Joe Rogan Experience #333 — David Lee Roth Transcript

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0:00 Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! Stop doing that. Oh. Something along those lines. Is that a real name? Why Southern? Who would be a Mr. Skinner? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, maybe they proved that the more colorful it is Even the way Skinner spelled their name It's not the right way to do it, but you can just make a fucking goofy spelling of something,

3:13 Where did you guys start out? a couple of turntables and have easily done it as long as a stage meant something that you tripped your toe over sometimes up there it's like out of a movie you know a rock and roll movie yeah but you put the you know So around Pasadena, huh? you know, you're intercepted somehow. That might be the band. Confused underwear.

7:03 How did that come about? And I was already going to show up a month or two early, kind of get my feet wet, see what it's like being there, as opposed to just visiting. ready to play and they said oh about 10 and a half months i said well i'll be busting a groove in No, he got well. just sign up for something. how to say, you know, okay, he's not that dangerous.

9:59 diamond somebody and i'll do that and if i throw the ball, I'm going to go to the NFL. Yeah, we live in an iPod society now. Eat, Sleep, Race, Win. But I actually go back and live somewhere. You know, I grew up around National Geographic magazines, you know, where there's the guy And my teachers are very unforgiving. What is that it's from gangster movies it means who do you think you uh do you still train in martial arts yes well that's part of the reason i'm there is i

13:26 And I went, you know, Ed took ill and I said, yeah, I'll still come. I'm going to move in. But you do it with swords. Well, I'll be teaching people how to do that. It's not a bad idea. gallons of Schlitz malt liquor, the bowl that came in the tall can. Is that the justification? Two a day? He was like, that's it. My fiance left me and all this other shit at the same time.

17:02 but I'm sure it's hard to smell. And it gives you the tobacco, but mist comes out. Yeah. it's like it's like a vaporizer that delivers nicotine okay well i'm not going to make fun of would he wouldn't fly unless he could get a seat in the back so he could smoke his pipe to make them more addictive. allowed the cigarette companies It's 590 different chemicals.

19:59 You're smoking, burning plant matter, but it's definitely way better. Wow. Yeah, and I had her translate and I wonder, That's kind of in a circular way what we were just starting to talk about there. environment yeah well you came from a time where clubs like the nightclubs were all smoke-filled That's one of the weirdest things you could ever see in your life.

22:12 It's so funny. Well, Sean Connery was smoking Rothman's Kingsize Size in Goldfinger, and that's where I saw it. That's a telling thing, man. of it you guys have been to uh tokyo you've been to japan there is a lot of english spoken but you know what it's like learning spanish in the school system that guy's sunglasses. Now, are you living with people that you're friends with from back home or you

25:54 my bicycle everywhere. Wow, I think that would be such a trip. Vertical communities there. It's really international where I am. They're just picking and choosing from you'll stand down near USC or whatever. I mean, I would think that that would wear on me after a while. So as I learn, you know. Japanese is heavy lifting. I need to do. I can get shopping done.

29:52 Can you translate for you if you're watching something on television? You turn to your friend and go, Two checks, and you print that one. I've been doing the Roth Show show for the last three four months i think we're It's a while. I guess they thought I would get under the wing and then No. Well, I was doodling around with adult concepts. You're making clear sense.

34:27 you were a sacrifice. We can go from a basement basement i don't mind waking up Everybody understands a little more of that promotion, you know, get involved. that became a real trudge. You know? Balance out your thing. And you go high speed, low drag. You can tune the room so you can hear things outside. going boo is way more fun than going yay. It's a fucking great idea for a show.

38:42 On fake things. One of the greatest sumo fighters of all time. Jesus. Does he lose a lot of weight? He looks like he's about 300. Well, they go for like that heaviest, most high-calorie shit they can get in their bodies, right? And we went and had what they eat. You've got to take a nap. So they have a strategy to when they eat. That is the technique.

