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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Talk About It ...
David Lee Roth is no Howard Stern The ex-Van Halen frontman debuted today on WYSP with little flash or fanfare. With no prepared material, he throatily rambled like a half-awake fill-in about school days, spurned a female caller's probing for details about his marriage, and had a lukewarm moment telling a caller to love his kid. Racy, he wasn't, except for a mention of sleeping with any woman who had two legs in her pants and even an amputee. Best early moment, a rant that none of his favorite music, movies or books were created in a "smoke-free environment. ... Occasionally, I do smoke. I smoked my whole body weight." A bit later, still commenting about kids, he's doing NPR-essay-like schtick, analyzing how American media overprotects the young, but saying you can creatively express any idea without trooping out the F-word. Despite working in a few snappy lines ("Call me retro, I'm still a hetero" ... "It's a vagina, not a turnstile" ... something about "two lesbians and a toaster oven"), he's coming across like a man who's wishing he was on satellite radio ... or was younger ... or had Howard Stern's gifts. Stern's raunchy rapid-fire attitude-fest was as compelling as a traffic accident, especially with a corral of eccentric sidekicks. (Roth has lackeys who laugh at every joke.) This was more a drive down the freeway with a mellowed man and some music. Your thoughts?
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