Wrote this about 8 months ago…
By 1994 David Lee Roth’s career was in a tailspin as Dave’s current release at the time “Your Filthy Little Mouth” failed to set the charts on fire.
You would never know it by this soundboard recorded bootleg that has Dave live from Hollywood promoting his soon to be released studio flop.
Still, though Roth gives it his all on this and his vocals are still there.
SHOCKER!
‘Big Train’ kicks it off and it’s a great opener as Dave as he always did was take charge. Part Barnum and Bailey and Part Lead Singer kick this set off and then it’s right into ‘Panama’.
His band is tight plays the tunes and gets on with it. ‘Tell The Truth’ from 91’s “A Little Ain’t Enough” gets the call and is a great pick as well.
Dave knew the art of selling and boy does he try and sell ‘She’s My Machine’ telling the crowd ‘Here are the hits and more’.
I don’t think this tune went anywhere but it has a pretty cool bass line intertwining with the guitar. A slow burner kind of groove.
Basically what you are getting here is 16 tracks of Dave Mach 94!
7 tracks from the current Roth record. 1 from ‘A little Aint Enough’. 1 from ‘Skyscraper’. 4 from the VH catalog including a pretty decent spin of ‘Beautiful Girls’ as well as 3 covers which is from his solo EP from 85.
Dave knowing this show is going out over the radio showed up and along with his band plays the tunes pretty good.
Overall a decent bootleg that I picked up on Google Play for a cheap price.
I’m thinking this was his band from 1994.
Rocket Ritchotte-guitar John Regan-bass Brett Tuggle-keyboards Larry Aberman-drums.
Great review Deke. He didn’t play anything from Eat ‘Em & Smile?? That is odd. I guess no one can play those Vai parts.
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Maybe Dave was trying to grow up back in 94 lol
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he hasn’t grown up in 2020, so I don’t buy that for a second.
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I think that with the 94 album he was trying to do a serious rock record
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I am sure he was, I actually don’t remember that one too well. You know, maybe it is time to do a David Lee Roth solo album ranking.
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Hey! There ya go
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Weird set but I love stuff like this. His 94 album was never given a fair shake. It’s better than A Lil Ain’t Enough.
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Wow interesting call. I think if he would have trimmed the 94 album down by a couple of tracks i would agree with ya
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Trim the reggae remix.
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Along with the Tritt track
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I like that one! One of the better country crossovers compared to Bon Jovi or Bret Michaels.
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Good point I’ll need to back and listen to it
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Don’t force yourself on my account. I’m the guy who likes country!
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Noted! Ok it still sucks lol
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You can buy DLR bootlegs on Google Play? What a wild world we live in!
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One Dave boot and about 25 Kiss bootlegs lol
Surprise surprise lol
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Bootleg DLR. Christmas came early for Deke! No surprise his vocals were still on point, though. Right on!
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I got this back in Jan and wrote it up in Feb. Sat in the archives lol
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Cool! Well no matter, it’s all good dude!
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I didn’t realize he had that many solo albums. Has anyone asked him, “So Dave about that solo career? Better than VH?”
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hahaha. You should watch us this upcoming Friday night on Mikey’s Youtube page as we will be dissecting the Skyscraper album track by track!
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This could be good.
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It will be as it’s me,Mikey and my best pal of 45 years the one and only…..Tbone…
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Nothing from Eat Em. Boooo
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No Rando!!! Yee Haw! lol
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Was never a fan of DLR, but good post none-the-less. Rock on!
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LOL.. I think of that everytime I post anything on VH! Appreciate you reading it though.
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Of course.
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My only issue with DLR is when he’s live, he can sometimes talk his way through songs. Though he doesn’t do it on the song you have here, does he do it anywhere else on the album?
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Basically, his voice is pretty good on this album. It was for a radio broadcast so Dave cleaned up his act for one night at least! lol GIve it a listen as it’s all up on Youtube.
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too bad it wasn’t a hit – always good to read when an artist doesn’t phone it in!
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It had to be hard for a guy like Roth as that album tanked whereas VH puts out an album the following year and it goes triple platinum.
Not that Dave would ever admit that! LOL
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