> Was this when he was still with Van Halen, or when he was a solo act?
197..7? 1978? He was the front-man for Van Halen at the time, and their sound was fairly unique: it was the ultimate in teenage temper-tantrums, what everybody graduated to when they got too old and sophisticated for Gene Simmons and the KISS Army...
...all except for the odd-balls who instead discovered the punk rock and the Sex Pistols. Typically those were the kids who also played with matches and should have been medicated with Ritalin except it hadn’t been invented at the time.
> Remember “California Girls”? Unnngh ...
After “1984” Van Halen was a sad, sad and sorry state of affairs, no mistake! And David Lee Roth ought never to have recorded that solo album: he should have instead grown old disgracefully, like Gene Simmons has.
Ritalin has been around at least since the 60’s. Those kids were mixing their off label pharmaceuticals at their own risk.
My last concert was David Lee Roth and.... I don’t remember but Stevie Vai was crawling across the amps. .