David Lee Roth is Rock 'n Roll. The 80's were the best of times!

Being a teenager in the 80s. What fun. Seems a different world away from now. 🤘

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

Oh it really was,all the stuff kids get off on now is just the dregs of humanity!

@angel4animals956

Жыл бұрын

89-95: greatest yrs/happiest time of my life. 96: Yr the internet introduced 2 the world. Interesting how 95 was the end of my carefree, anxiety-free days full of fun/laughter/hopeful-vs worried/fearful/helpless & overwhelmed -days when I couldn’t WAIT 2 get outta bed & seize the day….so excited 4 the future. And 96 was the start of the internet. The beginning of the “age of technology.”…& the sad, downward spiral to where we r now…& thus my horror 2 deal with the reality: if this is where we r now, & it just gets worse, how could I feel any different? I almost am sorry I remember so vividly how amazing, beautiful, & close to “perfect” life was, & how happy I was, in 80s & most of 90s.

@noxcorvus93

Жыл бұрын

Well said. I am with you on all points.

@angel4animals956

Жыл бұрын

@@noxcorvus93 hey there, fellow VH/DLR fan. Just curious 2 see if u were responding only 2 orig post (as I did w/ my reply), or mine? I won’t be too hurt if my reply had zero 2 w/ yours, & I ‘ll still be your new YT friend ,& glad we both share a love/appreciation of Diamond Dave & the boys, & 4 the good old days of the 80s.. & the fact that VH was prob a big part of why we (& many others who feel like we do) miss its’ magic & still ache 4 life 2 b that beautiful again. AnyHoo, best wishes & thanks 4 listening! Please Take good care of yourself.🙋‍♀️👋👍🤘🎸💕

@noxcorvus93

Жыл бұрын

@Angel4animals sorry I deleted the tag but yes I was replying to you. Huge Van Halen fan, only got to see DLR on the Skyscraper tour. Here in Australia we rarely got big names back then. I remember reading my Creem, Kerrang metal magazines, buying cassettes every Friday, and I was willing VH to tour, but they didn't. However I must say that I saw a lot of great concerts from my 1st in' 80 KISS as a 12 year old, set me up for a few decades of fun. Great memories. Thanks for your lovely comment and I wish you well, happy to be your fren 😊 Rock on 🤘 ❤️

Thank god I was a teenager in the 80's...life was so much more colourful...Rock artists like Diamond Dave are very special, no wonder generations wish the 80's would come back. Thank you for the laughs and Rock n Roll Mr Roth. ❤

@guitartheeasywayllc582

10 ай бұрын

Thank God I met a girl that wanted to move to Southern California - in the late 70's and got to Promote Concerts and Play in Rock Groups - Still Rocking !

A couple bandmates and I were at the bar in the front of The Troubadour, and in walks Dave with Steve Vai, and they sit down at the table, and the five of us drank and BS’d for a long while. This was before Steve had been announced as Dave’s guitarist. Dave was just as you’d think he was, very Dave, and so cool to include my friends and I. I was not only a VH fan but had been going through a serious Frank Zappa phase and was intimately aware of Steve - his EP’s were on constant repeat for me. I soon sized up that night that Steve Vai was going to be Dave’s new guitarist. That first Eat em And Smile tour was fantastic. I met Dave a couple of other times, but that was the best.

I miss the 80:s so much!!

@sandycis2

2 жыл бұрын

MeeeeToooo!!! :(

@angel4animals956

Жыл бұрын

I miss it so back I grieve its’ loss like it was heartbreaking death of the love of my life. Truly the best yrs of my life…oh, what I’d give 2b even HALF that happy again now.🥰👍🙋‍♀️👋💕

@kippertrace5808

3 ай бұрын

No use looking back, it can't be changed. Look forward. It can be whatever you wish.

@mrmaxaxl

3 ай бұрын

@@kippertrace5808 Unfortunately not. The world is now a woke dystopia. 🤢

@kippertrace5808

3 ай бұрын

@mrmaxaxl ignore these knobheads in government. Just do what you want. Even during '''covid''' I chose to change nothing. Im still alive. Still to meet a single unvaxxed who regrets not having it.

“It’s the roaring 80’s man”...yes it was! He knew!

Roth does a good interview, nobody can deny that.

@davidarwood6264

8 ай бұрын

He is the interview. Did you hear anyone interviewing him ?

"I expect it's good work if you can get it"... love this guy, never saw anyone so charismatic. Love him or hate him, you watch him.

@dannymcmince

3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

Still my favorite singer. Love his music; voice and personality.

@taco2947

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Always have loved Dave.

