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David Lee Roth is 60 years old. He's allowed to slow things down a little.
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Dave's always been that way "live".
I saw Van Halen open for The Rolling Stones at the Orange Bowl stadium in 1981 in Florida.
And David Lee was just running around talking and singing off-key on every song.
I saw him when he had his solo career in Augusta Georgia in 1991. And again, he sang nothing like he does in the studio. Just a bunch of preening and running around singing off-key and talking through the songs.
I'd say he's a lot better "live" now than he ever was back in Van Halen's glory years.
It's weird, because he sounds great in the studio. And when they first got back together a couple of years ago they put out some videos of themselves just sitting around playing some songs acoustically. And he sounded really, really good singing. No microphones, no effects.
But for some reason, when he gets out in front of a big crowd, he becomes "Diamond Dave" and just can't sing.
Which is a shame. He really influenced a lot of "metal" (not death metal) vocalists back in the day.
Seemed like every singer in a hair metal band in the 1980's were trying to figure out how to do that cool tri-tone metal scream he did on the VH albums back in the day.
Watching his cheesy live act it's hard to remember that he was once thought of as a great "heavy metal" vocalist.
But I do have to say...I went and saw them live on their last tour.
Eddie sounded like God on guitar (because he is). And even though Dave was as "bad" as always on vocals...it was still really cool to see him back with the band singing all those old Van Halen songs with Eddie again.
Nostalgia factor is powerful.
