Amazing!

Awesome memory

Your last name is Blackman too?

That is hella cool cheers

I bought my first VH album from that music plus in Pasadena! $3.99

lol!!! Love the guy

Yea he's one of them people who laugh the hardest at their own jokes..

Diamond Dave...yes...he is my fave! This is a gem!id do anything to hang out with this guy!

@@davidleeroth4441 We love ya Dave....Dont bother with these idiots

Joe Rogan is just boring

Everything's underrated these days.

What they did to him is criminal

He contributed a lot with his vocals

Glad he at least acknowledged it!

Since when? lol

The story was heavy. ✌🏼

def

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I grew up in the San Gabriel valley. VH turf! That was a great interview.

Truth

Brilliant.

touché.

That’s deep. And way true

Yoga?

The most overused word on youtube is overrated

@Christopher Lee very confident edit got that Method from Jimmy Page and Ritchie blackmore but i could be wrong he mightve been the first to compose that way!

Well said. 100%

He is much smarter than people think he is.

He’s a musician, he understands how the process works.

They had an orchestra, swimming pool, brothel, post office, dental clinic, canteen, camp money, greenhouses, soccer field, theater, maternity ward. We've been seriously lied to.

@@clovergrass9439not for the prisoners

​@clovergrass9439 good man 😅

Which camp was that?

I was there your grandfather was hiding under a chair.... I found the piano

He had a talk show replacing Howard Stern back in the day. Terrible show...but I agree, he's a bright guy.

When your talking about DLR , about 10% of people who take the time to drop an opinion areas on the fence. They can take him or leave him . About 20% can't stand him , and the other 70% ( such as myself) love him. I'm one of the worlds biggest VH fans still to this day , almost as I was in my teens thru my 40's. My favorite member has always been the engine of that Formula 1 racing car Eddie. Dave was a close 2nd. Those 2 together did more for rock music than 80% of even the most die hard of VH fans will ever know. I made it a mission to dig into this bands history , their bio's and most anything I could get my hands on. When I see a person wearing an old genuine concert shirt that you can't get anywhere else, I offer to buy it off of them on the spot ! How many people you know are that ridiculous ! I don't live in LA , and I'm not $$ loaded , but I have still managed to have seen them 14 times in concert , including seeing them 3 time in a 5 day span (long story), so if you want to know anything (within human reason). Just ask away. Getting back on track , I have DLR's disease, which has me getting off of the subject and rambling on a bit , but their history ranks among the top acts to have ever climbed onto a stage . Eddie commenting on Dave said it best in an interview once. Somebody asked him about Dave antics to which Eddie responded ,. "" His rambling on and his Attention Deficit Disorder, you ask "" ? Well , Ive been asked that many times and after thinking about it so many times a., I guess I would describe it all like this...... Don't mistake his antics for lack of intelligence. Dave is very creative as I think him and I have made some great music together. So just remember that he's creative, intelligent, and overall a well read guy. But sometimes something short circuits and he has a little trouble connecting all the dots "" !

And nobody knows WTF he's talking about. . He rambles

Except... The Beatles didn't do anything close to _six_ years in Hamburg.

DLR is a moron.

Love that later part when he starts to talk music. Imagine Eddie sitting next to him. No wonder the early VH made incredible songs.

MA was always the red-headed stepchild who the media and EVH just stepped over. His voice pairing w/ Dave's is perfect. That is signature VH. Like Dave said. Sure Eddie had talent he was the founder with his brother. Who, I compare as a step above Lars Ulrich of Metallica. Alex received 1/4 of the royalties for playing drums... At least MA had a harmonizing voice that made a signature sound.

@@IanCrouse I always though it was Eddie doing the backup vocals.

