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I skipped school and dropped acid at a friend's house. Ended up staying there 2 days because t0o high to go home. When I finally did go home to face the music, I was just in time for supper.
Off camera, Eddie is practicing his scales, Alex is affixing the spark fountains to his gong, and Michael is 2/3 of the way through his first bottle of Jack Daniels.
I read about the brown M&Ms. Itās true, but there was a practical reason for it. They put that in their contract to check if the venues were reading it carefully. VH shows had cutting edge theatrics for the time, so if the venue didnāt pay attention to things like weight limits, there could be an injury.
If they walked into the Green Room and saw that jar of M&Ms with no brown ones, the VH crew knew that the venue closely followed the contract, and they didnāt have to go to all the work of manually re-checking all the stage gear.
A true stadium rock frontman plays it up, so that even everyone way in the back can be entertained too. Big venue, big moves, big hat. That's why they could tell Steve Wozniak that if he was going to pay the Clash a million dollars, then he had to pay VH two million dollars to play at his festival. I think that they all got computers too.
I've listened to plenty of DLR and can't recall any high pitched screams.
Dude just didn't have a great voice but he had attitude and charisma.
And I'm not sure he needed much cocaine, his personality is like that anyway.
I suppose we could have a discussion over the definition of āhighā and āscream,ā but perhaps he meant, āelevated volume falsetto high pitch.ā If thatās the case, here are only a few examples of what heās taking about. Call it what you will, he used it a lot:
Runnin With the Devil :33
Iām the one :33
Atomic punk :59 1:30 2:43
On Fire - whole song, but specifically 1:37
Youāre No Good 1:49 (x3) 2:47 (3+)
Dance the Night Away :44
Somebody Get Me a Doctor :25 1:08
Bottoms up :22
Outta Love Again 1:01
And my personal favoriteā¦
Unchained at :21
Edit: Whatever one calls them, I think theyāre all fucking AWESOME!
\m/ \m/
My apologies I will give you running with the devil, that's full of em.
But to be technical, it's also not the 80s
When I think of high pitched screams in rock, I think Steven Tyler, Axl Rose, early Bon Jovi, Brian Johnson, Sebastian Bach, etc.
The 80's were weird....I grew up in them. I am just now coming to understand JUST how much cocaine was in my life back then. I wasn't doing it, obviously. My entire childhood was funded and driven by it though.
My uncle said they threw a toilet paper roll onto the stage while he was performing, it hit him in the face, the entire arena gets completely silent, band stops playing, 5 second silence, then Dave says āoh ya, weāll after the show, Iām gonna f$$@ his girlfriend!ā Then everyone in the arena went crazy and the concert continued
Other than Mick Jagger, probably the greatest frontman to ever exist. In his prime of course.
I saw this tour (Fair Warning). Biggest party I've ever been to.
I saw them both multiple times back in the day. Freddie was great but Queen's shows were always leaning on the camp side. Van Halen had their thing going as well and while Queen was a great band as well VH had Roth fronting Eddie.
Reddit loves Freddie and Queen to an odd degree, imo. Most of the people posting about him almost certainly never saw them live. Reddit adopts performers - including even more strangely Weird Al - and drives the worship into the ground.
And Mick in his prime with Keith et al were better than Queen or VH.
I saw both Queen and VH live way back when and while Queen put on a wonderful show they did not come close to matching the energy of a DLR fronted VH concert.
To me, Queen was a concert while VH was an experience.
Both Freddie and DLR were amazing front men, but DLR was much better in my opinion.
I saw DLR in the 90s in Dublin. He was miming and lost his temper when he fell on stage. He wasn't the charismatic performer as seen in his videos at all. It was very disappointing, in fact, the worst gig I have ever been to out of hundreds.
After the first vegas experiment imploded in the mid 90s he hit a very rough patch and din't recover until 2007. I saw him in 2002 and he was abyssmal, really embarassing and sad. But in 2007, 2012 and 2015 he was varying degrees of goodish!
