I was going to title this post, What If There Was A Train Wreck And Everyone Else In The World Knew Except David Lee Roth That He Was The Wreckee? but I didn’t have the room.
How bad was it? Well, anyone who caught Leno last Tuesday is probably still wondering if someone slipped funny fungus on their pizza. Personally, I was already in bed when Leno came on but three of the four comedians from “Blue Collar TV” were on, in addition to DLR, so I stayed up to watch… and wish I hadn’t.
There he was, promoting his new CD, Strummin’ With The Devil: A Bluegrass Tribute to Van Halen
It was bad. Really, really bad.
Since I’d actually been in bed for a couple of hours with a migraine and had taken a mega-dose of meds to treat it, I wasn’t completely convinced the whole thing wasn’t a bad dream or a flashback or something. So I went to find the Venomous Hubby in time for him to catch the last 20 seconds and verify that, yes indeed, that was DLR and yes, indeed, it was that bad.
How bad, you ask?
Bad enough that it’s impossible to find the video online thanks to the lawyers at NBC. Which is a shame, because watching it would be the best way to get over the next time I embarrass myself in public.
UPDATE: Ah, not impossible after all, so now you can see for yourself what I mean.
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June 9, 2006 at 7:54 pm
I saw it.
It was so bad, I was searching my own arms for trackmarks.
June 10, 2006 at 12:26 am
All I can say is that my personal memories of the 80′s have been violated. It’s like finding out your entire life has been a lie. Well, perhaps not that bad but damn close.
June 10, 2006 at 5:58 am
I really should have watched that so early in the morning.
June 11, 2006 at 10:52 am
Actually, if I’d never heard the original, I would have thought that was a decent bluegrass tune. Would have been better with Bella Fleck and the Flecktones backing it up.
This is right up there with Pat Boone Sings Metallica for wondering if you haven’t permanently lept into an alternate universe.
I wonder if anyone’s told DLR that his voice is changing again?
June 11, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I’m with Timmer – it wasn’t that bad – if it were taken without prior knowledge.
The hair got me more than the song…
June 12, 2006 at 12:25 am
Anybody out there read HP Lovecraft?
You know the stories where the protagonist and hapless disbeliever witnesses something so indescribably awful that they are reduced to a gibbering heap? When they return to sanity, they are forever marked with something like white hair….
That’s kind of how I feel at the moment. I need a shower.
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