@dannymcmince

3 жыл бұрын

Todays bands will never have Frontmen like Dave..different times!

This guy was 30 40 years ahead of his time

I love David Lee--his personality, his charisma, his intelligence. I never tire of listening to him. He's not bad to look at either. Older Dave looks damn good too!!! I;'d still do him!!!

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

"do him" is a really unappealing thing to say.

If you’ve got one of the greatest frontmen and one of the greatest guitarists eventually you’re going to have problems...extreme talent rarely wants to take a back seat.

@sandradee1579

Жыл бұрын

Agree. I had their '78 album, the band break up became issues & egos & DLR's biggest career mistake. He never made it solo. VH was the best as the original foursome. They don't see the combination as perfection.

Why do we gotta get old? Just why.

David Lee Roth is a genius. Leaves Van Halen and gets Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan.

@mikepaulus4766

Жыл бұрын

Don't sleep on Greg Bissonette. 🥁

@shaftlamer

9 ай бұрын

And never did anything afterwards. Doesn't even play the songs off that album. What a joke 😂

@killereverb3928

22 күн бұрын

And what have you EVER done? That’s right; NOTHING! Nada. Zip. Zilch.

I LIKE HIM BECAUSE HE IS SOOO UNIQUE AND HE IS FUN TO WATCH. LOADS OF ENERGY TOO!!!

His solo album was freaking kick ass!

@peanutbutterisfu

Жыл бұрын

His solo album? You know he made like 6 solo albums right? Well he didn’t make 6 albums, his “Solo” albums consisted of a ton of different writers. I don’t think he has one song on his solo stuff that he wrote entirely by himself. Some of the albums it’s kinda pathetic how many songwriters there are like “a little ain’t enough” album the amount of writers on each song is crazy there are songs with 4 and 5 writers on that album. It really defeats the purpose of a solo album having so many people writing for the artist. IMO if ur a solo artist it should mean that your so talented that you don’t need a band other then touring. Having a bunch of writers is what all the top 40 artists do. When Roth went solo it was no different then the Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears.

@-chrisburke

Жыл бұрын

@@peanutbutterisfu and you're an absolute nobody. I could hire all the writers in the world for you, and you still couldn't do jack sh!t

@claytoncarey2730

5 ай бұрын

​@peanutbutterisfu I think it has to do with the fact that he didn't have his music collaboration partner that he had with Eddie Van Halen, and that he could write anything to Eddie's music, and then it becomes a song, in order to continue doing that and putting out music in a timely fashion you have to have people that you know can get it done, he didn't know how Steve Vai or Billy Sheehan were gonna be in writing music

God I hate seeing Dave age..he is like the guy you wanna be friends with because he is just so cool.

@Mff48

3 жыл бұрын

me too wish he could stay as he was,ageing is cruel.he was lush!

@darthslater6077

Жыл бұрын

@@Mff48 Think about it, we are all SALMON hahaha

@TERRYKATHCHICAGO

2 ай бұрын

@@Mff48 Are you old enough to be on KZread? You can't even spell "AGING" properly, a 1st grade word.

@1Luckydog3377

21 күн бұрын

Hey, we ALL age. Dave is still a very fine man 🔥

Becoming fascinated with David Lee Roth in 2024 is a thing!!!

I always wondered why he left Van Halen. I can see why he felt he had move on. This guy has got some energy!! I like it that he did not go out and talk bad about Van Halen; however Van Halen did talk trash bout Dave. He's a classy man!!

@sm26801

3 жыл бұрын

Like he said, he wanted to work! As soon as he left, Can Halen started talking rubbish about him, just like they did about Sammy and Michael!

@Mff48

3 жыл бұрын

yeah sherry they were pretty disgusting about him! he never bad mouthed them,i love that about him.in fact just love him full stop! true showman!

@laverledugger1563

3 жыл бұрын

@@fair2light1 this comment didn't age well considering what we know now

@thomasaghotmail

3 жыл бұрын

He had a 1 picture deal. He struck it himself. He wanted Eddie to score the movie. Then they'd go into the studio in 86. Not only did Ed refuse everything, he demanded Dave not make the movie. Of course the studio went under that summer and the movie never got made. So Dave left VH for NOTHING. In hindsight.

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

@@laverledugger1563 Yeah well,DD deserved some revenge man.

He's truly enjoying the moment as they say, Hey I'd do it too if given the chance? Right on DLR for living out the dream for all of us!!

"...if you're gonna sell a ticket for $15.00 you're gonna have to give the kid's their money's worth" Oh to have those ticket prices again...

"Perhaps it was them (Van Halen) that moved away from me by standing still."

