... has been booted from his radio job. I know, this is old news, but I felt the need to post something. I despised his show. The man has no respect for the music industry and current artists, and continues to ramble on with his negative opinions in a pathetic attempt to relive his glory days, which the majority of his audience could care less about, if they even knew he had glory days to begin with. His show was quite possibly the most painful thing I have ever experienced on the road, whether it be in a car or out, and made me contemplate driving my Jeep into the side of a building on several occasions ...

... and the worst part is, he is planning to take legal actions to claim his paycheck. What?! You got booted for poor performance, face it, you didn't have what it takes. How about you pay me $400 for the IPOD and Transpod I had to buy just so I didn't have to listen to you every morning?

Ok, vent over. Sorry folks.

Well, poor old Diamond Dave has always been more show than go. Now that he doesn't have any sex appeal left there isn't much to him. I guess he should have cultivated a few more interests outside of himself. Then he might at least be interesting to listen to.

Why did you listen more than once? Glutton for punishment?

LOL! Wow!

I had no idea that he was that bad. He seemed interesting as a guest but it was in short segments.

IMO, the man had an interesting vocal sound & was a good perfomer in Van Halen.

Too bad.

funny thing about his radio show is that i actually enjoyed listening to one of the shows i heard. every other show i heard got boring rather quickly. i think he's still too high on himself to really entertain people for extended periods of time. i don't know. i lost interest.

Steve,

Depends what his contract stipulates. The head guys at the radio station auditioned him and signed him. I agree he sucked but they did sign him to a contract. If someone breached a contract I signed, I'd definitely take them to court to make them honor it.

You know how your roommate or friend will pull a sour gallon of milk out of the fridge, sniff it and say, "dude, you gotta smell this..."? Well, it's sort of like that. You know it's sour and you know it's going to smell terrible, yet you take the gallon and take a whiff.

Also, I would turn it on, just to turn it off, hoping the radio stations would see a trend of users turning the show off within just a few minutes of turning it on, clearly showing just how terrible David Lee Roth is.

Steve, tell us what you really think. LOL

Reluctantly, I have to agree. I was a big fan of his when he was with VH, but both have gone downhill since they parted ways.

I actually called him and got on the air in his first week. He quickly took the subject on a tangent and sidetracked the entire theme and discussion from that point on. I never got a chance to comment on his "theme of the day" as it ended when he took my call.

Sorry Dave.

Exactly, he would make a 10-minute point to his caller and then say, "discuss." The caller wouldn't even get in 10 words before "Diamond" Dave would interupt to talk about the girls he's been with, the drugs he's done, the places he's been to, the mountains he's climbed, the number of times he beat up Chuck Norris, etc.

I thought about calling so many times, but he didn't have the type of personality to 'play' with callers that provided negative feedback, so I figured it wouldn't be any fun.

Stern actually wanted to help DLR off the air on how to improve.

DLR is too self-righteous and too into himself. I can't be around know-it-alls for more than 10 minutes.

Steve, I agree his show sucked. I listened a few times before I got satellite radio and it was terrible. I caught a few minutes and heard him actually say something about Trent Reznor and I wanted to call and scream at him.

However, he was auditioned like 4 different times and the execs liked him. Its not like they didn't know what he was going to be like.

If I had a contract, and I bombed and got fired, I would still want what was owed to me regardless.

I agree with Doc.

The man has no respect for the music industry and current artists

Are there any current artists that command any respect?

BeatDragon,

I agree. But I never counted Lee as one of the respected ones so it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I agree with all of the contract answers. He had a contract to do "his" show. He was doing it and they pulled the rug out from under him. They took all of his sidekicks. They took his music. They took away everything that he was doing. Good or bad. I think they should have to pay him. They just wanted Opi and Anthony back and made his life miserable to do it. I used to listen to him mainly for lack of anything else to listen to but only half an hour a day. I was amazed at how much he did know about a lot of subjects. He was a character but then we all knew that. Right now I think I mliked him better than Opi and Anthony. They just aren't as good as they used to be.

O & A are on in the mornings now... good replacement !

Low

You simply cannot compare O&A to David Lee Roth. Apples to oranges. That's like comparing Shaq to Shawn Bradley. One performs, the other doesn't.

Regarding the contract. I really find it hard to believe that the station would not include a disclaimer on performance or ratings. They have to be smarter than that.

Lastly, there are plenty of artists in the music industry that command respect, even if it's just for the fact that they are up there, on stage every night, performing and trying to make it just like he was so many years ago.

Diamond Dave still has not gotten over Diamond Dave, and that will always be his downfall.

I liked Panama.. lol