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Nuke Rocketeer
06-15-2006, 09:49 AM
Looks like DLR just committed career suicide.

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

Viewer beware, almost obscene attempt by an aging rocker to jump start his flagging career. Could be harmful to old memories.

Joe W
DaveR
06-15-2006, 10:20 AM
Truly sad, almost shameful.
SEL
06-15-2006, 12:50 PM
Looks like DLR just committed career suicide.

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

Viewer beware, almost obscene attempt by an aging rocker to jump start his flagging career. Could be harmful to old memories.

Joe W

'O David, where art thou? :eek:
tbzep
06-15-2006, 01:55 PM
In Dave's defense, that's the most "on-key" I've ever heard him while singing live, not that he was all that good in that clip...just better than usual. I've seen him in concert a few times and he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
SEL
06-15-2006, 02:05 PM
In Dave's defense, that's the most "on-key" I've ever heard him while singing live, not that he was all that good in that clip...just better than usual. I've seen him in concert a few times and he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

Have to agree with you. I really had to look to determine that it really was DLR singing.
And if it had just been a Bluegrass band covering the song, it wouldn't have been bad at all - they're all good players. It's just the fact that it WAS David that made it all a little surreal.
A Fish Named Wallyum
06-15-2006, 03:14 PM
Van Halen wasn't about tune. Van Halen was about a party. I thought he did a great job getting that across, but that was a long time ago. :(
A Fish Named Wallyum
06-15-2006, 03:16 PM
Yeah, that was brutal. :eek: Someone forgot to flush.
Tweener
06-15-2006, 03:28 PM
Yep, might as well jump..... without a 'chute. I saw DLR, but I heard the fat lady singing. :(
Royatl
06-26-2006, 10:13 PM
Looks like DLR just committed career suicide.

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

Viewer beware, almost obscene attempt by an aging rocker to jump start his flagging career. Could be harmful to old memories.

Joe W


It would've been pretty cool if he'd tried to sing it in a bluegrass style (one of my favorite records of the 60's was a bluegrass album of Beatles covers). As for as his "singing," I seem to remember Eddie VH saying something like the following when they hired Sammy Hagar: "We wanted a singer, not a screamer."

The thing that most bothers me is he looks so much like Jim Bakker!