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JRNYMAN wrote:They played here a couple of weeks ago and the show left a lot to be desired. Roth, for whatever reason, would leave out parts of songs .
JRNYMAN wrote: Then he blew the lyrics to Ice Cream Man - the one song HE wrote the lyrics and music to!
SF-Dano wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: Then he blew the lyrics to Ice Cream Man - the one song HE wrote the lyrics and music to!
Actually an old blues tune written by John Brim with Elmore James. But Roth did give it a bit of a DLR makeover.![]()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjj5HBwTu4
The Sushi Hunter wrote:Roth never been a great singer? I must have bad taste then cause I thought he was a pretty shit hot singer back in the early 80's.
conversationpc wrote:The Sushi Hunter wrote:Roth never been a great singer? I must have bad taste then cause I thought he was a pretty shit hot singer back in the early 80's.
He was OK for the studio material but he was almost always badly out of tune as a real live singer. Regardless, I prefer the Roth era VH so I'm not saying I don't like the guy as the frontman for VH.
JRNYMAN wrote:Was perusing some of the vids posted from the most recent shows and came across this one in which Roth stops a fight which is taking place on the floor during Pretty Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWGo3CW ... re=related
The incident takes place starting at 5:15 into the video.
One thing I'll say about Dave is he's never been one to take shit from anyone or to allow things happening in the audience to be a distraction to the show. At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
JRNYMAN wrote:Was perusing some of the vids posted from the most recent shows and came across this one in which Roth stops a fight which is taking place on the floor during Pretty Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWGo3CW ... re=related
The incident takes place starting at 5:15 into the video.
One thing I'll say about Dave is he's never been one to take shit from anyone or to allow things happening in the audience to be a distraction to the show. At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
1:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI
JRNYMAN wrote:slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
1:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI
Okay, so I didn't remember what he said verbatim.... but hey, next Memorial Day will be the 30th anniversary of that show so the fact that I remembered it even happened is epic. That was an unbelievable weekend!![]()
AR wrote:JRNYMAN wrote:Was perusing some of the vids posted from the most recent shows and came across this one in which Roth stops a fight which is taking place on the floor during Pretty Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWGo3CW ... re=related
The incident takes place starting at 5:15 into the video.
One thing I'll say about Dave is he's never been one to take shit from anyone or to allow things happening in the audience to be a distraction to the show. At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
You went to the US Festival? That's fucking cool. Any stories?
slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
1:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI
JRNYMAN wrote:slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
1:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI
How in the Hell did you find that particular sound byte? That's nothing short of impressive Sluce!
slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote:slucero wrote:JRNYMAN wrote: At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
1:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKTc9VaNIiI
How in the Hell did you find that particular sound byte? That's nothing short of impressive Sluce!
just googled it.. "DLR squirt bottle" or something like that
JRNYMAN wrote:AR wrote:JRNYMAN wrote:Was perusing some of the vids posted from the most recent shows and came across this one in which Roth stops a fight which is taking place on the floor during Pretty Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWGo3CW ... re=related
The incident takes place starting at 5:15 into the video.
One thing I'll say about Dave is he's never been one to take shit from anyone or to allow things happening in the audience to be a distraction to the show. At the US Festival, for instance, this guy apparently squirted Dave with his squirt bottle which everyone had to try to stay cool since it was so blazing hot. Anyway, this guy in the front row squirted Dave and it pissed him off. So, Dave stops mid-sentence and says, "Hey mother fucker.... don't squirt me with that squirt bottle 'cuz if you do, I'm gonna come down there and fuck your girlfriend!" And, as you can imagine, the entire crowd, which consisted of me and 500,000 of my closest friends, went nuts!
You went to the US Festival? That's fucking cool. Any stories?
Yeah, definitely. How could you attend something like that and not?!![]()
Here's one that'll make Andrew proud....![]()
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The concert was a 4-day event with the 2nd day being "Heavy Metal Day". The lineup was Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, (Joe Walsh was supposed to play next but cancelled at the last minute.) Next was Triumph, Ozzy, Judas Priest, Scorps and finally Van Halen. The first band went on at 11:00am and VH took the stage at 11:00pm. Each band played longer than the band before them so by the time the Scorps went on at 8:30, they played a full concert. Anyway, I'm getting off topic here.
At the time, I was 19 years old and lived in Northern California near Chico. Chico State was always ranked in Playboy's Top 10 Partying schools and as far as I know, may still be. That being the case, Humboldt's finest Indica buds were plentiful and cheap. This was the stuff all other pot wanted to be and all others were judged by. Almost fluorescent green with purple veins winding their way the entire length of the buds - some of which were as long as your forearm. They sparkled from the amount of crystals in them and God did they stink - so freakin' good! We affectionately called it "Helen Keller" weed due to the fact that after 2 hits...... you get the idea. We were fortunate to have that kind of bud be our everyday, run of the mill stuff - and we knew it. And we were proud of that fact.
We wanted to make sure we had plenty for the weekend so we took an ounce with us - just to be sure.![]()
The gates opened at 9:00am IIRC and anticipating a huge mob we were sure to be at the gate a bit early. No mob. Just a few people waiting. Once inside we scoped out a great spot along the left side of the stage where we would be fairly close but not so close that we would get crushed against the stage and other people which we had heard was the situation the day earlier.
