I set the alarm to wake me up to David Lee Roth’s start on radio from the top of the former Howard Stern Building.
I fell back asleep.
I’m sure he’s a nice guy — EMT and all — but Roth reminds me of the business traveler you find yourself stuck next to at the end of a crowded Ramada Inn bar when you’re just trying to read your paper and have your beer and eat your wings and get out of there and back upstairs to the in-room movies. The guy won’t stop yammering but he never says anything. You do a lot of uh-huhing and know-whatcha-meaning and oh-reallying while the thought bubble over your head is a mix of question marks and Zs.
Roth has forgotten to talk like a real person. He peppers his speech with lines like, “I don’t care much about the finality.” And that doesn’t mean anything. He seems to know it doesn’t, for he ends a lot of unfinished thoughts swith “etcetera, etcetera.” He takes calls and then ignores the callers and starts yammering about something related perhaps in his mind. When he thinks he’s being really profound, he pauses profoundly and brings the background music up while he breaths and starts in again.
Things picked up when Roth had on his 86-year-old Uncle Manny Roth. Maybe they should give Manny a show.
OK, I know it’s unfair to judge the show before the first episode is even over but this is a train going nowhere except to a wreck.
: Later in the show, someone calls in to complain that he just keeps talking. She works in satellite radio. Roth says that apart from her and Stern, “Most satellite radio is like a radio archive.”
David, you are an archive.
: But give Viacom credit for some smarts: They’re streaming the shows online, which they should have done long ago. And buried in one of the players is even a chance to subscribe via RSS.
: Jim reviews all the Stern wannabes.
I caught part of Roth’s show during my morning commute. It was terrible. I really hope my Dallas station figures out that it’s awful and starts putting Adam Corrola’s show on instead.
I agree with you. I listened to all of the replacements and wrote-up a review also.
I think Roth is the worst of the bunch, and you hit it on the head with your summary of his show.
I spent the morning not working; I was listening to the Stern replacements on the radio. Overall the shows were not bad. Check out my review and let me know your thoughts…
http://larrison.blogspot.com/2006/01/stern-replacement-crew.html
Wow, great review Jeff. Couldn’t agree more.
I was wondering which would last longer, Benjy Bronk’s show or DLR’s Morning Zoo?
I whizzed through the program on the way to work for a few minutes. Couldn’t believe how amateurish it sounded — and they had all this time to prepare. I could just see the programming director sinking, sinking, sinking into his chair…. no, this is NOT going to work…
Corrolla, who is far more talented on the radio, wasnt much better on his first show, despite having his buddy Jimmy Kimmel right by his side for the day.
The highpoint was when they ripped Stern off and had Corrolla’s dad in the studio and asked him questions about Jimmy’s career.
I have higher hopes for Corrolla’s show since he did 10 years on Lovelines and was near genius. If only he could get a partner as good as Dr. Drew.
does anyone know if stern’s sirius show will be streamed over the internet? i live in the uk.
howard has never been one to stream his show on the web, and now that he’s Sirius’s cash cow, i doubt that that will change. however you may want to go to Sirius.com and see if they have a way that you can pay for a subscription and hear it on your computer – however im not aware of such a feature.
I don’t pay attention to the radio, but this seems like a strange choice to begin with. Who decided DLR is relevant? What bunch of over-paid “executives” made this genius decision?
Jump came out when I was in high school, and I didn’t much like Roth or the band then, but at least he was culturally relevant.
Why would I, or anyone else, care what he has to say 20 years later?
I just don’t get Jeff’s and other people’s fascination with Stern and the frequent affirmations of how “great” this guy is.
At one point, I think he was breaking new ground but that was a long time ago. Every time I’ve tuned him in, either on the radio or TV in the past 5 years, it’s been the same thing. Stern telling some bimbos how hot they are and how he’d like to do things to them that he can’t say on the air and then encouraging them to show them what they’ve got (take it off).
Am I missing something?
I can’t help but feel that people comparing Stern, Corrolla and Roth are essentially trying to pick which pile of crap smells the least. They’re all pretty lame and uninteresting.
yes mark youre missing something.
sounds like youve been watching selected E! shows and not actually, you know, listening to the radio show.
Mark:
i guess it is a matter of taste. I have listened to stern for the past 20 years. the last 2 years i have been working in london. i had been getting the daily fix via a friend who radiosharked them for me. all over. he was like a favorite relative. sometimes obnoxious and annoying but always loved.
Yes, I’d caught them on E! so maybe I’m only seeing a selection (or maybe a poor selection) of them on E! and it’s not Howards fault that E! only chose the crappy ones.
I’ve tuned in from time to time on the radio and wasn’t impressed, but it could be clouding of my judgement based on what I’ve seen on the TV. I’d pretty much tuned out Stern and haven’t been back to give him another chance after I decided that I’d had enough.
Sirius won’t stream Stern, even for it’s paying customers. Wow.
We are tens of thousands (maybe more) who will simply download or bootleg stream. Talk about lost revenu and power. Ears = ratings = power.
I want to pay for it yet Sirius treats it’s customers like the soup nazi. No stream for you!
Wonder if they remember at the end of that episode, the customer (Elaine) wins.
I — fortunately it sounds like — did not hear Roth or Corolla this morning. In fact, I haven’t heard anything on “the radio” in over three years. I listen to my audio uncensored on XM. As for Stern, his time has passed, satellite or no satellite. He was a pioneer, but his schtick faded many moons ago. XM’s Opie and Anthony (with Jim Norton) have taken over his throne and are, as Stern will quickly realize, light years ahead in the satellite race for innovative programming. That said, I hope Stern does well at Sirius, as it will spell an even quicker demise of traditional radio and puritanical FCC cowtowing.
I enjoy how Howard handles interviews with the great washed among us. He’s a guy who gets paid buckets of money yet still is a filthy human, with all the normal faults. There are few with his reach that are as real. Yes his humor is juvenile. Most is. But, like movies and primetime tv, it’s all about the personalities and he’s got a nice collection in tow.
Listening to Roth at the moment and agree with the rest that he’s a bit hard on the ears. Thick delivery with no real direction. Just when you think you’ve got an idea of what he’s talking about, he switches gears and loses the listener. And yes, the ever-present music in and out doesn’t work.
Roth reminds me of Ted Nugent. Lots of opinions but the message gets lost in the hyperbole.
Concerning satellite… why are they so hooked on selling radios? I thought the subscriptions are how they make their dime? Why not allow members to hear Stern online and why even make subscribers buy a radio in the first place. I’m sure many would be happy with just net access.
“athospaco” brings up Seinfeld, and that’s a good example here, i.e., give Roth some time to get his act up to speed. He may never be any good, but who knows. I think Seinfeld is the best TV show of all time, but IIRC even it had to be pulled off the air and “retooled”. Some of the first season episodes are painful to watch.
Well after listening for an hour or so of DLR I can say one thing for the show…
It made me want to “JUMP”!
Right off the GW Bridge…
Maybe he will last the 18 months but I seriously doubt the geniuses who hired him will…
there is no way the east coast listeners are going to be accepting of any stern replacement, no matter who they are. Viacom knows this, DLR is a patsy, or fall guy. He will stink the place up so bad, Managment will step in and say “the audiance has spoken” and “by popular demand” we are replacing DLR with Corolla. it is so obvious that corolla is the only choice for even a half way decent show. Poor Dave, love his music and his attitude, he just isnt a talk show host.
Actually, be careful what you wish for. If traditional radio were to meet its demise too quickly, the FCC would surely be more tempted to begin regulation of satellite than otherwise. Or more accurately, congress would want to keep their fingers in it by changing the law to let the FCC do just that.
i listened to the first couple hours before heading out the door today, i thought it was a decent first day for dave.
ill keep listening to it for awhile and give dave a chance.
i have to ask myself , who else could they have gotten to fill sterns shoes?
snoop dog?
for some reason i dont think ill miss howard and the seven hundredth time he will have the world farting champion on his show, breaking wind on some crack whores face. so long howard.
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I actually think that the move to satelite will be good for Howard. Not because it will allow him to get nastier, but it will assure that he doesn’t end up killing so much air time complaining about the FCC and playing the martyr.
Amazing how few people seem willing to give David Lee Roth a chance. That said, I listened to all four hours Tuesday morning, and noticed that DLR has a longtime radio personality serving as his backup and was even more surprised that he didn’t debut with anything prepared other than his long chat with Uncle Manny. You can read my full log of DLR’s first show on my blog here: http://popularthinking.blogspot.com/2006/01/david-lee-roth-first-day-liveblog-i.html
Or read my review in Wednesday’s Boston Herald here, which includes a nod to Corolla’s first day: http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=119767
Anybody else read Roth’s book, Crazy from the Heat? It’s obviously a transcription of Roth just yammering on, and it’s all over the place, and I gave up trying to separate reality from Daveworld somewhere in the middle of the 3rd paragraph, but damned if I didn’t keep turning the pages. Whether I’d actually want to listen to it for hours every day, though… Well, they won’t have to worry about dead air, that’s for sure.
I thought the DLR show was horrible – but funny enough I thought Manny was terrific. At his age, he is more interesting than DLR will ever be.
Funny enough, Manny was my landlord in the city for a number of years. He is priceless!!
I am hoping that they move Booker to the morning slot. That Radiochick also stinks and now I have nothing to listen to in the morning until my Sirius is installed this weekend. That evening slot Booker is in is bad for my drive home…I hope they move him b/c he has more talent that DLR that’s for sure.
Who had that great idea of an over the hill adequate non-relevant entertainer like DLR be the morning guy?
Who had that great idea of an over the hill adequate non-relevant entertainer like DLR be the morning guy? LOL.
david lee roth may someday soon be stepping onstage as the frontman for the biggest world tour in history, if vanhalen gets back together it would make a rolling stones tour look like the blue man group.
i wouldnt call him non-relevent. what a dumbass.
DLR = Damn Lame Radio. I hope they keep him on for a long time. With Howard I wanted to lay in bed listening to what would happen next. With Dave I’m so confused after 3 minutes because he has gone thru 10 topics without saying anything that I can’t wat to get out of bed and off to work. Dave needs to realize he is the host not the rockstar being interviewed and stick to the topic.
sorry i’m a dumbass – that’s me
i don’t think he is relevant – he doesn’t make any sense, the show is totally disjointed
he’s boring and he’s arrogant
i can’t remember the last time i brought cd’s from home to listen to during my morning drive
they must be screening those calls like crazy b/c they are all his fans
today he said he hates his boss…is his boss Tom Chiusano?
i am sure VH has tons of fans — and they’ll be huge when/if they get back together
but on air DLR is not great
again that’s coming from a dumbass
He was speaking today about Parenting. Not just speaking but preaching to people about it. Does he even have Kids???
He is an idiot; he keeps projecting himself as an expert in every field.
He Ain’t!
And what is up with the sound bits he plays?
Does he realize they are TOTAL displaced and make no sense????
yes folks it is quite sad
I’ve been waiting patiently for the DLR radio thing, and i hate to say it but i was bummed.
I was a legendary VH fan and couldn’t get enough of DLR and Eddie and the music and all that stuff.
But DLR on the radio… WOW, man, is he arrogant or what? please tell me if I’m wrong but he sounds like one of those guys we all meet that think they are the Cat’s Ass.
I really wanted to like him on radio, but sadly, i too pressed the snooze button, and then the off button.
howard surprisingly went live on sirius during a test. a caller asked if they would be streamed online. he said they were working on it. whatever that means.
i’m in cali and have listened to all of 10 minutes of adam. although, i was never a big fan of his, so i’m biased.
howard’s E shows is nothing like the radio show. i love the radio show but i can barely stand to watch the show. although! i did notice that a lot of the girls are actually not as hot as howard says on the radio. i think he just says that for the men listening.
DLR sucks. Period. I couldn’t follow where he was going or what he was trying so say. It was like being lectured by a wannabe lawyer who pretends to know what he’s talking about. Fortunatey, I got my satellite radio now, so I’ll never listen to FM radio ever again.
Brilliant synopsis of “Roth in the A.M.” Scary thing is that I can’t stop listening, and I find myself laughing aloud at how bad and corny his sayings really are.
You guys are pretty funny.
Thanks for entertaing us:)
Anna
hey,,,, you got to respect where the man came from. he’s a showman. He has alot of experience under his belt (black belt), and he’s damn proud of it. he’s also has the gift of what it takes to be a front man. thats a person who got drive, ambition and lots of pride and confidence behind it. thats exactly what we’re hearing on the radio. the experience of being the front man for one of the largest rock bands ever who we all loved back then, and still do. i couldn’t handle that position and i’m sure most of you can’t either. but come on, give the guy a break. its his first week on. it’ll take him a while to get the sound bits straight and make it right for the audience. can you imagine filling howards shoes never doing radio before?
howard started as a d.j., slowly working his way up the ladder. Diamond Dave just STARTED radio this week filling Sterns spot. a monumental task.
I say, cut him a break and let it ride for a while before being too critical.
Well, I remember years ago, when Howard first appeared, He wasnt the polished host he is now. But then again, most of you were probably still riding your big wheels , and dont remember his inaguration into talk radio.
So, give Dave a break. If he dont cut it in this gig, he can always go back to doing what he does best, singing.
Well… I’ve been listening to Howard Stern since 1997 when he saved me from a really boring campus job. Call me spoiled, but I have given DLR each morning and I must conclude that he is terrible. His show is about nothing. No themes, no development. Just thoughts coming from nowhere and developing into 3 minute bits. His voice is over the top and the commercials are his attempt to show you how smooth a voice he has. His singing during the show is completely unappealing as is his choice in songs. He calls soda “pop” and songs “tunes” and probably thinks he sounds in some way cool doing so. I’d say he is no more a radio show host than he is an EMT. He’s doing it, in my humblest of opinions, in order to add that to the list of things he can speak with authority about. He’s a know-it-all and soon he will know about radio. As was mentioned, Booker would make for a better choice.
KROCK, in general, has been going down the tubes for a few years now and I basically gave up listening to them when Howard was not on. I gave the Radiochick a chance. They were trying to decide whether faygola was a better insult than re-re (retarded retard). I may give her 5 minutes tomorrow. It’s funny that they follow that show up with yet another show featuring a group of 20-somethings who are ambiguous stoners and speak with that same disaffected tone that is common with young white people in this here city.
My alternatives are: NPR on 93.9 and WWOR on 710 AM in the morning. On my short drive home, I listen to Michael Savage on WWOR. He’s usually good enough that I turn the radio on when I get home instead of the TV.
Jeff, I couldn’t have said it better myself, I agree with BTD Greg with any luck Dallas radio will put on Adam Corrola and save its morning slot.
I got Sirius radio 2 weeks ago (only for Howard). I listened to a replay of his Tuesday on air “rehearsal” for next week’s first show. He stated that Sirius will be streaming his show online. When this will actually happen, he did not say.
In order for Dave to last at K rock more than a week he needs to immediately do 4 things. Fire the zoo-like idiots who are hysterically laughing at nothing, stop the water torture concept of turning up the music everytime there is a second of blank air time, slow down his talking and stay on one subject at a time. Until this happens, the show is completely unlistenable. DLR has the potential to be compelling. Howard proved it when Dave was a guest.
I started listening to Howard back in 1980/1981 when he was on DC101 he was 100 times better back then then DLR is now. This morning they added a woman named Robin I guess that was to make us think Robin Quivers was in the studio, maybe next week Dave will change his name to Howard.
Like I said before the only reason to listen to Dave is that it’s so bad that you want to get out of bed and turn it off as quick as possible. The watch should be not how long he lasts, but how long before Tom Chiasano is working at Sirrus with Howard.
As to a Van Halen reunion who cares they were an average band with average talent, with a way over-rated guitar player. If they get back together it will be only for the money.
If all of the Van Halen fans are as amused with Dave’s ramblings as he is the show may last into the summer, but how long can the rest of us listen to this train wreck? He’s a childless parenting expert with no regard for the facts. He confused Bill O’Reilly with Pat O’Brien and it takes his producers so long to weed out the negative phone callers that when a DLR fan finally gets through it’s three topics too late. Can a guy with a hair weave really characterize women with breast implants as shallow? He has already taken to complaining about the studio and repeated himself several times. Even his in-house fan club can’t seem to laugh at Dave for four hours. I’m sure he’ll do well with the opinionated EMT demographic.
How is it possible that high level administrators decided to replace Howard Stern, the greatest radio personality that has ever lived (Jean Shepherd runs a close second) with someone who can’t be listened to for more than a minute? Proof once again that the “Peter Principle” of administrators rising to their level of incompetence is alive and well.
roth is an arrogant know-it-all. his show is a complete mess. if he is still on in july, i’ll be shocked.
DLR’s show is starting to take shape. Give it some time and Dave will get it together. Howard wasn’t all that great his 1st week.
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ROTH RADIO is rocking the world, despite the critiquing from STERN listeners who haven’t ran out to buy Satellite. As Dave indicated well before he took a seat at CBS/Infinity, he clearly stated that his format would never be like STERN’s and he stated that there is no competing.
Let’s face it, STERN will remain “King of All Media” (DLR acknowledges this fact and highly respects Howard, like we all do.). There have been plenty of days that I’ve listened in to find that STERN did not have a guest on his show and no specific topic for discussion was prepared. Artie’s drinking binges, Wendy The Retard’s latest date or hearing the graphic detail of a stripper kissing Beetlejuice after he has digested sardines? T & A, Strippers & Drunks can be funny and interesting, but they do take their toll for morning radio and soon it becomes redundant.
I, personally, am excited to hear ROTH’s stimulating subject matters, a few good debates and an opinion by a man who, I have alot of respect for, having lived the life of a Rock Star and lived to tell you and I about his experiences behind the VH1 and MTV persona.
I don’t think we generally observe a ROCK STAR and assume he or she as having a serious opinion about life and having the desire to take on America’s most important issues. That’s the ROTH difference.
Many stereotype DLR as nothing more than an 80’s personality, famous for the spandex and living every man’s fantasy of Sex, Drugs & Rock n’ Roll.
