David Lee Roth Says Van Halen Isn't Breaking Up | Letterman
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- Diamond Dave comes clean about some of the wild Van Halen rumors.
(From "Late Night," air date: 1/2/85)
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Dave was/is the best. God when this aired I was 17, me and all my buddies rocked out to VH all through high school and we partied the whole time. I graduated in '85. It was 4 years of decadence before I had to clean up and get a little serious. Diamond Dave inspired many a high school boy to be a man and have some fun. The 80's were incredible to say the least. I miss it but the memories are incredible. I wish i could do it all over again. 😃👍🎈
Same
Amazing music, amazing movies, amazing politics even unlike today everything is about political correctness. Technology today is a blessing but also a curse in my opinion.
Yep same memories lol - $5 keg parties all you could drink and the mighty VH
"Diamond Dave inspired many a high school boy to be a man" LMAO!!
@@TheToekutter Good sh** isn’t it. 😆👍
Dave was so chill and uncaffeinated here. I dig it.
Un coked you mean. 😂! (Not the Soda)
Which Dave?
Diamond Dave... I saw the Eat 'Em and Smile tour with Steve Vai & Billy Sheehan and the Skyscraper tour , with Vai and the Bissonette brothers tours back to back in Portland Oregon. Great stuff. Them I saw Van Hagar at the Monsters of Rock tour in Seattle, 1988. The eighties were some great times.
Yes they were. The best.
No doubt. Eat ‘em and Smile: great tour. Great era! Nothing like it. 🎉
Monsters of Rock 88 LA Coliseum!! The best! 🤘🏼
5:35 Diamond Dave making a Spinal Tap reference not long after it was released. Very cool.
I can remember many rock stars being angry about that movie --- thank God that Dave was one of the few who saw the humor in it
Way cooler if it was now.
Paul Schaffer actually being in Spinal Tap adds a layer to it.
How many light years was David Lee Roth ahead of everyone else, brilliance at it purest. Love to shake his hand someday.
My thoughts exakery 😉
Absolutely Zero. Sammy, on the other hand...
Did you see that weak handshake, he's a wo-man. Not a man
You should watch some of Jim Morrisons interviews 😮
Same do I , along with a little chat.
This interview was just classic. Best frontman and guest.
Over forty years later, and who would've thought that Dave would be ten times more intense and animated when doing interviews? This is so tame compared to his appearances on Joe Rogan and anything else from 2020 onward. Amazing.
Met him backstage of the Glens Falls Civic Center during his solo tour, a normal guy all around.🎼🎹🥁🎸
"Normal"
hehe, good one.
I took a bus from Toronto to New York, and it stopped in Glens Falls. Quaint little town.
Was that back when he would bike around every town he toured in?
@@fredwerza3478 i saw him describe biking around towns and how that was important to him to prevent feeling the tour grind aspects. dave is nothing if not endlessly curious :)
The weirdest dream I ever had was of the late author Philip Roth substituting for David in Van Halen. He and the rest of the band were performing their song "Jump".
thats deep
Dave in his Jeff Spicoli phase.
Diamond Dave best front man ever!👍
I guess you've never heard of Mick Jagger.
You never saw or heard Robert Plant or Ronnie James Dio?
I'd say Freddie Mercury was tied with him --- but Freddie couldn't do split jumps!
I will just say that Jimmy Koplik (rock promoter for over 50 years in CT, MA & NY) picked DLR as his all-time best front man. Of course it’s subjective but in his prime, he was hard to touch.
Late replying lol. I guess I just don't pay close attention to comments. 😉 Saw Jagger(all time favourite) 20ish yrs ago with 485000 friends ...amazing, Plant 90s on Plant and Page, Dio on Heaven and Hell, and watched the concert at Wembley on TV when I was a kid. Where they were all great(er) vocalists, None of them could put a show on like Dave. 👍
I turned 16 in 85. Had a Tiny Honda hatchback with speakers everywhere I could find to install one & a bunch of VH on cassettes..Talk-about the goodies days!good times
I like a David Lee Roth interview! Funny, very talented guy.
Also Dave did EMT Work for 2 Years in NYC in the early 2000s....
Magnificent creature he is.
Dave always looks like he is about to do something wicked while, simultaneously, looking like he just did something wicked.
lol, The Rock's got nothing on Dave's right eyebrow !!
