Why Billy Sheehan Quit The David Lee Roth Band

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[@gokhanersan8561]

Skyscraper grew on me over the years. It’s a clinical and calculated rocknroll masterpiece.

[@jonrhythm3686]

Not a big DLR band fan but I gotta say all 3 of those guys turned out to be pretty decent humans.

[@vixstert.5642]

"Gimme a bottle of anything and a glazed donut.... to go!"

[@randysatarsky1789]

I was at one of those those at the Sweatatorium! Good Times. I met Greg many years later, and had some awesome conversations. He remembers every gig, and had some cool memories of the Sportatorium shows. He's such a genuine, and overall good human!!

[@almosthuman56]

I interviewed Greg in Nashville and its true.. He remembered the sportatorium well. Talked about the miles of trees to get to the gig. Great guy.

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Another great vid. Thanks for the material. Hope you are feelin better.

[@almosthuman56]

Thank you

[@Idollisimo]

It reminded me when I saw KISS for the very first time in 2008. It was a huge deal for me, obviously, and I got in the line at the entrance 6 hours before the beginning. And there was a fan, surely a die-hard, all covered with KISS patches and tattoos, and he was already drunk and rowdy but as they started to let people in the arena he was unconscious and his friends just let him sleep outside. That guy surely had a great KISS show :))

[@SHENDOH]

Saw them in Albq NM. Wild show, what a band. Crazy good

[@SEATTLEPOSEIDON32]

This is the News 🎸

[@grindhousecartoons6896]

MY BUD AND I DRESSED UP LIKE THE CANNIBAL ON THE ALBUM COVER, FEATHERS AND ALL! MY HAIR DRESSER CHIC FRIEND DID THE MAKE UP FOR US. IT WAS IDENTICAL TO ROTHS. WE GOT SHIT FACED AT THE TAIL GATE PARTY! AND MANEUVERED TO THE FRONT OF THE STAGE, GROPING EVERY CHICA ALONG THE WAY. IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS I'VE GONE TO. I THOUGHT IT KICKED MORE AS THAN THE VAN HALEN 1984 TOUR. ROTH WAS RELENTLESS ON THAT TOUR! I STILL GOT THE PHOTOS OF US IN COSTUME," EATING AND SMILING!"

[@vixstert.5642]

I bet you've got some great concert stories! 🤘

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

I guess I’LL be the guy who points-out that you just confessed to multiple-counts of sexual-assault. Because I’m jealous that I missed this show. 😂

[@rich52569]

@@hailmaryrecordings8255 It's not sexual assault until someone complains. 😉 just sayin'.

[@flazjsg]

Saw "Eat Em and Smile" tour. Was so loud, I couldn't tell one song from another. I think Power Station opened up - I can't remember much about it. Sheehan was smart to take up Roth's offer. I grew up an hour away from Buffalo and Talas wasn't going anywhere. They were strictly a club act that would come around maybe every 6 months. Zero radio play locally. I heard Sheehan had a huge ego FWIW.

[@vanhouten7377]

I saw that tour Cinderella opened the show I saw they were much better than DLR

[@acorn-yy1gi]

I saw that tour and thought the band was incredible. DLR performed well, too.

[@Atomykpimp]

I’m curious about the tour with The Power Station. Robert Palmer was or was not on tour with them? I remember him not being at Live Aid on stage with them as he had moved on to do his solo stuff. I saw DLR in ‘88 with Poison in St. Louis. Was an amazing show none the less.

[@thekenandmisty]

I saw whitesnake when steve vai was touring with them. He even brought out that cool af heart shaped guitar for a bit. The whole night kicked ass. Stood right in front all night long. This was still the days when you could go wherever you want on the floor if you could keep from getting crushed.

[@dominysynclair]

The good ole days.

[@ericcurry-pitcher5493]

Not a fan of DLR, after VH, yet I am glad to hear things were cool and a good time for the people who worked with the guy. What happened to DLR,? such a strange dude.