Truth is…..ROTH has participated in it all, but, you’ll be surprised to learn that he is an avid reader, eloquent speaker, a “Mark Twain” teller of tales of his off-stage antics, as well as his humanitarian work as a Certified EMT on the Brooklyn Beat. ROTH also carries the unique coveted title of being the “Legendary” Frontman of Van Halen, perhaps the Greatest American Rock n’ Roll Band to grace stadiums and radio airwaves throughout our country and around the world. With DLR’s format style, he brings his personal experiences to the table with a raw energy and delivers with it with a smile. Topics ranging from a music and medical background to current events in the Middle East, ROTH can deliver with ease. He’s serious about taking on important issues with regards to discussing our youth’s culture in America, what is happening in our own backyard with the epidemics of drugs and asking the question: HOW DO WE RESOLVE THIS? He has a patriotic spirit, an opinion and a positive agenda….Educating one another….period.
Knowledge is power and DLR is a follower of this principal.
Talk Radio has just undergone a major metamorphosis….A New Buzz is happening and you’ve got a choice to make:
You can RUN WITH THE DEVIL or JUMP ?!
at my work, my co workers and i are furiously trying to get sirius but the reception just hasn’t come on yet; the windows are too high to reach. No i don’t work in prison although there are times i feel like it…howard is a great storyteller and i love his honesty even if i sometimes diagree. i can’t wait until monday , at least i can listen in the car and home. BUT i will not give up at work , i can’t go through work without listening to howard!
It’s not that I don’t believe he has fans out there, but I find it hard to believe that many people would argue that his first week was anything more than abysmal. He made a brief turn around today, I admit, but he has a long way to go.
“You can RUN WITH THE DEVIL or JUMP ?!”
Bernice, I imagine that damage control of this sort will be your primary task for weeks to come. Good luck. You have a large job ahead of you as there will be a fair amount of damage to control.
I agree with Bernice and Catfish. By Friday I was hooked on DLR.
I have been listening to dave in the morning, even though it is not great, it actually was refreshing diff from stern. Ill keep listening.
David Lee Roth is something else. He spent 2 shows basically bragging about what he has accomplished: speaking different languages, EMT, surfing, flight lessons etc etc etc…blah blah blah. Lets face it he is a “has been” lead singer from an aging rock group and now we are being asked to listen to him ramble about non stop nonsense. I’d rather listen to anything else on the way to work…A.M. talk, CDs..anything but this goof.
It’s amazing to me that all of you critics want to just blast Diamond Dave off the airways right off the line. Wow, how fast we are to forget the years we spend hailing this man as King! After all, this is only the first week and the show gets better each day. Give Dave a break, Do all of you blast into high gear, first day on a new job? neither have I….but as times moves on, you get better and better!!! Dave is an amazing entertainer, and source of energy! keep rockin Dave!
There is no question that DLR sucks, and I think everyone’s done a great job here elucidating the reasons why. I’d like to add another: The basic reason that he sucks is that he’s not a comedian, nor is he remotely funny. That’s what morning radio is all about–getting your day started with some fun, some entertainment, some humor. Fart jokes, trivia contests for idiotic strippers, masturbation, and interviews about celebrities’ drug use and sex lives. Howard’s show gave us humor, and that’s what we want (and no, it doesn’t get old). Moreover, Howard is obviously very intelligent. The audience respects his thoughts on subjects (even in disagreement) because he always has a compelling, cogent argument.
On the other hand, Dave’s humor is all one-liners that aren’t funny. He’ll say, “Coughing and hacking like a stripper on Sunday morning!” and then let out a rapid fire fake laugh to signal that it was supposed to be funny and his cronies join in. That’s not funny, that’s cheesy and annoying! He’s like a schmoozy door-to-door salesman; he’s trying too hard, and he is so unlikeable. Beyond his personal un-funniness, his whole concept for the show is wrong. It seems that he wants to make it a forum for callers to participate in discussions of deep subjects (which always fail to be deep). Parenting issues?!?! That’s not funny! We want fart jokes you moron, not roundtable debate of opinions from people with sub-par intelligence about dry, boring topics!
Finally, BERNICE, I also feel sorry for you, but it would appear that you come from the same group of idiots that selected DLR. If your job is to promote David Loser Roth on message boards you’d probably be more successful if you didn’t make your aim so obvious. By the way, you misspelled “principle” in your line, “Knowledge is power and DLR is a follower of this principal.” Principal is the head of a school. Don’t you just love the irony of that sentence?
Also, Bernice, in your first sentence you said, “listeners who haven’t ran out to buy Satellite.” That’s RUN out, dumbass. I got Sirius for a Christmas present, thank God! Howard’s test show was better than anything I can find on the radio anywhere. Also, satellite radio rocks for other reasons too. There are tons of shows with things you can’t find on FM and a much bigger selection of music and talk. I’m so glad to have it. I can’t wait to listen to Howard again.
…All the haters just don’t get DLR’s sense of humor. Obviously those waiting for Lesbian dial-a-date are going to be disappointed, but the show has been quite funny. Dave’s show has improved daily, and will only continue to do so. He’s intelligent, articulate, and well-versed on a variety of subjects. I’m stuck with Carolla in the mornings, and seriously– one must resist the urge to fall asleep at the wheel during the morning commute now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Stern fan as well, but you should give Dave a chance, or go buy satellite, so you can get your daily dose of fart jokes…
To Eric W. and Ms. Karla,
First of all, I appreciate today’s english lesson – shit happens when you are trying to type fast.
Secondly, I’m happy for you Ms. Karla, Santa was so generous to put Sirius your tree. Now you can listen to Howard 24/7. You’ve got a choice and that is what I was trying to convey, dumbass.
DLR does not need my promoting to convince anyone to listen in to his show. Apparently, he already proved himself with the major players at CBS/Infinity….DO YA THINK ?
I’m a huge fan of both ROTH & STERN. Their formats are completely different…Apples and Oranges….so why so disgruntled?
My advice to you both is to quietly go over to listening to “Fart” Jokes and nude girls getting slapped on their asses with lunch meat for your morning cup of java.
I will listen to DLR discuss issues that might change my life and leave me with a laugh and a smile to begin my day.
I’ll bet both of you strive for excellence in your respective job positions, but neither of you were able to achieve it in less than a week!!! To be technical about ROTH’s airtime……….4 days! Give me a break!
ROTH is just getting warmed up and will get his groove going…
My $$$$ is on ROTH, since I “choose” to listen to FM Radio. He’s clever, witty and he looks at life with the glass 1/2 full…something we need plenty more of these days!!!!!
Diamond dave is just heating up, need Hutch to work the board better, David lee has to tell him to take a caller down, bring him up, Dave needs to get some guests in the studio, dave is a great interviwer, I would love to get some musical guests in the studio, how about Alex Van halen? he is lining up Heidi fleiss to come in, the show will need a month to get its sea legs. My money is on dave, be patient.
I thought DAVE was the best of the new bunch…witty, topical and entertaining. I’m surprised by people that don’t get his humor…maybe it’s over their heads. The guy is educated and well spoken. He’s lived an exciting life and isn’t the typical isolated “Rock Star”.
And just a thought…Stern’s been on the air for decades…he was terrible when he was on in Detroit in the early 80’s. Given time DAVE will excell at this new field.
WHAT A BUNCH OF PESAMISTS GIVE IT A CHANCE, I GOT SO BORED WITH THE SAME FART, AND LESBIAN CRAP ALL THE TIME FROM STERN. I TUNE IN EVERYDAY AND FIND ROTH TO BE VERY INTERESTING AND GETTING BETTER EVERYDAY. SOME OF YOU PEOPLE SHOULD GO GET A JOB AT CBS YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT IT!
WHAT A BLAST ROTH IS STARTING TO ROLL NOW, LOVE THE SHOW!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK CBS!! STERNS HUMOR WAS GETTING OLD, NICE TO HAVE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR!!! SOME OF THE HATERS MUST HAVE HAD THERE WIVES OR GIRLFRIENDS OR DAUGHTERS FALL VICTIM TO DIAMOND DAVE!! BOTTUMS UP!
OK first things first but I am a horrible speller and it wont be long until everybody realizes the same. Having said that – I completely agree with Bernice, JB, Catfish, Kevin, Jim and Love Gun.
Yeah dick and fart jokes are funny and have their place, but Dave’s sense of humor is much more high brow. He IS funny. At least to me. And he is intelligent. His show is interesting and has gotten better and better each hour of every day. I find Dave’s sidekicks, particularly Animal, extremely funny.
I think Dave’s niche is going to be high brow humor that goes over the head of some of the Stern audience hoping for Hank the Angry Dwarf to come back from the dead (damn Hank was one funny mofo! “Go have sex with your motha!!!”) coupled with discussions about current events that falls short of the analysis of a political call in talk show.
I do not think anyone is counting on Dave to convert the Stern audience. Like Dave said – anyone that tries to replace Stern will probably only succeed at it about 20%. CBS has already kissed a large portion of this audience good-bye and I think Dave’s initial ratings will be solid enough for the suits and the accountants to buy him more time to improve and invent his own market. And he will improve – he just needs to find his groove, and after listening all week, he is well on his way to finding it.
Of course, if you don’t like Dave in the first place, and I noticed a lot of the critiques in this Blog say as much – you certainly wont like his radio show – so don’t even waste your time. But try to be fair for the man – after all he is a rock star, not a dj and he is learning a new, difficult trade in front of 7 million people.
What on earth can be wrong with David Lee Roth show?? There is no entertainer on this planet who can rival him, really… Plus he is just 100 times smarter than that Stern whom so many folks seem to regret… Why don’t they change channels and leave Dave alone? Who are these cold fish who have nothing else to do in their lives than dragging their own mediocrities along to try and soil such an exciting show?
Let those miserable moaners wallow in their stupidity, and stay away from Diamond’s Dave garden, as nobody compels them to enter it!
Has anyone taken into account that ROTH has only been on the radio for four days? I mean c’mon…did Stern get syndicated all over the country in 4 days? I think not. It takes time, energy and focus. All of which ROTH has in everything he does. The show took an upward progression as the week went on and I’m sure it will continue to climb. It is not the Howard Stern show. It is in fact..the David Lee Roth show. Political, social and economic topics… and David Lee Roth? Who woulda thunk it? Obviously, the folks at CBS radio. Keep up the good work Dave. I enjoy the show greatly.
Stern’s show is over. He is going to take his money and run as there is no way Sirius will bring in enough revenue to afford him( everyone on wall street knows it). I listen to radio all day in several different formats and Diamond Dave is clearly a natural. Retard radio is not funny or shocking anymore, appeals primarily to jerk offs, and can be copied by anyone (just listen to Carolla). Dave can always bring on lesbo’s, porn stars, and retards. Stern will never possess Dave’s intelligence or quick wit. Ralph is probably rubbing lotion on Howard’s rash as we speak.
Aaron
I’ve only got two things to say about Roth’s show:
1) It’s better than Stern
2) Give it a couple of months for it to get the groove right
And for those of you who claim they can’t understand Roth’s humor…
Do you even have a sense of humor? Or are you just dissappointed for the lack of midgets & strippers on the show?
I realize there is a loyal contingency of Stern fans out there who are dissapointed that Roth hasn’t had a retard pass gas on a stripper yet. Stop whining, charter a little yellow bus, don your helmets and make a field trip to Walmart. Satellite radio is not that expensive and Sirius, I’m sure, could use the all the help they can get to pay for the two-channel freak show they just bought.
My only complaint about Roth’s show is that it doesn’t play in Chattanooga and I have to deal with webcasts as a result.
Tell you what. Pull Dave’s show off FM and put *him* on Sirius. Let the knuckle-dragging masses have Howard back.
AAhhh the shallowness of negativity! stern will no longer be a shock jock just a stock jock now! On FREE FM he was walking a thin line being edgy! Now he’s just lulling along with the same ol’ show … selling porn on the street corner to the lower level!! I’m an open minded person who welcomes anything! Like I heard DAVE say “If you have to use the ‘F’ word you are just not wise enough to use proper language!” Something along those line but I’m sure much more eleqauntly! Oh and DAVE will never fart in his ass chaps! Yeah that’s my hero FARTMAN! LOL
DAVE is a BREATH of FRESH AIR and a positive thing for FM and I am glad he’s there! First few days where bumpy of coarse … who’s first days at workaren’t! i’ll imagine he’ll do well!
I’ve been listening four days to the roth radio extravaganza and think he is just as entertaining as one could be…for all you DLR haters, it takes three things to understand the wisdom of roth…
1) humor
2) intelligence
3) an education that goes further than the fences of the trailor parks you live in
I don’t find any of it in you reviews…
Maybe, just maybe you need an active mind to keep up with Roth’s show.
I don’t fault you for not having enough intelligence to be able to grasp and hold onto the conversation.
It would be very easy for Dave to sloooooow it down and bring on the miscreants of society to make you feel better about yourselves.
Bravo Dave!!!! Keep it coming!!!
Oh so there’s no more howard, no more dumb dick and fart jokes? Oh the ratings may have been better, but I could listen to dave all day.
I thought howard was hilarious, but Dave is by far more intelligent and in my opinion a more well rounded personality.
Love the show.
Hi Natra,
I’m surprised that you would refer to Roth’s show as a “radio extravaganza.” Do you listen to much talk radio? Wouldn’t you say that the show is a bit simplistic and disjointed? I listened to Roth each day too. Each time it was just him taking calls on wandering topics.
Many of these last posters have referred to the “high brow” nature of Roth’s humor, and have implied that Stern fans simply don’t understand it due to their lack of intelligence or education. Come on now. First, the critiques in this thread are logical and articulate. Second, are you trying to say that Roth is an intellectual? I think that this is a bold claim, and I would love to hear you elaborate on it.
I’d also like to know what people think about my earlier comments regarding Roth’s constant one liners.
To respond to Jerome’s comments, which I would paraphrase as “if you don’t like it then don’t listen,” I agree. I gave it a try and I’ll be changing to Sirius. I still, though, like to post my thoughts and critique.
Eric_W… You sound like you are a smart guy, who can probably carry his own in a conversation. I’m confused…why would someone of your intelligence be stimulated five mornings a week by fart jokes and dizzy porn stars. And why would you, or anyone else take pleasure in corrrecting another persons spelling. Is your opinion of yourself that low that you need to find fault with others. I’m sure that must give you some satisfaction, since your boss or someone close to you must put you down on a regular basis.
Yes, I do like David Lee, not because I think his morning show is breaking any new ground, but because I respect a man who when he was sick taught himself spanish, for adventure learned how to become a EMT, and for shits and giggles he learned how to fly a chopper. So,Eric_W, what the hell have you done to make yourself any better or contribute to society. Besides hearing a new fart joke to tell your friends….yeah your real stimulating you jerk-off.
Dave isn’t so much funny as he is fun. I had fun when I listened to Dave this week.
I heard him say that he is really good at lifting people.
He’s got THAT right!
R Rob,
I corrected the grammar because Bernice’s statement about knowledge was ironic when you consider the error. Bernice said “Knowledge is power and DLR is a follower of this principal.” Do you get the irony?
It’s really pointless to ask me to compare my accomplishments to those of David Lee Roth, as though it would make any difference to my critique of his RADIO PERFORMANCE. If I had done greater things in my life than he has, would my critique be any more or less valid?
Give David Lee Roth a chance people,he has only been on a week.Rome wasn’t built in a day,so come Monday put that morning show on and Roth with me baby.
Roth will deliver, always has always will
Van Halen was only an average band with an over rated guitarist, did you just come out of a comma yesterday ?
Eric_W
Your right, your critique would be no more or less valid. As far as I’m concerned, most critics are those who never got in the game.
and yes, I got the irony..nice exchanging jabs with you…
I have a gut feeling Daves show will be very successful. I’ve been a long time Howard listener and wish him the very best but i have to say the whole change had a nice fresh feel about it. I wasn’t expecting it but it started to become addictive by the end of the week.
I pasted this because I’m lazy.
Defending Roth?
What’s there to defend?
He’s not the real king of media. He’s not a talk radio veteran. He’s a Rock And Roll Icon with the gift of gab and a brand new fucking gig.
If anything, the world that’s spinning beneath our feet is saturated with MEDIA…..I mean like saturated and jaded.
It’s a fucking joke….I’ve read enough critical diatribes’ on this deal to make Jim Goad’s proof reader dizzy. Did Howard Stern have to deal with this level of hype and sensationalism when he was trying out the training wheels?
No.
Did Howard Stern’s style and schtick that mesmerizes’ the millions and millions of lowbrow afficiandos’ evolve over the course of two fucking days?
No.
Will Dave Roth be as popular a radio host as Howard Stern?
I don’t know.
I know this much:
David Lee Roth was stomping around the whole fucking planet, and OWNING it long before the era of mass media. He has NOTHING to prove to ANYONE.
*NEWS FLASH*
David Lee Roth doesn’t give a flying fuck what anyone thinks…..never has. He wouldn’t give a flying fuck if Howard Stern signed a contract with No fucking Doubt to be their new front thing. You know, Stern would be stepping into a gig belying his field of expertise!
Would Howard Stern do such a thing….like, as a SERIOUS endeavor?
No.
The parallelium is there folks. Eat it and Fucking Smile.
You’re the man Dave. Take that fucking radio show to Vegas and play a Casino.
OOPS!
That might just be on the docket.
Rotharmy.com
well, I checked out Dave’s show a few times this week and I liked it. I applaud his efforts, and respect his constant need for change and learning new things.
He will eventually find his groove and when he does, he will SMOKE!!!
The Mighty Diamond David Lee Roth doing radio…
WOW!!! Where does one even begin?
Here’s a man who’s accomplished everything in life and by his own rules. Let’s see he fronted one of THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BANDS OF ALL TIME. Look at what happened to them after he left? lmao
He’s written a best selling autobiography, traveled the world all whilst doing things most of us can only dream of. He can fly a helecopter and in his spare time became an Emergency Medical Technician and did the latter as volunteer work.
I say the naysayers are all probably just jealous and fat.
Although I don’t get his show in Salt Lake City, UT. I listen to what’s available on the net and the guy has talent for this whether anyone wants to admit it or not. Heck, think of the radio experience that he’s gathered over the years by just doing interviews? He’s a natural.
