David Lee Roth
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- Geith
I have no idea what this site is, but what a life the man has led, eh?
- olive0
This must be just like living in paradise...
Van Halen 1 is a great album by the way. seriously.
- Mal0
He's a paramedic in NYC these days.
- olive0
his father was a dentist to the rich and famous in Beverly Hills so I was told...
- TheTick0
One of my favorite online interviews ever:
http://www.popsmear.com/popcultu…
http://www.popsmear.com/popcultu…
Great quotes:
"Classic Van Halen made you want to drink, dance and fuck. Current Van Halen encourages us to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship."
"Your talent and output as an artist will always be a slave to your character, your personality and your lifestyle."
"When new artists say to me, 'Dave, how will I know that I've made it?' I tell 'em, 'When you can spell 'subpoena' without thinking about it, you made it.' "
"My belligerent enthusiasm is as optimistic as ever. I'm an optimist. When I go fishin', I take a Nikon and a frying pan."
"A tiny, little gnat, properly motivated, will drive a water buffalo insane."
"I think that a lot of people can get to the proverbial seashore and look out on the great expanse and clench. It's far easier to have the dream and vision, but most of us seem to lock up when it's time to jump in or go up against your dragon. People are so inventive and creative and colorful, but when it comes time to "make it happen, Captain"-which is an expression I heard from a hooker in Vancouver-that's the trick"
"Larceny! Somewhere between shoplifting and manslaughter two is larceny! Thins the blood, builds character, keeps the skin looking good. "
Go read those interviews now.
Ah. Diamond Dave. They just don't make rock stars like him anymore. He was a philosopher king / court jester of the giant rock and roll circus. Now what do we have for pop intelligence? Manufactured rap star beef? Sad.
- blaw0
welcome to 80s week on nt.
let me know if you need to borrow my tiger-striped bandana.
- TheTick0
By the way "Van Halen I" was as equally, if not far more, punk and radical than anything the Sex Pistols or the Clash were basically doing at the same time - sonically speaking. They were like Black Flag with big giant phalluses, and um wearing day glo colors and stuff...it really was a big "fuck you" to the rock sound conventions at the time. Weird how it sounds just like everything else these days, but these kids wrote the playbook..
- jevad0
"Wearing skinny little shorts!
You're talking about skinny little shorts, a fella asked me fairly recently from a super heavy metal, thrash, bladerunner magazine, whatever, he said, 'So Dave, would you ever entertain the notion of posing for a photo spread for a gay magazine?' I said, 'Wait, let's examine this. These are broad generalities, of which I am particularly fond of, but we got a few friends reading this here, some of them I got to see in jujitsu tomorrow morning bright and early. I don't particularize photo sessions per say, but when you speak about this kind of magazine, you're talking about a magazine that's read almost entirely by guys that contains almost entirely guys who are mostly in a state of great undress, right?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Well doesn't that describe your magazine?' Ha Ha! I know how to get out of anything."
HAHAhahaha
- grayhood0
"My belligerent enthusiasm is as optimistic as ever. I'm an optimist. When I go fishin', I take a Nikon and a frying pan."
that is an awesome quote.
- olive0
Just took it out one more time VH1....aaaghhh
- Geith0
Right Olive, but that's Pasadena (my home town), not Beverly Hills.
- olive0
not that far off no?
- Geith0
15-20 miles. About 3 hours on the freeway. Haha.
- opiate0
i saw that he was doing his own movies. Off the wall stuff, kung-fu, midgets and ass....
- olive0
You remember the video for "This must be just like living in paradise..."?
They just don't make'em like this anymore. Wouldn't surprise me if he did it himself.
- opiate0
theres a pik on there that was from that video. the one where he's climbing
- TheTick0
DLT needed a --> bump.
or should I say "Jump."
Don't blame me, I'm just leaning here against the record machine, reaching down between my legs...easing the seat back...
(in the internet age that all has a completely different meanin, don't it?)
- TheTick0
Best DLR quote. Ever.:
"If you're like me and you only have three or four notes in your vocal range, how do you reinvest? Not reinvent, but how do you make them stronger, bigger, or skinnier? You have two choices: you can go out now and learn a lot of other licks and get even more in command of your technical facility, and you will be an absolute failure in life. Or, you take some of the cash, a little of the fame, and the fame merely gets you a better seat on the bus, and go get your heart broken in a couple of different languages, not including English. Do you know what it means to get a flat tire in the middle of the Sudan? You don't even know where that is, do you? I mean the tire, asshole. Go out and learn what it means to make change to do your laundry somewhere north of Edinburgh. Take a little time and learn where the 'H' goes in that name, and when you come back and pick up your electrically-amplified dick stick, those four notes are going to be so new and so fat and sexy or trim like a piece of granite with wet tissue draped on it. Your choice."
- blaw0
^
ha! pretty good.
- todelete__20
that quote brought a tear to my eye.
- jevad0
The man is a lyrical maestro...his command of the English Language is second to none! He could put the pope down and make it sound like a compliment....