"David Lee Roth" = "Coolest & Greatest Rock Star of All Time" Yall :)

Incredible life of an incredible person. Love all aspects of the individual and the gig.

Over the top, ridiculous, etc - but rock 'n' roll needs to have people like this to properly exist.

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

Absolooootly!!

every time I hear DLR talk I gain more respect for him. he gives people exactly what they say they want and then they hate him for it.

@karlimo4034

9 ай бұрын

Don't give people what they want, better give them what they don't know they want.

Diamond Dave

He’s got the best giggle

He was very ahead of his time talking about zen. He was ahead of his time PERIOD.

Legend! Thanks for this Great uplifting Watch! 😬🤟

Nice upload man thanks!

I got to say this. I love Dave and I think he is great. Although I got to give huge props to Pete Angelus. Back in the early DLR solo days when Pete and Dave worked together magic happened. Personally, I feel like all of the music videos they did together was better than after Pete left. Plus, I still feel like we missed something special when the Crazy From The Heat movie got cancelled.

@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec

Ай бұрын

Why did Pete leave?

Love seeing my hometown at the beginning!

Imagine what David Lee Roth would be like after a few cans of Red Bull.

@rarianfields

4 жыл бұрын

something a bit like this kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5WXsMmCqtzTcdo.html ?

@SumTingWong1482

3 жыл бұрын

Red Bull uses DLR’s sweat (one drop per can) as their secret ingredient. It gives you wings.

@t.sewell1513

3 жыл бұрын

You would probably have to travel to the moon.....because that’s where he would be....lol

@anderssvensson3894

3 жыл бұрын

@@rarianfields Nah ! More like this kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIiovNOmZJi-h7g.html

What a band... Perfect for the time. 1980's naivety...

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

We weren`t naive,we knew the score and made the very best of it.

Dave's the man he has a new show on KZread called the Roth show a 2019 version of it and he's still the same guy today

@MetalHeart8787

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah ive watched many its OK he does a lot of Rambling, I was always hoping for him to talk about what VH was doing. from 2012 - 2018 it was 6 years NOW its coming up to 8 Years & NO new music. I know just recently it was announced VH is DONE. Dave left again because of the 2 idiots who were too Lazy to do another Album.

@t.sewell1513

3 жыл бұрын

@@MetalHeart8787 let’s be honest......Dave couldn’t sing anymore.

@MetalHeart8787

3 жыл бұрын

@@t.sewell1513 he couldnt & i wrote this last year NOT knowing about eddie, Sad i just thought they were mad at each other again.

@user-cs6up8eq7s

Жыл бұрын

​@@t.sewell1513he done just fine when I saw them in 2008

@user-cs6up8eq7s

Жыл бұрын

​@@MetalHeart8787he could still sing stop hating

Love him...and that smile and those lips 💋

@Mff48

3 жыл бұрын

yup smile lips eyes eyebrows,eyes are so expressive.......yup......smitten 🙂

@326cher

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mff48 Pretty much everything about him!

the "eat em and smile" tour LOL

I love David Lee Roth! He's a genius!

The original van halen was the best. Fucking egos always tear the best bands apart.

Diamond Dave is Awesome!!!

That's why Dave left Van Halen, honestly he wanted to be a movie star they were supposed to make a version of Crazy from the Heat no BS but it made no sense so it was cancelled and was never made into a full length film. Eat em and Smile was incredible though. Saw that tour with Cinderella opening in 1986 it was incredible, way better than Van Hagar 5150 tour, I saw both.

He was done already, we all just didn’t realize it at the time.

Love Vai's guitar with the skate stickers. Vision and Schmitt Stix Grosso

I saw these guys on tour with Cinderella-

@kristinasativa

3 жыл бұрын

So did I. Madison Wisconsin. 9-12-86

@vonharvell5867

3 жыл бұрын

@@kristinasativa his first solo tour after vh didnt start until '86

@vonharvell5867

3 жыл бұрын

yeah me too.. i saw the very first show.. aug. '86 in hampton, va

@kristinasativa

3 жыл бұрын

@@vonharvell5867 Yes. You're correct. Looked at my ticket stub. Have my Styx ticket stub from 1978 even. Was 13. My Dad wanted to go, so I went. Myself I would've rather have went to Van Halen.

Great frontman!

And here we are 30+ years later dressing pretty similar more or less

Dave didn't leave VH because scheduling. He left because of control reasons. 5150 came out around the same time as Eat em and Smile. DLR and Ted didn't like Eddie building 5150 and keyboards.

I like that "maybe the moved away from me by standing still" !