Yes, he’s no friggin’ Howard Stern and praise da lawwwd. One can only listen to a shock-jock asking a chesty broad to remove her bra in the studio so many times and still claim originality.
It’s only been one week folks and Dave’s doing a stellar job.
Eat Us And Smile.
No, I’ve been rooming in a semi-colon.
Yourself?
[quote]Van Halen was only an average band with an over rated guitarist[/quote]
Whatever person wrote this ’tis probably correct. ONLY cos the Van Halen name was tarnished once Dave said “laaaate.”
This is funny yappin’ with yayhoos who are slammin’ a dude (who they know NOTHING about) after his first week as a rook to radio. rotflmao
What have you all accomplished besides the perfection of whining?
where to begin indeed. who the f*** would come out and say “david lee roth has been owning the planet for 20 years” or “he’s the most accomplished entertainer in the HISTORY of music” …. WHAT??? HUH??? let’s see… when was the last time david lee roth played madison square garden? the santa monica civic center? was a guest on the tonight show?? how many times since march of 1985 has he done such things? oh you mean the sam and dave novelty tour.. oh yeah that’s right.. VAN HALEN related. what happened to van halen after david lee roth left. oh yeah a REAL downward slide.. they had their first number one album and single… in fact a string of them. sold tens of millions of albums. did some million audience tours and became a fantastically successful band. they opened the MTV awards in 1992 playing one of the top selling songs that year… by then david lee roth, and don’t get me wrong.. i DO think the band during his tenure with them was better than it was after he was gone.., but dave was no longer an in demand celebrity and was already C and D list by then. his skills as a singer were well in decline by the time he had left van halen.. and let’s remember WHY he left van halen. to do a 25,000,000 dollar budgeted film about some dynamic character he would play. the money fell through… he destroyed his relationship with VH because his ego expected them to tag along as sidemen to this bold new project. this has to have been the worst blunder any entertainment figure has every made in recent pop music history!!! i could go on about this… but hagar a less charismatic and entertaining singer.. but a BETTER singer was able to help that band reach the top ten of the pop charts consistently for a decade. it’s just the way things turned out and not much more can be said.
i have no hatred for dave.. great guy.. fun raconteur… does challenging and exciting things… but let’s be real here.. new york city has many EMT’s and america has many helicopter pilots… there are many men on this earth who have climbed mt. everest and perhaps a dozen guys who have actually walked on the moon… being entertaining on tv and radio and being the sort of person who might make a fun GUEST on tv and radio are not the same thing and while we can’t make judgements from Roth’s first week that are final, let us say this. to claim that David Lee Roth will DOMINATE the radio field in any significant way over adam carolla, mancow, imus or even the f****g GREASEMAN is absurd. Roth’s fast talkin’ rap came off far better and more incisively in 1980 and 1981 when he used to be a guest on rockline with bob coburn. those shows were done by radio professionals who knew how to produce, program, prerecord, and edit content into the shows to make them complete. put in the HOURS of work required to produce every hour of tv or radio. i honestly don’t think roth is going to do this.. he will become a slave to his producers and he will indeed fade into the mass of hundreds of morning zoo guys and shock jocks as the corporate media consolidation continues.
as for stern.. i have my problems with his self description… an equal opportunity insulter who is just the most purely honest font of comic truth on earth who strikes fear into the heart of hypocrites… IN HIS DREAMS… stern is a first rate ballbuster and verbal ass kicker extraordinaire. his symbols are drunken dwarfs, troubled giggling black women, and doofy italians, irish, and jewish working class white “ethnics” from the urban northeast… and he uses these symbols to do everything from low humor to, when he’s not being a complete loafing on his ass layabout which is about 85 percent of the time since 1994, he can do some clever stuff and make some significant commentary about the illusions of post WWII America. problem is we no longer live in post WWII america… no.. 20 year old strippers CAN’T name the Beatles or know who Ed Sullivan is or maybe have never had a glass of Tang(Poon or Grape!). yeah he speaks fearlessly.. but he speaks MOST fearlessly about black men be they HIV positive basketball millionaires, station janitors, mistreated retarded midgets, drug addicts, undereducated rappers, crack whores, stressed out comedians, or the SSI receiving mentally ill disabled underclass as a whole. snoop dogg and his b****s and all those thugs living the high life off of their suspected ill gotten gains are the running joke that animates WEEKS of stern’s show… BUT mention john gotti jr, victoria gotti or al d’amato doing the same thing (or beloved governor pataki’s nursing home fraud where the state paid for a nursing home almost exclusively used by his father) and howard begs off with an under the breath chuckle. yeah… some equal opportunity humor is more equal opportunity than others. the strippers and t** baring girlies are howard’s way of staying a naughty little boy to his core blue collar and working class workplace audience. in the old days of the 80s he sold brother copiers, northville gas, car cash, 1 800 mattress, fidelity diamonds and snapple fruit drinks… that was his common denominator and why he worked in parts of the country he wasn’t expected to succeed in. sure he was a lower middle class jewish guy from new york with a smart alecky sense of humor.. but he his politics hewed towards the right working class reagan democrat or suburban republican politics of the kind shared by the ramones or kinison or any of the other soul mates Stern found along the way. Notice the regulars for whom stern reserved his greatest derision or damning familiarity.. belzer, seinfeld, lewis, brenner, gottfried, paul reiser… all jewish comics born in the 50s who hewed toward a rather tepid politically correct liberalism… all of them fell away in the years after 1993, howard’s peak… he was about to become big time JUST LIKE they all did in their own ways… he was going to do movies and big guest stars were finally going to ignore their agents and go on howard ANYWAY! but it didn’t happen.. for whatever reason… stern’s self described too much censorship argument or he just got old… stern’s humor relied more heavily on crude sexism and racism to carry it through. stern told us that the reason daniel carver ended up with more prime radio airtime than anybody this side of regis philbin is because howard was SO clever that he was putting that fool on to just LAUGH at how silly this old time genocidal racist ideologue was being. stern believed his ability to distance himself and the message of his show from this ranting racist SO heavily that he literally believed his own hype.. despite a show which supported every republican leader in the state of new york… which praised rudy giuliani at the height of his personal scandals pre 9/11… in which every serious discussion was turned over into a “who cares… focus on going to work and making money and don’t worry ’bout the pointy headed stuff” message that republicans had honed to a fine point by 2004… and so stern figured he could turn on a dime and have his audience do the same just like flipping a switch. stern’s credibility was so low by the time of the election that he ended up inspiring a significant number of his listenership to vote for Bush and turn on him until he turned away the politics. the last phase of his broadcast show because a series of rants against the powers that be. powers he had spent his entire career kowtowing to and supporting.. massive consolidation of media entities.. passed in 1996… good news when mel karamazin took his infinity group into viacom but BAD news when clearchannel fired stern from 12 stations(note stern’s assension 1 year before when clearchannel banned the dixie chix from their stations for speaking out against bush). stern was shocked by the general tone towards him on his message board and in the post election results.
then he signed up to SIRIUS and just played that FCC card until it ran out december 16.
and so my friends.. stern starts tomorrow and will be in his own learning curve. OR he may have called it accurately and he might hit the air running and do a show that is as varied and multitargeted as the work he was doing 1985 to 1993… and if he can do that for 5 years… then he might just whoop some real ass on these guys.
listen… the game is not whether dave is so brilliant.. stern is so stupid… stern fans are knuckle draggin’ retard haters… BS. there is only ONE question… are american men 18 to 34 or 50 the most important, significant, manipulable and profitable market demographic in the united states consumer and economic market? yes or no? if no.. then older people.. women… teens and immigrants are as or more significant and any shows that appeal to this variety of groups will do very well and make people lots of money no matter who they are. if YES, however… then one reality exists today. THOSE YOUNG MEN are getting their entertainment NOT at the movies or on the TV or in the magazines.. they are getting it from the internet, the gaming console or from niche products like the ipod, cell phones, pda’s and the niche narrowcasting technologies like the satellite radio perhaps. can THESE YOUNG MEN be kept watching tv and listening to am/fm radio by adam carolla, david lee roth… that guy who used to be in van halen MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO and has since then done a handful of albums and become a figure of memories of summers long long ago?, the radio chick, mancow?? OR will stern and Xbox360 and iPod take them into a new realm offering them MORE if not absolute choice over what they buy and the virtual universes they consume it in. THAT’s it… Roth could be on the radio 100 years.. but if 20% or whatever of those young men 18 – 54 bleed off into poof.. the ether… then it doesn’t matter WHAT the guy says or how many pop songs he wheezes along with between his lame bits. it’s all going out the door. love him hate him.. admire him .. be pleasantly surprised by him. Roth is here to PREVENT bleedoff of 18 – 54 men… and damnit i DON’T think he can do it 914 536 3158 perambulations2004@hotmail.com
JAGOFF, Van Halen was never meant for singles in charts… before DLR quit the band. If you judge artists by the record sale amounts, then you must be a Bon Jovi fan, among others. Why not?
Yet, is talent necessarily to be measured after packs of bucks collected? Other groups sold about as many records as VH in the end of the 70s/early 80s, or had number one singles at that time, but what remains of their works? Van Halen’s recordings with Dave holding the microphone are timeless stuff, as Hendrix’s or Led Zeppelin’s in their way.
So, maybe Van Hagar hit the charts a couple of times with sickeningly soft, cautious, middle-of-the-road songs that were totally unworthy of the bold, incredibly skillful, inventive, humorous, outstanding feats of the early days.
As for Dave on air, the point may not be for his show to smash others: he’s just doing it his own unique way – so comparing him to established speakers is meaningless, unless you have been convinced that uniformity should rule in every field, as we are slowly heading for -, and if not everybody gets it, then I can see no problem at all… those who don’t just have to switch to other stations, Stern’s for instance. Humour is something that you cannot force… Let me just quote a famous and very controversial French humorist, late Pierre Desproges: “Can you laugh about everything? I’ll answer ‘yes’ without any hesitation. Yes, you can laugh about everything. But not with everybody.”
So let Stern carry on below the belt, and let Dave be Diamond.
Detox, it’s a Bust.
I agree on all points! I was giving DLR a chance untill I hooked up my “ahah”.I am a fan of Howard’s for many years and I loved DLR and saw him many times live…in the 80’s,I would never compare the two.DLR is capable of saying funny things,not for 4 hours a day.The cheesey “Quiet Storm” music breaks are distracting and the phone calls are from anywhere but where Stern ruled.His uncle needs a show,Tom Chiasano must have stomach cramps.Why is he singing along to songs?I am embarrassed they couldnt even get him a B or C list guest for his first show?Wow…love my new sattelite radio,hooked it up last night!I am never going back!!
That’s trailer, you imbecile. T-R-A-I-L-E-R. Ah, the irony…put the stones down until you move out of your glass house.
R Rob,
Nice jabbing with you too.
Gee, Dave’s doin great as far as I can see……..he is , afterall….an entertainer…….and will do just fine, give the guy a break will ya
DLR’s show is a horrible, unlistenable, putrid, train wreck. I couldn’t get Sirius installed quick enough! Yes I bought it to listen Howard, but I also found a wide range of shows. It’s great!
Rusty…You “effen” ROCK! I’m speechless and agree with you 200%.
Looking forward w/much anticipation to ROTH’s broadcast on Monday (1/9/06) and I won’t be surprised if ROTH gets STERN on the air to congratulate him…but that would happen because ROTH is a CLASS ACT!!!
Class act! Class act! More like class clown. The show on a national basis is a joke. Well half a nation. DLR is a low to middle of the road regional show. Hopefully our local Dallas station will yank his ass ASAP. The mid-day, afternoon and night shows are great. DLR sucks.
It pains me to say that as a life-long DLR Van Halen fan. Being the front man of the greatest rock band does not make you a radio host. Sad but TRUE!
Hugo – Did it ever occur to you that maybe Natra’s first language is not English? In fact I know the man and he is from Europe in a country where English is not spoken primarily. He is certainly not an imbecile. And to discredit someone for misspelling a word on a message board anyway without saying anything about the substance of their post makes you appear less than intelligent.
Bernice, you are a lousy shill. Who do you think you’re fooling?
DLR reminds me of Chevy Chase, a star in the 80’s who couldn’t make a transition to today’s media. I’m actually embarrassed for him.
Howard’s audio test on sirius last week was better than anything on DLR.
Welp, where to begin?
Long winded diatribes about the incredibly complex history of talk radio?
Cuntplaints’ about typographical errors’?
Sophmoric, beaten-to-death cliches’ regarding David Lee Roth?
I’d rather wax every blade of grass on a St. Augustine sod farm.
Opinionated, negative rhetoric regarding Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky taking over a fucking radio show is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s fucking mind numbing. It’s not Ted Nugent….it’s not Michael Stipe. It’s David Lee Roth. I’m cuntinually amazed by the shallow, stereotypical perceptions regarding him.
He’s been on the air four days.
Now everybody go outside and look at the trees, buildings, hookers, or whatever the fuck it is you have to look at. Take a deep breath…..
fhs,
Funny, your foreign friend had no trouble with extravaganza. As for my ridiculing his spelling, it was done in the context of pointing out how silly one looks when criticizing the education level of those with whom one disagrees, and misspelling simple words while doing so.
As for the substance of his post, anyone who thinks DLR is spewing wisdom on that execrable dreck they pompously call Roth Radio clearly has a low threshold for profundity. His opinion is undoubtedly colored by a nostalgic loyalty to a cheesy 80s schlock-rock band, a bias likely held by all the DLR Show defenders here. FWIW, I have no allegiance to the Stern show, as it grew stale years ago. I just know dog shit when I smell it, and Roth has no business being on the air.
profundity, huh? good post! I disagree but it made me laugh!
I turned the show on a few days after it started. Within 30 seconds, I heard Roth say “irregardless.” I turned it off. Enough said.
This morning on Howard they played an old tape of DLR being interviewed by NED some guy who works w/ Bubba the Love Sponge — DLR had the same cliches that he uses on his show now…something about Purple Mountain Majesties…
This was from some interview when he was touring, so that must be from a while ago –
I also don’t like the fact that when a caller was on this morning talking about Queen, and “Truth in Advertising” and hung on him since he didn’t have the same opinion as DLR. I found this a bit weird but it seems like all the callers are huge fans…
I listened for a week, hoping to find something good about the show — all he kept on talking about was VH and the past. BORING — Oh well, I tried to listen.
Got my Sirius set up and I’m part of the Revolution…
This morning on Howard they played an old tape of DLR being interviewed by NED some guy who works w/ Bubba the Love Sponge — DLR had the same cliches that he uses on his show now…something about Purple Mountain Majesties…
This was from some interview when he was touring, so that must be from a while ago –
I also don’t like the fact that when a caller was on this morning talking about Queen, and “Truth in Advertising” and hung on him since he didn’t have the same opinion as DLR. I found this a bit weird but it seems like all the callers are huge fans…
I listened for a week, hoping to find something good about the show — all he kept on talking about was VH and the past. BORING — Oh well, I tried to listen.
Got my Sirius set up and I’m part of the Revolution…
All these people who say DLR needs a chance and has to warm up, tell me this, do doctors get a chance to warm up when they first start? NO. If you are hired to do something you are expected to do it right from the get go.
Also, HS is not all FART jokes, I’m tired of people saying “go get your fart jokes at the HS show”. I don’tt hink you’ve ever listened to his show if this is all you can say.
Now that GeorgeTakai from Star Trek has joined Howard, while DLR get someone named George for his show since he has a Robin to laugh at his bad jokes.
Tom (Chiusano),make Artie a better offer ,DLR will destroy your advertising rate !
Please everyone calm down, and stop trying to impress us with your intelligence.
Stern is not just about low-brow humor.
DLR will do just fine.
The two can co-exist, you do not have to choose sides.
Relax
Read some of these lame replies. One from Mark says that Eddie was a way-overrated guitar player. It’s legit to badmouth Roth, since ANY singer would have made VH great, but don’t discredit the best guitar player in rock history. Mark must be an expert on the organ (his own).
It’d be one thing if Roth said “OK I’m gonna do a show that is going to pick up where stern left off and you are going to think he never left.” If that was the case I’d say he failed miserably.
However,
He said he was going to do a show that was totally different: Now who can argue w/ that, I’d say his show is different that stern’s its not as lively but give it some time. Also a guest wouldn’t hurt either
5150 – If you think Eddie Van Halen is a great guitar player than you must be tone deaf, and a big fan of 80’s schlock rock bands. Best guitar player in rock history I think NOT, maybe he’s in the top 100 but near the bottom of that list. DLR’s persona made the band a hit not VH.
After a week of intermittently being subjected to ‘Roth Radio’, I have a sudden newfound empathy and sympathy for Eddie Van Halen and rest of the band.
For years we were led to believe that it was Dave who left the band and we scratched our heads as to why VH replaced him and let the music and legacy of the band suffer. And why there’s never been a reuniting? But now we know, now we pitifully know.
It must have been a living hell having to be trapped on a tour bus with this guy day in and day out for 5 years. Can you imagine driving through Des Moines for the tenth time and this ADD moron pipes up about “makin good vibes” or “this time I went to Figi” at 7am while you have a hang over? You just want to hit him and scream ‘Shut the fuck up!’ At least we can shut off our radios but they couldn’t. POW’s have had it easier, those guys deserve purple hearts for bravery and courage for having to endure that egotistical scatological fool for so long.
Granted the music was better but now we understand it wasn’t worth it. Please Eddie, Alex, Michael…except our apologies and for god sakes somebody please replace this fool with Adam Corolla pronto.
THE FIRST DAY WAS PRETTY BAD, BUT I THINK HE HAS GOTTEN BETTER EVERY DAY. IN FACT I ACTUALLY LOOK FORWARD TO LISTENING TO HIS SHOW. I SWITCH OVER FROM MY LOCAL SPORTS STATION (1310) MORE AND MORE TO LISTEN TO ROTH.
I THINK HE IS FUNNY AND I LIKE THAT HE DOES NOT DO A STERN IMPRESSION FOR 4 HOURS LIKE SO MANY OTHER DJS, SUCH AS RUSS MARTIN. I THINK THE SHOW WILL BE A SUCCESS.