DLRoth knows his s.. t. Although, you any VH fan knows Anthony's vocal was vital. His bass. His look. Hia stage persona as well. These 4 guys had priceless band chemistry. Vocally, Anthony reminds me of... Christine McVeigh for Fleetwood Mac.. Or Graham Nash for CSN... Garfunkel as Roth says.. They seal the deal . Give distinct unique definition to back vocals. it Was cool Diamond have credit. Rock on man

@@thephilb It was but also Mike and Dave . Eddie sang backup just as much as Mike did .

I agree 100%! I love Eddie and Wolf Gang is a force of his own, but when they had the reunion it should have been Michael Anthony with them also! The vocals of Dave and Mike were as much a part of the VH sound as Eddie's guitar licks!

Yep. Or The Beach Boys, Earth Wind Fire, etc.

Beatles = 🗑️

UmmmmmmmNo.

10000%!!

Dude Mike could HIT THE HELL outta some Mariah Carey notes! The live album version of ain’t talking bout love blows me away still.

Yep. Great to hear Dave acknowledge that fully. Too bad Ed couldn’t get his head outta his ass since 1984

Yeah, that crushed me. Made me re-think everything that I thought I knew :O

wow. I cant say how much respect I have for DLR and VH. I grew up with their music. I gradated HS in '77. I grew up in Hacienda Heights SoCal when backyard parties with live bands and keggers were the norm. It's no wonder they blew the doors off any competition of that time.

I was born in '77 and missed all that kinda fun. Mine was different - I might've traded mine for yours. haha Thanks for sharing. :)@@deanda5150

Took the words right out of me, Thank You!

Amen!

Word...

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

DAMN STRAIGHT!

Yes, those last two minutes were very deep! Never expected it from him. Of course, Dave never knew "how" to sing. No range. But he damn knew well "what" to sing. His diamond persona made up for the rest. DLR VH era will always stand up to the test of time.

Talk about an impression! It doesn't get more real than that!

@@OnlyInItalyVideos Honestly most hard rock singers back then couldn’t sing. Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Bon Scott and Brian Johnson definitely don’t “sing” well, but they had good melodies and fit the aesthetic (like Dave). It’s always puzzled me that he’s singled out for lacking range when the standard in his genre is like Gene Simmons lol.

No kidding man that was profound...

Yeah I'll never listen to 'Dirty Movies' the same way

Except he's not close with Alex and Michael.

Yup he is pretty kool Idk why sammy those make him seem so bad

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Thats really the first time I'd ever seen Dave emotionally, not goofing around, very interesting bit of his history there

I can't think of anyone else who took it to that level.

@listenupfoolio-mx8me, the difference is you know who he is. He’ll never know your dumbass.

@@listenupfoolio-mx8mewhat did he do to you

@@marvinm.messier1120 or werd and strangness lol

American, plant takes the cake though

AWESOME JRE! Fricken AWESOME!!!!!

I'll give you anything you want in 3 songs , can ya dig? 🙄

You need at the very least a seasoned Sherpa guide to follow Dave.

@@Adatoode Hell of a showman though. Need those people around

@@Adatoode I don't think David needs to lie based on the life he's had that most people would never understand or experience.

@@Adatoode He was one of the biggest rock stars the world. I think people forget how huge not only Van Halen was, but DLR with his solo career. Those videos were classics on 80's MTV. From the late 70's to the late 80's, VH and DLR ran shit.

I saw them on the debut album tour when they opened up for Sabbath and they blew Sabbath off the stage. Their sound was just something like no one had ever heard before

78 I was in Germany with the AF at Spangdahlem. Met Dave in Pasadena at a backyard party when they were MAMMOTH. He's still the cool-ash-mutha I met. Rock on -

I think the thing about DLR is, yes, he loves to talk, but he listens twice as much at the same time. Almost no one is capable of doing that.

hahaha felt the same vibe. The greatest frontman in history was almost too much for renaissance Rogan. Diamond Dave probably got him really stoned before the show and made him unable follow those stream of consciousness answers. Rogan felt a little wokey trying to pin down the great David Lee Roth! what a legend. mad respect for both nonetheless.

