Joe Rogan Experience #1660 — David Lee Roth Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. You are you. that most of us, I think perhaps we were compelled to skip out on that once we leave school. you don't want to start speaking downtown around the law, boys. Yeah, the quad at school. Folks frequently will come out, and Al Van Halen and I went to music school together,'t matter. Folks frequently will come out, He was part of the busing program, too.

3:10 He can't? actually might be. Now, if I was putting on face, I wouldn't have showed up with a missing tooth. Are you going to get it replaced? Oh, nice. Mike Tyson had these teeth too. Oh, yeah. Think about that. when it was just a trade school up in Altadena, California. Every Van Halen song Sort of. I mean, that's pretty incredible. tossed out of my house by mom okay mostly halfway through high school okay so halfway through high

7:29 And there was constant conflict in terms of where the Van Halens went to school, It's like the balance that made our music colorful the my moniker diamond dave comes from when i would go over to the van halen side that's like ridgemont high Every famous Earth, Wind & Fire like this. And they said, and this was 1973, they said, according to the contract, that we had been smoking marijuana.

9:51 It's for $150. All right. Okay? Exactly. I was gorgeous. I'm the MC. as I passed her I'm like Dave must Dave must be here. I'm thinking of starting a brand. That's a good move. being bigger how can it be louder i don't know i'm not i'm not an engineer joe i'm an artist you I don't care. You can tell from my cigarette That like flies in the face of the myth

13:56 I can't imagine any of my favorite comics, and you might not even know what to call them, a light and along with 20 million other baby boomers I went you bet and then later when I was 13 we went and saw Goldfinger he smokes a cigarette named of my heroes smoked every cowboy when you heard the harmonica or whatever it was in clint eastwood Yes. You bet your life.

17:01 There are no positive benefits or effects of tobacco. You're welcome to come in and try and steal it. I'm not recommending you do it. And Leonard Bernstein was a chain smoker. effect on me. You're making me want a cigar. You try to lie to me and I'm going to stop you right here on the air, Joe Rogan. And the smell of that rich cigar tobacco smoke, and it's humid, right?

21:00 It's not a fragrance. Oh, you walk past that. I think it's too— Oh, hell no. That's me when I'm about four years old, learning to tie my shoe. Pop was in school until I was about 11, 12 years old. Pretend you're on a boat. Okay, cowboy. How do they hack the beef supply? Cyber attack meat supply. Every machine, even the parking meter. Hit the cellos when I go, this may sound crazy, Joe.

24:30 Nobody will know what to do. take over because it doesn't want you pulling plugs and shutting off switches. Yes. I try to surround yours before you surround mine. number of atoms in the known universe. So just to be wise asses, and I'm jumping around, but I encourage you all to dig into this. My point being, AI can defend itself. That was a good road gig.

28:03 It's this. Without that, there is no struggle. you humor. How do you survive Beric's life? How do you survive no food for how long when you were We played five 45-minute sets a night. No matter what, you had to learn laugh to win. Yeah. like how do you keep the how do you keep that feeling because you have to stay grounded right I'm sure you get baked to the gills, and then you go to the grocery store or something.

32:04 Yeah. oh what a wonderful child I certainly hope he was born with a proper accent. I haven't been to Santa Barbara recently. You know, like you can't hear it, but the dogs can. And it's something that you learn. You wouldn't know that unless you had golden time when you were traveling. Oh, God, I'll never wear those shoes. What was he thinking? Oh shit. Aren't you embarrassed? And you will decide yourself. The same as when we watched

34:57 Who you are as a human being. My wife watches that show when she's on the Stairmaster. The Kardashians of the Bible. happen but many above-ordinary things happen like they have very nice things Austin, Texas. It's just not cool to talk about in public. This is a reality series, and the folks are primarily Chinese, and it is their version. The pivotal character is a billionaire fella.

38:18 This is like when you guys talk about boxers. You know, Joe, And it is a warship of the bling that I think I'm going to wonder if America is just learning to hide it or if there's an actual change. They know how to ride. I subscribe to Wooden Boat. Dial this one up. And if you want to know Imagine just- You would hire a And I didn't do notes, so I'm kind of sprawling here.