Plain and simple, David Lee Roth SUCKS. Can this show be anymore
boring? David Lee Roth put out some great music with V.H., but in concert he sucked. He would talk on and on about nothing instead of playing music. During a 3 hour show David Lee Roth’s V.H. would play about 10 songs. When he toured with Hagar, it was joke, even Sammy had to leave that tour. The band hates him, Hagar hates him, Stern fans hate him, and soon all of you will hate him too.
It’s funny how so many people with important lives to lead, have enough time to slam Dave. And that’s what DLR want’s…whether they’re hating ya or lovin ya – at least their talkin bout ya. Don’t listen if ya don’t want, but I’ll bet anyone that Dave will have a show as long as he wants to get up at 4am.
Yep, he’s irreverent, he’s intelligent, he’s incisive, he’s led an incredibly interesting life which has given him a wealth of personal experience to draw from, and he clearly isn’t worried about gaining anyone’s approval. He handles criticism with great aplomb, and he’s not afraid to tell anyone to take a flying leap – even his own sycophantic megafans, who call in just to blow smoke up his ass. This is stuff I respect.
And yep, he’s arrogant, he’s repetitive, he’s unfocused enough to be the Ritalin poster boy, he’s surrounded by cronies who have apparently been trained to laugh on cue at his tiresome one-liners, and he’s still not over the Sammy Hagar thing. This is stuff I can do without.
I’ll keep listening. Stern is a tough act to follow, and the chances are very good that Roth is simply the fall guy, brought on to take the inevitable hit. Wouldn’t surprise me; it happens all the time – but there’s only one way to find out.
I am not a fan of Roth or the VH legacy so many listeners still seem to hail to. I am embarrassed for him. Forget his arrogant, self-absorbed, autonomous rap, the man might as well put on the clown suit now. Just get it over with man. I expected his delivery and pressence to be cheap and sad, but I did not expect him to be so completely out of touch with current pop culture stream. The show is the most painful thing I have ever put myself through (willingly). I guess I am a masochist. The feelings Roth’s show brings to surface are identical to the feelings I have if I watch QVC Home Shopping Network; utter and complete contempt. I feel like…it would bring great joy and satisfaction into my life, if one of Roth’s sidekicks would slam the microphone into Roth’s mouth! I don’t like feeling this way. I would not be surprised if some wack-job in that city (NYC) attempts to snuff him out.
The show is so bad.
I can not even believe the response that David, Howard and Adam are the SAME?? And that all Howard does is tell women to take their tops off. ??!?!? Clearly you are only catching clips here and there. And if it is of no interest to you as you say…..then WHY WHY WHY are you writing about it? Discussion of people like YOU is what Howard is about. People that are afraid to be honest with themselves and who’s narrow mindedness will condem them to live forever on the back of the band wagon heading down the road of tunnel vision with the rest of the idiots. Good luck to you and your boring life. You clearly have missed the point. Keep tuned in to David Lee Roth….you two seem perfect for eachother. Afraid.
DLR is shockingly bad. Who auditioned him anyway? Colin Quinn had a late night cable show a little while back called Tough Crowd that had a bunch of comics sitting around talking. It was really funny, THAT is a show that might work here.
What is the over/under on DLR staying on the air? Wanna bet he’s off by Memorial Weekend (May).
a friend from NYC sent me a copy of Roth’s show…I am a HUGE Howard Stern fan and now only listen to Sirius but I was curious as to hwo Roth would do….one word : HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!
I imagine listeners are leaving in droves!!! what a bomb…what a disaster..I loved Roth in Van Halen and think he is one of the greatest frontmen in rock history but as a radio host HE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
Roth has continually been better and better each day.
He is the new Bill Maher of radio and look forward to hearing his show every day.
I think he will do fine. Stern is having fun too. It’s Roth all day from the podcast and Stern Replay at night. Best of Both Worlds.
you’re all wrong.. DLR will outlast Howard. what everyone forgets is that satelite radio is going to come and go like 8-tracks with a shelf-life of about 4 or 5 years.
I’m trying to sit through another DLR lecture. He’s railing against junk food for Christ’s sake. I don’t miss the dick jokes but I do miss a well informed, knowledgeable host who doesn’t speak down to his audience…you follow?
Howard, Robin and Fred knew about the topics they were covering, be it Middle East politics or Kate Moss. The DLR crew starts with a story on Pam Anderson but they don’t know if she’s a vegan or omnivorous and the story goes nowhere. His rants are so filled with “something or other” and “whatnot” that they are about as relevant as the review of the Cream reunion…from November. But I guess the real reason to talk about any topic on Roth Radio is to bring it back to a Dave story. All roads lead to the dead end that is Dave and as far as he is concerned no topic is more interesting than Dave. This show is never serious or funny or informative and maybe there is an audience for that whatnot.
really crappy show,,there was no bigger vh fan in 1980S then me(or so i thought)so i loved dave,,all the guys i knew were musicians so eddie,,steve vai,,billy sheehan,,were our gods,,but dave wont candidly talk about vh or his personal life in general,,its seems as though there is a constant need for laughing and approval from each other instead of just talking and being natural..its pretty damn hokey
Give the guy a break, he is a rock and roll icon! admire him for trying something different (especially with the beating he has taken from the public over the years) One thing for sure…none of you got ask to replace Howard!!
Satellite radio is awesome.Its nothing like radio FM/AM does not even come close. Why are any of you wasting your time on FM/AM to keep 12.95 a month? If you got either XM or Sirius you’ve got an incredible value in your hands.If you dont listen to the radio now and dont feel the money is worth it you will be a radio listener after you get a load of the content on satellite.FM/AM is’nt going any where it will always be there but you wont listen.
If you can’t afford it your a loser and deserve to listen to Old fashioned radio and DLR.Plain and simple.
Mark – As an experienced guitar player I can attest that I am not tone deaf. Yes, I am a fan of early rock and most bands did not survive the 80s. A few did. VH survived on the strength of their TALENT. After Roth left, Sammy came in and the band reached even loftier heights, scoring 6 more multi-platinum albums. And VH did a tour last year after many years in limbo where they sold out every large arena they were booked in (with Sammy, not Roth). Large arenas had to add more shows to meet the demand. People came to see EDDIE – the best living guitarist of all time. If I am tone deaf, then so are millions of others and most credible ratings like Billboard which continually rank Eddie No. 1 or at least in the top 5 all time. Many rank Hendrix higher but you would be hard pressed to hear him play live today. If you are an X-generation Dave Matthews fan, or are fond of elevator music, then I understand why do just don’t get it.
Sorry 5150 I grew up on 60’s and 70’s rock and no matter what you think VH is not the best, just got a lot of good hype in the MTV days. I listen to jazz music today I wouldn’t know a Dave Matthews song if I heard it.
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DLR show is insipid and is unbearable to liten to. First of all why does he have several nitwits in the background that laugh at every other sentence that he says on queue. I want to reach through the radio and strangle them. He could replace them with a laugh track and it would be more entertaining. This and the music constantly playing in the background reminds me of the z morning zoo. Roth said his show would be completley different than Stern’s, he would be better served to copy Stern rather than the z morning zoo. Dave mentions a topic and takes calls on it but the conversation never goes anywhere. The most interesting thing about Dave was that he was in VanHalen and he was a rock star but he never talks about that or himself unless he’s bragging.
I guess I shouldn’t be but remain slightly stunned the numbers defending dlr. Mostly those claiming his “humor” is “highbrow”, and how “intelligent” and “articulate” he is. He would be all those things if “roth radio” were a bunch of 10th graders sitting around discussing “important issues” for fours hours every morning before school. Sadly if he does ‘become successful’ it will affirm my sneaking suspicion that this country is over. Howard is a genius. David lee Roth is a boor.(sp:))
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Really Nad recent DLR review. Poor Bastard. Hate to see him goe out like this.
http://www.earvolution.com/2006/01/sirius-satellite-and-xm-radios-newest.asp
Roth Radio show is a slow cruel death. I feel sorry for th guy too.
can’t get the show here in LA, is he at least playing vintage live VH going into the breaks
No.. he is playing jazz and urban stuff.. no format to the show.. weirdand hard to listen to. Just bought Sirius and very happy I did. Listening to Howard reminds me what a radio pro is.
The show just plain sucks.. tried it for a week. Killed me
Sad, just sad.
dude should be making prank calls to Eddie on the air or be calling Val and trying to hook with her, that would be good radio.
The Adam C. show is know better out here either, his voice and delivery makes you think that the target audience should fa……..gs
Howard said today that DLR is having alot of problems with the suits at Infinity. Do I smell the beginning of the end or a repeat of the EVH cold war, only with Infinity. DLR does not seem to play well with others.
Howard aws really going off on Roth today. Seems that people from the station are still tight with Howard and giving him the inside dish. If Roth did not play well before.. who knows now after Howard went off on him with the inside info. I m going to give a listen on Monday to see if a good old radio war evolves. I don’t see Roth in radio too long. Loved him in VH, still do.
Jazz music, eh Mark. Gee. Wow. Plenty of hard rock guitar listening there.
Dave’s getting better – sure there are some slow spots, but he needs to work out the content. Remember, Howard’s first shows were a train wreck – he even jokes about it in his movie. I think Dave will come around.
Tried listening again Friday. This guy does not let anyone get a thought completed or get a word out of their mouth. His interviews and questions to listeners or guests sound more like an interrogation. By the time he comes around everone will have found another radio station or go to Satelite.
Come around to what?? The dude is unlikeable unfunny and superultamega ANNOYING. Oh and he’s and A hole too.
I’ve finally had it. DLR just sits there and interviews himself all day long. He is starting to tell stories he already shared with us the first two weeks, and they weren’t interesting the first time I heard them. I can’t take it. I’m going to satelite. Good-bye free radio.
David Lee Roth is so so bad. I am listening to CDs on the way to work. I guess I will pay to see Howard. It is very lonely and I have a 90 minute drive to work.
david leroth is a punk and i kick his ass he come down here
I don’t really care what anyone says, good, bad, or indifferent. I, for one, am enjoying the Roth show to the fullest. Admittedly, this is a dream come true for me, as I’ve been a huge fan for a lot of years, so maybe there is a small hint of bias on my part. I’m not saying I didn’t like Howard, but I grew tired of hearing about farting, his ratings, and breast implants. It was time for him to take that act up the road and let someone else take a swing. I get a different topic each day, from politics, to music, to pop culture, and Dave’s ability to skewer with a sense of humor is second to none. The first day, fine, he may not have involved his cast of characters enough, but he has made remarkable strides since that time. I’m hoping his run on radio is long and distinguished.
Shhh, don’t look up there.. a crazy person is in the room.
Is it my imagination or does his sister sound exactly like his side kick Robin?
Luckily I only have to suffer for 5-10 minutes in the morning.
I’ve been listening to DLR since day one. The show started out really rough but he is starting to sound more comfortable on the air now. I don’t think he’ll be on the air this time next year though. He does come off as a know-it-all which grates on my nerves. His chatter is all over the place. He’ll start to discuss something interesting and then goes off on these tangents that are completely mindless. Maybe it’s ADD. Who cares. Thank God I got an ipod an the car kit for Christmas.
Ultimately, I don’t blame DLR for the poor show. I blame the mgmt at Infinity for not getting a more seasoned professional who is willing to prepare for the show the way Howard, Robin et al did.
After trying to listen to this show (on and off) for over a month now I have come to the conclusion that I will never really know who DLR truly is. Not even his sister can put him at ease enough to draw it out. There is no fun, no intrigue, no character or staff develoment or significant involvement of others to make plots… The show is like a bad relationship… eventually you really don’t hear or care to hear what someone has to say. It may be FREE FM but I guess you get what you pay (or don’t) pay for. I will be buyng Sirius this weekend. How will I do it??? I don’t have to drink a 4 dollar a day Latte from Starbucks… EVERYDAY… its that simple to make up $13.00 a month. Sorry DLR…Stick to music before its too late and too much damage is done.
Doug,
In response to you, as well as to most of the intellectuals that have provided nuggets of wisdom on this blog, I would say that if you want to get to know where DRL is coming from, if you really want to “get to know who he truely is”, then read his book, “Crazy From The Heat”. Most people who give the guy 5 minutes and dismiss him as some loud mouth know-it-all would not take the time to read his autobiography, but for those who do, they would figure out pretty quickly what his influences are, and what has developed his personality and career. For instance, it would explain why it is that he is not playing classic Van Halen music, or other hard rock samples, on his show. Hard rock is not even his favorite type of music, or his main influence. He enjoys “house”, or MoTown, or frankly, disco, before he pulls out a hard rock record, which explains the background music you hear on the show. But to most of the contributors of genius-laiden prose found here, it’s not going to make one iota of difference what he does. He could play classic VH background music, and he’d be lambasted for having the gall and ego to play his own music. The fact is, to most of you, he’s not Howard Stern, and thus he can’t possibly have anything meaningful to contribute. In fact, no one can.
Doug,
What an intellectual you must be.
Fuck you!
let’s try it once again…pick up the phone and call eddie, then hang up keep doing it till EVH picks up….tell you are Val’s lawyer and she wants to under go a sex operation……great radio from the minds who brought you this shit!
Quit your pissing and moaning. Here in Los Angeles we are stuck with that idiot Adam Corolla. No shit, this Muke spent 10 min. discussing the Acadamy Awards …….”FOR EGGS” Thats right folks, lets see if I remember there was Hard Boiled, Soft Boiled, Scrambled, Poached (this one took 3 min by itself) and they all agreed that the Egg White Omelet did not really deserve an award. Its hard to believe that Infinity and the other big boys are that dumb. Oh wait I get it. The listeners are so F’n relieved when the commercials come on that the radio station can run even more of them and charge the advertisers even more money……I knew there was a method to this madness.
LAMIKE.. that was priceless.. for real. Now that would be funny radio..I must say. Maybe DLR should run his own “rock star” show to see who can be a van halen singer.. now that would piss off ed and co.
Oh.. and Rob.. you are such an intellect cursing at me.. here’s a tip.. it won’t change the truth about how bad the DLR radio show is… honest…
Anyone who thinks Howard is “one of us” is nuts! Just because Johnny Depp played a pirate doesn’t mean he’s a pirate, does it?? Howard plays “one of us” because he gets paid to play “one of us”. He’s just an entertainer, for Crisake. He knows which “opinions” his audience wants him to express. There’s no reason for him to change – He knows that for every listener that grows up and gets tired of his schtick, there’s a new 15-year-old who hasn’t heard it yet. He’s smart enough to play to the same age group over and over, and if a few brain-deads never get tired of it, all the better for him. DLR just hasn’t figured out that the audience doesn’t want his REAL opinions – the audience wants to hear their own opinions, but said by DLR as if they were HIS opinions.
DLR is absolutely awful. the guy is the worlds most arrogant asshole. He’s nothing more than a cocky “has-been” rockstar, who was disowned by his own band. I gave these guy a fighting chance, but after month 1 I’ve had enough. The content is horrible, the cast is bland and its painful to here them make ill fated attempts to laugh at DLR’s unfunny jokes. Im sick and tired of listening to him refer to himself as a “rockstar”….NO ONE FUCKING CARES, YOUR NOT A ROCKSTAR ANYMORE, YOUR A WASHED UP FAILING DJ! Infinity couldnt have a made a worse choice in hiring this dushbag, they will reap the day they let HS go. And how about some real guests, no gives a shit about ur 98 yr old Uncle or ur boring sister. Spice the show up a bit for Christ sake, its so fucking boring, and no one cares about ur views on politics or social issues b/c the truth of the matter…..is that ur a social degenerate who has made enemies wherever u go (NO ONE LIKES U, INCLUDING YOUR OWN BAND!!). My adivce, fake a heart attack and drop the show while u still can, ur a fuckin joke on the radio and by bailing early, u may be able to salvage whatever positive image people may have about u in ur former “rockstar” days.
Lloyd,
What is “ur” mean? Just curious.
Hey Lloyd, I don’t want you to hold back. So tell us how your REALLY feel. LOL.. great post
man, this sounds real bad…..can DLR show be that bad..
remember, you can’t fire the players only the coach…my bet is that the producer is the 1st to getthe boot…or in rock jargon “bootleg”
Hey I though this ws a death pool? DLR out of radio before the crummy ratings come out…
Drink some coffee in the mornings, fools. If you can’t keep up with what he’s puttin’ down, then it’s you’re own problem. DLR is the new Pastor of Disaster in the grand Church of Radio.
Hey Diz. now I know why they call you Diz, although I do agree with you about Dave being a disaster. I have two masters degrees. One of them is in ENGLISH. Even I have no clue what the heck Dave is saying most of the time, or where he learned to speak English. His show is so boring and hard to follow. Honestly, I tried to give it my best shot. For V-day my husband is buying me Sirius. Thank God.
Lay ya, c’mon. Would you prefer to spend your mornings enduring discussions of breast augmentation, as well as grooving to the sound of well-executed flatuance, or would you rather be educated by an unblemished paragon of princely virtue such as DLR? For all I know or care, Howard is off doing the Vagina Monologues.
Whats wrong with Vaginas? Ok, I get it. Lets listen to DLR talk about current events. All he does is repeat what blurb is in the local gossip column He has no depth of knowledge about current American culture. The guy admits he does not know how to surf the internet. No wonder he repeats himself, self..self…self…self…self… Diz Grace…just curious. How yellow and tarnshed are the DLR posters on your wall? Have you ever washed the cheek that DLR sprayed with Jack Daniels during that 1983 concert? Bet not…
Bad bad radio. Why on earth would his management have put him in this position. Dave did not need to go out this way. VH reunion would be as big as the Beatles. His management should have worked on that, not this mess of a radio deal. Its a crime
This guy gives bomb a bad name. I like the fake heart attack idea. He could break out the paddles and resuscitate himself right in the studio. Unfortunately there’s nothing he can do for his show. I know he’s not out to save the world…..that’s Bono’s job… because I’ve heard him use that line three times and, at this point, I can’t listen for more than 20 minutes a week. I just keep checking to see if he’s still there. DLR is more of a fart in the bathtub than a tomahawk missle in my cheerios and like the farter he’s the only one laughing.