💎 DAVE

Killer interview, LOVE YOU DAVE, ALWAYS YOUR GIRL

Beastie boys!

Beastie Boys shirt

I AM GENTLEMAN DAVID LEE ROTH ICONIC YES...

Pozitív gondolkodás volt benned ICONIC YES VAN HALEN PEACE HEART FREEDOM SONGS STOP RASSZIZMUS ❤❤❤❤

Dave sporting the Beastie Boys cut off shirt

When I was in the 8th grade there were only 2 kinds of dudes. The music nuts who wanted to be Edward and the girl chasers who wanted to be Dave

Best front man

I want a Van, Halen and David Lee Roth concert from 1979 to 1988. The most expensive ticket was $18. Crazy what do you think of today’s concert cost

Thats funny. I do air guitar solos and drums naturally listening to vh

ROTH RULZ!....Dave smoked a joint b4 this interveiw feeling good yall :)

86 is one year before GNR broke and then everything changed in rock music.

@hugharrance1309

5 жыл бұрын

they broke 2 years later in 88 while touring with aerosmith appetite was released in 87

@cosmic-christsuperstar8287

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the mid to late 80's was the turning point in Rock from a fun party vibe, to a darker more angst inspired one. This paved the way for Grunge to take root in the 90's and would be (along with Gangsta Rap) the death nail in the coffin of bands like the DLR band. I don't for a minute think Dave foresaw any of that about to happen in 1985 when he decided to split with Van Halen.

@suprb6970

5 жыл бұрын

@@hugharrance1309 I saw GNR in Dallas opening for Alice Cooper in December of 1987

@hugharrance1309

5 жыл бұрын

@@suprb6970 that wouldve been so good.i went t see axl and his band in 2002 in vancouver there was a riot and no show.promoters cancelled for no reason fuckin idiots axl was on a plane n the way to the show

@jackdempsey9644

5 жыл бұрын

GNR AFD was released in 1987 but didn’t get big until 1988

I cant picture Dave singing Dreams or Love Walks in. Things happened for a reason.

@tk6137

Жыл бұрын

i'll wait...

Diamond DLR !!!

Boozy boozy bop, Diddy bop 👍🇦🇺🍻🍻

Has anyone listened to his latest interviews? His accent is so different now. It's a very pronounced midwestern accent. I just wonder why it changed.

@suprb6970

3 жыл бұрын

I think it is from years of radio broadcasting. Just picked it up.

Look@dat beastie boys shirt.

The reason it worked is because it's fun and music and and should be????

One thing is bullshit. Dave wasn't waiting around too long for VH. 1984 was released and Dave split about 8 months later.

I love that railroad stoker cap he`s wearing,it reminds me of watching Casey Jones on TV on Saturday mornings.. Stop, look, listen ’cos you’re gonna hear A brand new story ’bout a great engineer, He’s the greatest of them all we claim Number one’s his engine, Casey Jones his name. Casey Jones a steamin’ and a rollin’, Casey Jones you never have to guess When you hear the tootin’ of the whistle It’s Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express! There’ll be Casey Junior and old Redrock too, Fireman Wally and the rest of the crew. In a thrilling adventure that’s a lot of fun When Casey takes the throttle for another run!

I have no knowledge of Ballet but I remember at the time seeing in some of these 1980s videos he is doing an extraordinary move with his feet which I believe is known as a type of "Plie" which would be practically impossible for any of us mere mortals to do...If any Ballet dancers read this and can explain further I would be interested to hear more about that move or a good link where I can see it being done in slow-motion--it is too fast to study otherwise!!

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

You can see the "Plie" Ballet foot movement at about 0.12 here in the Goin`Crazy video here kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqF3t8GKpLbgh6w.html

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

He does it so fast you have to turn the speed down to about 0.5 to even see it.

Roths colossal mistake was he left VH too early. He should've finished out the 80s in Van Halen. Made two more records with them. THEN go solo, form a new band on 1-1-1990...

DLR, best front man ever. Period.

Dave we’re getting nothing done also that year 1984 was made

I do a pretty good impression of DLR doing Louis prima

@ne2i

4 жыл бұрын

Go see joe rogan's interview..... He hasnt changed....

When this came out I forgot all about Vanhager. It was great! They ended up treating Sammy like shit too. Hell the band I was in at the time was playing Yankee Rose! I was banging that shit out!

A one album wonder. Wonder what ever happened to him after that one album.

@326cher

3 жыл бұрын

Dave has more than on hit album and he's still around. We still love him!!!

