Diamond David Lee Roth had the whole package. The looks, charisma, talk, humor, songs, stage antics. He's 💯 and with no competition the best showman/frontman ever.
Agreed! Diamond 💎 David Lee Roth is the best showman & frontman EVER!#VanHalen#Van Halen ll#Women & Children First#Diver Down#Fair Warning#1984#80’s#TheBESTofTimes!#RocknRoll👑’s#EVH(R.I.P.)#🎸❤🔥✨@Christer Vainio
@@5guysproduction234 Hey Dave is certifiably 'odd'. He talks jazz like nobody ive ever heard. The level of entertainment he seems to provide to (himself) is absolutely cringy. He is out there. Theres no question of that. But he's a one off. "What he did "to" Van halen" ?? Fronted them into some platinum albums? ... Including writing and fronting a genre crushing best debut rock album ever. What exactly were you thinking he "did" to Van halen?
@@ropeswingify he quit and blamed it on Ed at the height of the bands career because he didn't want to wait another year to record and go through all the b******* to do another album, he wanted what Dave wanted, that's what he did..
"We're taking the basement to the world..." I'm only 20 minutes in and this is the greatest interview with a musician I've ever listened to. Man, 25 yrs old and wise beyond his years. DLR doesn't waste a single word when he speaks. His passion for life, music and people is absolutely amazing and inspiring. He should be teaching at a University somewhere.
I get the feeling Dave always knew exactly what made Van Halen so special and exactly why it was special, and that it needed to be upheld at all costs.
If he was a young man in America today, he'd be homeless, or in jail for some nonsense. It's not the same quality of society as it was when he was young.
"It's folk music... delivered with high impact!" I loved that line! 🤟🏻😆🔝👍🏻 Love him (I do!) or hate him, Diamond Dave has always been a lot of fun! A supreme entertainer, even during interviews! 😉😆
“I’m not delaying I’m just wasting time, which has been my profession way before music! Ha ha! So give me a tire and a chain and I’ll hang upside down and give you a lyric in a couple of days!!!!” David “Diamond Dave” Lee Roth! 💎💎💎 You’re the best man thank you! I miss these days. Summertime and Van Halen and any girl was a possibility!
Dave is definitelly having a joint during this interview, you can hear him inhale and taking deep breath in ;) Women and Children First is my favourite album of all time and Fools my best song, so I really enjoyed this one, thanks Steve ;)
Common practice during interviews. Back in the 60/70s especially. One interviewer would always get another 20 minutes of interview with David Bowie by pulling out another joint (Source: David Bowie by Dylan Jones)
Dave is so wide beyond his years here. He's like 25 here, right... For a 25 year old he sounds like a 50 year old world class individual for sure "yeah it's a cheap shit wurlitzer played through Edwards wall of Marshalls" beautiful, just fuckin beautiful. He is definitely for real. This dude sees and observes and takes what he wants. He sure can and he does. He lives life to the fullest, double fisted right till the end. Can't think of any better way...
Maybe the most insightful interview I've heard with DLR. Very smart, wise, person. Really wish they had kept things together, would have loved to hear what follow up to 1984 would have sounded to like....
The follow up to 1984 would not have sounded much like 5150” because Dave wrote against the guitar melody vs Ed and Sammy who with the guitar. There are demos of “Summer Nights, “Good Enough and “Both Worlds” and they are very different tunes with the Dave effect. However tunes like “Love Walks In” and “Dreams” likely wouldn’t have existed.
@@MrDuds1984 Well, to a large extent, it's true that the next VH album would have had most if not all of the same musical tracks. But to say it would have sounded like 5150 is just wrong; most Roth fans, most Hagar fans, and most fans of both eras will tell you that. First, if Roth had stayed for VH's sixth album, Ted Templeman would have also stayed. Second, all of the lyrics and vocals would be different which, regardless of the producer was, would have resulted in many different production choices. Even though Eddie wrote the music, a lot of people had input on the final product.
Roth shouldve finished out the 80s with VH. The followups to 1984, with Dave, wouldve been mindblowing! Instead it became Van Hagar and my heart was broken...