Finding a nice grassy spot, we threw down our blanket next to these beautiful girls who had come all the way from Australia for the festival. We hadn't been talking to them for 5 minutes when my buddy Mike asks, "So, do you get high?" Geez Mike! Give it a minute! But, they said they did so we twisted up a fatty of our heavenly Indica and and they suggested we match each other for a joint. Cool enough. We smoked ours first so proud of its quality and everything about it. When asked what they thought of our pot, they said it was "okay". Mike and I were both shocked and maybe even a little bit offended. "Okay?! That's it, just okay?!" They said that they were just used to theirs which they thought was a little better. Now it was their turn to spark one up. One of the girls pulls out this little, tiny, pinner that looked like you had taken a paper and rolled it up in another paper. It was about a 10th the size of ours and we both instantly felt like were being played. So we decided to smoke their joint and go find some other girls to party with.
By the time we finished their joint, Mike and I were soooooooo fucked up that we ended up sitting right where we were just zoning to the music and watching the people as the place filled up throughout the day - and fill up it did. From where we were which was about 50 feet from the stage, the crowd extended out for almost a mile. When you stood up and looked at the horizon, the crowd never ended. We were so high for so long that we didn't end up smoking any more of ours or anyone elses pot the rest of the day until VH went on 12 hours later.
To this day, I have no idea what kind of pot it was (and we were both fairly certain it wasn't laced with anything) but it was hands down, the most incredible shit I've ever smoked in my entire life. There weren't any side effects or hallucinations or any of the kinds of things that accompany PCP, Vitamin K, Heroin, etc., we were just super duper stoned. Needless to say the oz. we took with us ended up being more than enough for our rock and roll weekend.![]()
No Surprize wrote:Great story man and I never get tired of hearing them. Those kind of festivals will never happen again with such great bands in their prime. Can you imagine now a US festival of bands like that in their prime of their music careers? I can't. Back in the day we use to go to any and every concert we wanted to when bands headed down to Florida. Hell, tickets were cheap then, you could hit 10 to 12 shows a year for the price you pay for one good seat now. I remember going to see the Stones at what is now the Citrus bowl in Orlando. The Stones were supporting "Tattoo You", Van Halen actually took a detour off their "Fair Warning" tour to open for the Stones for 2 shows. They had an opening act who we didn't pay much attention to due to the fact we had a "rough experience" just getting there. 4 of us, always 4, driving the 3 hours and some change to get there. Left early, and it was so foggy you couldn't see 2 feet in front of your fucking face. Anyway to make a long story short we ran off the road by missing a stop sign, slammed into a park car, got our car off the parked car and finally made it to the concert with our car only managing to get up to 45 mph. So, we settle in and were to the left of the stage with a great angle view. Hot chicks all around us which made it even better. The chicks behind us were snorting cocaine and we were naive as hell to what that was but it wasn't long before they turned us on to an eye opener of it. Of course we had our "skunk" bud aroma and so we were set. I remember when VH came on they opened with "Mean street" and after a couple more tunes David Lee Roth shouted " Do you know what the first thing the newspaper critic will write about this show in tomorrow's paper? "How fucked up Van Halen was." "And you know the second thing they are going to write is"? "How Fucked up the audience was!" Then he bellowed out in a roar, Well this one's for the press and they broke into "So this is love". We all had a great time. Man, their were thousands of hot chicks in the hot ass florida sun. The Stones put on a great show, I remember they opened with "Under my thumb" and when the finally played the first chord to "Start me Up" the crowd to it to the next level. What a great time. It was also the last concert I seen with a personal best friend who was killed by a drunk driver while walking down a sidewalk in his neighborhood when he was only 21. RIP Mick, I miss you to this day and wonder what you might have been.
The Sushi Hunter wrote:What made Diamond Dave so cool was not only his singing but also how entertaining he is to watch, in reference to the clip with the squirt bottle. How many guys could stand up in front of a packed concert for minutes without really doing much and have the crowd going apeshit? Great singer, performer and very entertaining.
SF-Dano wrote:JRNYMAN can either confirm or refute this - I was too young to attend US back in 83 (not by my decision though). My older brother and a few of his buddies went. Upon return he told me a little story about VH. As the story goes, before VH was to come out on stage they showed each member on the big screens prepping backstage. Eddie is loosening his fingers on the guitar, Mikey is drinking, Alex is pounding sticks on the furniture, and flash to Roth...........bangin some chick with a big grin on his face in the camera for all the audience to view on the screens. Now not being there, I can't confirm this, but I would not be surprised.![]()
Also, I have heard that The Scorpions definitely gave the best performance that day. I had never been into them yet (only 13 in 83) and neither was my bro (who is older and had just returned home from a 6yr enlistment in the Navy). He came back from US raving about the Scorps and from that day forth we were both fans.
As for the great festival concerts, it is too bad they just don't happen in the US much anymore. Though missing out on US, luckily I was able to attend a few Day on the Greens, Mountain Aires, and Monsters of Rock. They just don't do 'em like that anymore.
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