Lead singer of Van Halen, David Lee Roth comes to the Fake Mustache studio to discuss making music, touring and much more.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/fake-mustache-studios/mohr-stories-fakemustachecom/episode/22990403

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/04/16/that-stuff-is-way-downtown-is-david-lee-roth-set-to-front-the-duke-ellington-big-band/

April 16, 2013 at 8:42 am
‘That stuff is way downtown’: Is Van Halen’s David Lee Roth set to front the Duke Ellington Big Band?
by Something Else! Reviews

Van Halen fans are rightly thrilled with the news that David Lee Roth is retaking the road after Eddie Van Halen’s recent health scares. But that’s not the only band he’ll apparently be fronting in 2013.

“I’m going to be playing, probably this November, the 25th anniversary of the Blue Note in Tokyo with a big band,” Roth tells Jay Mohr as part of his FakeMustache.com podcast. “The Duke Ellington Big Band just called recently to see if I wanted to play with them. That stuff is way downtown. There’s some dirt under the fingernails, if you do that kind of music right.”

Roth’s seemingly incongruent love affair with swing, big band and jump music first became obvious to a wider audience with the release in 1985 of his solo take on the Louis Prima-sung 1956 chestnut “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” — which went to No. 12 and helped usher Roth into a solo career. He later recorded a covers-dominated album in 2003 called Diamond Dave that featured a few big band-ish charts like the one below.

Roth wouldn’t record another original album with the arena-filling Van Halen until last year’s comeback A Different Kind of Truth. Still, even today, Roth has no trouble making a connection between the two seemingly disparate genres.

“Big band is the original hard rock,” Roth adds. “You know, they load up on those low saxophones — they load up on all the baritones. You can feel the boom in the room. If you look at your beer glass, it’s making those little circles that start in the center. You could feel that in your stomach. The hips don’t lie!”

Thanks Ron ~ this is a great listen! The guy asks really good, interesting questions and they sound like a couple of old pals shootin’ the shit on the back porch.

I couldn’t listen to the whole thing in one shot and when I went back to pick back up where I had left off, I had a hard time manipulating the webpage’s audio player to go to a later point in the audio (and had to listen to the beginning all over again). So I found a podcast of it and downloaded it. It’s free on iTunes, so I think it’s OK for a public dropbox link. Working with an mp3 file is WAY easier (at least – it was for me). Here’s a dropbox link to an mp3 file of the interview:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4v2oe0q2fxrv6u/Mohr%20Stories%20150_%20David%20Lee%20Roth.mp3

I’ll “jump” on that Dropbox copy. Thanks for the effort guitard. And Ron.

ah yes! now this is more of what I want to hear from the VH members in interviews. The Roth Show seems like a cool thing to sit and watch Dave talk and talk and talk…but on that he very rarely makes any reference to old VH days. I wanna hear the guys get into the weeds for what it was like in their prime… like what was it like recording WACF for example.

So you can tell Jay Mohr is a HUGE VH fan. Basically having an ultimate fan interview Dave and ask some of the questions we wanna hear. Even though Jay mispronounced Ted Templeman’s name and didn’t know he produced all 6. You can still tell he was way into VH. I like that he asked Dave for his favorite VH album.

Hmmm, we do get a glimpse at what he meant by the lyric, “I’m your wave tossed guy”. I always thought it meant he was waving at people, but it really means he’s like a cork in the water being tossed by the waves. Thanks, Dave!

Thanks for the link… just downloaded it.

Checking it out now, Thanks!

Thanks to Ron and Randy! Sounds like a bad porno

Thanks Randy & Ron !

Thanks for this!

Ugggggggggggggggggg…..

At 1:15:42 Dave opened the door wide open for Jay – but Jay didn’t follow up. Dave and Jay were reminiscing about the music industry and talking about things you don’t see coming out anymore and Dave asked, “Where are the live albums?” Jay should have jumped on that and asked Dave when are we going to get a live CVH album.

Cool….thx fellas!

I really enjoyed this interview. Thanks for the heads up!

Really fun interview, thanks for this. I don’t know why this is sticking in my mind, but I find it hard to believe that Alex VH is 6’2″ tall. For some reason I always thought that EVH was around 5’8″, and Alex is maybe two inches taller than him. Anyone know for sure?