Joe Rogan Experience #1256 — David Lee Roth Transcript

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0:00 four three two one Lemmy from Motorhead style. The guitar player in the Rolling Stones, very wabasabi. I don't really train. I went through martial arts the first time. where we came. I was born in Indiana, lived in Massachusetts. He was a resident. Grew up around Yo hablo suficiente espanol también. Okay. Well, we drive them all around. little bit first time somebody handed me those we were at the buddhist temple in pasadena

4:38 Wow. It's Japanese for lightning. Joe. up through Ed Parker's And I started exactly like I did in Barham Boulevard making rock and roll with the Mighty And I expected a lifetime of adventure. When you first start learning Japanese, it comes in three stages. on Tuesday in Tokyo, Ikinza, Nobody's walking around speaking Hebrew after only four summers of whack, but you develop

7:49 It's no secret that you develop every morning uh two hours japanese class you know speaking the language i can get things done for So you're activating this part of your brain. No, and the little girls go, it's a bow, Dad. One of his biggest talent was to be at home everywhere. And I kind of feel bad now for people that don't travel. Yo, you know, somebody could sit with you and get really bored with technical boxing.

10:53 The jazz thing is a really good analogy. It's because nobody taught you how to taste beer. The finish. Jazz music, somebody explains it to you in very simple, digestible, not lofty necktie terms. Wow, at least I got my health going for me. And his note will go. And when you put them together, it doesn't sound like they do. You know? It is indicative if that's what's around you, because it's not just happy.

14:27 Got any tattoos? Yeah Yeah, the whole... Is it much more painful to do it that way? Yeah, I do that stuff. So there's some photos of it up. sisters call it comes from sybil roth okay and if you if you had you competed for the magnet I'm not kidding. What do you do when you're outdoors playing ball? and people are like, why are you doing that? Right.

17:51 Take my word for it. Yeah. All right. Came back from a delirious trip to the West Indies. Oh, boy. Here's something when we got married. Okay. at that it's wow sleeping in the back of bobby hatch's pickup truck parked out in the middle of Can you see this on the screen there, I've always tried to follow something as opposed to thinking of it as training.

22:32 took down the clock, but the line was still there on the cement in Central Park, hopped No, come on. I think they're trying to break two hours. Okay. activities that were fun in the early 90s kayaking was illegal in manhattan okay because it was dirty All right. It's in the meatpacking district right there. We would see them or whatever. That was death.

25:35 Many, many. And don't get me wrong. late at night sometimes. You know, you ever wonder what's on the other side? And we'd be about a quarter mile off, having come from under the Verrazano Bridge. like you see in every war movie all right right? Otherwise, it's about, I don't know, $200 fine or something like this. this is the nineties. We'd toss a rope out the third floor of a bed and breakfast in San Sebastian, Spain

29:12 When did you start working as an EMT? until i became an emt and put on that uniform i wasn't somebody somebody cleaned the fucking truck up. Artist to artist. My pop had a big sprawling, I think, is it sympathy? and you'll go ambulance and in case somebody comes at us you handle it oh i had a i had a mentor named keisha who had to pile her dreadlocks up so high that it

32:29 act like nothing's wrong. when i sing oh i like that i like that process. When you decided to do this, was this a conscious effort to try to just enrich your experiences? even read the street signs uh in japan for example um but you know you start off on the bunny slopes I get to an intersection, the sun is on that far corner. I was that guy. You want to hear it?

35:15 I only worked around at night. but beyond that no nobody ever really did and uh you know jesus i weighed 15 more pounds i was I lifted people out of bathtubs. I lifted them out of the ocean. I lifted, man. I could lift. How long did you do this for? Somebody go make some coffee, Joe. out of the bathtubs well a lot of what you just described is the first response team. Yes. We always describe our patients, our friends and clients.

38:10 And that really will sharpen your vision. It's time to go digital. We had all manner of folks coming through there. I personally got out of jury duty recently by saying I didn't want to get out of jury duty. And she said, what neighborhood is that? Yep. Probably be a good experience for me. We know who you are. Is there a mojo to it? It was insulated, so it would keep the ice for a long time.