This episode exposed how boring rogan really is. DLR was so open and entertaining and rogan sounded annoyed and and unable to be in a fun state of mind. He kept trying to change the subject to fit his needs. I would rather listen to DLR all day rather then rogan. Also, rogan has to stop trying to talk over his interviews. DLR is awesome and I would hang w him any day.

@@stevemcnair8452 “greatest frontman in history” - get outta here

Brilliant guy telling a story in the only way he is ALLOWED to tell it. I got burned when I met John Kalodner. Should have demanded to meet David!

@@ejl74 he has a drinking problem & so many of his interviews have been wasted because of it, sadly. Soooo many missed opportunities, just because Joe is a grown ass man & still hasn't been able to perfect the timing of putting the bottle down when he should. His stand up is exactly the same. You'd think all of the discipline that comes from martial arts would help him master this. 🤷‍♂️

Dawg for real

And you know it was them grade A hips. Dave's pulling down quality AND quantity

The laugh after that sounded like the intro to Feel good inc

What does it mean? English is not my first language Thank you.

Oh it was on lol

When I read his book that was the same feeling I got.

Funny how many many times he has called himself Diamond Dave in interviews

@@l.t.w8985 I thought the same thing & thought he would get a kick out of it, apparently not in his personal life

He must turn off when he's not on camera. To be that intense non stop is impossible

Those EMT's must have hated when he left them. That would be the best time at work ever being an EMT in NYC.

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jow knows nothing about vh. maybe the stuff he read right before the podcast

He wasn’t really offended. The heroin withdrawal symptoms were just hitting a little hard

David is still trying to figure out why people are still calling him crazy. 😂

@Jay Porter right, they get the good shit prescribed

@Neutral i dont care, im not reading that, not clicking anything, your fake likes and bot/spam comments will not work. Blocking/reporting you now

@@resist1581 good call, I've been seeing a lot of this fake comment marketing recently. There will be one comment about investing or something, followed by 4-5 different people leaving comments about a great opportunity.

@@resist1581 this one, while not necessarily a scam, is still spam. I've seen this comment floating around for a bit, so I actually looked into it. You can listen to a reading of the book they're trying to sell on KZfaq if you look for it. It's interesting, but the validity can never be discovered. If you're into conspiracy theories, it's an interesting perspective, but don't take put too much faith in the information.

@@sentientcardboarddumpster7900 i lived through the early internet during 9/11. I dont need to listen or read more garbage conspiracy theories. Everyone ive ever met that buys into conspiracy theories is miserable and usually single.

Especially because he made most of them up.

You ever listen to a Paul Stanley interview? He’s a genius

You gotta navigate through his self-serving bullshit to enjoy the story, and that gets tiresome very quickly. I could only tolerate him for a half hour or so before I'd have to get some fresh air, ya follow? Ya dig?

Far too controlled by his ego in his younger years. He went through a stretch where he didn't talk to the band off stage when they were on tour. Just stupid prima donna stuff

Love me some 💎 dave then and now; this coming from a black women who grew up in Brooklyn New York💙💙

He's the one who came up with the the red M&Ms tactic.

Exactly...every excellent conversation needs some give and take. A conversation with DLR seems very one sided.

I'd expect he'd tone it down without a mic in front, but yeah.

I was thinking the same thing. He's exactly what you want as a front man but having to take a road trip with him would probably be miserable. This is the kind of guest that takes over the show to the point where the host is irrelevant. It's entertaining though.

Ngl, that's totally true imo lll

@UCucToizscMC7OTWudBL_hdg Wtf was that, get some help.

I always think he would be a phenomenal voice actor in cartoons.

What a great comment. Bravo.

100%

Do you follow

well said

That explains it in a nutshell

Now THAT made me lmfao!

Yeah...he redirected that nicely.

rakestep *SMACK* lol

Well, how high are they really? Haha

@@brinnr.2111 enough to everyone feel good 😂

Agree

fuck yeah.... Ed is king, aint no doubt, but I'm realistic and realize we may never have heard of him, if it wasn't for Dave. It took me a while to understand that...