This interview is great, thanks for saving it and sharing it. I love listening to Dave talk about all these now-classic songs with such confidence because even though they weren't done, he just *knew*.
Like a lot of people have already said, there's a lot of wisdom coming out of this then-25-year-old rock star. All VH fans know that Dave has always possessed that. In a way, he kind of reminds me of the late Robin Williams, particularly early in Williams' career. Both seemed to be on another plane from the rest of us, but both could sometimes spin out of control in their stream of consciousness and, in so doing, lose their ability to connect with an audience. Again, those of us who follow VH know that Dave sometimes loses the thread (or, at least, he makes us lose the thread of what the hell he's talking about), in interviews, during onstage monologues, on his podcasts, etc. But this interview is a great example of Dave in complete command; with a full understanding of the fact that he's talking with another human being who, in turn, will be publishing their interview to a large number of other human beings who aren't sitting in the room with them, and who aren't necessarily sharing Dave's stream of consciousness. He's articulating his answers in an entertaining & colorful, but also incredibly insightful way. My favorite part is when Dave talks Rosen through some of the album tracks, and he gets into explaining how Eddie approaches writing the songs, his guitar work (and keyboard work), etc., and I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone capture the greatness of it better. The amount of understanding, respect and appreciation Dave has for Eddie, and the greatness of Van Halen as a whole, can't be overstated. It's a beautiful thing, and it makes me melancholic for bygone days and for how much more these guys could have done together. I think Dave always got this better than anyone else; and that's what makes it so ironic that, probably more than anyone else, Dave was the one responsible for putting it to an end.
EVH was very smart. He had to have seen DLR commercial appeal and charisma. It’s too bad DLR walked away to another potential solo success. It was a bad decision for Dave and VH.It went no where. He definitely brought so much glam and visual affinity to Eddie’s music. It worked for the time. VH , EVH ‘s essence was expressed so effectively with the combination of these four guys. Thank you for posting this interview and the EVH interviews
In retrospect, I’m not sure that him leaving Van Halen was a bad thing. We got some great records out of his solo endeavour and some great records from the Hagar era too. They’re both so fantastic, but there isn’t a doubt in my mind that his lyrics got even better after he left. Eat Em and Smile and Skyscraper are magnificent works of art. His music career isn’t his pursuit, it’s a side effect or symptom of his personality. We were just lucky enough to see it all happen.
I've never heard Roth answer a simple yes or no question. Everything is his twisted narratives, and crazy analogies. I've always thought that its just a sign of a creative artist, or it could just be he likes to revel in his own bullshit. He does pass off moments of extreme intelligence and other times he acts like a prom queen, but he was 1 fourth of the greatest rock and roll band ever, so he gets a pass.
VAN HALEN started the 80s in the late 70s way ahead of everything. 78-84 van halen cannot be touched!! Van hagar was the watered down version, DLR ruled!
Steve I’m new to your channel but this rare interview with David Lee Roth is great! I guess the Women and Children’s First record. I saw Van Halen for the first time on the Fair Warning tour through 1984. I saw Van Halen with Sammy Hagar on OU812 and Balance. I saw Dave on both Eat em and Smile in 86 and Skyscraper in 88. It was great seeing Dave with them on the A Different Kind of Truth album which still kicks ass today! Long live the music of Van Halen particularly the Roth era!
Back in the day Steve's bi-line in any guitar mag meant you were gonna get the best interview from EVH, jas obrecht from guitar player mag as well...so my mom threw ALL my 80s guitar mags out when I went off to school so no, I don't got any of em😂🙏✌🤘
@Margaret McEvoy you are right.... Eddie did not break out of his "shell" until he turned 40 years old in 1995. If you look at 1995 Ed, there is a more mature, more confident person.
dont think they were sqeaky clean !!!! sure eddie had his miments,like when he threw an amp at the sound crew live on stage! they were all divas! loved em for it tho!!
@aae7583 it was a monitor and it was 07 or 08. I think 1995 and then 2012 through his passing are about the only times Ed ever seemed truly sober. He was drunk and often high for most of his natural born life.
