According to David Lee Roth, working with the late Eddie Van Halen was apparently an experience that triumphs “any love affair [he] ever had”.
In the first episode of his new podcast The Roth Show, the 68-year-old looked back on his early days in the band, and offered some pretty warm words about his working relationship with the late Van Halen ist.
“My dear departed Ed, ” Lee Roth began. “Boy, I miss him. I had a ball with Ed. Walt Disney once said, ‘You know what? My love affair with Mickey Mouse was better than any love affair with a woman I ever had.’ I’ve gotta tell ya: playing with Ed, writing songs with Ed, presenting those songs with Ed was better than any love affair I ever had.”
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“And some of those songs, I think, might last forever — or until the last syllable of time, like Shakespeare said. They became anthems. Where are they playing
Lee Roth then recounted the time he told Eddie “no” when the latter first played synths for ‘Jump’, the 1983 single that would go on to become their most successful hit.
] on the keyboard downstairs. I said, ‘No!’ Well, we reflect the times, and the times at that time was s, s, s; and
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Since Eddie’s passing in 2020, fans have remained hopeful about a possible reunion tribute tour, though the project has proved difficult with word of plans being made but never coming into fruition.
Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, previously commented that a reunion project was unlikely to occur as the band’s surviving members are too “dysfunctional” to come together.
“Certain personalities just can’t get over themselves to work collectively for one purpose – that’s been the curse of Van Halen for its entire career. […] Their camp is very dysfunctional – everyone! – hell, it was difficult to make plans even when the band was active.”
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In a new interview with the Professor of Rock, guitarist Vai explained that he recorded a demo for his bandmates, but it was still missing a certain something as they put together Roth’s 1986 debut solo album, Eat ‘Em and Smile.
“When I was playing ‘Yankee Rose’ for them, Ted Templeman made the money-punch suggestion, ” Vai said. “It’s simple – what I was doing on the verse, a riff, wasn’t quite working.”
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The producer suggested he just play some open chords instead. “At first, I thought, ‘That’s just a little too simple, ' Vai recalled. That’s me, you know?” He soon realized the truth of the matter and that Templeman was an ideal fit for the album project.
Album opener “Yankee Rose” begins with a sequence in which Roth acts like he’s having a conversation with the lead guitar. “It’s one of those quirky things about my technique, ” Vai explained. “Dave and I really hit it off. … There’s something in us that has a similar kind of bent, a bizarre sense of humor. A lot of rock stars at the time would never go for something like that – talking guitar, talking with the guitar. … But Dave was just like, ‘Yeah, man! This is crazy. Let’s do it!’”
Vai called Roth his “fourth and final mentor” after music teacher Bill Westcott, Joe Satriani and Frank Zappa, saying the Van Halen singer “really provided me with tools that you just can’t get any place else.”
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Vai noted that Roth is an an intense guy. He was very serious and intense about his working out and being in shape. … That’s one of the thing I got from my relationship with Dave that was vital: You’re gonna go on tour for this amount of time, and you’re gonna go on that stage, and you have to deliver to a large group of people every night. You can’t mess them around. You’ve gotta be bulletproof. … We were always going to the gym or working out or climbing or running, and it was great.”
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In a new interview with the Professor of Rock, guitarist Vai explained that he recorded a demo for his bandmates, but it was still missing a certain something as they put together Roth’s 1986 debut solo album, Eat ‘Em and Smile.
“When I was playing ‘Yankee Rose’ for them, Ted Templeman made the money-punch suggestion, ” Vai said. “It’s simple – what I was doing on the verse, a riff, wasn’t quite working.”
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The producer suggested he just play some open chords instead. “At first, I thought, ‘That’s just a little too simple, ' Vai recalled. That’s me, you know?” He soon realized the truth of the matter and that Templeman was an ideal fit for the album project.
Album opener “Yankee Rose” begins with a sequence in which Roth acts like he’s having a conversation with the lead guitar. “It’s one of those quirky things about my technique, ” Vai explained. “Dave and I really hit it off. … There’s something in us that has a similar kind of bent, a bizarre sense of humor. A lot of rock stars at the time would never go for something like that – talking guitar, talking with the guitar. … But Dave was just like, ‘Yeah, man! This is crazy. Let’s do it!’”
Vai called Roth his “fourth and final mentor” after music teacher Bill Westcott, Joe Satriani and Frank Zappa, saying the Van Halen singer “really provided me with tools that you just can’t get any place else.”
David Lee Roth Speaking Own Language With Van Halen
Vai noted that Roth is an an intense guy. He was very serious and intense about his working out and being in shape. … That’s one of the thing I got from my relationship with Dave that was vital: You’re gonna go on tour for this amount of time, and you’re gonna go on that stage, and you have to deliver to a large group of people every night. You can’t mess them around. You’ve gotta be bulletproof. … We were always going to the gym or working out or climbing or running, and it was great.”
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