA. We would spend the summers down there. There was a restaurant we would eat at all the time and it’s still there and hasn’t changed much. It’s kind of a local icon. One time we were eating there and John Wayne and his family were at the next table. He had a home and a boat on the marina. I was probably six years old. John Wayne had a loud voice so you could hear him and he was the same guy you saw in the movies. He wasn’t acting much. It was a trip to see him in shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and a fisherman’s hat.

[Kristy]

Here's my conspiracy theory on what happened to David Lee Roth

Uncanny