Loved that in the beginning they recorded in record time, raw and live! Few know, Dave after getting signed, took vocal lessons. They were 80's in 1978.....ultimate band of ALL TIME!
see his voice was on fire back then,why are some people willing to put the boot in!! he always comes across to me as a great guy.........he sounds sooo young here...my god the years fly!!
Van Halen put out that debut record then went on a long tour and when they returned home their record company sent them a bill for a million dollars. Thanks for your work and talent guys.
The record company didn’t ‘send them a bill’. What happened was, the band had a double platinum album and they expected the big royalty cheques to come rolling in-which, on a double-platinum album, they SHOULD have been. However, VH signed a sub-par record deal and also advanced a tonne of tour support money-and destroying rental cars and hotel rooms didn’t help their side: ultimately, they are billed for those decisions, even if the record company initially covers the cost of the damages. A better record deal would have seen Warner Brothers maybe picking up some of the tour support expenses-but VH signed a crap deal. And ultimately they DID make some money off the first album: the song writing royalties were good-and they were smart enough to keep those.
Seen this man in my small hometown..have to say he was and still is my favorite Singer Performer and man does he know how to put on a Electrifying show.Went to his Shyscraper show in Erie Pa once again Electrifying and more.Will miss him very much.💫
Thanks for sharing I’m addicted to DLR interviews and media, I am of the ilk that thinks he’s a genius both as a leader and frontman and a literal artist. He could sell a fire to a forest. He’s Diamond Dave! :D lol
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@24:00 Dave’s talking about how EVH was pushing his guitar strings into the pickup magnets during the breakdown of Romeo’s Delight. “Feel your heartbeat..” tap tap tap…
I imagine that he got a bit frustrated being around so many introverts......he's just coming out with so many great quotes every 5 seconds..... It's pretty incredible...... Like a modern-day Will Rogers
When you have so many women trying to rip your clothes off that you have to hire a full 24/7 security team I can understand his positive attitude. Raking in millions doesn't hurt either.
Lost tapes ? It feels so fresh just like WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST was on my turntable and trying to work out the chords and solos. David sounds quite pleased with the new album..I'm liking 😊
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!! VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE
Around 24 minutes, Rosen takes a phone call and says to Dave hold on.....you hear him in the background talking on the phone....meanwhile Dave doesn't realize his audience left him and keeps talking on and on and on...... This went on for a while!
Totally! I know what one of them must have been, of course. But I was trying to think what the second thing was that he was referring to. Maybe it was performing on stage too, ha ha. Great interview!
I Haven't Started This Yet But I'd Like To Say Thank You For These Interviews...Especially These With Eddie And Dave...Eddie Is Why I Subscribed...Gonna Lay Down And Listen To Dave Yap Away...He Was So Awesome On Joe Rogan! Strong Respect😉
Women And Children First... Loved that album. Steve could've just pushed record and said 'go!' ...left the room, had lunch come back.. Dave would've still been yappin' about and the interview would've been complete. Diamond Dave.. in his prime! 🎬
23:55 you can just walk off for 10 min and Dave will just keep talking and never know you're gone. Pee break, coffee break, come back and he's still gabbing.
Roth was the best frontman/singer for VH in my opinion... Sammy was cool but, not the same... Roth had something extra regardless of his limited vocal range... he just had that certain "something" that only Diamond Dave has got...
Diamond Dave es un artista tan grande que es solo para pocos sin prejuicios acerca de VH , el cual tuvo que rearmar toda su carrera y poner todo de el solo, es algo mucho mas difícil que la carrera que dejo con VH al entrar Sammy ya tenia todo armado , Dave fue solo e hizo lo que quizo y recluto a los mejores de la escena, que después de Vai allá llamado Jason Becker y lo allá mostrado al mundo es un aporte a la cultura a nivel mundial.. hay que mostrar esto como ejemplo de que solo uno vale mucho y hay que poner todo en lo que uno proyecta , vaya mal o bien, entregar todo
DLR nor VH were the same after 1985. Such a shame the original 4 never reunited after mid 1980's.VH ruled the music world 1977-1985 + can't imagine keeping my ego in check with such popularity for almost a decade. VH were the reason punk rock didn't become popular.
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Diamond David Lee Roth had the whole package.
The looks, charisma, talk, humor, songs, stage antics.
