#1660 - David Lee Roth

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

David Lee Roth (0:16)

Likewise, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

You handle aging better than anybody that I know. You stay yourself, through thick and thin. You are yourself.

David Lee Roth (0:23)

Please explain self, son.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

You are you. You don't, you know, you carry zero pretense.

You are just who you are, and you're eccentric, but it is genuine.

David Lee Roth (0:37)

I enjoy folks. I enjoy entertaining folks. I enjoy learning from folks, whether that's in a formatted kind of a thing, or whether we're gathered around the campfire, or the occasional bong. Yes. The alleged bong.

That's something that most of us, I think, perhaps we were compelled to skip out on that once we leave school. Once we leave the club level in showbiz, where we're confronted with all kinds of other neighborhoods of folks, and you know, different kinds of shoes and haircuts and music, and approaches to the politic and social and once you're out of school, you kind of, okay, I joined the law firm, now I only go out with the law firm folks and join that country club. Or you become a permanent below 14th Street, downtown, and I haven't been up above 14th Street in four years. You used to hear that, right? So when you lose that, it becomes, gee, you want to become, stay part of that group. You don't want to start speaking downtown around the law, boys.

I myself am a combat hippie, peace, love and heavy weapons.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

That's the thing about like leaving clubs, right? You leave clubs, you kind of leave contact with people, right?

David Lee Roth (1:57)

You remember the quad, and it's just as important and perhaps more important going boo.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

The quad?

David Lee Roth (2:02)

Yeah, the quad at school.

There's a pep rally on the quad, at the quadrangle.

And then remember, at the quadrangle, you know, there's a pep rally on the quad. It means a square place where everybody gathers for the rally. And people go to music school, go to art school, doesn't matter. Folks frequently will come out, and Al Van Halen and I went to music school together, for example. He says, say hello. He's listening currently.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Hello.

David Lee Roth (2:32)

As we speak, Alex actually would punch you in the shoulder and go, yo.

SPEAKER_2 (2:36)

Yo.

David Lee Roth (2:37)

He was part of the bussing program, too.

SPEAKER_2 (2:39)

Yo.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Yo.

David Lee Roth (2:44)

However, I'm Jewish, so we would say hello.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Shalom. What's with the outfit, the painting outfit?

David Lee Roth (2:51)

I like it. This is kind of what I wear regular. If you get dressed up, nothing's going to make you look older than trying to look young. Nothing's going to make you look fat or trying to look skinny. You want to see how I am regularly.

Elton John can't go anywhere without purple.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

He can't?

David Lee Roth (3:10)

No. There are folks who can't go out anywhere without a complete hair set up and obtaining the character.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

That seems exhausting.

David Lee Roth (3:19)

It is. I'm not really a character. Most of my high fashion probably comes from a sports store and probably comes from a surplus place. And on a show like this, you get a better view of who I actually might be. Now, if I was putting on face, I wouldn't have showed up with a missing tooth.

I fell off my bike going zero miles an hour.

The seat was too high. My leg was too short. It was a deadly combination, Joe.

Joe Rogan (3:48)

And you lost a tooth? When did you lose a tooth?

David Lee Roth (3:50)

But in the mixed martial arts context, I think it might be fit.

Joe Rogan (3:55)

Well, again, it fits with your lack of pretense. Did you, are you going to get it replaced?

David Lee Roth (4:01)

Of course. And I'm glad you asked.

Joe Rogan (4:03)

How do they do that? They screw a bolt in there?

David Lee Roth (4:05)

Yeah. It is in Beverly Hills. I am fortunate enough to have some great dentists who do what I call newscaster teeth.

Who sits closer to the camera for sustained periods of time. Doesn't matter what news you watch. I know we watch both.

And you study them.

So their teeth have to be perfect. And I just saw a great show on Netflix called Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. It's the story of Ma Rainey, the blues singer. Played by Viola Davis. And she has teeth that look like she made a $15 visit to an uptown dentist in 1926 Got a frame on it. A gold frame. Mike Tyson had these teeth too.