I like Dave. He's pretty honest, and he stands for exactly what rock is supposed to be. A collaborative effort. He was ahead of his time. The internet has become just what he said. Technology bringing us closer together. I'm surprised he doesn't have a bunch of lawsuits he's dealing with-and being cancelled.
Diamond is Diamond, shines every time.
Saw him Solo in Toledo Sports Arena... he had all his trapeze toys and rappeling gear....fun show!
I find DLR fascinating…his appearances on Joe Rogan’s podcast (who I’m not particularly a fan of) are quite interesting and extremely entertaining. He occasionally sets aside the “Diamond Dave” shtick and talks about real life, but those moments are few and far between.
He’s just one of those guys who became his public persona and now refuses to turn it off. I wonder if it’s even possible to know the real Dave.
Are any of us truly who we are?????
@@Local_yokels_monsters_myths Whoooooo are you? Who Who. Who Who.
@@harrodsongs I remember throwing punches around and preaching from my chair - well who are you?!!
Why does he have to "turn off" his public persona if he's extremely charismatic while using it? It's like a magic wand that I'd never turn off.
@@fredwerza3478 Dave would be wise to turn it off. His public persona has been ridiculous and embarrassing going on 20 years.
Every time I’ve seen one of these lately I wonder if the celebrity died.
So do I. It’s like reading obituaries. I was pleased to see this wasn’t one of them. But this site is how I found out about Olivia Newton-John
Same here.
Yup, I was watching the Olivia Newton-John video and then realized moments after, that she had passed.
Hilarious. I was wondering the exact same thing. DLR Is a prime example of someone whose star burns too bright, too hot, and too quick, to sustain it for very long.
Dave’s alive and well
I love when he says in this dog eat dog world we live are you a hot dog or a lil weenie lol
I feel bad for Roth here. He's telling jokes that everyone EXCEPT Letterman gets. It's like he's having to explain everything to Letterman, but chooses not to, for good reason.
I feel Letterman did get them. Actually deeper than most of the audience. Even today…😏
Talented and funny guy. The more interviews i watch, you know he is very smart. One interview with Sammy, he admitted David ran the band when he was in it. I could believe that. Sammy said he basically ran VH also. The brothers were more interested in making the music.
I miss the days when rock stars were authentic 24 hrs. a day --- nobody more colorful than Diamond Lee!
🤮
True. Ever since around 2015 the world has drove right off a cliff. People only spread hate and lies now (mainly crazy right wingers) and have just about completely destroyed society beyond repair at this point
@@bobloblaw7030 it's mind-blowing how racist and crazy the right wing has become --- they actually seem proud of being Nazis
You mean Diamond Dave.
Dave was never authentic. He's always been playing a role whenever he was in public.
R.I.P EDDIE
4:25 This is the first time I've seen DLR actually become uncomfortable in an interview.
well, it's true they didn't break up but he didn't say he ain't leaving 😂
At his prime... you can hear it in his voice
DLR broke the mold.
Hard to believe that this was 39 years ago, remember this time like it was yesterday...
That one didn’t age quite so well… 90 days later he left the band! Diamond Dave best frontman ever..
IMO, Diamond Dave is the greatest front man in the history of rock and roll - bar none!
Yeah, except not at all. Robert Plant makes him look like Kid Rock. 😂
@@fdrstan better singer, not a better "front man".
Roger Daltrey blows Roth away as a singer and front man. Better looking and more charismatic too
Nope. Jagger, Ozzie, Mercury, Plant, Tyler, Grohl, Daltry, Morrison, Springsteen, Hetfield, Rose, the list is endless of people equal to or greater than DLR.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH
You named some great ones, but DLR deserves to be mentioned with all of them.
I remember going to see Van Halen and as we got to the parking lot before entering the arena telling a friend. ‘Think about it, Eddie Van Halen is somewhere in there right now.” I’ll just leave it at that!!!
LMAO! Dr. Ruth was also on! XD
David Lee Roth. Diamond Dave. I remember this David. 😊
You cant beat Dave for Charisma or the best Showman possibly ever.. Even his Vocals in 84 was Superb. He would suite being a Cabaret Showman too. Sam Hager was a better all round Singer however Dave had the package.
