Al@Perdomo
21 years ago
Van Halen lead man and Perdomoficionado David Lee Roth with Perdomo director of sales Arthur Kemper at the MTV Video Music Awards bash held at the National Hotel in Miami Beach.
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xibbumbero
21 years ago
Looks like DLR likes the Edicion de Silvio. X
moonman
21 years ago
David Lee Roth is awesome much like Perdomo Cigars! I had heard that David Lee Roth is working now in the NY City area as an EMT. Had heard this sometime ago. Don't know if he still is but I truly respect anybody that can do that! Let alone a true Rock Star like David. Rock on Diamond Dave!
bloody spaniard
21 years ago
Great photo, great rocker.

But I don't know...
Dave is beginning to look like a midle-aged, Jewish dentist.
Oy vey.
J.Redleg
21 years ago
I would still pay to see him perform! He is an excellent entertainer. But in regards to his appearance, I would say he resembles Lady Elaine from the land of make believe...
Thom
21 years ago
Another cool pic. Cigars and rockers just go together.

But can't we all agree that it's so sad to see rockers who used to have bitchen rocker hair go bald?
wvwa34
21 years ago
UHHHHH-DAVE are you hidden your hair or poss lack of it????
emtd67
21 years ago
Wow I used to have the hots for that guy, god he has gotten old!!
John hay Cigars
21 years ago
Is he trying out to be the new "crypt-keeper"?
snowwolf777
21 years ago
Kinda what I thought when I saw him on the Sopranos a while back. Those years of hard living are catching up with him.
Cigarick
21 years ago
He's losing his hair, he can't sing anymore, and didn't he recently get busted for trying to buy pot from a total stranger in Central Park who turned out to be a cop?

Loser. On the other hand, Eddie managed to drive him, Sammy, AND Valerie away, so there you go.
deadzheadz
21 years ago
Cigardick, and WHO is the loser ?

David Lee still has his hair, though it has thinned out a bit but he is 50 now.
He is still on tour so I guess his singing is still OK, concert in Santa Cruz this coming Friday night and he did NOT get busted as you speculated.
He is currently an EMT in New York City and will be taking over the Howard Stern show in Sept. when Howard goes to satelite radio.
My Mom use to tell me when I was a kid, like yourself, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Cigarick
21 years ago
Keep in mind that I've seen both Roth and Hagar live with Van Halen, and while I think Roth was the perfect singer for their early years, Hagar totally kicked his ass with style and control during the more recent albums.

Implants? Extensions? Look at some recent pics and decide for yourself. "Crypt Keeper" is right!

"Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth squared off on Wednesday night (8/28) at the Tweeter Center, and Hagar delivered a combination of punches that Roth just couldn’t counter.

"Where Roth fell short was in botching many of the songs’ lyrics--often replacing them with nonsensical babble--and in generally exuding an uncomfortable aura. The California-beach-bum good looks and affable party-host demeanor of his heyday with Van Halen have been replaced by an eerie, Crypt Keeper-like countenance and a non-stop cycle of painfully forced-looking, sardonic, face-splitting smiles. He is not the David Lee Roth of his youth; he is an older David Lee Roth trying--perhaps too hard--to be the David Lee Roth of yesterday."

"Roth opted for a far less cluttered stage, a ferociously tight three-piece band, and no guest stars, but he could have used some help."

Roth may be mouthy, but he doesn't have a degree in broadcasting and over 25 years of experience in radio. Flapping your yap inbetween songs isn't quite the same as doing a four-hour talk-radio show. There are also plenty of guys who try to outlive their abilities in order to stay in the spotlight--Frank Sinatra, Evander Holyfielf, Mike Tyson... they're everyhwere, in every endeavor.

I know someone who saw a Sans Halen show, and he said that Roth could barely carry a tune, let alone remember the lyrics. "Embarassingly bad."
Cigarick
21 years ago
Oh, yeah:

OFF THE HOOK: If rock 'n' roller David Lee Roth can behave himself for the next year, he won't have a criminal record in New York. In a brief appearance in a Manhattan criminal courtroom last week, a drug case against the former Van Halen lead singer was adjourned pending dismissal. That means a charge that he bought a bag of marijuana in Greenwich Village's Washington Square last month will be dropped and his record wiped clean if he is not arrested in the next year. Roth, 38, was arrested April 16 after police observed him buying a bag of pot. If convicted of drug possession, Roth would have faced up to 15 days in jail and a $250 fine.
jackconrad
bloody spaniard
13 years ago
You could park two of those little Italian imports in that cavernous gape.
rumraider
13 years ago
Saw him in concert years ago on a double bill with Sammy Hagar. Roth was terrible. Voice was gone and he thought screaming would make it sound better. He also had a desperate "vibe" working and the whole effect was to just make everyone pity or hate him. There was a pretty young woman down front and Roth thought it would be funny to get her close to the stage and, using a whiskey bottle like a hard ****** (ya, probably compensating for a soft one), he sprayed whiskey and got her in the eyes. I'm gonna bet there was more than one less fan after that night. He was way over the hill and thoroughly pissed about it.

Sammy ROCKED btw.
watchurai
13 years ago

Saw him in concert years ago on a double bill with Sammy Hagar. Roth was terrible. Voice was gone and he thought screaming would make it sound better. He also had a desperate "vibe" working and the whole effect was to just make everyone pity or hate him. There was a pretty young woman down front and Roth thought it would be funny to get her close to the stage and, using a whiskey bottle like a hard ****** (ya, probably compensating for a soft one), he sprayed whiskey and got her in the eyes. I'm gonna bet there was more than one less fan after that night. He was way over the hill and thoroughly pissed about it.

Sammy ROCKED btw.

rumraider wrote:




THIS.

I saw them at Nissan Pavilion on that tour, Sammy fuc#in' rocked out his set first, then Roth took the stage, and blew so bad my crew bounced to beat the traffic...except 1/2 the arena had the same plan.
It was BAD.
rumraider
13 years ago
Was that in Va beach? They change the names on these places so much I don't keep track anymore. Anyway, if it was Va Beach, that was the same show. We were in the early traffic jam also as the only thing to do was get the heck out and be happy about the Sammy Hagar show!
watchurai
13 years ago

Was that in Va beach? They change the names on these places so much I don't keep track anymore. Anyway, if it was Va Beach, that was the same show. We were in the early traffic jam also as the only thing to do was get the heck out and be happy about the Sammy Hagar show!

rumraider wrote:



Ha! No the Nissan is about an hour west of Washington DC. Funny the shows were so similar, though.

The RED ROCKER was ON...and Diamond Dave was pathetic. Not taking away from his former glories, just sayin' it was crap on that tour. I think the show at the Nissan was either the last, or the next to last in the tour before ol' Dave blew a fuse and cancelled the tour, iirc.
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