David Lee Roth Insanity!

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So apparently there is this hour long super bizarre promotional video that David sent out to a bunch of folks. I haven't seen so I'm at a bit of a loss for how to describe it--other than the fact that there is a lot of nudity and weirdness--but according to urban legend when Roth's agent was asked about the video and Roth's reason for sending it out, he replied that "it speaks for itself."

Has anyone heard about this? Does anyone know where to get a copy or a Quicktime version of it?

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi, new answers!

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Here's a slightly more detailed report...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh jeez. It is true. giggles irrepressibly

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Phong Wiedermeier, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

q-l

― a-33, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't know nuthin' `bout that, but I heard a reasonably credible rumour that he'll actually be touring with Sammy Hagar this summer. No joke.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's been a rotating video clip at davidleeroth.com for the past few weeks. Apparently, he's covering everyone from Gerry Rafferty to Lords of Acid to the Chemical Brothers.

― paul, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Lee Roth has existed only in hologram form since he died in 1987 in a bizarre rock climbing accident.

― Kris England, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bizarre rockclimbing accident = Skyscraper. the title track alone could kill from 50 paces

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

This DLR video is the new Paul Stanley Stage Banter. It must be found.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

i saw it when it came out…honestly, it's not interesting at all…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my copy is long gone. Nothing to write home to mother about, trust me.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

It's amazing, I have a copy. I am not sure what the best part is: drinking beer with pregnant women, running through an endless tunnel with gun-toting gals accompanied by techno music for no reason at all, his faithful "Baker Street", his flamenco guitar workouts, or the segment where he picks a midget's nose while the both laugh maniacally. I was really disappointed by his new radio show having seen this thing a couple years ago.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

so speaking of that radio show, I caught 15 minutes at random last week. Switching stations I heard a song by the 70s funk/metal band Mothers Finest and stopped to listen. Turned out it was the DLR show, he went into a whole rap about MF being the grt lost band of all time and how everybody he played em for went who's THAT and on and on abt how greatt singer Joyce Kennedy is on the next track he's gonna play and then Roth sets it up by shouting:

"LISTEN TO THIS BITCH!"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I, too, have seen the Roth video. I, too, was not impressed. I still haven't heard his radio show because, well, I never listen to the radio. But his book is a timeless classic.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

it was heartbreaking to listen to his show. Clearly, he's very bright and has done lots of stuff that your average "past his prime" rocker hasn't, but the show is hapless. Now, I am a Sirius subscriber, and am very happy to be currently listening to the man he replaced…

herewith…an example when he and his presently even more washed-up ex-partner were giants bestriding the Earth…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1tcvnMID9s

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I love how the camera settles on Michael Anthony right before Eddie's solo, and then stays there. Also, it reminded me how many acts today feature frontmen who are so studiously flamboyant, rather than the real deal. DLR was DLR - 24-7!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering if his show was syndicated or if it was just a Boston thing. He's on buses all over the gah damn place here.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

isn't his show based in new york?

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I'm pissed that on the West Coast we get Adam Carolla instead. It seems like it should be the other way around.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Was DLR off the air for a week (a few weeks back) in every market? The whole 'week's vacation' thing only eight weeks into the gig smelled a little fishy, as if the show Wasn't Working and they were frantically trying to retool/reboot.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

might be the case, as CBS Radio (née Inifinity Broadcasting) is in full panic mode…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

somebody explain this to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW5-mPbkKw8&search=david%20lee%20roth

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with that? what do you need explained?

that, to me, is much better than the radio show, for which he was woefully prepared.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

he's really starting to resemble bill pullman.

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

he explains everything here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irOwPMrQIn0&search=david%20lee%20roth

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

helluva drug

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

he's really starting to resemble bill pullman.

i was thinking more of Carson Kressley.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 10 June 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

He was pretty good on Craig Ferguson's show, but insulting Edie Falco = dud.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 11 June 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6jP-XDuCUI

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 11 June 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

xpost
I hope when I'm interviewed on Fox News they display the word "Rocker" prominently below my name.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Why hasn't this video surfaced yet?

― Bobbi Peru, Sunday, 15 June 2008 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.thetyser.com/

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Friday, 2 January 2009 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

Why hasn't this video surfaced yet?

You can get it here: http://www.stellarproducts.biz/daleeronohob.html

Might be worth it for Dave's audio commentary track

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 2 January 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.thetyser.com/

― The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Whoa.

― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2009 05:01 (sixteen years ago)

Haha..the hell

― van smack, Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:35 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

And he's a 'master of disguise' too.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 May 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

It's back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK911bC60sU

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 00:54 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

Treat yourself to the DLR episode of Maron’s Podcast. It’s an hour and half of testifyin’ Diamond style

― calstars, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:17 (six years ago)

He was also on Joe Rogan's show recently. It's three fucking hours long, and I didn't make it to the end, but what I saw was good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ZFKYtHdsM

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 22:43 (six years ago)

Yeah the Rogan one is epic. Too much to digest in one sitting. 30-45 mins at a time. D is a fucking madman, love that dude

― calstars, Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:43 (six years ago)

When you learn the real reason why they had the green m and m thing in their contract, you have to admire them.

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:52 (six years ago)

@ 12:39 when he’s “explaining” jazz to joe, what he’s breaking down is the piano intro to “ruby, my dear” off “thelonious monk with john coltrane”

― budo jeru, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:20 (six years ago)

Watched only 20 minutes of that so far, we're really going to miss that guy when he's gone. There will be a giant David Lee Roth sized hole in the universe, and we're all going to feel it.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 July 2019 21:48 (six years ago)

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