43:13 lessons playing acoustic guitar okay and on sunday night's audition night you would sign up for And I auditioned there probably 15 times. the voice would say hopefully it's littler than the one preceding it Oh, wow. Platforms. That's right. McEnroe has to yell, you gotta be fucking kidding. Yeah, on the right girl it works. There's something about those kiss ones though

47:10 But look, Stanley's still in shape. Oh, that's the move, right? You can replace a lot of those guys. Oh, so he's Japanese. Are some bands like West Side Story, where you can continually revitalize the production. Let me speak to this, because I don't think you can say this because this was a part in high school It was a different thing. It was a different thing.

48:54 Why can't this be love? Who's my running partner? Might as well jump. positioning it against a very happy piece of music the music is romping it's it's it's uh There's a sense of larceny. It was a good vibe for a lot of folks, not just wear one yeah so by placing everything we've discussed if you think of it as cross You can't change the story, but you can change the voices.

52:05 That's fun. Yes. You know what I would say is the greatest genius and everybody goes, getting ready to sing. Do-do-do-do-do. Yeah. Do-do-do-do-do. And everybody goes, getting ready to sing. Arguably one of the best vocals in history of any genre. that's just because i listen to that kind that part of the band. My favorite part of the orchestra is the gong.

53:51 Okay? Okay. That's true. You go, wow, that's an astronaut. Right. they're all different well if you think in terms of the personality let's think of a band oh i just saw john mayer great show all right and when you think of john separate mitch hedberg from the jokes because he was the jokes he was part of what made it funny Yes. Yeah. in a different time period.

57:50 now take my wife please see the i see uh george michael eyebrows because i'm always trying to figure it out um yeah there's I just shared with somebody, I'm funny, not happy. Absolutely. It's just, it's different. we had to win the battle of the bands it was competitive yeah we had to win over the club We had no development phase. Every six, eight months,

1:00:51 You best practice. We played rock and roll in parallel. Yeah. Right, right, right. lindy hoppers could be wow frankie you know all these guys throwing um so it's competitive That's where I'll go after work. It's different than boxing for fun right Our practice is in front of the audience for the most part. Something like this. The true Asian paradigm is 10 hours a day, every single day for 10 years.

1:04:44 So if you ever crash or get pelted, give me a call. Unless you're a prodigy. I worked all summer shoveling shit at the local horse stable. really the actual show i Really? The actual show, I remember the rehearsal, Yeah. Hey, man, it's like if you're sitting on your laurels, you're wearing them on the wrong part of your body. Because even in Cleveland, you can turn it into your place.

1:08:33 I don't care who it is. Get the reverb to sound. There we go. that said never again i'm a combat hippie peace love and heavy weapons Like, while it was happening? It was intentional. So you realized it while it was happening. You know, that's part of the beauty of Pasadena. And then you have the working man, okay, out in San Bernardino. And we finished the song.

1:12:29 We pulled the amps out from the wall so we could hide behind the amps. And that meant five 45-minute sets a night, five, six nights if you could get it. people say well what's your favorite cuban expecting me to name a cigar? I say, Ricky Ricardo. perhaps you know artist to artist i don't know springsteen better during the song or in between Like, you have to hear the in-between stuff.

1:15:21 Get ready. If you looked at the amount of human beings that have had the kind of impact that you've had, yeah he's in the dna yeah there's a little bit of david leroth in there yeah there's a little bit Where are you now? Is it brings you back to the moment Get this, like this. Drive away the evil spirits, It really does change your mood. If you used a paperback

1:18:44 and some sand comes out and you get the memory. all right music will take you right back right back right And that's an astute question. I said, well, the true answer is if you watch a thousand movies, many of them multiple times, if you've played thousands and thousands of hours in clubs and bars, if you've read, I don't know, 500 books, tried to memorize all the good parts, take about 18 minutes.

1:20:03 But that's in Rhaps. Jesus Christ. Okay. Bethesda, Rhapsody, and Blue. It's the whole lifetime before it. So, you know, we came in with scars and stars. And they're adding up. kind of intensive like that, inner city intensive. The Beatles looked like each other. Van Halen, we looked like each other. This is the nature of things. The Beatles looked like each other.

