Rock Hall of Fame Denies it Snubbed David Lee Roth
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 @ 5:52 AM
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David Lee Roth is sticking to his statement that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame told him he was not allowed to perform at the ceremony to induct Van Halen into the hall.
But Joel Peresman, the Hall's president and CEO, said in a Saturday e-mail to The Los Angeles Times that Roth is telling only part of the story.
"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sorry that David Lee Roth will not attend this year's induction of Van Halen. We offered him opportunities to play and sing a Van Halen song of his choice with our House band, including his own guitar player or a song with Velvet Revolver and he refused those opportunities."
Peresman concluded the e-mail with a curt denial that the Hall is somehow the bad guy in all this: "We made every effort and the decision not to come was solely his, not ours."
According to the Times, the Roth camp says that the only offer they had received before Friday was an invitation to perform "You Really Got Me" with Velvet Revolver. Roth balked in part because that song, off Van Halen's first album, was originally recorded by the Kinks and is not a "true" Van Halen song.
Roth wanted to sing "Jump," but with rehearsal time limitations, and other logistics, it was not possible.
According to the Times, Hall officials, privately, were surprised and wondered if Roth really wanted to perform at all. They also said if he had traveled east to New York to work with the producers on site, everything would have worked out.
Roth, meanwhile, said he felt like the Hall was more concerned with Velvet Revolver's issues than the band getting inducted. He said he's been preparing since December for the Hall event and loathes the prospect of missing it. "It rips my heart out," he said Thursday.
Eddie Van Halen will not be at the ceremony either. He's in rehab.
righthere - 3/21/2007 11:47:24 PM Speaking of Cultists. Mexico has got the worst sadistic, baby killing satanists on this side of the planet. I found out when I met a Tex-Mex. My buddy Paul, called me up and the next thing I knew I was invited for free to go see MotorHead in concert. They picked me up and when I climbed into the van the first thing I noticed was this guy who looked like Ricky Sanchez. My buddies brother introduced me to this sinister looking guy who got the tickets. Anyway, I was friendly enough with the dude, after all he was paying for the free show. After a while he got to talking about Texas and mexico and told me there are more death cults and drugs running between these two places then any other, but you won't find that out through the mainstream. Not just chicken heads getting sliced off, we're talking a civilization that hasn't lost that Mayan touch. Baby killing on a mass scale, pregnant mothers killed and the fetes getting eaten, missing children and young teens by the thousands and he told me hundreds of bodies a year are found with missing limbs that are almost never investigated by the law, unless you have lots of bucks. Most crimes in Mexico are never solved. Pentegrams burned into the beheaded bodies, no blood in the bodies. And Bush is letting these kinds of people into America by the hundreds of thousands. I bought a book later on about the subject and it pretty well proved Tex-Mex wasn't bullshitting. The book on Underground cults described how satanists are indeed sitting on Judges seats in the courthouse, bankers, pornstars, they're cops and are TV ministers, they are daycare workers, TV news anchors, actors, directors, politicians, musicians, gay activists, doctors. lawyers. And don't go looking for the guy with the crazy eye's with the inverted cross tatoos on his forehead, causethey look like happy-elbow jabbing regular people. Except they do the orgy scenes, they will kill children one night then tell their followers the next Sunday morning to send all their money so that god will bless their homes and give you the weather. And they do it all in the name of their lord and god ,lucifer. After I met that guy, MotorHead was the last heavymetal concert I went to.
oldskool666 - 3/20/2007 8:51:48 PM yeah i`m not too keen on ole g.w either.he lost what little respect i had for him when he gave in to korea and bribed them like clinton did.it didn`t work when clinton did it in the 90`s and it won`t work this time.all he did was give away more tax money to help fund him even more with his nuclear endeavors.thats why i believe we need more libertarians in office to balance these assholes out.liberals want too many government commities and if we follow them we`ll end up in a socialist republic.republicans want to use meeger tax releif as a curtain to screw over the middle and low class so they can reap the rewards.its that simple...look into the libertarian party and read their stance on how the government should be ran....you`ll be supprised.its a radical idea called self reliance.anybody who thinks we ought to give the government the right to decide our freedoms and dictate how we live should not be in office.