42:01 Yeah, you can't escape the cheeseburger, man. It's like a wall, a piece of wall. One guy takes it and he throws it, but he doesn't look. And then there's another cat who takes two little pinches. And there are some guys who are technicians, you know, in terms of fighters. And, uh, so he learned all of his balance. You want to come in as low as you possibly can.

45:20 Oh, yeah. It's pretty familiar. It's really similar, right? And he was not slated to win right away, which he started doing. Did you ever see a mixed martial arts event in Japan? Yeah, it was just one night of fights. But the audience is so interesting. Brian, you've because there was like only a couple, and you would see, oh, it's just U.S. military dudes.

48:17 You're not observing. with Alex Van Halen and talking Europe, you have what's like an idling cheer, a scream. Bill Cosby eating pudding. blower whine. You follow? Absolutely. And if people are making the long noise, they enjoy themselves. Now. It's a little bit like a dance. You follow? Whatever the fucking thing is that night. It's sort of like cheering for the ball getting spiked in a volleyball tournament.

50:37 and pretty much no matter what you say, Oh my God, the plumbing just exploded. This isn't fun. when I'm just Sammy Davis Lee Roth. I ain't got the nards for it. I can draw that door anywhere on thin air and go, look, a song. tried two different lead singers you know i mean the sammy hagar thing a lot of people like that What is that dude's name? Then somehow or another, you guys get back together again.

54:25 and then this other guy, and they stop that, in a court of law i'll settle for lucid for van halen i myself am lucid for real van halen fans talking about you know I was in the When we got graduation, they played Santana on a loop, White people. You can't play Highway Star by Deep Purple. Coincidence? don't know how he did it but everybody was a huge Van Halen freak in my high

58:23 working in the prison system, like San Quentin and Folsom and Pelican Bay and Ivy League, he called it. before you go on stage these days would be and stuff. You've heard the term barrel house voice? Who do we know that has a barrel house voice these days? And you would read about that growing up. the band but uh i i think they were aware that this was part of it their father was a traveling

1:02:19 So when you grow up with that kind of a thing, then you sort of know the story. here with kind of a brick facing inside. know, the usual collision course of, you know, the mayor versus, you know, whatever. i'm going to say 400 people it was you know we could pack them in there and they served schlitz taller than about four feet waist high i'll say okay and um i would i would uh roll my pants up

1:05:50 1975 wow no betty ford clement barely if there was i mean who knew she barely had pubes yeah you are you from tina i'm from the valley wow they like to party in the valley don't they hey everybody The answer, everybody. and then misplaced, as have several of the judges. This was called the Rock Corporation. This is a township where we tear out all the trees and name the street after them.

1:08:47 They were doing undercover. Oh, it was great stuff. You pack up and go to Japan if you want. It's because it is a commitment. But have you always been able to do that? But you have an eye for the romantic, though. I don't know if I would enjoy it the way you're enjoying it, but the way you're enjoying it sounds really interesting. Because they're going to have to eat dinner sooner or later.

1:12:33 We'll know. You bet. If you have read, I'm going to say 3,000 magazines. I can do that. wouldn't there be a lot more Van Halens out there? and that's a whole cross-section of different kinds of music and different kinds of theater You know it's Batman from across the room. Is that plagiarism? The Jew in him just came rocking again. little red rooster said right and then they'll repeat that a couple of times and they'll say

1:17:36 He changed Left Behind the Music. It doesn't have to have it worn right up on the sleeve that you used my material. They owe you a little bit of money from it, but it doesn't bother you. Suck it. I am the son of Satan, Sure. I'm all for it, because otherwise you're going to just have to learn it on an instrument you know the record company is you know is going to remit you go oh i want a little piece of that

1:20:33 uh, I dig all the floor mixes too. I've heard all kinds of dance remixes and stuff as well. So, you know, and I'm all for that. I dig all the floor mixes, too. You know that. were vinyl albums and cassettes, What was it like to I think what we're also seeing more than just in terms of numbers, Joe, is that we're seeing how high people are reaching for quality.

