By Steve Newton I did my first interview with Diamond Dave while he was promoting one of his lesser-appreciated solo albums, the Nile Rodgers-produced Your Filthy Little Mouth. He was in L.A., where 10 days earlier O.J. Simpson had committed double-murder, so we chatted about that whole media circus, among other things. Dave's an outgoing, … Continue reading 10 minutes on the phone with David Lee Roth in 1994
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That time David Lee Roth told me that Van Halen’s Fair Warning album had been crucified and buried
By Steve Newton Back in 1994 I did my first interview with David Lee Roth, when he was touring behind his Nile Rodgers-produced Your Dirty Little Mouth album. At one point in the conversation I asked Dave if he was happy with how his career was going, which led him to chat about the ups … Continue reading That time David Lee Roth told me that Van Halen’s Fair Warning album had been crucified and buried
That time David Lee Roth blasted the media, ten days after O.J. Simpson’s dirty deed in Brentwood
By Steve Newton Ten days before David Lee Roth called me up from L.A. on June 22, 1994--to promote his latest album Your Dirty Little Mouth--football legend and sometime actor O.J. Simpson had taken a knife and carved himself up a big chunk of infamy. The media circus was in full P.T. Barnum-style swing by … Continue reading That time David Lee Roth blasted the media, ten days after O.J. Simpson’s dirty deed in Brentwood