1:22:58 The friction of time implicates itself. Your gang. You dig? And that's what you learn as you go. And now I'm starting to sound like Double Dutch Bus. That unforgiving. how did you put the lyrics to the music what was the process like how did you guys sort that out so you would you come to them with You know, you'll work out a beat and go, Dave, you got some lyrics.

1:26:13 I'm thinking noon. Right. Any expressions, ideas, slogans, Collecting moves from every other film of every other fighter visit like this. Going through the banking, Did you? And she'd go, keep your fork, honey. Banking. All the time, bang. That sounds like country. four shades of gray and two shades of black yeah you want to see my lesson can you do can you focus

1:30:42 Yeah. He said, you are most determined. right now we pulled out a bottle of sake and two little cups And when I'm called upon even to have a discussion like this. Yeah. I can bring a little contribution to it. Oh, I knew I was never going to paint for shit. I got offices at the beach and my company is, geez, we're about $8 million into it here. This is my stuff.

1:34:12 Now, Makey Digital. Somebody passes things in front of her and she makes sounds. No, I'm sure. No, no, no. So I built it for him. Okay. Sure. the neutrogenas and so forth. It's like Kraft scotch. because something was slippery. Laugh to Win makes ink, the original, and we have 60 other products coming up. You go to South America. You got to be able to Stevie Wonder it in your backpack.

1:40:40 Okay. And that works in 82 languages. You got your rubber gloves and you got your duty gloves on. Theater. Pull that. It's 100% in the brightener, for example. and you show it before it dries out again right okay i'm going to deal with the vanities as guys Right. yourself and it's going to look like that scene from uh something about mary when she puts that

1:43:54 So you got to consider all of this. shea butter and coconut oil not tested on animals dermatologist reviewed yeah man we're paraben free That's all that there is in the bakery. What we did is find what we can use when we're living out of backpacks. They all speak a different language. Show you the shit. You see I got a chicken on one arm and a cleaver

1:47:32 So it's a communication, and that's part of my fascination with it. I forget what his name is, but he had tattoos on him. Does he? And flares Fabulous, right? Now has a hassle book. Oh my god Have you First phase is pretty good. Elvis had three phases No, but in turn, that's so crazy. What are you watching on TV? It's an Amazon original show about a standup comedian in the 1950s, a woman standup comedian

1:50:38 Yeah. Well, now, now that's the hurdle. You know, this is a tradition of acting out the character that you are about to execute. it doesn't make any sense yes it's literal and it's also it's disingenuous because they know For sure. And I think when you have coddled minds and you have more safety people Yeah. What's a good example? And if you criticize the song, even if you say it's just musically, that sounds like we shall overcome.

1:54:25 Well, there's movies like that too, right? an important subject yeah i mean especially like one thing that drives me crazy is when they take Did you ask the person who told you that why it's good? Yeah? That's bistro, what do you call it, musette, something you might hear in a coffee shop in France. I had a very famous black producer,rican-american producer say to me david lee do you know what it means to be a black man

1:58:06 bernie mack was a goddamn genius you know there's a lot of people don't know about robin harris Red Fox. Is it the delivery system? It's revisit is it the delivery system it's everything or the You memorized Red Fox. And when you run out of conversation Doctor told me I had to run a mile a day and then call him 10 days later. And that was a different one, too, because they weren't even doing stand-up.

2:01:16 You can dial it up and find Arapoles. That's Arapahoe's. It was the great leveler. Yeah. cheech you know what i'm saying like i mean not that everybody doesn't want to see them but that there's a space that's about two miles long you could spend 10 days come visit us from japan stay at the marriott all the way near uh whatever at a Really? And then that changed to.

2:05:00 And most of us seem to be on a schedule of doing one every couple of years. How long does it take to do an hour? and also depending upon how lucky I get with subjects. about skinner was their riffs when they would do guitar riffs it was the same riff that when when they would do It was like, I gotta get the fuck out of here Yeah. You had to compile your tracks or whatever.

2:08:06 never think to play the guitar for example ed started doing that on a couple of tracks all right it became a gymnastic effort more elbow and shoulder to get his hand from the far end of the fretboard all the way up to the pickup and back to duplicate that wabasabi approach to making solos. in interesting ways. You remember a wedding. Then I was throwing up back behind the...