He's 💯 and with no competition the best showman/frontman ever.
Agreed! Diamond 💎 David Lee Roth is the best showman & frontman EVER!#VanHalen#Van Halen ll#Women & Children First#Diver Down#Fair Warning#1984#80’s#TheBESTofTimes!#RocknRoll👑’s#EVH(R.I.P.)#🎸❤🔥✨@Christer Vainio
Best of his era ( my era included ). The stars aligned. and these lads made good.
David Lee Roth was the youngest wise old man ever. He was only around 25 here and had the wisdom of a 65 year old man.
Hard to believe this interview is 41 years old
Very bright guy
Love him or hate him..brilliant guy. Very high IQ
Dave has lived 1000 lives, maybe more!
Love him or hate him you have to admit you dont hear many 25 yr old rock musicians this forward and articulate interviewed these days.
How could anyone hate David Lee Roth?
But look what he did to Van Halen?
@@5guysproduction234
Hey Dave is certifiably 'odd'. He talks jazz like nobody ive ever heard. The level of entertainment he seems to provide to (himself) is absolutely cringy. He is out there. Theres no question of that. But he's a one off.
"What he did "to" Van halen" ??
Fronted them into some platinum albums? ... Including writing and fronting a genre crushing best debut rock album ever. What exactly were you thinking he "did" to Van halen?
@@ropeswingify He's a great interview.
@@ropeswingify he quit and blamed it on Ed at the height of the bands career because he didn't want to wait another year to record and go through all the b******* to do another album, he wanted what Dave wanted, that's what he did..
"We're taking the basement to the world..." I'm only 20 minutes in and this is the greatest interview with a musician I've ever listened to. Man, 25 yrs old and wise beyond his years. DLR doesn't waste a single word when he speaks. His passion for life, music and people is absolutely amazing and inspiring. He should be teaching at a University somewhere.
Search for "Van Halen 1982 interview with Jim Ladd". Hands down the greatest Roth interview ever. Very similar to this one but at another level.
David interviews himself.
I get the feeling Dave always knew exactly what made Van Halen so special and exactly why it was special, and that it needed to be upheld at all costs.
His "California Girls" ep was embarrassing.
@@E.C.2 wasn't embarrassing at all --- he had two big hits on an SP that only had four songs, dippy
Sir!
Nah Ed wouldn't have minded his solo stuff he knew Dave gets antsy
@@tommitchell4570 Yeah but 2 cover songs, he really came back & Kicked Ass with Eat em & Smile
Dave doesn’t have a pause button. He certainly enjoys his own company!
He would have been a rockstar in any decade during any time!!!
If he was a young man in America today, he'd be homeless, or in jail for some nonsense. It's not the same quality of society as it was when he was young.
I saw Van Halen at the Pinkpop festival in Holland in 1980. I never forget that show, great! I was 15 then.
"It's folk music... delivered with high impact!" I loved that line! 🤟🏻😆🔝👍🏻 Love him (I do!) or hate him, Diamond Dave has always been a lot of fun! A supreme entertainer, even during interviews! 😉😆
"Women + children first" was their best record.They were at the height of creativity and kept getting more and more popular.
@@E.C.2 💯% my thought precisely!!
“I’m not delaying I’m just wasting time, which has been my profession way before music! Ha ha! So give me a tire and a chain and I’ll hang upside down and give you a lyric in a couple of days!!!!” David “Diamond Dave” Lee Roth! 💎💎💎
You’re the best man thank you! I miss these days. Summertime and Van Halen and any girl was a possibility!
Ya they were after 12 yr olds , the 80’s were about S Abuse of young girls .. drugged Rock stars will face God one day for what they did .
wrong pic of Dave for this interview....
