I was born in the 50s. Grew up listening to music of the 60s. Spent my teen and early adult years in the 70s.
It was all good, but the BEST decade for music was the 1980s. AND we had Reagan.
Posted on 09/01/2021 9:47:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Nikki Sixx says that MÖTLEY CRÜE originally invited VAN HALEN's David Lee Roth to share the bill with them and DEF LEPPARD on "The Stadium Tour" but that David passed. "I don't open for bands that I influenced," the CRÜE bassist says Roth told him, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Back in October 2019, Roth reflected on the influence of VAN HALEN on bands that followed, telling KKLZ's "The Mike & Carla Morning Show": "Hair bands were the imitations of VAN HALEN. Yeah, it is true, and spandex was what they came up with as something visual. I started off in leather, with the same haircut that Bono and [Bruce] Springsteen and the guys in METALLICA had. A famous haircut — if I had that same haircut today, it'd have its own Instagram. But VAN HALEN was a '70s band — we started off in 1972, and our first two albums were in the '70s. We sold our first 10 million records before the '70s were over. We spawned a whole lot of imitators who resorted to gimmickry and trade crap. It's easier to imitate a haircut and a kind of pants and to exhibit bad behavior."
"The Stadium Tour", which also features POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, was originally scheduled to take place last summer but ended up being pushed back to 2021, and then to 2022, due to the coronavirus crisis.
When it happens, "The Stadium Tour" will mark the CRÜE's first live dates since wrapping its 2014/2015 farewell tour. CRÜE toured with POISON back in 2011 and DEF LEPPARD teamed up with POISON for a string of road dates in 2017 — but the upcoming jaunt marks the first time all four acts have hit the road together for an extended tour.
As of January 30, 2020, "The Stadium Tour" had already grossed $130 million from one million tickets sold, plus another $5 million worth of VIP seats, according to Billboard.
Tickets ranged from $150 to $400, not counting some varied pricing that reflected demand as part of "dynamic pricing."
Roth performed as the opening act for the February/March 2020 North American leg of KISS's farewell tour, but is not making any appearances on the rescheduled KISS shows which kicked off on August 18 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
In March 2020, Roth postponed the final six shows of his Las Vegas residency due to the coronavirus pandemic.
I was born in the 50s. Grew up listening to music of the 60s. Spent my teen and early adult years in the 70s.
It was all good, but the BEST decade for music was the 1980s. AND we had Reagan.
Interestingly, stunt guitarist Steve Vai is gay.
Dave, however is not. He and his girl walked into my friends interior design shop in Birmingham, Mi. a few years back.
“ Hey Dave, way to act like a dick.”
He’s not acting.
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Anyway, my point was that he equated his personal influence to that of Van Halen as a whole, which clearly is not the case.
It’s clearer when you put it that way. David Lee Roth was smart enough to know he was among great performers who could amp up a cover tune, but were not songwriters, and the covers were the way to go. The rest of the band didn’t get it and Sammy Hagar’s ego may have kept him from doing covers.
The people you wanna have overdose on drugs never would!
Like Motley Crue would never overdose man, never!
You could put them in a room with two tons of crack. They come out a half an hour later, “Rock on, man!”
“S___, they’re still alive. F___! They’re probably gonna make a double live album now, g__d___ it!”
-Dennis Leary
Arrogance... And that is why I didn’t follow him after he split from the band and went solo. But he would not be the first with a selfish irrational ego.
Yet his Wikipedia page says: "In a 2013 interview, he said he had four great loves in his life, but would not name them out of respect for their privacy. He said during the 20 years of Van Halen, he 'slept with every pretty girl with two legs.' "
So he at least implies he's hetero.
OTHO, his Wiki page also says: As of 2012, he was living in Tokyo. In 2018, Roth together with business partner and tattoo artist Ami James, created INK the Original, a full line of skincare products that protect tattooed skin. Roth spent more than 300 hours getting tattooed in Japan between 2013 and 2014, and saw the body art market expand.
If you look at James's Wiki page, he also apparently never married, though he has a child.
Are Roth and James more than merely "business" partners? What does your gaydar say about James? 
I am the walrus
Didn’t he become El Roth a few years back?
The tickets back in the 1970’s were cheap
Um, no.
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