Or as a wordsmith
@@tylerthompson1842 you're so right. his play on words was unlike any other. he could sell ice to an eskimo, no question !
He's also got charasthma
He mentioned Tomato, from The Screamers. Legendary
Наконец я вижу Дэвида в коммуникации,как он артистичен,красив и весел. Такой непосредственный и наглый.
Прелестно!!
In the beginning, Dave is speaking of VH in the past tense. Says it all.
Just An Amazing Charismatic Electrifying Performer
There's a video of Valerie Bertinelli and Edward Van Halen at a Hard Rock Cafe or a Planet Hollywood and they were talking about Dave promoting his Crazy From the Heat EP . In the clip , Ed said He and engineer Donn Landee made 2 albums worth of songs . They just weren't mixed together . Ed played all the instruments individually . And these weren't the original 5150 demos . The individual tapes only had codes to ID each tape . The codes were placed on a Radio Shack computer which crashed and the data couldn't be recovered .
Maybe even in those days one might write things on a piece of paper, just saying
Brush with greatness: I once made David Lee Roth jump. Around 1988, he was coming out of a nightclub with a hot chick in a skimpy red dress. They were speed walking with their heads down to avoid being recognized. DLR was about to run into me then he lifted his body and jumped back to avoid the collision. We were face to face about 2" apart. I didn't recognize him until he backed off. Before I could say his name, they ran across the street, jumped into a red convertible sports car then drove off.
i don't doubt your recollection at all, totally possible. BUT dang wish it'd been me - i'd of kissed him sooooo hard, lol.
Might as well Jump!
I met him in Hollywood Florida in the early 80s.. he told me I was gorgeous. I was intimidated, so instead, I went to bed with the stage manager and then smoked with Alex VH in the stage managers hotel room. good times
They didn't break up. He left.
1:22 "Cable television is dead"
Dave was 30+ years ahead of his time😂
It's fascinating to watch DLR talk about VH and getting into the studio in 1985 now knowing that this would be the year he leaves VH due to creative differences and that the band wouldn't release a new album until 1986 with new lead man Sammy Hagar.
I don’t believe it was creative differences
@@MrDuds1984 well take it with a grain of salt, but I saw that on the Wikipedia page for the VH 1984 album.
@@atariblue Word. I'm sure it was a little of both creative and personal differences... but you can clearly hear the creative difference between 5150 and Eat 'em and Smile. Dave's album rocks, and 5150 is a pop album aimed at women who were young in the 80s.
Pretty sure the rest of the band were sick of this blowhard. Don't get me wrong, DLR era was the best VH IMO, but Dave was not easy to take in large doses.
@@atariblue Dave wanted to be a movie star, the band didn’t want to wait on him and decided to move on as they were sick of his attitude, that’s pretty much it
DIAMOND DAVE BaBy!!!!😁👍🏻
The best frontman of all time.
Diamond Dave is fairly normal here. 🤷🏼
He was so hysterical in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
A lot of Rockers point out women in the crowd and get their reps to approach them. It's not unusual
I thought this meant David Lee Roth died. Letterman's channel has become an announcement channel for celebrity deaths! I had to do a double take!
This dude is always "on". Impossible to get a real conversation out of him. Maybe he's different privately. 3 months after this, he left Van Halen. So much for the next album they were going to do together.
he was even like that long before he was famous, as that was the VH brothers' top complaint ---- that DLR isn't like a normal human being.
Roth owned that interview.👍
David Lee Roth is So friggin funny!!!!! ❤
If a lion, king of the jungle were to assume human form and prance across the stage and roar majestically and shake its mane and preen in interviews with aplomb and flair and regal flash it would be called DAVID LEE ROTH, front man of one of the hottest bands in Rock n Roll.
I cant picture Roth singing any of those 5150 songs.
He didn’t even try. Last night Sammy played his bday bash in Cabo and him and Mikey played Running with the Devil.
The whole feud between them just seemed to me that Dave couldn’t believe VH went on without him and acted so burnt by the whole thing. Sammy would just stick up for himself. IMO
Van Halen isnt breaking up... today....
Dave meets Dave it’s like a sling shot too the Giants head for Night Time TV.
Dave was the BEST SHOWMAN ever., he DEF helped FOUND Van Halen., HIs Stage Presence cannot be Denied and he showed he Didn't need Van Halen as I loved his SOLO album as well.