[@Kelly-dp7fb]

Saw Roth on eat em in Utica with Tesla,young couple few rows behind me were passed out covered in puke

[@Kinger1625]

Love how much you cover!!!❤

[@almosthuman56]

Thank you so much!!

[@daviddigital6887]

Very talented lineup and they put on a great show

[@sarcastanaut]

No drugs on Dave's bus? Not sure I believe that, haha. 😂

[@themachine8277]

In Dave's head, coke isn't a drug- it's a way of life

[@daviddigital6887]

Dave probably had his own bus separate from the band

[@jerrygreitens2522]

Great story about you seeing DLR enjoyed it!

[@almosthuman56]

Thank you!!

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

I saw Van Halen's "1984" concert at the Hollywood, Sportatorium. Also know as the Snortatorium. Autograph opened to boos the second they hit the stage. Unlike Cinderella they had no album out yet. "Turn Up the Radio" was about 17 months away.

[@almosthuman56]

Right on. I was at that show

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

@@almosthuman56 My first concert was Ozzy/Def Leppard at Sunrise Musical Theater on Sept 11, 1981. My mother did not want us going to the Snortatorium. I almost had her convinced to let me go to see BOC there. Can't remember if that was before the Rush tea gas incident. When she read about that in the papers she would not let me even discuss concerts there for the next couple years. That VH concert she let me go because my friend's dad was going with us. He was freaked out about Autograph getting booed. I found it rather distasteful as I previously read Scott Bernard's (Showtime) review of a Loverboy show where the local opening act was booed. Zebra was slated to open for them at Sportatorium and had cancelled.

[@Atomykpimp]

I saw the Van Halen ‘84 tour in Landover MD at the Capitol Center. Was my first concert at 13 years old. Still got my ticket stub and concert shirt!!

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

@@Atomykpimp Did Autograph open? Did they get booed from the first second? Assuming you got there early.

[@javiercojoba]

I was already hooked on heavier stuff but that album and the EP, rocked! Never listened to "Skyscraper"

[@kristinasativa]

Saw the Eatem n Smile tour. Madison, Wisconsin. Listened to Mr Big alot. Shy Boy shy boy. I liked Talas.❤

[@acorn-yy1gi]

I had a couple of Talas' studio albums and also their live album. Good band. Saw Billy with DLR and with Mr Big. Great bassist, vocalist and performer!

[@thomasbrogan8036]

Good Story ! Eat em and Smile was a MONSTER album..is a monster album. I din't see Dave on tour. 🤘

[@berliner0]

Thank you

[@almosthuman56]

Welcome!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

I was just watching a video of the DLR-band playing Detroit in 1986 … wow.

[@sonijam]

I loved that calypso part! So unexpected.

[@tommyibanez3958]

I didn't really like the A Little Ain't Enough album (that started my separation from DLR), but Joe Holmes was the guitarist on tour and he nailed the Eddie stuff, and Dave surfed directly over my head

[@thunderstruck6585]

I grew up south of Buffalo and Billy's band Talus played the bars and clubs all the time but i was too young to get in to any. I did see Talus in 1984 when they played at my college. Billy had a Whammy bar on his base and was playing it like Eddie Van Halen. Tapping and forced harmonics. Crazy stuff.

[@daemonchild1977]

*Talas 🙄

[@Scottocaster6668]

Ralph: "I was legless....i had no legs!" 😆😆🤣

[@toddmorrissey8372]

The interview footage of DLR , Vai and Billy doing promo for Eat Em and Smile when Roth scolds Billy for "squeaking" his chair is wild.

[@TheChadTI]

I liked Skyscraper as an album but at the time it felt like Dave wanted to streatch out and move into "dance rhythms" and "miami sounds" to paraphrase his interviews at the time.(The cylipso thing in the shows😅) Dave overestimated his audiences interest in HIS interests. DLR fans will bend with him a bit (Crazy from the Heat ep) but they wanted a continuation of the VH sound mainly and when he made these detours it was tolerated for awhile... A Little Aint enough felt like an attempt to pull back on these eccentricities, but the times were changing mus8cally.