Self serving BS if you ask me.

Dave gets all of us wondering what we could have been if we had taken our lives/opportunities/talents more seriously.

No he isnt

I like Dave a bit more after seeing this interview

Definitely gotta be in the top 5 of all time.

@@jolenegall5545 definitely top 5

So is Motley Crue's

@@josephhernandez9428 I like shout at the devil better.

@@michaelbruns449 me too, but the topic is about first albums.

Well thank god

They've been talking for years - the beef was with sensitive Edward - Dave and Alex were ok.

Don't believe everything this idiot says. I doubt he's even in communication with Alex on an ongoing basis.

Well, we've found Hagar's sock account.

Well said. I didn't even know punk existed in the 70s as a child in La. I Luvd Rok N Roll at that time.

No question LA hair metal would not have existed without Van Halen (and no band ever equalled them, though songs here and there were great). I was a kid when Van Halen came out and I saw the imitations start flying into and through the entire 80s. It became why an underground started and eventually spawned Nirvana 13 years later. It was inevitable VH would be imitated when a band hits with that much force and success. Metallica would have a million imitators also. Roth's dedication came through in his lyrics if not his antics. He wrote some truly great working class lyrics.

Ed is great but the most technical is debatable

I enjoyed Dave's voice because of it's roughness. I still listen to those old school Van Halen songs and like his gargling broken glass voice. And of course EVH on lead guitar. The backup bass and drums are not exactly impressive in terms of showing off like Eddie and Dave, but they are technically perfect.

@@orange_cat Alex and Michael delivered just enough to make Dave and Eddie shine.

yeah he's done interesting things. however, how happy has his life been? he's never been married, never had children (that he fesses up to, anyway) , always has been alone.....he might have walked through amazonian jungles and such and I wonder if a lot of that is trying to fill something in him that he's never had.

@@SillyGoose2024 that might not be his thing, a lot of adults never want to have children and some also don’t want to be married, he certainly had a lot of friends especially in his hay day plus he’s older and still is in great spirits, I have a lot of respect for the dude

@@oxonomine it also might not be. it also might be the result of a lifetime of choices. but....BACK TO THE POINT.....when people trip over themselves talking about how great some hero of theirs life has been.....look closer. its possible that on the outside it looks like sun and in his case he might be sad and lonely on the inside.

@@SillyGoose2024 of course, I was just saying that being unmarried and childless does not inherently indicate that a person is suffering on the inside

@@oxonomine Youre making the inverse argument i was making. The negative of what i said.

True, he'll go on and on and then POW, he ties it all in.

This.

I just finished the podcast, that's the same point I took away from it.

Ya... But he's still a rambling maniac. This is what happens when you have tons of money and drugs and everybody you're surrounded with just agrees with everything you say and never tells you "no" for 3 decades.

Often it's hard to know exactly what he's getting at, though, but he steamrolls on like you know exactly what he means at every moment, while you're looking for context in your head. "It's all poetry, man."

Damn straight

Heads would explode!

I'd love to throw in great baseball left pitcher, Bill "Spaceman" Lee into that conversation. I'd pay to see that.

That's why Netflix hasn't peaked yet --- get a three-hour roundtable with DLR, Busey, Sheen, and Crispin Glover and it would smash ratings

David Lee would own him.

Sammy Hagar has been in Michael Anthonys corner for years. David Lee Roth doesn't care he just like to talk and bullshit.

Took the words out of my mouth!!

@tom tom Eat my 'poundcake' in 'Cabo Wabo' 'Right Now'!

Hell yeah.

@tom tom hell yea

So true..when people say 1 in a million,I think of Diamond Dave.

a highly intelligent crazy man dave's personality alone is just galactic in scale

EXACTLY.... Well Said Chico !!