1:23:01 stairway to heaven. And I think... From the time you go, hey, you want to write some songs? I'm sure Springsteen's acolytes would tell you that. you have an opportunity to win the super trisacta trifecta whatever it is race times a $400 million if not body for three full And more downloads some time ago um you know uh i'm coming also from a time it's a it's a little bit of uh

1:26:47 And today, if you buy a $10 Van Halen record, I'll make six cents royalty. So you're like, go fuck yourself. noisy and corrupt as you would ever want it to be but walking into uh negotiations for anybody i really make a contribution to really take the music past where you found it and to really make you're not getting profit from it like cds with new bands they'll be able it'll be able to change

1:29:43 We're back. Because I play ethnic music loops. Who was your sidekick? You love talking so much. Well, they're getting sucked out of the cars. Just completely leave it up to you but if someone tries to change your personality and try to twist around your you know your energy and get you to do Now that he's running his own show, it's much more successful than his radio show ever was.

1:32:11 And it's all the same stuff. He just, like, pick up the newspaper and just – and it's fucking great. but now that it exists, it forces you to think, and you're doing traditional radio. And that's when it becomes art. And what we're doing here, every now and then we hit a moment where the people are listening and people get hooked. light it's uh it's seeing someone you know be able to be themselves for the first time,

1:34:47 If they listen to your radio show, just enough. You know, that was the alternative to hopping and popping and bobbing with the best bet for the boss. To the stage, Kenny, Kenny. like something from The Simpsons. It was strange. Like, I'm talking too much, you know. depends on what the angle is like sometimes i prefer to see it live like right in front of me

1:37:38 So I'll look down at a monitor sometimes. So from 2002, 11 years so far. There's so many of them. Like when Anderson Silva front kicked Vitor Belfort in the face and knocked him unconscious. incorporate the front kick it's a very like basic kick but before then we never saw anybody knock a guy out in the ufc with a front kick to the face it never happened there's only been one wheel kick

1:39:35 Like everybody's trying to land them because they realize how deadly they are once they land. started showing people high-level kickboxing, and he started leg-kicking guys and knocking traditional mixed martial arts techniques or traditional martial arts techniques rather An axe kick with a guy with your kind of flexibility, when you used to throw those wild kicks,

1:41:40 The same reason why Anderson Silva's front kick to Vitor Belfort's face was the first time we ever saw it. about heavyweights it doesn't seem that the biggest guys are the most effective in heavyweights once Well, they move slower. They just don't. They just don't. And it's just a matter of physics. You don't see any fighters that are successful in the top 10

1:44:09 Anderson Silva got throttled by Chael Sonnen for four and a half rounds you'll get a certain distance. It was great. She was there to win. If you go overseas, they arrest you. She's a badass bitch, too. People showed up. I mean, we're dealing with 20 million people. Fuck yeah. And now that they realize also you can make a legit living. Five years from now,

1:47:43 Are these gals tested for steroids and whatnot? She wants Ronda to come up and fight her at 145 because she weighs even more than that. in jiu-jitsu. She's a an F. Whoopsies. You know, I don't know how politically incorrect or correct I can be here, but that's kind of how I like it. That is some masculine characteristics. It just doesn't happen. Oh, yes, they do.

1:50:40 That is the big that's the big debate. They have way more endurance than is like normally physically possible. But what it is is, and I have a friend who has used this stuff It's called erythropoietin. This is something you just take as an injectable and then it creates red blood cells. But is this legal for any sport at all? Well, you know, look, these guys, their health is on the line when they're fighting.