Well in the end Dave DID need Van Halen cause his solo career dwindled into nothing while Van Halen stayed prominent for years. Only reason why Dave's first two solo releaseses took off so great was because the Van Halens fan boys just wanted to see what Dave would do next......after that became predictable and boring they just stopped caring and Diamond Dave was no more.
I never appreciated David Lee Roth and his spandex...but this show gave perspective on his sense of humor and talent.
Dave tells a story better than Rock Hudson, Jim Nabors, or Liberace.👨❤️👨
This is such an interesting clip to see right after reading Noel Monk's book.
Dave predicted Podcasts
MUITO LINDO ! ESSE DAVID LEE!
David Lee Roth (Bloomington, Indiana, 10 de octubre de 1954) es un cantante estadounidense de hard rock. Es reconocido especialmente por haber sido el vocalista original de la renombrada banda estadounidense Van Halen, primero durante el período 1974-1985 y, varios años más tarde, desde 2007 hasta la disolución del grupo en 2020 tras el fallecimiento de su guitarrista, Eddie Van Halen. Entre tanto, se lanzó a una carrera en solitario que si bien cosechó bastantes éxitos en la década de los 80, no le valió la misma fama y atención que su tiempo en Van Halen. También es conocido por los pseudónimos "Diamond Dave" y "El Roth".
huh
All lies Félix! 🍦
And then it was over. Shoulda' never left Dave.
Who left Dave...?
Roth & Roll
Spicoli with a 200 IQ
Such a surfer dude here...
You can't make a new band to replace Van Halen.
Dave says goodbye to VH, as his hair is saying goodbye to Dave.
The Afterhours Gallery Art Party Diamond Dave's referring is The Original U/G Radio Club,abit inland on the outskirts of now branded Dwntwn LA.with Creative Art rep Tomato Du Plenty (Rip) Drummer from "Thelonious Monster!"They absolutely had no fear of any fake types of false synthetic restrictions there! Lol 😆
6:15 Not once had I ever seen DLR get embarrassed until this.
I don't know is familiar with Hilarious House of Frightenstein but I think Esmerelda the Witch is based on David Lee Roth
Feeling like I might as well Jump.
Jump!!
David Lee Roth: Super-Cool.
David Letterman: Super-Douche.
Why is he a super douche?
coupla brainy Indiana boys shooting the corn
At this time and point Dave was talking about making an album but by April 1st 1985 Dave said it was over and was trying to make a movie so in August Eddie let the world know Van Halen let Dave go and in September Eddie jammed with Sammy during Farm Aid. Man I was 21 in October of that year and life was good. I saw Van Halen with Dave and with Sammy. I really thought Dave's Eat em and Smile band would become huge but they didn't. They were big but not as big as Van Halen.
Just two Indiana boys doin their thang!!!!
He reminds me of my cousin Jeff!
DLR💖
David Lee Roth hate Letterman…lol
I know nothing and just guessing here that Dave was trying to say that "I got initiated and cannot speak no more and said enough"
Letterman had a lot of backstage chicks, he probably learned from Dimebag Dave in this interview!!
Was this right before VH broke up?
1:24, Cable tv is dead, TV is ending, lol
His solo success went to his head and Alex & Eddie are allowed to have the big ego's in VH.
I think Dave bumped into Jeff Spicoli a long time ago.
They broke up about June/July that year when his antics were still going and not securing dates to go back to studio with the Van Halens, it was not meant to be...
DAVID (DAVE) MICHAEL LETTERMAN
12 DE ABRIL DE 1947
75 AÑOS
Rock N Roll 🤟
Vaudeville, with Spandex and hairspray...
Kinda cool seeing DLR getting a bit embarrassed and cornered by Letterman.
diamond
Look at this
Gorgeous mans sweater😅
Even back, then, he still had that same laugh, but he didn’t do it as long in his later interviews. He does that last more often and it last longer and he seems much more ego driven. I prefer him and his older interviews, he’s funny.
Man.......back when Late Night was only 10% politics. I sure miss those days.
I think this one is probably a little old.
I dunno Dave... that seems kinda sus
Was that suppose to be "Jump" in the background? lol
6:17
Listen to the guy yell