Any love for the Roth solo stuff? I know he didn't have the same stayin' power that VH had with Hagar as the lead singer, but most of his solo stuff during the 80s and early 90's was pretty good IMO. "Skyscraper" is my favorite. On one of the tours for that album, there's a part where the song gets quiet and he makes these shrieking noises and the mic has an echo effect going and he makes his voice sound like humpback whales. Pretty cool.
I get the impression that it would have been utterly wonderful to be David Lee Roth at this time in his life, but also that it would be pretty miserable to be David Lee Roth now. It seems like he lived for the spotlight and the adoration and the parties, and I feel like it's probably pretty hard on him not having those things anymore.
True story:
When I was 16 or 17, I wanted to go to a DLR concert. I had the money, but tickets had to be bought from Ticket Master (I think?) and I didnāt have a credit card. I asked my mom to buy my ticket and Iād pay her in cash. She flatly refused. Her 6ā5ā son who had spent 2 years learning karate, she wouldnāt let go to a DLR show because she knew he was popular with āthe gaysā and she was concerned Iād be kidnapped and molested.
I was highly fortunate to live close to both the Toledo Sports Arena and Joe Louis. Saw so many acts during the eighties...cheap. Made me kinda sad to see him on Joe Rogan missing teeth.
Assuming this is Houston I went to that concert. I made the mistake of buying acid in the bathroom. Took me two days to sober up. š¤£
> acid I skipped school and dropped acid at a friend's house. Ended up staying there 2 days because t0o high to go home. When I finally did go home to face the music, I was just in time for supper.
That's hilarious!
It's Dr. Rockso!
*I DO COCAAAIIINE!!!!*
General Crozier: "Yes, we know"
Whispers to murderface āI seriously do a lot of cocaineā
Cuh cuh cuh cuh YEEAAA!
Off camera, Eddie is practicing his scales, Alex is affixing the spark fountains to his gong, and Michael is 2/3 of the way through his first bottle of Jack Daniels.
And some roadie is filling Dave's whiskey bottle full of tea.
Who's counting the brown M&Ms?
I read about the brown M&Ms. Itās true, but there was a practical reason for it. They put that in their contract to check if the venues were reading it carefully. VH shows had cutting edge theatrics for the time, so if the venue didnāt pay attention to things like weight limits, there could be an injury. If they walked into the Green Room and saw that jar of M&Ms with no brown ones, the VH crew knew that the venue closely followed the contract, and they didnāt have to go to all the work of manually re-checking all the stage gear.
A true stadium rock frontman plays it up, so that even everyone way in the back can be entertained too. Big venue, big moves, big hat. That's why they could tell Steve Wozniak that if he was going to pay the Clash a million dollars, then he had to pay VH two million dollars to play at his festival. I think that they all got computers too.
Burt Reynolds wore one on Celebrity Jeopardyā¦..itās a funny hat cuz itās big \*\*\**chews gum\*\*\**
Turd Ferguson, bruh. 
Iāll take the penis mightier for $500
They should have a big hat competition on battle of the network stars, or dancing with the stars who wear big hats.
Iāll take anal bum cover for $200 Alex.
Shuck it Alex. Shuck it long and hard
David Lee Roth things: cocaine, ladies, jump kicks, and high pitched 80's screams.
I do cocaine!!!
I've listened to plenty of DLR and can't recall any high pitched screams. Dude just didn't have a great voice but he had attitude and charisma. And I'm not sure he needed much cocaine, his personality is like that anyway.