Dave is definitelly having a joint during this interview, you can hear him inhale and taking deep breath in ;) Women and Children First is my favourite album of all time and Fools my best song, so I really enjoyed this one, thanks Steve ;)
My fav album of Dave's era too.. simple rhyme is a master piece lol
WACF is my favorite too. So raw. So powerful. Their heaviest. Romeo’s Delight, Everybody Wants Some, Take Your Whisky Home, Fools…
@@TheSteveSteele Romeo Delight 💪
@@TheSteveSteele It's simply the rawest album they ever did...and most diverse to me. Badass album
Common practice during interviews. Back in the 60/70s especially. One interviewer would always get another 20 minutes of interview with David Bowie by pulling out another joint (Source: David Bowie by Dylan Jones)
Dave is a freakin legend man. Love the guy
Dave is so wide beyond his years here. He's like 25 here, right... For a 25 year old he sounds like a 50 year old world class individual for sure "yeah it's a cheap shit wurlitzer played through Edwards wall of Marshalls" beautiful, just fuckin beautiful. He is definitely for real. This dude sees and observes and takes what he wants. He sure can and he does. He lives life to the fullest, double fisted right till the end. Can't think of any better way...
Maybe the most insightful interview I've heard with DLR. Very smart, wise, person. Really wish they had kept things together, would have loved to hear what follow up to 1984 would have sounded to like....
It would have sounded what 5150 turned out to be because that’s where Ed was going.
"Drop dead legs" sounds like Van Hagar with DLR singing.
That is what 5150 would've sounded like w DLR.
@@E.C.2 Interesting...mid tempo, drums sound like Hagar era too. Good point.
The follow up to 1984 would not have sounded much like 5150” because Dave wrote against the guitar melody vs Ed and Sammy who with the guitar. There are demos of “Summer Nights, “Good Enough and “Both Worlds” and they are very different tunes with the Dave effect. However tunes like “Love Walks In” and “Dreams” likely wouldn’t have existed.
@@MrDuds1984 Well, to a large extent, it's true that the next VH album would have had most if not all of the same musical tracks. But to say it would have sounded like 5150 is just wrong; most Roth fans, most Hagar fans, and most fans of both eras will tell you that. First, if Roth had stayed for VH's sixth album, Ted Templeman would have also stayed. Second, all of the lyrics and vocals would be different which, regardless of the producer was, would have resulted in many different production choices. Even though Eddie wrote the music, a lot of people had input on the final product.
Diamond Dave ! Best frotman in the history of rock !
Roth shouldve finished out the 80s with VH. The followups to 1984, with Dave, wouldve been mindblowing! Instead it became Van Hagar and my heart was broken...
This interview is great, thanks for saving it and sharing it. I love listening to Dave talk about all these now-classic songs with such confidence because even though they weren't done, he just *knew*.
Thank you so much for posting these amazing interviews Steve. Us Van Halen fans consider these gold!
Great interview, Dave's always entertaining & this was when he was full of that rock n roll attitude!🎸
Eddie had the gift... but Dave knew how to wrap it!
Very well said a genius with a frontman that could package it
VERY WELL SAID
Love the first 6 VH albums- how the other 3 guys listened to this guy for those years is amazing.
😅
Like a lot of people have already said, there's a lot of wisdom coming out of this then-25-year-old rock star. All VH fans know that Dave has always possessed that. In a way, he kind of reminds me of the late Robin Williams, particularly early in Williams' career. Both seemed to be on another plane from the rest of us, but both could sometimes spin out of control in their stream of consciousness and, in so doing, lose their ability to connect with an audience. Again, those of us who follow VH know that Dave sometimes loses the thread (or, at least, he makes us lose the thread of what the hell he's talking about), in interviews, during onstage monologues, on his podcasts, etc. But this interview is a great example of Dave in complete command; with a full understanding of the fact that he's talking with another human being who, in turn, will be publishing their interview to a large number of other human beings who aren't sitting in the room with them, and who aren't necessarily sharing Dave's stream of consciousness. He's articulating his answers in an entertaining & colorful, but also incredibly insightful way. My favorite part is when Dave talks Rosen through some of the album tracks, and he gets into explaining how Eddie approaches writing the songs, his guitar work (and keyboard work), etc., and I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone capture the greatness of it better. The amount of understanding, respect and appreciation Dave has for Eddie, and the greatness of Van Halen as a whole, can't be overstated. It's a beautiful thing, and it makes me melancholic for bygone days and for how much more these guys could have done together. I think Dave always got this better than anyone else; and that's what makes it so ironic that, probably more than anyone else, Dave was the one responsible for putting it to an end.