1:53:56 Yeah, I'll tell you exactly if you want to know. You see them. and then they'll take that stuff and they'll bring it to a lab and they go, He tested positive three times for PEDs. And certainly there's stuff that you can take. And how much – how does it register for you? if you throw in a cocktail of all these legal things because a regular person is going to have gone in for gene therapy the way a girl goes in for a nose job today

1:57:32 You're going to change your genetics. I can't imagine a time where we're not doing some sort of crazy genetic experiment. That's what we got to look out for. What you're doing is you're guaranteeing that someone over there is going to die, right? And she used to be a man but now she has had she's a transgender which and you feel like your body is really a woman's body trapped inside a man's frame

2:00:34 And I don't know what that dude next to you on the left, i don't know what you're doing i don't know you mean obviously if you're trans operational it That's a guy's carriage there. You can't fight women. Look, she's huge. Yeah. Your elbows are thicker. who are relatively new to the game within the last five summers. you know, Women, And I'm not trying to discriminate against women in any way, shape, or form.

2:05:09 This is not a girl. dick chopped off? You just can't. I agree. So you can watch this fight. We used to go way out in the middle of nowhere. You don't really know what you're going to get because they're their own sort of sovereign nation. That's how they have casinos. I mean, but basically what happened was the United States or the founding humans that traveled across the United States when they essentially caused genocide

2:08:21 well, this is our land. In college rather playing women's basketball. He's 50 50 he's like six foot fucking something or another this college girls. I don't understand it. See? How did I get here? barbed fence with a, what is that, On both arms, it looks like. The Mission College is in Fremont, California. Well, before she was Gabby, her name was Robert John Ludwig.

2:11:48 and always wanted to relive At the age of 50 come on yeah they don't And then they moved to North Hollywood. the that's what always uh catches up from that art form there discs definitely yeah He's a trainer. There's ways to do it. to start competing again was a guy named Nate Quarry. Yeah. I know Tito Ortiz had two surgeries like that. You know, the disc issue is a real issue.

2:15:48 No. elongating your spine. What kind of yoga are you doing? I have some DVDs that I follow. We used to call it stretching. Like the Jet Center for kickboxers was like back in the day, it was Mecca. You're obviously fit. and whatever falls in with it. Okay, cheeseburgers, right. Do you, like, read books on any of that stuff? But meat itself, as long as it's in moderation, especially grass-fed meat, is actually pretty good for you.

2:19:55 Cows are not naturally designed to eat corn. it's not quite as tender but I like it. I like it more. I prefer like the taste of Fuck it. It has to burn off flesh. And what's even worse for you honestly is fucking carbohydrates carbohydrates in massive quantities Yeah. Do you find that in But you put your hand over your eyes and just point. We will be pointing somewhere that is reasonable to eat.

2:23:21 You were talking about chicks, about groupies, like really hot chicks that were fans, Oh, it's a hugely different era. Wow. 100% of the time. Oh, yeah, that's right. Think about it. Virtually It's one of the things that impressed me the most when I met you at the comedy store. You follow? You know, thinking like if you were a wartime reporter, you don't want to wear bright colors.

2:26:40 What are the fascinations? Yeah. You don't give a fuck. It's not possible to be happier than you. I bet you're hard to change. Yeah. And he dismissed me because of that. Alex Van Halen and I had to sue the Mayfield School of the Holy Child of Jesus Incorporated for $125. There will be no marijuana consumed. Angry bitch. Was she right? hair back and we went to small claims court and filed. Did you win? Well, what happened was

2:30:40 And he had one of the nuns stand up and she said i refused to pay him because i smelled Yes, absolutely. I did not know that. Well, there's a whole lot of noise backstage going on at these affairs, okay? Let's stick with the Jonas Brothers. I did. This photograph, what is that of? we just passed uh two and a half million downloads so it's time to talk about it powerful beautiful

2:33:54 Go on YouTube. Okay. they're going to be pissed. Well, listen, man. You're beating up girls, you fuck. and it was as good as we could have possibly asked for. If you go to squarespace.com forward slash Joe, All right. Okay?