Yeah but how long is it going to take the suits to admit they made a mistake and back out gracefully? Going by the JACK replacing CBS oldies fiasco in NYC sounds like a long time. These suits at Infinity were riding on Howards coat-tails for so long they forgot how to produce real radio. They never had to chase sponsors and Howard produced his own show. The rest was musc. Bet alot of those suits get the boot or wind up at a station in the middle of nowhere. Serves them right for bringing us this shitty shitty DLR show not to mention the rest of those boobs. Although Booder Show in NY is good.
Zeke,
The DLR poster you speak of, in which he is fashionably festooned in assless chaps, is actually framed on the wall, next to my Bo Derek “10†poster. You foolz fail to realize greatness when it’s in your presence. DLR provides a level of class and dignity heretofore absent on the radio. And he repeats certain lines just to make sure you’re payin’ attention. Get over the loss of Howard. Y’all sound like sour grapes.
Class and dignity??? ohh…K..yeah sure… My dad repeats stuff too.. he’s senile.. Ok.. Diz.. I admit it.. I’have sour grapes… Dave still sucks.. I now have Sirius.. thank God. Love the product. By the way… are u Hot?
Sign the get DLR off the radio petition, some funny stuff on it.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
I’m surprised that DLR is as good as he is. I saw him on stage a coupla years back on the Dave/Sammy tour and he had a hard time remembering the lyrics to the song “Jump” (all 4 words of it). Thot he was just another burnt-out Ozzie type. He’s no Howard, but he’s not bad. Time will tell. One thing for sure, I’m hearing more VH played on other stations now and that alone is an improvement.
Could not listen to this guy. I’m suprised he is still on the air. There is no substance to this program. No continuity. Very happy with my Sirius purchase on Sat. I missed Howard but I love all the variety. To each his own but DLR in my opinion is bad. I can find all the VH i need from my ipod and sirius radio.
Dave’s show is getting better and better. i have heard every show since day one and there is no comparison between Day 1 vs Today’s. If Dave keeps improving month to month and you monkeys keep listening and posting these silly blogs, then apparently you are finding some redeeming value in his show. I agree that he needs to open up and share what is really on his mind. Whenever a dj is upset or distracted in their personal life, then if they try to hide it from their audience, it will be felt or detected by the listeners. I’m sure Dave is happy in his personal life, but he will eventually learn to share more of himself as time goes on. It has only been four weeks!!! I will keep listening and check back with you in a month. In the meantime, keep posting these hilarious posts.
Most of us are DLR fans for the music dude. Most of us check in the show for a segment in the morning only to find that it has not changed. I for one am happy with Sirius. Would love for DLR to make it. And as for happy in his personal life? How would you know? His coworkers at the station do not even like him because he is doing the same shit that he did to get thrown out of Van Halen. You call that the behavior of a happy man? VH fans can never see the original band again thanks to DLR beng a jerk. Tallyho to you.
Checked in again today just in time for an interview with Johnny Damon. After the compelling haircut questions Dave made the prerequisite comparisons of Dave leaving VH to Johnny leaving Boston. He then asked if Johnny’s leaving was marked by some sort of celebration at a game or something!?! When will this dope figure out he has to be prepared to do good radio for twenty hours a week. He’s taken to asking dozens of questions of his sidekicks. DLR couldn’t drag an interesting tidbit out of a guest if his life depended on it.
With the whole Yankee Boston rivalry this jerk Roth could not even pull off the Johnny Damon interview? Well Howard had Train on live doing an Aerosmith cover. It was the bomb! Glad I got siriius. Cannot believe DLR did not prepare. Great production team too!
WOW…this guy is such an arrogant ASS. David, get over your self. I used to think DLR was just a victim of bad press all these years, I OVERLOOKED ALOT, b/c I loved his music so much. Now, hearing his music/voice grates on me. I wish DLR could be replaced with RussMartin re-runs. GIVE US MORE RUSS MARTIN!!! …I’ve got to go burn my 1984 concert shirt…yes, the one with the black 3/4 length sleeves, unfortunately I still have it…
ThE SHOW SUCKS. END OF STORY. PLEASE PLEASE Take it off the air!
I can admit when I am wrong. The Damon interview was definitely lacking. But, he at least got a guest on today that is not related in some shape, form or fashion to the roth family. When he talks music and stuff he knows, he is fine. Stay away from the sports world. Next Sunday is the World Series right?
Dave really sucks!!! He’s got to go NOW!!http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
Dude plain sucks ass on the radio. Where did hey drag his has-been rocker ass from?
I find all of your nonsense postings amusing. David Lee Roth represents all that is good and true in the world of entertainment, a beacon of light in the otherwise murky waters of radio gibberish. All you zeroz need to get with the hero.
DLR show is a train wreck, which of course has already been said. To add to the pain is the callers they let through, all seem to be over 50 years old giving their lame opinions on whatever the topic of the moment is.
Daves interviewing skills are so horrible he will take whatever the caller is saying then put it into his own words…..going back…. asking the listner if thats what they mean, only to have the caller saying a very unsure “umm yea i guess thats what I think”
His “team” is what? A guy named Animal who has NOTHING to say, and some girl(sorry I dont even know who she is) who has again NOTHING significant to add to any conversation……I’ve heard her start out a sentence saying her opinion is one way and end it by having her stance on the other side of the fence??
Of course Stern is the man. And anyone who says sterns show is all about T&A is someone who has never listened to the show…
(My example of this)
My mom was one of those people who said “Ohh Howard Stern is a pig…..etc….” Then I asked if she ever listened to the show and she admitted she had not… So after laughing I convinced her to listen on her drive to work in the morning and give it a chance. She discovered his show did/does have a LOT of other topics besides topless girls.. And she went from one of those (I hate stern cause because someone told me to) to someone who became a fan.
So I guess I’m saying I wonder what percentage of people that don’t like stern actually have LISTENED to ONE or more show? Not just heard from a friend how bad and filthy he was.
PLEASE MAKE THE DLR SHOW GO-AWAY. I’D RATHER HAVE BOOKER IN THE MORNING. MAYBE DANNY BONADUCE. DAVID LEE ROTH SUCKS…
Hey McK of DE,
So now mayby your MOM can be another one of those old, lame callers and bore us with stories about YOU.
THE FUCKING DLR SHOW BLOWS…
Carl,
Your command of the English language is astounding. Stringing that many words together, and in CAPS for added effect! It certainly got the point across, so I would assume the show has been removed from the air already. I’m assuming that you are a Yale graduate?
Harvard… as a matter of fact. Diz, I assume you are a graduate of the David Lee Roth school of comedy because amusing you are not. The show is horrible. Forget Howard, I do not get good reception where I live and there is not much on the radio for me. The station with DLR has good range for when I am driving but the show is unlistenable. I will get XM or Sirius, I just have not decided which one yet. and PS.. The DLR show really does *&%^$-ING blow….
Well, Carl, that certainly was a relief. Given your first lengthy posting, I would have been concerned that you would not have even been able to spell XM if I would have spotted you the X.
Fine citizens, the good book tells us that a prophet is never recognized in his home land, among his own people. What it fails to mention is that those very same people may be dim witted ham and eggers who can’t follow any humor further than the bathroom. Seems to me that line of thinking applies to most of the people posting on this blog. That McK in DE came as close to formulating an opinion worth articulating as anyone, in that it was said that DLR tends to twist what a caller says and put it in his own words. That is constructive criticism, something he could tone down and work on. It may also be construed as entertaining radio, for the open-minded like myself.
I stopped listening the second week. Looks like its a good thing I did not waste my time anymore. Howard Rules…
Nothing new, DLR is unlistenable. I have devolved to local sports talk and NPR as a new and admittedly pathetic habit. Having read throuh a few of the postings, including Diz Grace (whose praise is parody), I must know; does anyone truly think DLR is anything but brutal and unlistenable?
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder, Sean. My admiration for DLR is legit. We are talking about a pillar of academia, a man who speaks multiple languages (and I don’t mean pig Latin), and can hold conversation on more topics than just boob size and flatulence proficiency.
Dallas has completely lost me as a listener in the mornings. I find David Lee Roth to be unlistenable. I have tried to be patient, and give him a chance to get his show in order, but I fail to find one redeeming quality in his program. He is an arrogant ass who thinks that throwing out big words and inane sayings make him sound intelligent. They don’t. He obviously feels he is more intelligent than everyone else, and he doesn’t connect with listeners in any way. His show comes across as a abrasive vaudeville monologue, instead of something that actually makes you want to listen. I will not continue to torture myself waiting for David Lee Roth to discover that he cannot hold an audience by being a pompous ass, and laughing at his own horrible jokes. Not to mention that he interrupts guests / callers constantly. I’d rather listen to music, or nothing, until I can get to work and listen to the Adam Corolla morning show on the internet. Who the hell says “speak to that†anyway? And that pedophile voice he uses when talking to women makes my skin crawl. And I’m a guy. Thanks for ruining morning radio you pseudo intellectual poser. Go read your thesaurus for some more smart sounding words, and leave people that want to actually be entertained alone. P.S. If you guys want to listen to the funniest afternoon show of all time, check out Russ Martin / Dallas / Free FM / Afternoons. Peace.
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Ever notice how the best things in life start with the letter D? David Lee Roth, Dallas Cowboys, Darth Vader. Delicious and delightful entertainment, one and all.
With regard to the DLR show most of the comments by listeners and critics are pretty critical. That is the truth and that is because it is very hard to do a radio show. It takes work and effort. I do not believe that DLR puts the same effort in his radio show as he does his music and conserts. I find it hard to listen to him and I find that very sad. There just is no honesty.. dave drives the show and does not let things evolve. I do not believe the show will survive
SIGN THE PETITION – HELP END THE HORROR
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Does anyone care? I tune in once a week to see if he’s still on and while some of his crew has changed he remains as self-absorbed and unfunny as week one. He follows his deepest thoughts with a silly laugh and is more interested in turning what he thinks is a witty phrase than making an intelligent point. Henry Rollins is trying to relate what should have been an interesting story about traveling on a Transiberian train and Dave cuts him off with a “it’s like being stuck on a bus with foul-mouthed hooker”???? No it’s not!…and the story dies. Animal does for ebonics what Dave does for craptacular talk radio.
I’ve read all the comments and I agree with a good share of them, including Brian above me. I’ve given the DLR show a month-plus before I really critically evaluated it and I’ve come to the conclusion that it simply has no substance.
First, I’m really confused at what format he’s attempting. Is it political-lite with comedy, miscellaneous discussion, or just one 4 hour long ramble-session by DLR himself? Regardless, it all falls short and ends up just being a monotonous lecture on every random topic thinkable by DLR with some half-hearted attempts at comedy. Any of these formats require an accomplished host to guide the show and generous help from the staff. For whatever reason, DLR has a non-existant staff that adds nothing to the show. Either his ego is too large to allow anyone to assist him, or he’s scared everyone away.
Roth also lacks radio presence and charisma in general. His witty banter comes across as self-fellatio rather than interesting. The worst examples of this are his frequent one-liner quips. I find that I’m always listening to him banter and I’m waiting for the point or the conclusion to anything he says… and its never there. The rambling and the random subject matter leave me unsatisfied, exactly like an argument with a significant other like someone perfectly described earlier. I suppose if you love DLR then you listen to hear DLR. However for the rest of us, we’re left with little else.
On the positive side, he does listen and banter okay with his callers and guests and I do believe he has some interesting things to say. He’s also had some interesting guests, such as Henry Rollins who was on this morning. However he’s also allowed some guests to ramble uncontrollably on about shit no one cares about (Russell Simmons rambling about religion was painful). The show has no focus or substance and it shows. I see it lasting a few more months, then he gets the axe or leaves. As Ralph above me said, the effort isnt there. The audience won’t be there either.
I shouldn’t feel fatigued after listening to drive time radio but Dave is such a yawn that I am sleepier at work than I was two hours earlier. He grabs on to his guest like a life vest but he’s such a poor interviewer that they both sink. A guy who wrote a book on bio-diesel? That’s your guest? ZZZZZZZZZ.
okay – when are they firing him! i tuned in yesterday for a minute — he was interviewing a guy from the TOY FAIR!! who cares!!
Have you ever seen a guy stiffed by guests like Dave does? He hyped an interview with a stripper and then she didn’t even show up. That’s about the third time that’s happened. You could tell he was seething but he’s got to get used to the fact that he’s gone from rock star to radio rookie. His Friday show was so boring that even his sidekick seemed ready to climb out a window. Hey Dave, why don’t you tell us one more time how you can fly a helicopter. Yawn.
The dude from the toy show was a fan who asked him for an autograph the day before. Talk about seat of the pants and d list… what a loser show.
The toy fair guy qualified as the worst guest ever for any show. That’s not a guest, that’s not even filler. Dave doesn’t even know how to pick topics. An hour on bad dental hygeine? What’s next? Toe fungus?
Dave’s trying hard. He shows up on time and certainly isn’t a prima donna. He may be a radio amateur but he’s getting better. I kind of like the show.
i love reading these posts…but i keep thinking just like Howie Stern has a producer (Gary D. aka Ba ba boey) who’s responsible for lining up guests and the
over all feel of the show, DLR must have a producer. The problem I think is this producer thinks that interviewing someone connected to a toy show would be good radio.
Just like in any professional sport, you can’t fire the players you fire the coach, in this case, it’s his producer.
The biggest problem is that DLR promised to be an exciting wild man that was “like a thunderbolt in your cheerios.” That’s license to be a pompous ass, if you’re funny. The problem is he’s not wild and he’s not funny. He’s middle-aged with the high mileage of a ‘72 Ford Pinto. It’s like the pilot light burned out.
Hey I hear the doorman is his next guest!
Good posts – a lot of these hit the nail on the head. I gave DLR about a week in Cleveland and in addition to being unlistenable, his show made me realize how talented Stern really was. Even though I’m in Cleveland, Stern made me interested in what was going on in the Big Apple. The East Coast mind-set is different from how we look at things here in the midwest. Now with DLR, I can’t relate to absolutely anything he is saying, either about the city or himself. I’ve got no reason to listen. Too bad Infinity didn’t see this coming. I hope all of the Infinity sales reps had enough foresight to leave the company before Howard did. This show is one turd that they’ll never be able to polish.
The producers of this fiasco must spend all of their time beating the bushes for Van Halen fan club members and screening negative calls.
Today’s show: Take some phone calls, interview an aging porn star and ask her if she works out, discuss the phenomenom that is American Idol…
Dave’s quote: “We’re trying something completely unigue” !?!
Translation: We’re trying to take a huge audience and bore them with my inane rants and ramblings until they all switch to other stations.
Just get Sirius…..
Thie remove Roth from radio petition has gained alot of steam and is funny as hell..
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
Take your petition and shove it up your superior posterior. David Lee Roth provides hope to an uncivilized world, guidance to the disenfranchised, and rhythm to hopelessly white crackers who yearn for Stern.
Is Diz Grace actually DLR? The two of you sound like the same person – I have been reading the posts & was wondering…
I wish Howard would reveal all the DLR/ freeFM secrets he keeps talking about !
I thought I heard DLR diss Tom Chiusano this morning…he is just so dull.
Dave is going on vaction for a couple of weeks starting 2/27. Kidd Chris is his replacement. The beginning of the end is here. I have never seen an online petition take off like the remove DLR one has… ha ha ha ha.. Hey Diz Grace.. the show sucks..
My friend from college is an intern at the old K-rock where DLR is. He says that Roth is not suck a nice guy and is a real jerk to mostly everyone.
WBCN, what have we done to deserve this?
Chuck.. they you must sign the remove Roth from radio petition and spread the word..http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
Danny,
I have to know: What specifically have you done, entertainment-wise or other, that qualifies you as an expert in the field? Should the show be removed, as you have expertly proposed, what would you put in it’s place? Because I would think a trained expert such as yourself, who becomes stiff at the sight of a “remove whoever” petition, would have some interesting thoughts on the subject. You are probably the same guy with the Ryan Seacrest poster on his wall.
I listened for a few minutes today – the discussion was about the Jimmy the Greek statement about African-American athletes and if they were faster, better runners, etc. I couldn’t believe it…just horrible radio, no humor in the show and yes I think the show should be removed. I hope Howard can get Tom Chuisano a job over at Sirius.
I have noticed that the sponsors are getting more “low end” – all the hi-end people who were advertising on Krock and no longer there…
Who would I put in his place? Somone else.
Booker and that crew. At least we would laugh. I know his show is a watered down Stern with some unoriginal ideas, but there is humor in it.
Next week I am back on Sirius during my commute and I cannot wait. I listen to the replays of Howard at night and laugh myself to sleep.
So, Fatchick, or however it is that you want to spell what you call yourself, you seem like an educated woman of intellect. Perhaps a person of dignity and refinement. When you listen to the comedic stylings of a person like DLR, his tone and educated wordplay, you are going to tell me you would rather listen to some no-name, slack-jawed yokel named Hooker, rather than allow yourself to bask in the sunlight emitted by an intellectual like David Lee Roth? You don’t need to laugh yourself to sleep. You already are.
Boy oh boy – that’s the best you can do?
You must be getting nervous with an answer like that.
I cannot believe that this is the way you are taking this…
All I said is that I tuned in and this is what I heard this morning.
I personally was insulted and did what people do – change the station.
Educated Wordplay? Is that what you call the annoying disjointed way DLR talks?
I was sort pulling for DLR to be successful but instead, he makes me uncomfortable and I chose not to listen anymore.
Hooker? That is the dumbest.
Instead of insulting me and calling me FAT you should just admit that you are DLR posting all these messages.
Hey Diz Grace.. errrr. I mean DLR…are you even listening to the show? Seems like (you) your boyfriend Dave has had hookers on for the last few days. He even screwed that up. And what’s with messing wth Fabri.. ? Diz, now I know why your name is Diz. Or is it DIS-GRACE.