EVH was very smart. He had to have seen DLR commercial appeal and charisma. It’s too bad DLR walked away to another potential solo success. It was a bad decision for Dave and VH.It went no where.
He definitely brought so much glam and visual affinity to Eddie’s music. It worked for the time. VH , EVH ‘s essence was expressed so effectively with the combination of these four guys. Thank you for posting this interview and the EVH interviews
In retrospect, I’m not sure that him leaving Van Halen was a bad thing. We got some great records out of his solo endeavour and some great records from the Hagar era too. They’re both so fantastic, but there isn’t a doubt in my mind that his lyrics got even better after he left. Eat Em and Smile and Skyscraper are magnificent works of art. His music career isn’t his pursuit, it’s a side effect or symptom of his personality. We were just lucky enough to see it all happen.
Thank you for blessing us with a trip back to 1980. Dave is a national treasure 🙌
Always love hearing Dave.You gotta hold on.Its a ride!!
Thank you Steve for all you do.
I've never heard Roth answer a simple yes or no question. Everything is his twisted narratives, and crazy analogies. I've always thought that its just a sign of a creative artist, or it could just be he likes to revel in his own bullshit. He does pass off moments of extreme intelligence and other times he acts like a prom queen, but he was 1 fourth of the greatest rock and roll band ever, so he gets a pass.
David lee Roth is definitely a character, I hope to meet him one day
Mr. Rosen, thanks so much for putting these wonderful videos on RUclips
Glad you like them!
Great to hear DLR's insight into what - in my opinion - was Van Halen's best album: Women and Children First!
DLR is way more intelligent than the average person and thus by definition is not going to be average or typical in any way.
When you’ve got an articulate frontman-it’s like getting a side order of fireworks with your show. 🎉🎊 Party on, Garth.
As an old lifelong VH/DLR fan I’m just soaking this in. Ray living it live
VAN HALEN started the 80s in the late 70s way ahead of everything. 78-84 van halen cannot be touched!! Van hagar was the watered down version, DLR ruled!
I wouldn't call this aninterview. I'd call this an hour long DLR monologue.
I didn't become a rock star so I could act this way...I am this way so rock star is my only choice...DLR
Awesome quote
I mention this cause Dave was still so all proud to be a member discussing an historical album with passion and he still admired Ed
Steve I’m new to your channel but this rare interview with David Lee Roth is great! I guess the Women and Children’s First record. I saw Van Halen for the first time on the Fair Warning tour through 1984. I saw Van Halen with Sammy Hagar on OU812 and Balance. I saw Dave on both Eat em and Smile in 86 and Skyscraper in 88. It was great seeing Dave with them on the A Different Kind of Truth album which still kicks ass today! Long live the music of Van Halen particularly the Roth era!
Are all of Steve Rosen’s interviews lost. Glad they’ve been found! Lol
Back in the day Steve's bi-line in any guitar mag meant you were gonna get the best interview from EVH, jas obrecht from guitar player mag as well...so my mom threw ALL my 80s guitar mags out when I went off to school so no, I don't got any of em😂🙏✌🤘
the guys needed a hype man like Dave but how Ed didn't strangle him is beyond me.
@Margaret McEvoy you are right.... Eddie did not break out of his "shell" until he turned 40 years old in 1995. If you look at 1995 Ed, there is a more mature, more confident person.
dont think they were sqeaky clean !!!! sure eddie had his miments,like when he threw an amp at the sound crew live on stage! they were all divas! loved em for it tho!!
@@Mff48 when did that happen? were you there? can you share more. thanks. I love VH
Beyond you? Lol. Dave could have beaten the Hell out of Ed. Use common sense.
@aae7583 it was a monitor and it was 07 or 08. I think 1995 and then 2012 through his passing are about the only times Ed ever seemed truly sober. He was drunk and often high for most of his natural born life.
Loved that in the beginning they recorded in record time, raw and live! Few know, Dave after getting signed, took vocal lessons. They were 80's in 1978.....ultimate band of ALL TIME!
You were there when he went to the lessons
i heard he took lessons too
see his voice was on fire back then,why are some people willing to put the boot in!! he always comes across to me as a great guy.........he sounds sooo young here...my god the years fly!!
