David Lee Roth - Hyperactive, Irrepressible, Self-Satisfied
Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 February 1985
DAVID LEE ROTH bounds up the wide, concrete steps from the forest that is his back yard toward his mansion. This, his visitor says, reminds him of his old high school, and Roth breaks out with one of the biggest in his huge arsenal of laughs. "Isn't it?" he says in his gruff-and-ready voice. "It's so goddamned venerable!"
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