2:10:42 Tarantino starts in the middle. great masters if you have i mean a hundred of the greatest guitar artists of all time in the history of the human race. There's no shortcuts. That is one of the things that I really want to do. So the man who forges it does not sharpen it? You use the old stones from the mountains, et cetera. We'll find it. By putting paste on that sword, parts of it will cool differently.

2:13:49 It's made of ash, and it's made of ore. This is wild. Mm. And he'll spend hundreds of hours doing that on a sword, which is why they cost so much. and especially when you look into the ancient samurai culture, Or go. This is a liberal arts education I mean, overwhelming. Yeah. You want me to keep going? I'll plant the potatoes. I just like to cook if that's okay. Yeah. And somebody else said uh i'm i'm i just like to cook if that's okay

2:18:34 some such tell me about this no i bow hunt yeah i've been doing that you actually eat yeah what's I follow that. Everybody does. You're eating a wild athlete that's running away from wolves and mountain lions. And you gotta be able How often do you go out? I'll show you after we're done. That's the most modern way is the classic. Anything that's slow.

2:21:13 he's not eating any white bread he's eating oatmeal and clean proteins you know no fried When you deal with football, there's so many factors. mountains and climb them i mean that's his thing for me it was the surfers yeah 1960s I think you get energy beach so fucking chill like what is that you're right something crazy beach music isn't chill Hey, Ray.

2:24:41 I got to go to the 7-Eleven. In the rain, as opposed to, Careful what you let your kids see it could be for life. parking guy or the valise it's on that's my bike chained up over there and the corner is 20 Wow. notice a difference with people paying attention text moves yeah i know that getting off the line Now they look at their phone like they pretend.

2:28:07 Have you ever meddled with those things? Can you really? You can't. It's like James Bond or some secret agency where even Miguel the Gardener has a smartphone. I want to be out on that wave, man. is avoidance yeah nine and a half times out of ten it it's just somebody who didn't really want to talk on the phone. How long ago? It also indicates, you know, as you start to call over and over and over again,

2:31:24 I got a stalker who makes prank calls. yeah you're going to indicate everywhere you are and everything you do on your entire thing of your that yes right it's almost the same you're so right it's like a digital version of opening Okay. Go look it up. Okay. Yeah. What is this? I'd give it a chance. I would do that You wanted to hear You had, We're missing DJs

2:35:59 No time to waste it was metromedia i believe it was channel five tell me if this gets too boring um That kind of screaming DJ kind of thing. You're Channel 5. And Channel 5, they operate KPPC, which is 106.7. and he'd uh okay we got a new quick silver here can't wait till it comes out Wow. it would set you up it enhanced it Streaming services are the new radio

2:39:53 All those things And I've watched you go from. You know, trying to get that kind of an eloquence out of it, you know. I haven't been to sleep since the late 80s. And it's no-shoes radio. hi, this is Kenny, and I was just walking down here in Panama City, and uh check this out this is fucking tasty this is a it's an import i had became very codified you know just like the horse races somewhere in the mid 70s late 70s it became

2:44:38 And it turns out, I think what they wanted was a version of Howard Stern. I'm music first. white people listen and they were pissing off management. You have never seen so many people dancing in one place. Like, what was the conversation when you agreed to do it? But that was Howard Stern's whole deal was late night humor. No, it's just my sense of humor is different, unique, as is his and as is yours.

2:47:52 And I think they expected other. And the subject matter, just as we've touched on subjects here that are hilarious and subjects that are pretty dense. They always arrive with expectations. Just let it, give it time to grow. He's going to do his best. And then the people will start, folks will start conducting, well, you got to play this. I would be very open to it

2:50:55 Something else that people have approached me for is writing a column. Huh. And everybody knew. You dig? Exactly. And I could discuss the record endlessly as long as we're going boo. the smoke you see the uh flying saucer it looks fake That's a version you feel smugly superior. Yeah. You know what you're doing, you sly son of a bitch. And please say it that way.

2:54:39 Oh, she's pretty. that you're going to use No more rubbing it I'm going to order just because I love you. God bless.