[@alspencer3826]

I agree with your comments completely. The A little ain't enough was a good album, and I feel it was an attempt to get back to a more traditional dave sounding album. However, you are completely right, the music scene was changing, had that album come out just one year earlier, I feel it would have been huge!! Some of his decisions have puzzled me over the years, and I often wonder what would have happened if he just kept it goin with the solo band? Sometimes i just want to strangle him, but it's too late for the could of, should have thing, oh well.

[@michaelbrock3262]

A little ain't enough was a good album. But born again and sabotage will always be the best... Tomorrow's dream .

[@larsmarcon2652]

Skyscraper was great

[@whatarefriends4]

Those guys loved playing with Dave and

[@diamondd2778]

David lee roth was the greatest show I ever. Brilliant!

[@jamiebutler1762]

the first 2 dlr albums where really good.

[@YouCanCallMeDon]

He had no publishing on the Skyscraper album, and the tours probably did not pay that well. So, he had to move on.

[@michaelhalford9709]

Agree with you totally as usual,Eat'em tour was fabulous Sky crapper was a let down. Had a good drunken time at both though. Be well

[@XCenturionX]

David Lee Roth always looked old

[@bb-gc2tx]

did daves wig fool anybody back in 1986 ?🤣

[@rich52569]

I remember saying to myself (not knowing it was a wig at the time) why is he wearing bangs? - it looked horrible - his VH wig always looked more natural to me.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@rich52569 dont think he wore a wig in VH. you can see by 1985 his hair was starting to go then in 1986 when he launched solo career he went full wig. that had suck being one of biggest rock stars in the world and you start losing your hair rapidly at 31 years old

[@walterevans2118]

0:30 ???????

[@ourheartscondemnyou]

That story.. 😂 🥃 🥃🥃

[@mikefromohio7787]

Without me, knowing I believe Billy,left David Lee Roth to join Mr. big

[@daemonchild1977]

Skyscraper was such a misstep. It stalled Dave’s career and he couldn’t make up the ground.

[@ericsteadman6687]

I like Skyscraper better than Eat em and smile. My favorite David Lee Roth album

[@Jeffrey-hk4fq]

🤔 Billy's back in Buffalo shoveling snow❄️Go Bills! 😆ha,ha

[@rejeanroy216]

Eat em' and Smile is a great album. Too bad David didn't keep the other ones would had be the same way.

[@anyfoolknowthat]

in my dream world, Dave keeps that 85 band together and squashes Sam Halen into the ground… OU812 completely flops, FUCK never gets released

[@New_Jax_City]

Bro you can tell all the stories you want if you’ll sell me that Roth shirt in this video. No BS i’ll buy it can i email ya? Whatever u want you got it.

[@themadmattster9647]

He’s a Scientologist but known to be one of the better ones

[@dominysynclair]

No he's not.

[@themadmattster9647]

@@dominysynclair he quit??

[@dominysynclair]

@@themadmattster9647 Where did you hear this?

[@acorn-yy1gi]

@@dominysynclair Billy talks about it from time to time. He finds it useful. Oh well.

[@dominysynclair]

@@acorn-yy1gi First time I've ever heard this. I don't believe it.

[@jefferysteen1041]

Dave was hard to get along with..that's what he told Hit Parader

[@anyfoolknowthat]

What did Vai say?

[@seagullpoet]

I bought Talas album. It was okay. No way would I buy it now.

[@otisdriftwood8469]

Could he gay it up anymore? Go to your safe place, Billy.

[@eddiecatflap3838]

I think Skyscraper is a great album.

[@csphoenix9]

Roth was stupid with the band and ruined it, he had one of the world's top bass players and he was writing songs with a synth bass parts. I talked with Billy about what happened and it was just plain stupid what Roth did. Sheehan is a great guy so was Paul