@@dezertfox3130 oh god you again!!!!
@@dezertfox3130 it’s in the book Van Halen Rising and Ted Templeman confirmed it. In the meantime Hagar was struggling with his solo career.
Van Halen put out that debut record then went on a long tour and when they returned home their record company sent them a bill for a million dollars. Thanks for your work and talent guys.
The record company didn’t ‘send them a bill’. What happened was, the band had a double platinum album and they expected the big royalty cheques to come rolling in-which, on a double-platinum album, they SHOULD have been. However, VH signed a sub-par record deal and also advanced a tonne of tour support money-and destroying rental cars and hotel rooms didn’t help their side: ultimately, they are billed for those decisions, even if the record company initially covers the cost of the damages. A better record deal would have seen Warner Brothers maybe picking up some of the tour support expenses-but VH signed a crap deal.
And ultimately they DID make some money off the first album: the song writing royalties were good-and they were smart enough to keep those.
Great interview Steve. Really enjoying these. Cheers
Absolutely awesome fascinating and beyond cool interview. This is Truly amazing.
Are you even serious? Geez
@@Vibeagain depends on the drugs im using lol today is just OK video nothing like it was lol
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Seen this man in my small hometown..have to say he was and still is my favorite Singer Performer and man does he know how to put on a Electrifying show.Went to his Shyscraper show in Erie Pa once again Electrifying and more.Will miss him very much.💫
Thanks Steve ! I’m excited for your new project!
Thanks for sharing I’m addicted to DLR interviews and media, I am of the ilk that thinks he’s a genius both as a leader and frontman and a literal artist. He could sell a fire to a forest. He’s Diamond Dave! :D lol
Just let this guy talk forever ... 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel.
Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
thanks for doing these, Steven. Always enjoyed your work
At times here Roth is extremely thoughtful and calm pontificating on various things. Great interview Steve
@24:00 Dave’s talking about how EVH was pushing his guitar strings into the pickup magnets during the breakdown of Romeo’s Delight. “Feel your heartbeat..” tap tap tap…
I imagine that he got a bit frustrated being around so many introverts......he's just coming out with so many great quotes every 5 seconds..... It's pretty incredible...... Like a modern-day Will Rogers
thanks for uploading all these interviews for everyone
Great interview. Only thing...you should have used pictures of Dave from the era.
Another great video! Dave's just an amazing character of Rock n Roll! So cool to listen to this! 😎🎸🤘🎵🎶
I’m going to play this tonight as I’m laying down for sleep-I know it’s going to be an exhausting listen!
When you have so many women trying to rip your clothes off that you have to hire a full 24/7 security team I can understand his positive attitude. Raking in millions doesn't hurt either.
Great ! Thanks Steve.
David Lee Roth said:
I'm the Hamburger Sammy's just the helper
😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Lost tapes ? It feels so fresh just like WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST was on my turntable and trying to work out the chords and solos. David sounds quite pleased with the new album..I'm liking 😊
Dave holding in hits from a joint during this interview .. that classic holding-in-a-hit stoner voice style.
Dave always smoked a fattie during these interviews --- that's why he sounds so mellow
Said recording Jaime's crying he didn't smoke or drink. Ted. Something sounds wrong. Get this guy a joint and cheeseburger True
Finally A 2nd Or 3rd Interview I Heard About Woman & Children First !!!!
FOUR KEYS TO THE VAN HALEN SOUND: DIAMOND DAVE’S SCREECHING WITH WHOOPS AND HOLLERS EDDIE’S GUITAR 🎸 ALEX’S SNARE DRUM 🥁 AND MICHAEL ANTHONY’S STRATOSPHERE BACKING VOCALS!!!
VAN HALEN: I SAW ALL THE TOURS WITH ROTH FROM VAN HALEN 1 IN 1978 TO 1984 AND AGAIN IN 2013! I SAW 5150, OU812, FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND BALANCE WITH HAGAR. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER EDWARD VAN HALEN!!! RIP EDDIE
Thanks for the Eddie Van Halen guitar pick Steve. Love it.
I had a 1980 Invasion shirt.. my girlfriend stole it.