I will clear the air for you, Flabchick, and be happy to tell you that I am, in fact, not DLR. I am a simple kazoo salesman who does his best to get by, and is entertained riotously on an everyday basis by THE premier entertainer of our time. Put it this way: If you lined up morning show chatterboxes like teeth, David Lee Roth would be the BICUSPID MOLAR of radio talk show hosts.
Danny,
I can see the thought bubble over your head:
“Diz Grace….Dis Grace….Disgrace! His name sounds like Disgrace! Only he spells it differently, with a Z!” From that point, we would inevitably listen to you devolve into Bevis and Butthead-styled laughter. Now, the real questions are, How long did it take you to figure out the complexities of the moniker I chose, and did it take a team of twelve to help you reach that well-thought-out conclusion?
Geez … I just don’t get it.
The majority of the posts on this blog compare DLR to Howard Stern, when it was made clear from the get go that Dave’s show was meant to appeal to a different audience.
And as far as the ’sheep’ that blindly carry the HS torch so high and mighty … Ol Howie has not done anything original in 10 years … unless you call ramblings about his girlfriend, ex wife, kids, ex and current brown nosing cronies that either once (if they wised up) or currently cackle at his every un funny word, his current ventures that you’ll know doubt be sucked into, so on and so forth … FUNNY, you guys and girls are living in the past.
Heck, if O&A had taken over Howard’s time slot … you wouldn’t even remember Mr. ‘Radio Edit’ existed.
But … alas, they were the first to be buried by satellite radio’s limitations … as Sir Howard will no doubt be in the near future.
Why?
Because … in the long haul, folks will not buy the cow if they can get the milk for free.
Neither XM nor Sirius will be able to defeat the 800 pound gorilla, free radio … it’s a novelty that will wear off.
My 2 cents.
Sylvester
Dave’s on vacation next week. Call it blessed relief. Does he actually come back? 50/50 he’s canned.
WTF.. I now listen to my Sirius almost all day. At home, on the net, at work and leisure. I actually watch less TV, have expanded my music interest and will not go in the car without it. I have an antenna for my home, my 2 cars, and my motor home . For 12 bucks a month it has brought me much joy. AND HOWIE in the morning. You could get a cup of coffee for 50 cents at the corner grocery but people pay 3 or 4 bucks for starbucks. If money is the issue cut down on a latte once a week and enjoy Sirius of XM. My dad said that people would not pay for cable because TV is free. Dad finally got cable…..
Hey Diz… by the way… I have this gut feeling that you are related to Dave. you protect him like a mother bear protects her cub. I actually think it is heartwarming. I admire your loyalty and your sharp wit.
Dave’s supposedly exhausted after 4 weeks of work. What’s a matter? Never had a real job?
I actually liked Dave’s persona from the ’80s. He was a swaggering, arogant party boy. “I am the party” was one of his lines. Think babes, midgets, satire, Fellini meets gonzo lifestyle.
So, when I heard that he was going to replace Stern I thought he might actually be fun. What’s it to me if he’s obnoxious? It’s entertainment.
Well, to put it bluntly, I was shocked, not by how obnoxious the freewheeling Dave was, but how dull this Dave is. He talks a lot about this not being a morning show but that it’s really the last night time show of the day, but it is only in the sense that there’s always ony loser left at the bar who’s surrounded only by stale beer and cigarrette butts.
Where’s the party?
Wooo, Rock talk… Cold but so accurate.
Danny …
Cable blew away regular TV because network television was severely limited when compared to the former … just a handful of channels, in addition to the commercials and censorship that pay radio offers as IT’S main advantage point …
… that’s not the case with radio (there are plenty of great stations, DJs, and talk show hosts).
Hey … whatever works for you … what I gave is my opinion.
As far as HOWIE is concerned, I rarely listened to him when he was still on FREE radio … I’d never even consider paying for a service using his presence as a draw (but that’s ME).
What I can’t understand is the apples to oranges comparison between DLR and Howard … if you miss Howard on free radio, fine … but don’t trash his slot follow up because he isn’t a clone of him.
Again … my 2 cents.
Sylvester
Danny,
You can have heartwarming feelings from 5PM till next February for all I care. But the fact is, I can’t get past the image of the annoying girl in high school who simply HAD to have everyone’s signature in her yearbook, and became offended when someone would not sign. This person is a modern day you with your wacky petition. Perhaps your name is not Danny, but Dani.
Can’t we all just get along? This site is for critiquing the 4 million dollar flop that is/was Roth Radio, not for attacking his fan.
TO DAVID LEE ROTH
THIS IS SEAN CHRIST
THE MATRIX GUY
CAN YOU PASS THE WORD THAT HOWARD STERN OWES ME A PAYCHECK
THAT DATES BACK YEARS
THE MESSAGES ARE IN MY MUSIC
THANKS
PS WEBMASTER PLEASE DONT WIPE THIS CLEAN
http://WWW.SOUNDCLICK.COM
ARTIST
SEAN CHRIST
PEACE
LOVE
SEAN CHRIST
PAYCHECK IN CARE OF SEAN STOHL FOR JACKASS STUNTS
DLR won’t be back from vacation! He’s so done.
What hath David
Lee Roth on FM?
New host loses most of Stern’s audience
By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
In the year’s least surprising radio development, morning host David Lee Roth’s early ratings at WFNY (92.3 FM) have taken a steep drop from the heights of his predecessor, Howard Stern.
WFNY’s parent CBS says this is a valley it expected to enter while it rebuilds former Stern slots and stations, though some people in radio warn that it could signal a more serious problem.
It’s also unclear where displaced Stern listeners are going.
Arbitrend ratings released yesterday show that in January, Roth’s first month, WFNY’s morning share among its target audience of 18- to 34-year-olds fell from 13.8% to 1.3%.
Shares in other age groups dropped less drastically, and single-month numbers in radio, where ratings are done in three-month clusters, can show wide fluctuations. So CBS says it’s not worried.
“Everyone knew there would be a drop,” said Rob Barnett, president of programming at CBS Radio. “We’re starting a new radio station, introducing new personalities people are discovering every day, in a format that’s been very successful for us in other markets.
“This is just the beginning for this station and these hosts. We’ve said all along it’s an 18- to 24-month process and we would never judge any show by one 30-day [ratings report].”
Editor Michael Harrison of the trade magazine Talkers agreed it is too early to make any final assessment, but warned Roth’s task is daunting.
“Replacing Stern on the radio is like replacing John Lennon in the Beatles,” Harrison said. “And it’s even harder because Roth has no radio experience. The company went for celebrity.
“Can he succeed? It will be very difficult. He has to listen to people who’ll make him better.”
Adam Jacobson, daily news editor for the trade mag Radio & Records, was less diplomatic.
“This is perhaps one of the biggest and most high-profile failures in radio history,” he said. “These ratings show that all of New York has pretty much rejected Roth.”
As for where Stern listeners may have gone, the big gainer in January was WSKQ. Mike & Mike on WEPN also went up, while two potential beneficiaries, Curtis and Kuby on WABC and Star on WWPR, stayed flat.
Stern replacements in Chicago and Los Angeles, Rover and Adam Carolla, also fell sharply.
Elsewhere here, WLTW remained a dominant No. 1.
Stick a fork in him.
And The ratings speak…..Loudly. CBS trying to sue stern is sour grapes and distracting from their FM disaster. I can’t wait for Howard to rip them apart. Shame on You CBS….You look like the scorn lover..
DLR represents a passion, the wondrous pursuit of eclectic taste and interest. Note the topics of conversation, ranging from politics, to music, to religion, to family life. This is a true renaissance man, a person of vision. You may certainly choose to reject the wizdom. But you are also foolz with no vision. And no rhythm.
Hey Diz Grace,
I like D-Roth as a performer of rock music but a “a true renaissance man” pleeze!!! You’ve got to be kidding. He doesn’t know the difference between racism aand sexism. He kept asking a woman caller if discrimination against a woman would be rascist even after he was corrected that that’s sexism not racism.
He’s horribly uninformed about just about every issue including sadly music.
While some of his snap reviews can be a bit fun to listen too, it’s odd that a guy who claims to have thousands of hours of music seems to have missed the last 20 years of recording artists. When he was doing his Grammy previews he didn’t know a single artist. Los Lonely Boys, “are they from S. America?” No, they’re from Texas, you moron. They only won a grammy the prior year for Best New Artist so they’re not exactly a secret, except to Dave.
Just about any issue the Davester pontificates on is hard to listen to because it’s so full of illogic and factual errors. Stem cells, abortion, you pick the topic, it’s not that Dave’s got an opinion that I disagree with, it’s just that he mixes these issues all together so that they no longer make sense. Atribute it to his ADD or call it the lack of a college education, but speaking a little Spanish and a little Portuguese does not make him a man of the world.
It just makes him boring.
Unlistenable Show – PERIOD
You nailed it Sayso. Blathering is the perfect word to describe his radio show. It takes a fairly intelligent person that has a lot of random factual tidbits in their head to be an effective blatherer, and DLR is that person. It’s a technique used by con-men all the time in order to occupy a person long enough to trick or delay them. Luckly for us, we don’t pay for FM radio, otherwise we’d be pretty pissed by now.
Put Booker in mornings already. At least he knows enough to develop the personalities of his staff so they can actually banter and entertain.
DLR is stuck in the 80s. He professes not to use a computer. His references are outdated. His only modern music seems to be the techno junk playing in the background which is totally distracting and sounds like a bleed from another FM station. He is soooo not honest. It is very disappointing. I LOVE my Sirus. Yes I am happy to hear Howard again but I am literally addicted to it. I really enjoy it.
Bottom line: I enjoy DLR’s radio show. Unfortunately, he may be too smart for a mass audience, so who knows how long he can endure.
Comparisons with Howard Stern are pointless, since there’s no one else like HS, and also since Howard fans still have Howard available..what exactly are they missing? Not having Howard for free? Buy a few less wings and you’ll afford him.
To me, DLR is someone who has lived at the speed of light, but each morning slows down to tell us about it. He’s eloquently hip. A funny guy who enjoys telling interesting stories in the tradition of Jean Shepherd. It’s a big radio world out there, there ought to be room for gabby genius like Mr. R.
Comparison to Howard Stern are fair game. After all, he’s in his time slot (although not for long). “He’s eloquently hip.” C’mon. You’ve got to be kidding. I listened to Penn Jillette the other day and he much better fit that description. I’d take a guy who lives “at the speed of light” if only that were true. Where’s the energy.
Speaking of low energy, Animal’s his sidekick? An ass-kissing bodyguard with marbles in his mouth is the best he can do?
The show is not only doomed but will go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes in broadcasting history.
Forget Howard, when a company puts in a replacement that drops you form #1 to #18 in the NY market just think what that means, it means you are coming in behind college radio and the coast guard’s short wave band.
It just goes to show you that there were alot of people listening to Howard. Even those who did not admit to it. Now Howard can be heard 3 times a day. He will impact FM even further. As for DLR. He has such potential to do a great show but he is neither getting the backing or guidance he needs. WHo knows if he even accepts help. Based on his attittude and ego I highly doubt it. I can listen to Howard all day. Even the repeats. Howard is honest – DLR is not. DLR would not accept Howards calls or advice on being honest. As for CBS… They are showing their true colors. What talent on radio or TV would trust them after what they are doing to Howard who made them millions upon millions. Same on CBS. DLR.. I hope you do reunite with Van Halen. i would not want to see you go out this way.
Hey DLR!
Sit down, you made a fool of yourself.
Channel Changer,
Put down the remote. DLR has not made a fool of himself, as you so eloquently put it, but rather he has taken a chance on a new career option. The King of Eclectic Thinking has added one more successful notch on his considerable belt of worlds conquered. You would probably be hard pressed to change socks and underwear from day to day. DLR is a pillar of vision who can juggle multiple careers (singer, author, EMT, radio host) and still provide a three mile smile all the while.
I don’t even turn on the show anymore. I just can’t do it anymore. I gave him a shot, wanted him to do well, but i can’t bear it. I need someone more entertaining, and less “yeaaaah”. Kid Kris would be a good option..much much better than DLR….but a little to O&A for me.
Too smart for the mass audience? He sounds it. Especially when he refers to the agony of defeat ski jumper as Franz Klammer the Olympic downhill gold medal winner. But why let the details get in the way of a good ramble. God bless him for taking the time to jump out of his helicopter and enlighten us with his thoughts on Paris Hilton. Maybe he’s shooting for the Jean Shepherd, Greaseman, kazoo salesman, eclectic thinking audience……and a 0.1 share.
Hey Diz,
You’re right, my mistake, DLR’s really fantastic. He’s pioneering new ground that no broadcaster ever imagined. He’s a genius. That’s, um, why nobody’s listening to him.
Look, people have already voted and they’ve voted 10-1 to ditch him. Don’t say he’s only for the knowing few because that’s not the rqadio biz, it’s a mass medium.
He was a rock star and I’m sure he preferred play Madison Square Garden to some dingy bar.
He’s a has been.
I did change the channel and now I see his “Tikki bunker” is the bunker on Lost. There’s nothing going on in there either.
AllAccess is reporting that KiddChris is replacing DLR
STERN FAN Network says its Danny Bonaduce.
Just put on a the Emergency Broadcasting Test. More people will listen.
Just got Sirius…it is awesome
Alas … if Diamond Dave doesn’t make it, I hope Eddie Van ‘my career is failin” Halen has the brains to go out on top with the guy that helped put him there in the first place … do it for the Fans!
I’ll just devote my time to Jim Kerr’s Rock and Roll morning Show … as I’ve done for years, as opposed to paying to hear Howard ‘the chairman of the bored’ Stern babble about breast implants and his home life (WOW he can CURSE now! … Whoopie!).
He always joked about Imus being old, boring … since he strayed from the bits that made him funny in the first place … he’s become exactly that.
But … well, if you find that entertaining … knock yourself out.
Sylvester
My sources indicate that Dani The Petition Girl is in line to replace Roth, given his/her extensive background as entertainment critic.
Listeners have a right to be critics, after all the show is for them. They’re not the ones getting 4 million a year to read from Page Six and brag about their helicopter.
Hey Diz Grace that Remove DLR petition has over 500 names. And there is some very really funny comments. Maybe you should start your own Petition to keep DLR on the radio and see how well it does….
Sorry there, Brent, but it’s not really necessary to start a petition. It would appear that all of the predictions made by the pillars of intelligencia found on this blog seem to be a bit misguided. There was some level of scuttlebutt that suggested that DLR would not be returning after his week of relaxation. But lo and behold, there he was Monday morning, kicking the wizdom and painting the pictures as usual.
See, here’s the deal, and I hate to break the news to you would-be geniuses, but 500 names is a drop in the bucket. With some level of effort and proper motivation, I could assemble 500 names on some wacky list of folks who want Howard Stern off satellite radio. Where would it get me? Your little idealistic rebellion is insignificant compared to the multitudes like myself who dig the Diamond and are happy to enjoy his work.
Instead of creating lists, bitching, itching, and twitching about one guy on the radio dial, I have another enlightened idea: Why can’t you and the 500 other members of the insignificant non-majority simply change the station on your radio dial? It ain’t that hard, dude.
We and the other 90% of NY listeners already did.
I refuse to listen any more
Sadly I simply have stopped listening to WBCN all together up here in Boston just because I want to avoid hearing him in the morning.
And I gave him a few weeks chance to get it together.
Just curious, Dizcrusted, if you and the other 90% of the NY listeners already tuned out, then why waste your valuable time writing about a show you don’t listen to? Seems like a fruitless effort. I would suspect that you would be better served writing on the Martha Stewart blog, or whatever you’ve decided to turn your morning attention to. Why continue your rants on this one?
dude needs to pull out the black book and start calling some of his coronies
If you don’t like DLR, just tune out. I’m surprised how many of you say you don’t like the show but every day your back writing posts about what you didn’t like on the show that day. If I don’t like a movie I walk out, I don’t go back for seconds.
diz grace I miss my ny radio. It has been ruined. I bought Sirius last week. I am glad. won’t be posting anymore. But it is fun t watch the trainwreck
Glad to not know ya, Spent. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. And take your ruined radio with you. It probably has a knob on it that turns to other stations, but enlightenment like that would just ruin all the fun.
Agreeing with the boredom with DLR that has been expressed here…synopsis at:
http://icomplain.blogspot.com/
Sounds like DLR is resigned to that this is his last week. Show is like helium leaking out a balloon. He’s dragging across the floor…
OPIE AND ANTHONY WILL REPLACE ROTH AND XM WILL CUT A DEAL WITH TERRESTRIAL RADIO ON THIS ONE TO COMBAT STERN. HAVE A DAY DIZ GRACE.. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
Channel Changer, not able to listen to the show due to being in LA, what do you mean by “Sounds like DLR is resigned to that this is his last week”.
Has he made mention of this or alluded to the fact that upper mgtment is giving him the boot.
The Psychotic,
Not sure what show you are listening to, but the one I enjoy in the morning found DLR in his typically unflappable high spirits, waxing eloquent about the fact that for the foreseeable future, he will enjoy creative freedom. On the radio show he currently occupies.
So I heard you here first. What good is your information if it is inaccurate?
You’re just one more bozo whose opinion is like an anus: Everyone has one, and 9 out of 10 emit a pungent funk when exposed.
If the critics stop listening will his ratings even be a blip on the Arbitron screen? “It’s designed to upset you” says Dave and it grates on the nerves of the people who enjoyed listening to this radio station for 20 years. You follow? What he thinks is snappy repartee is nonsensical gibberish followed by his Precious Pup laughs. He smothers his callers and his guests because he’s his own biggest fan and loves the sound of his own voice. If DLR wasn’t so convinced of his own brilliance he may have been saved the embarrassment of being the poster boy for miserable failures. Does this guy really think that a couple spanish phrases and interviewing a Venezuean voice-over actress is good radio and attracts a Latino audience? Dig in your heels Dave and your fans will soon be adding former radio host and Quiznos spokesman to your resume. I’m sure those same fans would list Dave’s cameo on the Sopranos as “starred in award winning TV series”.
The freakin’ guy laughs at all his lame jokes and comments. It’s like a laugh track from hell. He’s toast.