@Eddie-In-Las-Vegas

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. 6 albums with Van Halen and 3 commercially succussful solo albums that would be a 9 album wonder and most bands never make it to 1 album

@ugaais

2 жыл бұрын

7 albums with VH and two multi platinum solo albums and one gold ….outsold Sammy solo and his VH albums outsold Sammy also not even close ….All of Sammys sold well for a week or two and reached number 1 but overall sales are a bit more than half the total of DLR era

I would of loved to hear what Steve, Billy and Gregg had to say.....

@user-cs6up8eq7s

Жыл бұрын

There's an interview from around this time with the two of them Steve and Billy don't think I ever saw a full band interview with bissonnet

Sell a ticket for 15.00. I remember when a concert cost that.

I've been to SKYSCRAPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I STILL FEEL GOOOOD !!!!!!!!!

I remember at about this time watching interviews with Motley Crue and thinking how much they were just inferior unintelligent versions of the real DD.

9:55 is it really Boy George? Cameo Appearance?

@user-cs6up8eq7s

Жыл бұрын

No

I went to see em in1980 too loud and they looked like girls left after the third song it was outrages how DLR and Eddie looked very rocky horror picture show visuals

Nina Blackwood was SOOOO hot back then.

I was in my 20s in that time I only remember Dave's cal girls just a jigalo but nothing else of his so called post van Halen band. I remember clearly Van sagar but none of Dave's own band at all 😮

Van halen w Dave were Rockstars....on FULL TILT

Give um their money's worth...15 bucks n Dave gives u every last bit of himself

The man loves his weed

Hyperactive got him somewhere.

...his videos are real well done...and he directed all of VH's too....everything is very precise....very hard working guy.....and he sang Atomic Punk!....

good to hear an old school voice in this digital world, knowing Dave's love of Cuban music wanted to share this on the thread kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWFksNhqiMSqk6w.html , know he probably won't see it, but man this shit blew my mind freaking Cuban sounds gone rock x 10!

@mjh5437

Жыл бұрын

Ugh,that was terrible.

@thatguyinaband6341

Жыл бұрын

@@mjh5437 i Dunno I think he's amazing but everyone got their vibe, you don't have to like this amazing musical genius, not everyone like mozart

He is all theatrics you wouldn't find yourself at a stop sign and cranking up one of his songs unless it was with the Van Halens And such as Van Halen and Hagar music should Make you dance not you watch someone else dance

And then realised he wanted to return to Van Halen but unfortunately, was too late as VH went on to be even more successful.

I cringe everytime I hear the phrase "Picasso brothers".

DLR's schtick grew old really fast post VH.

@imahorsefaceddipshit5300

3 жыл бұрын

His schtick got him more ass than about 100 average men combined.

@bradspawr6352

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffm3925 you're welcome!

@iceWaterProductions1

3 жыл бұрын

Dave is an encyclopedia of pop references make him a genius. Combine that with playing with incredible talent like EVH and Steve Vai was the recipe for killer music in the 70-80s. Sadly now children don’t get true talent as a influence it’s the internet insta celebrity crap that they aspire for. It’s sad.

@t.sewell1513

3 жыл бұрын

@@iceWaterProductions1 hittin’ the nail on the head!

@roccorios3448

3 жыл бұрын

VH didn’t do SH!t after the 80s either. Imho

I really love DD but I really wish he hadn`t started wearing those clownish clothes like in the Yankee Rose video here...He could get away with just about anything but that was a step too far and then we got poodle twits like Poison and Warrant copying it and looking even worse because they didn`t even have DDs talent and athleticism and charisma to back it up.

Big mistake Dave made leaving VH then.

sell a ticket for $15 Really?

Van halen sucked after dave.. sorry it did

@Mff48

3 жыл бұрын

sure did! only one frontman and thats our dave!

@anderssvensson3894

3 жыл бұрын

David Lee Roth defines the Van Halen sound !

@t.sewell1513

3 жыл бұрын

I still liked what they did after Roth. But it just wasn’t The Mighty Van Halen!

@anderssvensson3894

3 жыл бұрын

@@t.sewell1513 I dropped them like a hot potato after Dave ! IMHO Eddie Van Halen was musically dead after 1984 without Dave ! I bought ADKOT but they totally butchered it in the mixing with way way way too much compression ! They should have hired Ted Templeman and Donn Landee. They know what they're doing !

@t.sewell1513

3 жыл бұрын

@@anderssvensson3894 agreed!

Hearing him mention $15 dollar tickets! Imagine. These days it would be over 100 - despite the subtle digs at van halen they had a number one album with 5150 so I don’t know what they mean by not moving forward!? Lol 😂