Around 24 minutes, Rosen takes a phone call and says to Dave hold on.....you hear him in the background talking on the phone....meanwhile Dave doesn't realize his audience left him and keeps talking on and on and on......
This went on for a while!
He's hilarious especially about the 12 minute reference
Totally! I know what one of them must have been, of course. But I was trying to think what the second thing was that he was referring to. Maybe it was performing on stage too, ha ha. Great interview!
I Haven't Started This Yet But I'd Like To Say Thank You For These Interviews...Especially These With Eddie And Dave...Eddie Is Why I Subscribed...Gonna Lay Down And Listen To Dave Yap Away...He Was So Awesome On Joe Rogan! Strong Respect😉
Jim Plant or Robert Dandy?LMAO 😂
Love you work Steve .. I've read alot of your articles.
Awesome Steve!
Johnny Beane. Was the bumblebee guitar ever on a VH recording?
ACTUALLY DAVE, I AM listening to this interview! 🤣
Amazing interview!
Vh took good old rock n roll to its peak !! Explosion !
Women And Children First... Loved that album. Steve could've just pushed record and said 'go!' ...left the room, had lunch come back.. Dave would've still been yappin' about and the interview would've been complete. Diamond Dave.. in his prime! 🎬
Besides the obvious talent, the Vahan head, it came down to dLR’s unrelenting optimism, that they would succeed
They Opened up with Romeos Delight on that Tour 1980 when I saw them, So much Fucking Energy, WOW!!
I saw VH 3/11/84. Met Dave 8/17/94. Interviewed him (phone) 7/2002.
23:55 you can just walk off for 10 min and Dave will just keep talking and never know you're gone. Pee break, coffee break, come back and he's still gabbing.
I wrote many a French paper as the last gun got fired as my mother used to say. I can relate, I needed the pressure of a deadline.
Without David Lee Roth, Van Halen would never had happen !
Without Eddie and Alex Van Halen there never would have been a DLR
@@MrDuds1984 exactly
It would have happened someway, they might have got Sammy earlier.
They just would have been Rat Salad
Dave cracks Dave up! What a character.
Loved this.
Dave was raised by intellectual parents (eye surgeon & a teacher) and they challenged their children!
W&c is my favorite of the Dave 6 pack ...
I can only take DLR in short bursts.
He's amazing but laughing constantly at your own jokes is grating.
your problem dude never tire of him hes a ledgend.
They hadn't yet hit their peak Fair Warning came next
Great stuff
Roth was the best frontman/singer for VH in my opinion... Sammy was cool but, not the same... Roth had something extra regardless of his limited vocal range... he just had that certain "something" that only Diamond Dave has got...
37:31 Dave mentions social distancing 6ft. from the crowd. Interesting
I get up! And nothing gets me down...
...shout out to The Knack.
"Dave isn't a person, just a series of prepared statements." -Evh
Why did you take down the Eddie van halen interviews
Because Eddie was the ass hole of the band.
Diamond Dave es un artista tan grande que es solo para pocos sin prejuicios acerca de VH , el cual tuvo que rearmar toda su carrera y poner todo de el solo, es algo mucho mas difícil que la carrera que dejo con VH al entrar Sammy ya tenia todo armado , Dave fue solo e hizo lo que quizo y recluto a los mejores de la escena, que después de Vai allá llamado Jason Becker y lo allá mostrado al mundo es un aporte a la cultura a nivel mundial.. hay que mostrar esto como ejemplo de que solo uno vale mucho y hay que poner todo en lo que uno proyecta , vaya mal o bien, entregar todo
Very cool. 😎
You always get more than you bargain for with Dave.😀👍
DLR nor VH were the same after 1985. Such a shame the original 4 never reunited after mid 1980's.VH ruled the music world 1977-1985 + can't imagine keeping my ego in check with such popularity for almost a decade. VH were the reason punk rock didn't become popular.
THE EIGHTIES IS IT, IT BELONGS TO VAN HALEN. - DAVID LEE ROTH 1980.
I loved the 80's!!!
@@326cher My blood type is the '80's.
Nobody enjoys a dlr interview better than dlr
Legend.. His intellect is way above most people.