God, this show sucks. Roth is cheesy, always ends an unintelligble sentence with “Agree or Disagree”, won’t shut the F up about being an EMT or taking kendo, and sucks so so so hard.
I can’t stomach listening to this show in the morning anymore.
Another story on O & A taking verfor DLR
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/opie-anthony-to-replace-david-lee-roth.html
lOVE ..LOVE.. WAS A HOWARD FAN FOR 30 YEARS.. NOT BUYING SIRUIUS..WHY PAY FOR WHAT I CAN GET FOR FREE!!
LOVE THE “TRACK BLASTING..61 YEAR OLD MOM..TO HELL W/ DEMOGRAPHICS.. BY THE WAY..WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU GUYS SMOKING!!!!
What a difference a week off made. DLR came back confident and with a much better guest list. I think he’s a winner!
Diz Grace,
Two things are obvious:
1) You ARE DLR, because only DLR could/would speak so highly of that crappy radio show.
2) You read the first four chapters of Verbal Advantage 2x, and pause everytime you throw out a ten cent word like “Scuttlebutt”, or “Recrimination” on the radio.
The latter is obvious because you use the big words incorrectly. For instance, you once mentioned that callers could call and discuss whatever topic they wanted, or even mention their recriminations. A recrimination is a counter-charge, and is typically legalese and is only used in court, by a defendant against a plaintiff. It made absolutely no sense in the context that you used it. This might sound intelligent to many people who don’t know what a recrimination is, but to those who do, it sounds totally moronic. Unless you think you’re a plaintif charging the public with some crime (i.e. wasting their valuable time listening to your program)
Honestly, I could forgive your sophomoric attempts at sounding erudite on air, but I can hardly forgive you for laughing at every unfunny, washed up, cheesy line you say every morning. And last but not least, your commercials are inspiring me to NEVER again buy the products you’re advertising. This morning you were advertising Vermont Teddy Bears, and it made me feel like I needed to bathe after listening to you for 2 minutes. If I was the client, I would literally SUE you for brand damage.
So, go on an be pretentious, and tell yourself that people want to listen to your show. You’ll be off the air by the next Arbitron ratings. BTW, it’s obvious that you were in your lawyers office that week you were supposed to be on vacation.
Roth is Honorable,
Thank you for your kind indulgences. Given the fact that you can name all of the productz being peddled, it certainly shows that you are listening, which is all that matters anyway. Who cares if the press received is good or bad? It’s when there is no press at all that problems ensue. Again, as I’ve recriminated before, the door swings wide both ways. You are free to leave whenever you wish. So it is very intriguing that you, who profess to not want to have anything to do with this failed show, can erudite the whole stable of sponsors verbatim. That’s exactly the type of scuttlebutt the sponsors are looking for.
Just a quick dose of reality, for those of you who still do not buy that I’m not DLR: Check the early morning times of some of my nuggets of truth. How would I be able to continue a show from 6AM – 10AM and have the time to artfully post my wizdom during the show? Hate to break it to ya, but you ain’t talking to the Master, but rather the henchman. Foolz.
Funny. Today Vermont Teddy Bears actually aired a REAL commercial on DLR. They obviously weren’t happy with DLRs commercial either. Yes, I do tune in for about 5 minutes every morning. No, I don’t like the show. I’m tuning in waiting/hoping to either hear the DLR has quit, or got fired, or is going to get fired.
BTW, to prove that DLR/Diz Grace are both morons, erudite is an adjective, not a verb. It means to be learned (pronounced Learn-ed, DLR). It is not synonymous with enumerate, list, detail, or any other word that would comfortably fit into your lame attempt to use it above.
As for what time you post on here, here’s my theory. I think DLR is an egomaniac. I have no doubt that he has a laptop in the studio and is checking emails and other things during commercial breaks. So, it’s totally concievable that DLR can make posts during his show (the commercial breaks last for 2-3 minutes).
DLR will be off the air by April 1. However, he’s not being replaced by Opie and Anthony. He’s being replaced by Elvis.
I think the most entertaining part of the mindless word drool above is the fact that this person thinks I’m serious when utilizing “recriminated”, or “erudite” to express thought. I threw your 10 cent words in there simply to make fun of you. Guess ya didn’t quite pick up what I was puttin’ down. Now if you’ll please just sign the very worthwhile petition to get DLR off the air, we’ll make sure your 10 cent voice that goes along with your 10 cent opinion is properly documented. Then you can go back to the hole you crawled out from under, and I’ll go grab a drink.
JV AND ELVIS RULE. DLR SUCKS
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
566 sigs and going strong
Yo, Diz Grace. It’s so obvious you are DLR. I agree with Roth is Horrible. You’re not very smart, and you ARE DLR. It looked to me like you don’t know how to use those 10 cent words and now you’re trying to back track, saying it was all just a joke.
DLR said in the beginning of his show that he does not kow how to use a computer or the internet. If that is the case that that would make diz grace just outright pitiful.
Um, Spent? First of all, I thought you weren’t going to waste your highly valued time posting on this blog anymore, devoting precious minutes of your day worrying about the failed DLR show and anything associated with it?
Second question, if DLR can’t use a computer, how exactly does that make me “just outright pitiful”? What does DLR’s admission of being computer challenged have to do with me? I’m actually using a computer to educate you and the rest of the blithering idiots. Every time you reappear out of oblivion, you set back human thinking by 10 years with your nonsense logic and garbled English.
And to you, Diz Grace Sucks, I applaud your originality in the choice of moniker. Must’ve taken you what, 10 hours to come up with that?
Pitiful because if you are not DLR (and you are NOT) you have a distorted sense of reality about David Lee Roth. Ok we get it you LOVE DLR, but that radio show sucks… bad. DLR has no interest in giving us himself…just his bravado. I happen to be in advertising…so why I am on this board as well as the Stern Fan Network, Wackbag, and other assorted blogs… its just business….
Well, Spent, a few days ago, you said you were done with this blog, and now you re-appear, so indecision may or may not be your problem, you just can’t seem to decide. The Ryan Seacrest show must not have had as much appeal to you as you thought, or you wouldn’t be back with your nonsense.
Last I looked, reality is what you perceive. Whether I’m right or wrong is irrelevant. All I’ve ever said is that I enjoy the show, maybe because I’m a life-long fan. Do I agree with everything? Hell no! When he discusses his views on abortion, I cringe, because they are the polar opposite of what I believe. But 99% of everything he says I can relate to and enjoy, so if it sounds good to someone, then it is good to someone. And if I happen to be alone in my opinion, then so be it. But I highly doubt that’s the case, because the show presses on for quite a few more than 566 dissenting opinions.
Boston Herald
March 16, 2006
…Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, said there are two obvious choices: syndicated talk jock Mancow Muller or former WAAF duo Opie & Anthony, who have an XM Satellite Radio show and were rumored to be in talks with CBS.
“Somebody is going to replace David Lee Roth,†Harrison said. “Radio people do much better on radio than non-radio people.â€
Don Kelley, programming vice president for Greater Media’s five Boston stations, said WBCN could always return to playing music.
“People have given it a try and they’re not liking it,†Kelley said of Roth. “All you hear are stories about how he doesn’t want any input. That’s not the way to win.â€
DLR was supposed to broadcast from Boston on Thursday and Friday but cancelled. The reason was “scheduling conflicts.â€
Perhaps he had an appointment at the unemployment office.
DLR is “breaking the mold”!?? Maybe he’ll read verbatim from the newspaper again today. His prostitution story was one of the worst examples of story telling I’ve ever heard on the radio and the execs should withhold his pay for today. A prostitute calls, she says she’s 41 and been in the business for twenty years….Dave asks “how old were you when you got started?” Brilliant. He compares a pimp’s exploitation of women to that of a fashion magazine. Good radio deserves some thought and planning and it’s evident that this egomaniac thinks he can fly by the seat of his assless chaps. Don’t ask the wrestler Triple H about steroids. Ask him about how he stays in shape. Breaking the mold baby.
I have never seen an online petition take off like this one. 600+ names and still growing. What does that tell you? Boston? Seems like CBS is not wasting money on remote broadcasts…
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr
Hey Dani
Keep up the good work with your petition. It must be your full time job, what with the amount of time you spend on it. When it gets to 700, word is that DLR will immediately be replaced with the guy from Motley Crue. Then you and your petition brethren can enjoy the real radio that you so crave.
Diz Grace…
Now now….it is really a very funny petition. Some of the stuff on it is hilarious. Say, is dave being replaced by the guy from Motley Crue?
From the Boston Herald:
The longtime producer for legendary talkmeister Don Imus trashed radio rival David Lee Roth yesterday, calling the former rocker a “miserable schmuck†whose show isn’t going to last.
“I hear from inside sources that he’s just a miserable schmuck and, no, he’s not going to last – nor should he,†Bernard McGuirk told the Herald yesterday after Imus’ live St. Patrick’s Day broadcast in the Hub.
“He doesn’t do a good job, he’s a prima-donna rocker,†McGuirk said. “People are trying to give him constructive advice and he flips them the bird. It’s just not going to work.â€
“I heard a tape of his first day,†McGuirk added. “I’d rather listen to a tape of Star Jones passing wind.â€
“If you want to do a morning radio show, you have to put some work and effort into it,†McGuirk said.
Ouch!
“I heard a tape of his first day,†McGuirk added.
That statement alone is all you need to know about the validity of this opinion. This character listens to one tape of DLR’s FIRST day on the job, and is able to effectively pass judgment on a show that has rocketed stratospherically from a quality perspective in the almost 3 months it has been on the radio airwaves.
Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, with a combined age of 207, providing expert analysis. We can all rest more easily now that we know what Bernard thinks.
One show is not a fair assessment of a person’s work. The DLR archives now contain over 50 examples of how to rocket catastrophically to the bottom of the ratings charts and Imus knows that territory well. Judging by the overwhelming number of female callers, that make it through the screening process, it’s clear that this show has found an audience. Women who can’t tune in to Regis can now listen to radio’s version of The View. Unfortunately for Dave advertisers won’t be willing to shell out big bucks to reach menopausal Van Halen groupies. Let me know when he does his first live progesterone cream commercial. I’m finally at the acceptance stage of the greiving process for good free radio.
Game, set, match – Brian….
Hey Dave, congratulations on your mangled, amateurish interview with American Chopper stars, the Teutuls. Of course you seemed to have never heard of them. They’re only known around the world. What a maroon. They’re name, Teutul, is pronounced ‘tuttle’ not ‘tootle’ as they had to correct you right off the bat. You also seemed to never have watched the show so you didn’t have a single interesting or insightful question to ask them. You were more interested in babbling on about your enjoying the sound of a motorcycle more than riding one. Hint number one, interviews are about the guest not the interviewer. Hint number to, do your homework. That way you will not only stop coming off as an ingnoramus, your interviews might even be interesting. I’ll say one thing for the sound of a motorcycle, it’s more interesting to listen to than your lame voice.
Ladies, please calm down. Especially you, Dani, given that you continue to rocket obliviously between your many blogs. Excuse me, your “marketing research”.
DLR, being a renaissance man of diverse tastes and interests, is certainly a fine connoisseur of motorcycles as well. Witness the sight of him riding gloriously on his Harley in the “Panama” video. Mispronunciation of a last name? Sorry, I’d never heard of the Tootle guys either. They must be important or something.
Yeah, the Teutuls, who? They’re only stars of a hit TV show. Besides being TV stars they’re spokespeople in the TV ads for AOL that ran during the Super Bowl. Why? Because they’re famous. Not a has been! Besides, if you’re doing an interview why bother to prepare? That’s so David Letterman, Jay Leno, or anyone else that actually gets ratings. No wonder he’s #18 out of 18.
So let me make sure I get what you’re trying to sell me here: These Toodles characters are supposed to be world-wide recognizable brand names, similar in recognizability to Ford or Disney, where I could walk over to the mall across the street here in Philly and 4 out of 5 dentists surveyed will recognize their names immediately? In the same way that all 5 dentists will immediately be able to recognize the name David Lee Roth? These guys are that important that EVERYONE knows who they are? I’ll have whatever you’re drinking.
Yeah, they’re that famous and they’re that famous TODAY. People know DLR, they know him as the guy who USED to be David Lee Roth. Hey Diz Grace, it’s not 1984 anymore. Take off your spandex and come out of your basement.
Nice job DLR shouting down the poor guy who works in the hotel industry. He had the nerve to suggest that rock stars and actors are extra work for everybody when they come to a hotel because they expect to be treated like princes. Yeah, you sure showed him. You acted like an arrogant, ranting, spoiled, thin-skinned primadonna. That sure proved him wrong.
Yeah, he lost me on that one. What a prick. From now on its me and my iPod.
Someone thought DLR was certainly talented enough to provide him with a forum to dispense wisdom and thought-provoking intelligence. Put it this way: I would certainly be much more comfortable being a “has-been†than a “never-wasâ€. My guess is that you have not recently fielded the question, Didn’t you used to be ‘Oh My!’
Can you really listen to DLR? Wow, it is almost impossible to do that. It takes me about 1 minute and I have to change the station.
Now that the rating are in, and they are not good. Do you really think that “DLR” the great ex lead singer of Van Halen will have a chance. I do not think so.
DLR IMPLODES:
David Lee Roth attracting about 32,000 listeners at any given moment. Way down from Stern’s average of 277,000…..
92.3 Free Fm in NY the station he is at, went from 8.3 went Stern was on the show to 1.1 now. The Morning show…DLR’s crap show .9 NICE move Dave.
OH and that petition well it is still going: Now it has 688
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/removedlr/signatures?start=650
Is this true?
DLR suspended and will not be on the air wednesday? This was just post on the New York Radio Message board. Something about the show in general and the Miami Show?
Well it is about time they start to do something to change the morning show.
I for one would like to see JV and Elvis take that slot.
they just announced it on howard too — what happened?
did he resign/
Diz Grace.. let me guess. what you would say…
The brilliant mind and free expression that is DLR would not allow the cose minded suits of the CBS establishment to curtain his genius radio persona and therefore , his resistance led to the suspension because he would not compromise his DLR-ness. And we should be thankful DLR touching our lives with his GRATE-NESS.
(Grating is the word for him)
LOVE MY HOWARD
Um, Dani…What are “cose minded suits”? Your overall butchering of the English language and inability to grasp spellingg are a continued thing of beauty.
Suspended for the day…what of it? The most brilliant minds in history have spent at least one or two days of penance in the principle’s office from time to time. Call it a battery recharge.
I’ll bet you love your Howard. I’ll bet you could hold stock in Kleenex for the amount of boxes you go through each time you hear his voice babble on about farting.
This just in:
DLR Gone – 3/29 – This just in: CBS Radio has removed the low-rated David Lee Roth (right) from his post-Howard Stern morning slot at the company’s stations in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, and Pittsburgh. Just in time for the spring ratings sweep, which starts tomorrow. “JV And Elvis” now airs in NYC, at least.
Source: dcrtv.com
Have fun with your EMT stuff Dave. And yes Eddie just called and said, no. Sorry Dave
And now for the actual story from the source above, as opposed to the doctored version:
DLR Gone? – 3/29 – A Wednesday link on Drudge crashed our main dcrtv.com server. From DCRTV’s Rumorama. Not confirmed! Repeat: Not confirmed! But DCRTV hears that CBS Radio has removed the low-rated David Lee Roth (right) from his post-Howard Stern morning slot at the company’s stations in NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, and Pittsburgh. Just in time for the spring ratings sweep, which starts tomorrow. “JV And Elvis” now airs in NYC, at least. CBS recently flipped Philadelphia rocker WYSP, which carried Stern in morning drive, to “Free FM” all-talk with Roth in mornings. And it has plunged from 4th to 19th place in the ratings…..
Diz Grace.. sorry I do not type too well… sort of like DLR not doing radio well.. or life for that matter. DLR creates turmoil where ever he goes and with whom ever he deals with. Those are the facts. No more excuses. If he was not such an asshole and horror to work with CBS would have given him the 18 months to find an audience. But no.. good old Dave knows better and his wisdom leads the way to the unemployment line. Face reality… Eddie was right. Dave has virtually alienated everyone he has ever done business with. It can’t be everyone else all the time. And your you and your DLR army types… I feel as sorry for you all..
you morons, dave is not done:
CBS: David Lee Roth Will Return Friday
CBS Radio spokesperson Karen Mateo tells R&R, “Contrary to erroneous reports, David Lee Roth has not been let go. He is on his way back from Miami and is scheduled to return to the air on Friday.”
Roth’s unscheduled day off on Wednesday certainly didn’t help the rumor mill cycle down for the past 24 hours. According to Roth’s website, he’s in Miami, reportedly attending the Winter Music Conference, and the rumblings emanating from South Beach claimed Roth didn’t get any sleep Monday night and needed some time off.
JV & Elvis, the midday duo on Roth’s Free FM flagship WFNY/New York, were hastily pressed into service to fill in for Roth this morning, while night jock Booker is filling in on middays.
— Kevin Carter, R&R CHR/Pop Editor
Just so you know the truth it was not changed. The one I posted was from earlier in the day and DCRTV.net changed it later. If he is not gone yet, well it will be only a matter of time. Why would they waste all that money sending him to FL for a radio show he never did.
Sorry, there, Dani. Better get that petition started again.
That’s p e t i t i o n.
PS..
It takes 3 days to get from Fl to NY right.
What? He wasn’t on the air? Whe knew? No one. ZZZZZZZZZZZ.
From the NY Post:
FADING OUT
By JOHN MAINELLI
March 30, 2006 — DAVID Lee Roth appears headed for another showdown with CBS Radio – this one potentially fatal.
Howard Stern’s replacement – who got more rotten ratings news earlier this week – was mysteriously absent from yesterday’s show on Free FM (92.3), the day after a reported run-in with management.
Roth has been broadcasting – with frequent technical glitches – from the Winter Music Conference in Miami this week.
“He is on his way back from Miami and is scheduled to return to the air on Friday,” said a CBS spokeswoman, declining to explain the two-show gap except to say that “he was not suspended.”