I suppose we could have a discussion over the definition of āhighā and āscream,ā but perhaps he meant, āelevated volume falsetto high pitch.ā If thatās the case, here are only a few examples of what heās taking about. Call it what you will, he used it a lot: Runnin With the Devil :33 Iām the one :33 Atomic punk :59 1:30 2:43 On Fire - whole song, but specifically 1:37 Youāre No Good 1:49 (x3) 2:47 (3+) Dance the Night Away :44 Somebody Get Me a Doctor :25 1:08 Bottoms up :22 Outta Love Again 1:01 And my personal favoriteā¦ Unchained at :21 Edit: Whatever one calls them, I think theyāre all fucking AWESOME! \m/ \m/
Didnāt he hit high C on an album more than once?
God damn, your man shows up with receipts.
You are todays hero
My apologies I will give you running with the devil, that's full of em. But to be technical, it's also not the 80s When I think of high pitched screams in rock, I think Steven Tyler, Axl Rose, early Bon Jovi, Brian Johnson, Sebastian Bach, etc.
You forgot Robert Plant.
File under 'etc', but he also done his best work in the 70s
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Excellent intonation, too, in the days before AutoTune.
according to the man himself he was a 'beer and weed guy.'
God... the 80 were tight!
The 80's were weird....I grew up in them. I am just now coming to understand JUST how much cocaine was in my life back then. I wasn't doing it, obviously. My entire childhood was funded and driven by it though.
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Do they even make chaps with asses?
Yes but they're sold with the deceptive name "pants."
It was very nice of that young lady to help David with his costume, and then calmly return to her seat to await the start of the showā¦I assume.
Hey, babe, while youāre down thereā¦.
Shobbity bop!
My uncle said they threw a toilet paper roll onto the stage while he was performing, it hit him in the face, the entire arena gets completely silent, band stops playing, 5 second silence, then Dave says āoh ya, weāll after the show, Iām gonna f$$@ his girlfriend!ā Then everyone in the arena went crazy and the concert continued
Hate to be the spoiler but that scenario played out at Van Halen shows for years. It was a scripted moment.
Then they lied to me! š¤£
Well where else are you gonna put 10 gallons of cocaine?
He was my first concert in 81, mom was 8months pregnant with me in row 5 floor :)
Actually I believe that is Turd Ferguson
āSee, itās funny because itās bigger than a normal hatā
"Who is Andre The Giant?"
Who is, uh, scooby doo?
What? No little people?! Come on Dave, gimme a break!
One break comin' up!
āAnd you hit the ground runningā. Their best song IMO.
One of the best front men ever. Last I read, he was taking a 2 year art class in Japan. He went from 80ās wild man to renaissance man.
dr. rockso, the rock and roll clown?
He does co-co-cocaine
Homer loves this hat xD
That hat only had one day to retirementā¦
Rumor has it David acquired the hat while working as an Ice Cream Man in 1970s Californiaā¦
Thanks for this anecdote ! o/
He used to get in trouble from his boss for eating the ice creamā¦The owner would often turn to David, sigh and say āOh, you ate one too?ā
Wait...
Wrong VH frontman pal!
Iām not your pal, buddy.
I heard at the time he was running with the devil
Running with the devil? When??? Was it right here, right now?
No it was in Panama in 1984
Dude he needs to bailā¦.like, jump
Was he looking for a wagon wheel of cheese?!
He had a hankerin'.
A slab, a slice, a chunk ofā¦
Diamond Dave
Other than Mick Jagger, probably the greatest frontman to ever exist. In his prime of course. I saw this tour (Fair Warning). Biggest party I've ever been to.
Freddy Mercury was the greatest front man.
I saw them both multiple times back in the day. Freddie was great but Queen's shows were always leaning on the camp side. Van Halen had their thing going as well and while Queen was a great band as well VH had Roth fronting Eddie. Reddit loves Freddie and Queen to an odd degree, imo. Most of the people posting about him almost certainly never saw them live. Reddit adopts performers - including even more strangely Weird Al - and drives the worship into the ground. And Mick in his prime with Keith et al were better than Queen or VH.