41:40 And it's Explorer X. That thing goes underwater? And you can call me on the phone. sailing to you. The boat? Yeah. That looks like a lot of work. It goes with the shoes, So like SpaceX, but Ocean X. Where are you at with vegetarian? I had reindeer, I think it was in Norway or something. It was a short-lived career, pulling the thing. You can go ahead and get it, and I know how to quarter it,

44:27 How do you stay going? Right, like your kendo training and all that. biters with lots and lots of those. But this looked like a wolf. I based out of there. Great to see you, sir. The handler will arrange, pick up, and drop off of Mr. Roth. Rock stars don't wear fucking rock a watch. This was Konishiki. He was the man. Can you see me if I stand up? 600 pounds.

48:50 guide here bro oh yeah yeah and right away you're gonna need a veterinarian right right away you're Wow. And he was like national hero. That just clearly is not done. Wow. That's amazing. champion, alright? He's like an That guy on the left is, sorry to interrupt, but that guy on the left is European. One of those 400 pounders gets hold of that belt.

51:27 He's a tank. You're looking at big barrel bombs on the right. why they have... See how that's working? I do. going to take it in the face in order to grab that belt. See how he's trying to grab that belt? You see my bodyguard out there? It's all the actual happens in four seconds. Well. The way karate is suffered. Henzo's. Wow. Like this, a million what happened to your eyes? I got my black belt last night. Wow.

54:39 So we would sit around the edges of the room and take turns etc as opposed to a No, no Was Judo Gene LaBelle ohio and infantry for life well my body is a temple but let's rent it out for parties tonight Yes. Wow, that's awesome. Fax me an Advil. oh three in the back six hours on the spit But like I said, I've been bouncing around. How recently under the knife did you uh get your back done

58:50 You learn to, hold on, I'm going to explain this, Okay. They get tired of going? And this here's actual. And you can tell that he's had more than a couple because he's only got his mom with him now. That's Do you understand? Did the surgery help at all? Got it. Every sports hero, every pitcher, every golfer, every rock and roller who carries a guitar around with them, etc.

1:02:18 No. Yeah. And the injury rate in rock and roll is just like in gymnastics. 100%. Like rock and roll, especially you. Dave. 14, no, 10 hours. 10 hours to Houston, Dave. 12 hours to Lubbock, Dave. 14 hours to Iowa. specific place. You're like Seabiscuit. And jet lag may have been what kicked Tyson's ass in Japan. But the first thing I would say, if you said, Dave, you're coach for a day,

1:05:24 because it's all different. I'm worried about surgeries. His son was about 14 years old and collected half a dozen of his friends, Yeah. Hell yeah. sing from here it's super active on stage even He's still, you know, still doing the thing. As I know it to be, he is a jogger, a runner. ballet weight training pilatesging, and dynamic stretching, But see if you can find an image of his body, because there was a photo of him shirtless

1:10:02 So this is a thing he's practicing. If you said tomorrow they're down the street, stay over, Dave, let's go, I would. Okay. am i planning to no but it's very important to me that he and the e street band make that goddamn If you can do that at 75 years old, post-heart surgery. Well, classic rock has the longevity of it. Well, it's classic rock has a, there's a feel

1:12:41 to layla last night i haven't And you're thinking of Eric Plank. You don't have photos of it anywhere, do you? because when you look at your tattoo, Hot dozo on the high desert. Is this the right place? That's beautiful. Wow. We had one guy do the back and one guy do all the front. Okay? I had to get on the bike, get my heart rate up with 45 minutes.

1:16:05 be something in there yeah i want to see it it's a bizarre and a beautiful style of uh tattooing is I created a liberal arts education that I never had because I went on the road with Van Sure. If you can make a And I spent two years learning how to handle four shades of gray and one shade of black. And you're going to end up tearing all your tendons like that. You're going to get surfer knots like this that are right there on top of your, like that. You follow?

1:19:06 When I hold the cue, I hold a cradle to the cue. It just becomes brutal. get great benefit out of just doing this very unusual thing, Yeah. I bet I wouldn't. Comic book illustrator. it. It was about seven. Really? Oh, yeah. And that was when they invented it. And then to add fury to the fire, a next door neighbor actually did join the Peace Corps. Chick Lewis was his

1:22:15 Now you will make a contribution. And the best was, okay, children, what did we do today that's going to benefit the rest of us? you know he's in west africa in the 60s and they're learning how to dig uh trenches and No. I had no idea that I was actually going to put on a uniform. senior instructor, says, so you're going to go do your ambulance time?

1:25:13 in the Marcy Projects than Jay-Z who's from there, Not only that, but we're going to learn how to open a fire hydrant. My favorite was the old folks. My favorite was 70 and up He asked if he could come and sit in the back of the bus. four to six hours later. On a day like today, when we would get on shift, we would all ask fondly, I noticed he had on a brand new pair of Payless wingtips.