The former Van Halen frontman was ordered to make significant changes to his radio show this week, sources told The Post. CBS brass read him the riot act last month, too, but this time were much more forceful, the sources said.
CBS execs are insistent that the famously stubborn Roth get a Robin Quivers-style sidekick, take direction from his bosses and put more effort into his show.
There is reason for concern. Roth’s audience was down to an estimated 32,000 listeners last month, off 88 percent from Stern’s 277,000 last December.
Stern has claimed on Sirius Satellite Radio that he heard Roth “does no show prep or post-production meetings, curses when he has to record commercials [and] is always angry and complaining.”
After his first dressing down last month, Roth complained on the air that CBS wanted him to be a Stern clone (“more Paris Hilton than Paris, France”) and vowed, “I refuse to dummy down.”
Since then, however, his guest roster has included strippers, porn stars and even Roth’s own version of Stern’s Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf – a diminutive lad named Two-Foot Fred.
Roth was replaced yesterday and today by mid-dayers JV & Elvis – no strangers to early rising after hosting a top-rated wakeup show in San Francisco for several years.
FINALLY…Told you Diz Grace…
ROTH WILL BE GONE. I’m not buying that he’s on a scheduled break. My guess is that he’s at his lawyers’ office.
I’m praying that Roth is finally gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooo Hooo!!!!
I love all of these gnats that come out of the woodwork, trying to call me out regarding some fictitious level of impending doom for DLR. First, I get Dani the Petition girl, who supplements her boredom waiting for her husband to come home each day by starting and monitoring online petitions. Then some slack-jawed yokel named Roth Is Horrible tries to tell me…well, what, exactly? Got any facts to support your position? Far as I know, Diamond D is returning from a well-earned vacation to Miami, and will grace our radio airwaves on Friday. Until you have anything better to offer than “I’m not buying he’s on a scheduled breakâ€, go pick the thong out of your ass and come back when you have something a little better to offer.
Roth is on a much needed vacation? Hardee! Har !Har! That’s a slap in a face to everyone that goes to work every day. This is his second vacation in a month. The guy’s not exactly a workaholic. Funny how his vacations always coincide with Arbitron announcements of his further slide in ratings. The Titanic went down slower.
This is from the NY POST. What a great show ROTH has. Lost about 88% of the listeners that did not switch to Stern. Nice going Dave. Oh yes he really needs another vacation. Or maybe he is just stuck in “LOOP LAND”
FADING OUT
By JOHN MAINELLI (NY Post)
March 30, 2006 — DAVID Lee Roth appears headed for another showdown with CBS Radio – this one potentially fatal.
Howard Stern’s replacement – who got more rotten ratings news earlier this week – was mysteriously absent from yesterday’s show on Free FM (92.3), the day after a reported run-in with management.
Roth has been broadcasting – with frequent technical glitches – from the Winter Music Conference in Miami this week.
“He is on his way back from Miami and is scheduled to return to the air on Friday,” said a CBS spokeswoman, declining to explain the two-show gap except to say that “he was not suspended.”
The former Van Halen frontman was ordered to make significant changes to his radio show this week, sources told The Post. CBS brass read him the riot act last month, too, but this time were much more forceful, the sources said.
CBS execs are insistent that the famously stubborn Roth get a Robin Quivers-style sidekick, take direction from his bosses and put more effort into his show.
There is reason for concern. Roth’s audience was down to an estimated 32,000 listeners last month, off 88 percent from Stern’s 277,000 last December.
Stern has claimed on Sirius Satellite Radio that he heard Roth “does no show prep or post-production meetings, curses when he has to record commercials [and] is always angry and complaining.”
After his first dressing down last month, Roth complained on the air that CBS wanted him to be a Stern clone (“more Paris Hilton than Paris, France”) and vowed, “I refuse to dummy down.”
Since then, however, his guest roster has included strippers, porn stars and even Roth’s own version of Stern’s Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf – a diminutive lad named Two-Foot Fred.
Roth was replaced yesterday and today by mid-dayers JV & Elvis – no strangers to early rising after hosting a top-rated wakeup show in San Francisco for several years.
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/66226.htm
sorry I saw that someone less posted the same thing. My bad
Two days of that frat boy crap from those retards Elvis and what’s his name is more than enough. DLR is the man.
Absolutely.
Finally, someone’s making sense here.
A mature voice…Agree or Disagree?
Greglips,
Those guys JV and Elvis had the number 1 radio show in SF for a number of years. That idiot Roth thinks he can talk about loops, and Music from Africa or whatever it is that he is talking about. Roth is an idiot and has never hosted a radio talk show before, and as you can see from the ratings it shows. Stern did some of the worst stuff in radio history and had the Number 1 show of all time. So what does that say….lets see, people that are driving to work would like to laugh and not cry like Roth is making us all do. He is making over $4 million doing nothing at all. Agree or disagree….”Live life like your hair is on fire” Sorry, ROTH is an idiot.
Tony,
I’ve mentioned this to some of the other hair brains that have graced this blog, and I guess I’ll mention it to you as well. One would assume that you are in possession of a little knob that serves as a channel changer. If you feel that strongly that DLR is synonymous with bad radio, then…change the station. No one will think anything less of you, and you won’t be missed. But those of us who enjoy the high quality value of Roth Radio will sure as hell not be apologizing any time soon to you for enjoying it.
You sound like sour grapes, Dude, wishing he was off the air, but to your obvious chagrin, Roth remains. It didn’t quite turn out like your informative article said it would. Guess you didn’t have the inside scoop. Tough one, buddy. Guess it’s back to flipping burgers for ya.
Hey Diz,
New York City Population: 8 Million
David Lee Roth Listeners: 32,000 and dropping fast.
Pathetic.
Diz Roth…sorry Grace,
What the people would like is for something to listen to on the way to work. If you really believe in your mind that Roth is doing a great job, WOW. Not sure if you know this, but the way radio works, you need good ratings. Stern was pulling in the biggest rating of any DJ in the country. However only 30% of those people followed him to Sirius. So that leaves 70% of the largest radio following. What happened to those people? They for sure are not listening to “Diamond Dave”. With a rating of .9 one of the lonest at the CBS flagship station that SUCKS!!!! He has been at work, if you would like to call what he does work for 3 months now. Oh and 2 vacations because he one of the hardest workers in the radio business. His rating have fallen each month. Now he is down to 32,000 listeners. Nice move right, not. Stern had 277,000 and that was at the end at KROCK. Are you for real when you say his show is good. Could you please explain good? He talks to his friend animal, who by the way can not talk, and then he talks down to the listeners. Why, because he wants everyone to think he is a smart guy. Ever wonder why Eddie kicked his ass out of Van Halen? You are right about changing the station for sure. I do it each and everytime I turn on the radio and I hear his voice. Well that is good for rating right? I happen to like JV and Elvis who by the way have done a great job filling in for your boy. Word is that the rating have gone up for the two days that they have filled in. You see JV and Elvis worked in radio before, unlike roth, they had the number 1 radio show in SF. They were number 1 for years. So they know radio and they have a following. Booker is another great show on Free Fm in NY, again in the business for sometime and has won many awards. Let us look at Roth the 4 Million dollar mistake. He wanted a new studio with a window. Tom C gave it to him, Roth says it has dust in it and will not work out of the new studio. He shows up to work late and leaves 2 seconds after the end of the show. He has no idea what any of his guests are about nor does he care. He just wants to play is “LOOPS”. And if you think he can still sing then you are really sad. Wow he has lost his voice and his mind. The once great David Lee Roth is now just a wasted up rock star and soon to be washed up radio host. Sorry I can not call him a DJ because he does not know what the hell a DJ does.
I hope this helps you
Hello Diz Grace,
It seems that you are the only Roth fan here. Sorry about that. It is the worst radio I have ever listened to in my life. What idiot at CBS thought that a idiot like ROTH would be a good talk show host. He has guests on and knows nothing about them. That is called doing your job? Right. Please take Diamond Dave, DLR, D-RO, ASSHOLE, D-IDIOT, Dave shit, Dave Lee Roth, Ex-Lead Singer of Van Halen off the radio. PLEASE
Diz Grace,
I am new to this post. Roth is the worst and you know it, but you can not get over your Van Halen days. Are you for real, he sucks as a radio host. I will help you understand your problem. He wants people to believe he is smart, ok talk about big words and really have no clue. Next you need to think of yourself as “A lead singer in a rock band”. Ok now you are ready to make a total fool of yourself. Ok, enter DLR………A total fool!!!!!!!!!!!
Tony: Keep flipping those burgers. At some point, if you get the right break, you might get a gig at the school newspaper with your extensive deep thoughts. What, did you get let go by McDonald’s again, is that why you have that much time to share your rambling word drool?
Mike: Based on your snippet of verbal diarrhea, I would actually pay a subscription to satellite radio if you had a show, and forgo free radio. Obviously you should have your own show, given your talent.
Tom C: What?
Poor Dave laments that he needed some time to hit his stride and he likes to use the new band analogy. New bands don’t open as headliners at big venues but Dave wasn’t willing to hone his skills in a small market. His ego needed the big stage and now he shrinks from the bright lights and the criticism. This guy hasn’t attempted to build a repore with his audience. Does anyone believe that he shakes hands with the garbage man, was rolled over by a “broom jockey” in post op after back surgery or paid for show promotion out of his own pocket? Ok if enormous pictures of himself are promotions I can see him footing the bill. We know he can talk for 4 hours. The question is will he say anything? Anybody who gets anything from this show except a glimpse into the mind of an egomaniac is starved for entertainment or you can’t help slowing down at the car crash like myself. Anyhow, thank God there will be no more Animal abuse of the english language. I enjoy listening to Dave talk tough one week and capitulate the next. It’s clear that DLR isn’t committed to the hard work and preparation it takes to do good radio. He’s just buying time until they can find 6 housemates that will be willing to spent a month with him on The Sureal Life.
Diz Grace,
We all must be wrong, and you must be right! In fact, D.RO’s show is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO awesome that they fired his 2 sidekicks (Blues Scale Young and Dumb Animal). I thought I’d NEVER tire of listening to B. Young play the same Blues Scale over and over no matter what loop DRo happened to play. And as for Animal’s commentary? Brilliant stuff – his opinions really mattered. Of all the people D. Ro could pick to go on air with, those guys were the best he could find? Or were they the only two people he could find who would consistently sound so dumb that he’d sound smart in comparison (or who would laugh at his incessantly unfunny jokes & demeanor)? I think the latter. Anyhow, it’s hilarious that they fired those two clowns and replaced them with some English dude. Totally sucktacular radio.
As for the new format, I kept laughing my ass off this morning! His NEW format is awesome. It’s like watching a train wreck happen before your very eyes. If he can keep up the kid in detention act for another week, I’ll listen to the whole thing. Now he’s actually trying to do bad radio, which is pretty scary, because he thought he was interesting before. Who knows how low he can take the format when he’s actually TRYING to be bad. I can’t wait to listen again!!!
Fuckin Roth! Man didn’t he say a few weeks ago that he would not change his format?. He said he threatened to quit if they made him change. Well today Dave showed his true self. A money grubbin pay check hunter. He swears allegiance to that in bred criminal crip animal and the shitty studio guitarist and then does shit for them as they get fired because he sucks. Wonder how they feel not working and he sits there crying like the spoiled fag that he is. AHHH poor Dave always the victim. Man I got sick of him in the 80s and was like what when I heard he was what they had in mind to replace Stern. The dumbfuck that hired him needs to go. This is the worst fuckin peice of shit radoi show I have ever heard in my life, and as for the people that tell me to change the station if I don’t like it I say go fuck yourself. I been listening to 92.3 for over 20 yrs and now this bitch is gonna try and fuck up my mornings? I will not pay for Stern unless Jackie comes back and that aint happening anytime soon so now I gonna channel surf because this shithead has a big ego. N bitches he needs to go away. I like all the other shows on free fm but this tird. He is in it for money only. He never preps and does not care at all and never did. I say pay him and bring on JV and Elvis, cause I am sick of having to switch between baldy and Preston and Steve who suck too but not like Roth. I hope he gets so upset this weekend that he o.d.s on whatever drugs he’s into. Believee me this is a drunk druggy that just wants to keep money coming in so he can pay cronies to party and hang out with his washed up stupid ass. Fuck DLR and anyone that likes his shit show.
Truly amazing thing about all of these posts: Common denominator between all y’all is how much Roth sucks, how bad his show is, he’s washed up, yada yada. And yet…you’re still tuning in, listening to how bad his show is. You’re giving the guy exactly what he wants, and you don’t even know it. He could care less whether you like or dislike him, just as long as you’re listening.
I swear, this situation, as it plays out, is amazingly similar to the Howard Stern movie, when the powers that be tried to re-shape him to fit a mold. I could give a rat’s ass about who is paired with DLR. When I see him play live, I’m not concerned about the drummer. The drummer was hired to compliment the star of the show, not be the focus of it. So Animal, B-Young, Sasha, not on the air anymore? Who cares? I wasn’t tuning in for their opinions anyway. I’m here to embrace the entertaining pontifications of DLR.
Diz Grace,
I happened to tune in the last fine minutes of the show waiting for the Booker show. I thought that D-FOOL was about to cry. Wow, what a waste of air time. I am going to do the show the way they want me to. And I am going to fuck it up even more. He even said at the end that he knows his days are numbered and that whoever follows him with be better. NO SHIT DAVE.
Grace good luck telling this blog how great dave is. Sorry what few hundred posts and how many like dave? Not many.
Diz Grace,
You got a bunch of wedgies in school. didn’t you? You were that kid that EVERYONE hated because he would argue with the teacher just to try to prove he is intelligent, weren’t you?
One of three things is true:
A) You’re David Lee Roth and are getting paid $4 mill. year to like your sucktastic show
B) You’re taking a contrarian position to nettle and annoy
C) (I think this is the case) You still have the same ugly ass mullet hair cut you had in 1985. You weren’t popular in school, and you always looked up to a guy like David Lee Roth, who got the chicks and could wear spandex. You wear spandex. As others around you have cut their mullets and stopped liking “Poison”, you only were able to move on to Dream Theatre in the 90’s. In the 2000’s, you got really excited by “The Darkness”. You didn’t realize they were a joke. You secretly like Kelly Clarkson. You openly loathe “Pearl Jam”. You secretly want to “be” with David Lee Roth. You wear spandex while playing air strumming your Ibanez 777 Steve Vai Model, while sporting a pink tank-top and blasting 1984 in your mother’s house. You do this in front of the mirror and pretend to be Eddie Van Halen. You hate the fact that it is no longer 1984. You laugh just as hard at every lame one-liner out of D. Ro as B. Young. You wear spandex.
If you get Penn Jillette in your area (I listen to him online) give him a try. He’s everything DLR is not; a professional entertainer that’s entertaining.
Roth is Honorable,
I happen to have a contrarian opinion to yours because I happen to enjoy DLR. Doesn’t make me wrong. Certainly puts me in the minority, but I can live with that, because popular opinion was never my deal. I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin. Since you know me, and my affinity for spandex, I will go out on a limb and say that I know you as well. You are the same dweeb who absolutely HAD to go to the mall to see Tiffany perform, because she was popular, and you HAD to share the popular opinion with everyone else. You sound like a fat, bald, wanna-be-never-gonna-be loner who enjoys quiet evenings alone with the JC Penny’s lingerie catalogue.
When you run out of nothing to do with your time, go flip burgers with Tony.
Whoa!
“Call me Dave, no more D-Roth.”
The rebel got racked. DLR sounds like the kid who got sent to the woodshed. What a weak show today. The fire was gone. They broke him. His name is Toby. They fired his cohorts and made him eat crow on the air. Even he admitted that he was suspended not “on vacation.” I actually felt bad for him. Have a nice life.
Hey grace,
I happen to own a company with 20 people working for me. And most of them enjoy listening to the radio in the morning. Well D-ROD has killed that for all of us. Sorry that you Love him so much. I understand that they have just about finished him off. It was sad to hear that he almost cried today on the day. I bet that he cried like that when Eddie kicked him out of the band.
Talk about wallowing in self-pity. Wah! Wah! Waw!
Yeah, he sure sounded like he was 50+ today. He sounded 90.
Face it DLR(Damn Lame Radio) is horrible.
DizGrace we are listening since everyone loves to look at a car wreck to see how bad it really is. I listen to him so that I make sure I can get out of bed inthe morning, because after 2 minutes I can’t wait to get up and go to work. Dave proved he is just in it for the money, since he has to have seen that ratings have gotten worse but he still stayed. Must have spent all the money he made with that Shlock Rock band VanHalen. They will probably end up buying him off and then that will be the end of Dave.
If he had any self respect he would quit now. As for Animal he is probably sitting home laughing with his friends about how bad Dave is and that he doesn’t have to wake up at 4am and deal with an idiot.
Dave does not have a mullet since he has gone fairly bald. He looks almost as scary as Imus does in his press photos.
Hey, Tony, good luck at that McDonalds you employ 20 people at. Next time, serve me my Big Mac a little quicker. And tuck your shirt in.
Good friends, please understand that Diamond Dave is an American institution. An entertainer known worldwide for his prolific voice and home-spun witticisms that have spawned a million imitators, but to date, no duplicators. This is a person under siege by wack management that fails to recognize a prophet in their midst. The reason he stands alone atop the mountain of entertainment is his ability to laugh through tough moments such as these where his creative genius is questioned.
Dave just had to do it his way… Can you imagine if some new musician told Dave how to run his band? NOT.. but Dave of course knows radio..NOT
GRACCCCE,
Dave stands alone on the top of the pile of garbage. Hate to burst your loving bubble of D-FOOL, but he can not SING anymore. Agree or Disagree? Now he is saying that no one booked any guests for him. What the hell, maybe they hired him to do some work. Maybe he could book his own guests. I am sure that Eddie kicked his ass out of Van Halen,because he is an ASSHOLE. Agree or disagree? I just listened to his show now, for a laugh, and man was it full of laughs. He is a beaten down wonderboy. I really do believe he was crying. They fired all the other fools and now he and some other guy are all alone in Daves world. A world of loops….Because of all the crap he did over his life, it is just one big loop in his mind. Now I migh