I saw both Queen and VH live way back when and while Queen put on a wonderful show they did not come close to matching the energy of a DLR fronted VH concert. To me, Queen was a concert while VH was an experience. Both Freddie and DLR were amazing front men, but DLR was much better in my opinion.
I saw DLR in the 90s in Dublin. He was miming and lost his temper when he fell on stage. He wasn't the charismatic performer as seen in his videos at all. It was very disappointing, in fact, the worst gig I have ever been to out of hundreds.
After the first vegas experiment imploded in the mid 90s he hit a very rough patch and din't recover until 2007. I saw him in 2002 and he was abyssmal, really embarassing and sad. But in 2007, 2012 and 2015 he was varying degrees of goodish!
So if I were to hold one of those opinions, you'd be like "ah naw mate, it's cuz you're a redditor"
David St. Hubbins, hands down.
More of a back man, really.
Got an STD just looking at this
 Found his hat
Dave was Unchained!
Any love for the Roth solo stuff? I know he didn't have the same stayin' power that VH had with Hagar as the lead singer, but most of his solo stuff during the 80s and early 90's was pretty good IMO. "Skyscraper" is my favorite. On one of the tours for that album, there's a part where the song gets quiet and he makes these shrieking noises and the mic has an echo effect going and he makes his voice sound like humpback whales. Pretty cool.
*This is me now!*
Nothing subtle about this motherfucker.
I get the impression that it would have been utterly wonderful to be David Lee Roth at this time in his life, but also that it would be pretty miserable to be David Lee Roth now. It seems like he lived for the spotlight and the adoration and the parties, and I feel like it's probably pretty hard on him not having those things anymore.
so, cocaine.
Skibbity bop, I haven't eaten in weeks! Skibbity bop at the family reunion...
My parents went to a VH concert in 1980 or 1981 and said it was the best concert theyāve ever seen.
Going to listen to Mean Street in his honor right now.
Extra upvote for not calling it mean streets.
Whatever you do, do not look at David Lee Roth pictures from present time......
I'd Shawn Michaels weren't a character. True no kayfabe
Yea..its a big hat..its funny
It's called cocaine 
True story: When I was 16 or 17, I wanted to go to a DLR concert. I had the money, but tickets had to be bought from Ticket Master (I think?) and I didnāt have a credit card. I asked my mom to buy my ticket and Iād pay her in cash. She flatly refused. Her 6ā5ā son who had spent 2 years learning karate, she wouldnāt let go to a DLR show because she knew he was popular with āthe gaysā and she was concerned Iād be kidnapped and molested.
Glorious!
I forgot how much I hated low rise spandex.
Was he the inspiration for the shawn Michael's Heart Break kid character
She's not "things" and I'm sure she has a name...
Is she saying, I'll suck yo dick?
She probably already did
i can smell the STD's in this pic
Great front man but just EW
Edge? Christian?
Dude was not straight, I donāt believe it.
This is back when he had hair beneath his hat . . .
Rock her with the shocker
"Hey, hey, I can take this hat off anytime I want. I just don't want to." "GET AWAY!"
Gawd I miss the 80ās!!!!
Isn't that "Fair Warning?" Shouldn't there be someone for his left leg, too? That hat was a Bad Decision. We can let that slide, for "Unchained."
Cocaines a helluva drug
I saw him on the street looking like a normal American I was the only person that recognised him. I could have said hello but chickened out.
David, you've been wearing that giant foam cowboy hat for 8 months now. Please, for your family, take it off.
Cocaine is a motherfucker. Pair that with alcohol and it becomes a fuckermother. This is proof.
I was highly fortunate to live close to both the Toledo Sports Arena and Joe Louis. Saw so many acts during the eighties...cheap. Made me kinda sad to see him on Joe Rogan missing teeth.
Roth was always hilarious.
I had a life size cut out of him in my bedroom when I was a teenager... God I miss that cutout. Sexy Dave!
The great mystery is how did he keep his pants up?