1:28:48 all in the back of his ass. that gun, like drooping it. And he survived. on shift we would wonder out what time you think Don he's gonna call it oh fuck Right. Be of value. Good. Do you follow the reasoning? Really? You could yell my name across the field. And I knew it, and I accepted it and loved it. I wasn't someone. I said, someone make some life? You have Jimmy Buffett types, and hey, there's some fashion models on a shoot, and Joey's there, and some of the guys from the gym, et cetera, like this.

1:34:26 Django Reinhardt? Everything's... so guitar Diamond Dave's going to refuel. Get some of that. Yeah. and all these different things going to Japan, he's almost got to like insert himself into like a struggle, like make a struggle. You know Well, he's definitely got a lot of that. I was watching a video I took at a concert that I went to. And he has a full band with him playing a bunch of music

1:38:56 I love you. You took it to me during an actual tactical course, but I'm a combat hippie that. Boom. That's my lesson. We'll spend about four hours there, just like that. And my whole there's no other people I know like you that are you. If you tilt the map, like Los Angeles, everything loose and unscrewed down rolls into L.A. or everybody. You think you answered?

1:41:28 But in rock and roll, we learned from all of our heroes. Later was Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. I played up until the little pieces that fit in house regularly. Really? Oh, yeah. And geez, that got me through recovery on my back. it's a much more aggressive form of play. It's like prison boxing versus pugilism. Do you follow? Really? There are computer games that resemble this.

1:45:21 Okay. And that's what's happening when we start seeing colonial approaches. Westerners love to think in terms of heavy infantry. You make a line, I'll make a line, Absolutely. I can make a lot of jokes about being egocentric, okay? My opening statement to the gardeners down in Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. I'm speaking poetically. I've had my ocean time

1:48:26 you pissed off about we went from china to environmental concerns about everything don't board here a little bit. Law enforcement. There's a great subject. Okay. And we talk about sweeping I have seen the party spill out of control. They were all four feet taller than me. Let's start with $3,500 a week for patrol. Well, I do. 511 uniform looks good.

1:52:01 I have no problem with shaving my head and joining a military force to defend those rights This is a good interview. They over-escalate situations, and we see those viral videos, and they're infuriating. to be responsible for the bullets in my gun? Pay me to do it. They need training. They need much, he'll tell you that they should be spending somewhere in the neighborhood of like 60% of

1:54:32 I have no love for abusive police, but I have all the love in the world for police that are doing their job and risking their life to help people and keep people safe. The left wing routinely embarks on punishment. It's horrific shit, and it's not the way to handle things. I think that used to be kind of one-sided, and it's not anymore. You see the Democratic riots, and you had a lot of long hairs, and Mayor Daley, which

1:56:40 We're still arguing over these basics. We're arguing over statues? Really? That pisses me off. Seems small. You know, something like the ocean is an enormous problem that requires international cooperation. with a lot of the statues that they were taking down that were put up during the civil rights Wait, wait. He's a Nazi. And I don't really want to walk past his statue.

1:59:13 i hear horses when i play you hear horses when i play go i it's cavalry oh really oh yeah i imagine I don't have enough time to learn Go. Like Hamilton, which was the play that got made into a movie, got disincluded from winning an award because Hamilton owned slaves. I loved award shows until they became an opportunity. to thank Ray and Stu and Carl and Louise and Bobby and Noah and Joshua and Tina and... Acceptance speeches used to be an opportunity

2:02:08 To be an artist means you can never turn away your eyes. get like 90 seconds and they're standing on a podium and it's all completely unnatural and it's The problem is now there's too many people that are deeply invested in saying things that they think people want to hear rather than saying things that we elected or voted for you because of excellence in an area. I know I'm up here for acting,

2:05:16 They want to be a part of the chosen ones. Tactical humility? It can't be real with some folks. We can tell. She's doing the right things. told me go get out of the room your socks were horrible yeah that's your sense of humor Only mediocre talents are complimentary of each other. I grew up in summer camp going, table number nine rules. You better put it in your breakfast cereal and you better put it in your vodka before you go to sleep.

2:09:12 To get going and say to myself, well, okay, I'm not a guitar player per se. 10,000 hours is for sissies. You just told him what you want. stuff, it's showbiz city. even now especially with youtube you know being able to access the past at a moment. we can rev it up. I used to have to sit in front of the television at the million dollar movie and at 11 o'clock on Channel 5 on Thursday,

2:12:26 Yeah, it's amazing. It's not meant for traction, all right? Oh, really? Watch how they slide. Look up the Berry Brothers cane routine. That is amazing. it is in this spirit that i've always carried out what i do for a living i knew about these guys I can. These guys are more a little bit rough around the edges. Look at that shit. Bop. Oh, what is this?