ocillotist - 3/20/2007 6:40:12 AM I hear you scrap, it is quite perplexing - again history repeats itself in the most damning of ways, I knew it would be bad, had no idea it would be this bad
Blobber - 3/19/2007 5:38:40 PM I suffer from chronic insomnia...so I read and watch TV 24/7, when I'm not working. Hence, I have plenty of material. I used to be a hardcore heathen of this world, so that's my connection to Matamoros.
ocillotist - 3/19/2007 8:55:02 AM doesn't our government rely on us for our tax dollars? remember these motherfuckers are supposed to be "public servants" - all I've ever done is pay out, oh yeah and if Social Security isn't going to be available? pay me my shit now and stop taking it out of my paycheck!
CROOKEDCR0SS - 3/19/2007 5:54:56 AM OLDSTOOL--->YOU BEEN DRINKIN OUTTA THE TOILET TOO MUCH,U KNOW,THEM FRESHENERS?
scrapmetal - 3/18/2007 8:09:41 PM Oldskool-thios country gets what they deserve for reelecting this fucking retarded administration.I mean,everyone should know by know that Halliburton paid Dick Cheney 31 fucking million dollars as severance pay for leaving his ceo postion to become vp so he could start a war & award billions of tax payers money in contracts to his old company.ANd the prez is so pathetic that half his cabinet up & walked
a year into his second term.They stole 2 elactions,gas is predicted to be 3-5 bucks a gallon and it goes on and on and on.One thing for sure,the modern day GOP is an effective political machine-it astounds me that this guy got reelected.
oldskool666 - 3/18/2007 7:50:20 PM lol....where do you come up with this shit blobber?
Blobber - 3/18/2007 6:39:07 PM I wish all you heathens would go to Matamoros and get snatched, tortured, raped, slaughtered and cannibalized by drug-crazed Mexican Satanic cultists. Then a part of you might end up a part of some beaner drug-cartel hired killer's 1.5' long turd.
oldskool666 - 3/18/2007 11:17:54 AM yeah scrap i`d like to see a halfway honest(the is no such thing as a fully honest politician) moderate take power for 8 years too.i really like the way libritarians want to downsize federal government alltogether and make government more state/city ran.the only reason i don`t support then is i don`t agree on the whole laissez-faire economic system.but i do agree the most with them in that we rely on our federal government too much.kinda like ole chicken shit clone boy.....i`m sure hes collecting a stupid check for having a.d.d. or something like that doesn`t really effect him doing work.i know why he likes liberals....they are willing to fill his lazy fucking arms up with aid he don`t need.(to clone boy)I BET YOUR MAKING A GOV CHEESE SANDWICH RIGHT NOW HUH?
oldskool666 - 3/18/2007 10:48:03 AM look at me i`m CROOKEDCRoSS i don`t have the balls to be someone who actually stands by their convictions.instead i like to make up similar looking names to real ranters on here and say shit from the shadows like a bitch.
Sandalchair - 3/18/2007 12:16:01 AM Jump?
CROOKEDCR0SS - 3/17/2007 9:26:42 PM oldfools been busy,reading ann caulter fairytales,and listening to anal-ists on limbaugh.LMAO!!!!wake up,u braindead bitch!!!
scrapmetal - 3/17/2007 7:23:49 PM Dont fall for blobber oldskool-if you want to label me fine I lean more towards left than the modern right.Im a moderate looking for someone who represents the middle class working american citizen but all I can find is big money corporate interests who use useless figureheads like George W & John Kerry the puppets that they are.
analgravy2 - 3/17/2007 6:24:15 PM I laugh at you who follow the every move of this dinosaur band. Enjoy their music but tell their shells of former selves to fuck off and die unless they're willing to step up to the plate. Sammy is the only guy I give any credit to.
