It’s no shock to most that there was some dysfunction within the Van Halen camp over time, however David Lee Roth has posted a weird rant on-line through which he calls out Wolfgang Van Halen over ejections that he claims occurred on the band’s last tour.
The put up is titled “This Crazy Kid,” and was posted with a number of mentions of “The Roth Show,” the singer’s comedy podcast, all through. Roth’s first swipe at Wolfgang is that he feels the bassist was complaining concerning the singer not giving him sufficient consideration throughout their touring collectively.
“This fuckin’ kid. He’s complaining the entire tour like I’m not paying enough attention to him onstage,” begins Roth. “Like Santa Claus coming down the chimney and popping out on Christmas as if no one’s paying attention. Shalom to the dome homey. I’m giving them the best, everything I’ve got in front of 20 or 30 thousand people at a clip and he’s complaining to everyone around me, the business manager, the security guy, the clothing lady, ‘Dave’s not paying enough attention to me.'”
From there, Roth shares two further incidents he claims came about on the band’s last tour through which he alleges Wolfgang booted company that Roth had invited to the present, unaware of who these individuals had been to the band.
The singer units the stage of the band taking part in to the New York viewers at Jones Beach, reminiscing about what number of instances the band had performed there, when he alleges that Wolfgang had his company kicked out.
“What I don’t know is this kid, this schlemiel kid has commandeered a couple of monkeys to go in back, behind my back, over to the side of the stage and throw out these two great dames that I invited to be my guests to the show,” says Roth. “These dames are in their 40s, okay. They’re business women. In fact, you’re not gonna believe this …. but this fucking kid, he doesn’t know that these two dames work for the accounting firm that represent him, not me.”
He continues, “As usual, he, just like his uncle and his uncle’s brother, stiffed ’em for tickets. I’m not gonna do that, so I got ahead of things and I said I need tickets. I put ’em way off to the side, and I’m not talking Motley Crue groupies here. This is the real deal … and here we go, he throws them out of the building. He’s teaching me a lesson. This fucking kid doesn’t know, they’re carrying the paychecks for the 82 people on the road crew.”
“They think I’m gonna freak out,” says Roth. “I laugh so hard I spilled my Snapple.”
The second incident that Roth alludes to came about on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles towards the tip of their touring. “It’s the Hollywood Bowl, I’m about to launch into ‘Ice Cream Man,’ and this fucking kid. He commandeers to muscle monkeys, locates the one dame that is my guest, she’s off in the wings of the Hollywood Bowl. They find her, make her do the walk of shame past the other guests and out into the parking lot and throw her out of the building,” recollects Roth.
He continues, “Wolfie Van Halen’s gonna teach me a lesson by throwing out what he thinks is my girlfriend. But guess what? Not only is this an accountant again, and not only is she carrying the paychecks for 82 of us on the road, but she’s carrying cash bonuses for everybody there. You may want to pull over on this next one. You’re gonna pee your pants. Remember New York City? It’s the same fucking lady. This fucking kid. This fucking kid.”
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We reached out to Wolfgang Van Halen’s reps, however the musician, who’s in Los Angeles to seem on Jimmy Kimmel Live with Mammoth WVH this night (Jan. 24), was not out there for remark.
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