David Lee Roth
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Interview by Steven Daly, Rock's Backpages audio, December 1995
The erstwhile Van Halen frontman talks about his youth, and his memories of uncle Manny Roth, who started the Greenwich Village Café Wha?; on being first turned on to music; his love of boats; his current gig playing Las Vegas, and the uniform blandness of the modern world. He also revisits the end of Van Halen and their legacy, and the part cocaine played in their break-up.
File format: mp3; file size: 93.8mb, interview length: 1h 37' 44" sound quality: ***
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David Lee Roth - Hyperactive, Irrepressible, Self-Satisfied
Interview by 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 ...
Interview by David Gans, Record, April 1985
WHEREIN MR. ROTH REVEALS A SERIOUS BONE ...
David Lee Roth: Foul-Mouthed Reagan Shocks The World
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1986
IT'S FITTING THAT here in this unjust world, where rock stars regularly slander one another openly, where newspapers often present one and only one side ...
Interview by Roy Trakin, Creem, October 1986
THE SYSTEM OF law in New Guinea involves a concept loosely defined as "payback," which means if one village has wronged another, that village is ...
David Lee Roth Takes Off His Warpaint
Interview by Mark Dery, Winner, November 1986
LOS ANGELES has a mess of atavistic attractions most tourists never get hip to: Chili Cheese Fritos, Dodger Dogs, Fatburger ("The Last Great Hamburger Stand"), ...
David Lee Roth: Climbs Big Rock! Lives, Tells All, Eventually Tours
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, March 1988
HOW TO GET A COVER STORY: I was sitting at my desk, wondering who would have an album out in a couple of months. Someone ...
David Lee Roth: Skyscraper (Warner Bros.)
Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 24 March 1988
PART BORSCH Belt, part Baryshnikov, David Lee Roth is hard rock's greatest entertainer. Man, myth, mountain climber — he's created a frontman fantasy that makes ...
David Lee Roth: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 September 1988
A DAVID Lee Roth concert is perhaps the only place on the face of the earth where boys who look like traffic accidents can get ...
David Lee Roth: A Little Ain't Enough (Warner Bros)
Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 12 January 1991
THANK HEAVEN... FOR LITTLE BOYS ...
David Lee Roth: A Little Ain't Enough (Warner Brothers/All formats)
Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
DAVID LEE Roth is a flash git. When not playing golf or making videos in which he smiles too much, the man with the stupid ...
David Lee Roth: A Little Ain't Enough
Review by Neil Perry, Select, February 1991
IT'S BEEN a long time coming, this third solo LP from the Peter Pan of rock. Was it worth the wait? ...
David Lee Roth: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 5 March 1991
AN IRREPRESSIBLE showman, David Lee Roth has got where he is primarily by dint of athletic energy, brass neck and sheer force of personality. His ...
see also Steve Vai
see also Van Halen
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