2:15:52 Yeah. They're putting that bandana. Oh, you just saw that in your last fight. In this very spirit knees great really oh yeah from years of stretch and stretch. Stretch and stretch. The best part of the weight stack is finishing. I eat a croco It was like. And it's oatmeal, rice, beans, you know, the usual veg. That's why Labradors train so well. But the meat really socks it to me.

2:20:14 I'll always eat the slowest and I'll eat more than anybody twice my weight. Oh, yeah. All right? Instagram stories, David Lee Roth, there's a picture of me with a sword on the stories. You What's wrong with your big toe? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it may well be impact that you're not designed for like walking and running and even walking and running competitively.

2:23:02 That's, no, no, he's... What is he doing with that stick? Yeah, see, he's doing all the same stuff that he's doing with his sword. You follow? then you've developed one branch of the martial arts. Let's do 50 burpees. Yeah, I'm scared to reach that point. Mm-hmm. And then, so why keep the weight down? Why put out a record in these days if you're going to have 14 songs unless you have devout fans?

2:27:27 At my point, geez, Paul McCartney puts out 14 songs. The human condition is, get it forget it that's You listen to Fox and MSNBC just to get a balanced perspective? like reasoning someone who's like really looked at the issues and thought about it from a balanced You have progressive UCLA. A loop was real back then on We did our 10,000 hours before we made our first record.

2:31:51 Like, when did you really realize, like, holy shit, it's taken off? You know what? I got a bad desire. I'm like, hey, man, you probably might not want to sing that fucking song anymore. I got a bad desire. Of course. exactly yeah so maybe you know i'm looking at the worst possible charitable example you gotta get you know, I don't do that. I think he might have been the guy

2:34:44 in anything that you sing. All right. and I'm wearing Converse But in fact, no, in your world of MMA, you jump. We're going to dance. That's endless. You know what you're going to remember? and said, we're going to the prom at a high school. I feel like we've made a contribution. to think about that you're on the spot now mine's contribution yeah i don't think i would uh pick a

2:39:15 And it's a little sarcastic. why? same spirit Of course they did. They're in the Olympics. I interviewed Devin, the coach. He was British SAS. Walmart? I listen to Howard regularly. My shit, But wait a minute. was a duplication of a hero and I'm the term wabasabi it means yeah which is a little roughed up at the edges well you've done a lot of Yes.

2:43:15 And they would say, you can't play this. We want you to play, it was Nickelback and Skinner. Like right now, I would be having music congruent in the backgrounds to what we would be discussing. and no, no, no, no, this is classic rock. We want to stay in the classic rock mode taste for me. You follow? It's like sushi. But isn't what's important though in that business,

2:46:13 I'm in error. And I went on record, and they got calls from the mayor's office, And the EPA director, whatever, was online saying, no, no, it's breathable, it's safe. Well, today, They got very, very sick. You're causing big time problems. Keep them light and lively, local news, et cetera. We had actual prostitutes. got busted i know that you're in within my listening voice down in palm beach florida

2:50:14 instantly yeah and in reading commercials of course i would have fun with that but So nobody has bling. And everybody shave your head so you're not wearing an $80 haircut. Yeah, How about just do whatever the fuck you want to do? so it doesn't show the dirt like I wore when I was a kid and the bling kid is liable to think they're somehow superior They can't deal with these kinds of subjects.

2:52:54 I don't think anybody should be able to tell people they have to shave their head or wear a gi. It makes other kids appreciate that they're fortunate they have things that other kids don't. painted red and Darla mistakenly falls in love with him because of his possessions and Spanky, Well, that was by accident because if you remember, The whole idea is fuck you and your little friend, your little fire engine.

2:54:57 Do I think all little kids should be in geese? and learning martial arts in the same uniform there's a real benefit in that too because yourself and you look at your abilities. It gives you more confidence. And it also gives you this He's proud of it. constantly. It is really hardcore training. And that's when you build who you are. That's where from Smoke on the

2:58:50 His bass playing, we could find bass players, You may never have heard the song before. You go, that's Rod. Yeah, it is. And in our backgrounds, like Motown, that only comes from thousands of alive. and that was another expression he would use? That's a perfect way to wrap it up.