The man also spent many years in Japan and from what I’ve been told speaks Japanese to some extent as well. I go to school in Tokyo and one of my professors said he would see him walk by campus all the time in the 90’s and he’d have to yell out to him “DIAMOND DAVE!”, to which Dave would throw both hands up in the air 😂

@@RedSupra Absolutely true. Lived there to practice martial arts AND fine arts. The guy is amazing!

Not even one letter

*regrets

@@coachtim6188 so you've not seen the movie.

@@coachtim6188 regerts** LuLz

Regrets

😂😂😂

"Because you're fucking old!"

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Ohhhhh, whoahhhh, whoah.

Gold

Lol 🤣

that was a good one 😂

They open up because Rogan has the sense to shut his mouth and let them express...

That's how he controls the listener and makes you pay attention.

Joe's trying to follow, but he knows he's having trouble ya dig?

@@tacoenvy Órale

That’s old school daddy O

Lol, I know!

David was as big a character is rock'n'roll could hold... and then some. His non-stop rap could chew both ears off. I'm sure he drove the band nuts times. But he was a great front man, as wild and crazy as he was... and obviously still is.

Peter7966 exactly what he's role is one of the best leed ,Rocker Should be ,larger than life ,,this guy is on a hole diffrent level of being classic and classey the whole dam package ,peace an love from Australia 🇦🇺❤️🍺🙈🙉🙊

Eddie HAD to be seeing $$ signs to keep up. What do you figure how many times Alex had to pull Eddie off the proverbial edge?

and you wonder why Eddie had a drinking problem !!

@jjthesavage Or vice versa...

That is a great point

Indeed a great point. Wonderful comment.

Love this guy.....

He's an absolute bore. Completely on another planet. Laughs at stuff that isn't even remotely funny. Joe doesn't even know what to do here. One of the worst podcasts I've ever heard. Perhaps it's American humour.

What happened to his tooth?

@@jamesragsdale8202 I looked it up. He fell off his bike. Next question. Why doesn't he fix it. LOL.

@John Peric i bet he could run circles around you... hes always been a health nut.....hard partier, but health & clean eating the rest of the time, hes talked of it often throughout his career.

You mean like ...85% of this episode?

Watch the whole pod 🤣 I was at work thinking wtf is going on in this ep

Yo thats how I felt. Like he seems like a cool dude but he was just all over the place lol. I had to turn it off because it was distracting me too much at work.

What a great experience! Jealous! 😎

you jammy sod!!! i think i would just go to pieces if i met him! hes a beautiful person!

Amen 🙏

Right?! My hand is shaking but......

I'm headed there now

This thread should be the comment section for full version on Spotify. I'll start...Joe trying to steer the conversation to current events: "How did we get here from beef? Didn't someone hijack the beef supply?"

Yeah...no.

Why not it's free or is there something Spotify is shady for

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Lol right

Cool dude though

lol

Then one of your bottom teeth falls out as you laugh like a crazy man. 😲😂

This is gold lol.

All 31 minutes and 48 seconds of it. That's an EP where I come from!

That’s fuckin awesome man, it’s my favorite VH album by a sliver. The universe is wild, funny how things link up. Years ago I was out on a long run, 8 miles or so, listened to the entire 10,000 days album, and a little into Lateralus, walked through the front door into the living room, put KZfaq on, and Maynard from Tool was on for the second time live on JRE. Wild!!

Gr8 post. There’s no such thing as coincidence!!

Because Cocaine.

LOL!

@@liquidbraino He's had that hyper active condition since he was a kid, read his book. He'd be dead by now if he was a cocaine user for 50 years.

DLR has lived a fascinating life and it’s been a privilege to grow up to the amazing music he created with Van Halen!

He *has* his own YT channel, you know: kzfaq.info (Think you'd enjoy it, check it out.)

I`m reading that same book at the moment,its very very detailed and well-written,I`m really enjoying it.It makes me miss them even more though.