That is kind of interesting. I also seem to recall that DLR wanted more artistic control over videos and to eventually use it as a platform to launch a film career. He definitely had big ambitions back then. If I remember correctly, he actually had a deal with a studio to make a film and they gave him a fairly a large budget, but then pulled the plug at some point, probably after finding out how difficult he was to work with.
Yeah, it is in there:
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By 1985, Roth had even bigger plans to grow his public profile. After he shocked the rock world by announcing that he’d left Van Halen, he looked to add “movie star” to his resume via his ill-fated film project Crazy from the Heat.
I think this old quote from Eddie sums it up:
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As Eddie conceded to Rolling Stone in early 1984, “I’m a musician, Dave’s a rock star.”
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
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"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Wow, Dave is really pulling the Shatner...he's just speaking the lyrics instead of singing them.
Haha, at 3:35, Dave goes on this spoken word rant that sounds like a raving homeless man and Eddie gives him a death stare like: "wtf are you doing, I can't believe I'm on stage with this guy again".
He smacked his nose at the beginning, and needed to get stitches when they were done. That might have affected his performance. He is 60 years old, and lived pretty hard, so I cut him some slack.
Eddie sounded great though. I'd like to see them just to watch him play.
He smacked his nose at the beginning, and needed to get stitches when they were done. That might have affected his performance. He is 60 years old, and lived pretty hard, so I cut him some slack.
Eddie sounded great though. I'd like to see them just to watch him play.
I don't think the nose injury has anything to do with the fact that he can no longer sing. Not every singer's voice ages well especially if they don't take care of their vocal cords. Dave obviously can no longer hit the notes. It happens. He looks in decent shape at least.
I don't think the nose injury has anything to do with the fact that he can no longer sing. Not every singer's voice ages well especially if they don't take care of their vocal cords. Dave obviously can no longer hit the notes. It happens. He looks in decent shape at least.
He sounds awful.
No opinion on what to attribute it too, but you have to assume that they spent a bunch of time getting ready to go for this tour, if that's the case, and he still sounds like that, then he isn't going to get better.
When it comes to the albums, give me DLR Van Halen every time, but if I'm going to see them live, then Hagar is my man.
At his best DLR sounds ok live and usually sounds bad (unless you can find yourself a time machine to 1983). Hagar, on the other hand, is a pro who reliably sounds like an stud live.
That and the "Hot For Teacher" they did for Kimmel were terrible on the Dave front. It was almost like some drunk jumped up on stage and grabbed the mic. Eddie sounded great, although he kind of looks like Daryl Dixon from 'The Walking Dead' now. Missed the Anthony backup vocals too.
