A Brief History of the “Parodying a Bunch of Recent Videos” Music Video

Dave was quite the character back then,What a great ride we all had with Van Halen.Hope to see/hear more!!!!

Sorry folks. Dave lost his “cool” factor for me back in the day with this video. He parodied everyone including himself except for the fact his personality was just what you see here. This ain’t rock and roll, it’s crap. I still love him though, but this isn’t the real Dave for me.

I love this video and the music but it’s about as far from Van Halen as Dave could have got. This is more along the lines of the Vegas act he started doing 15 or 20 years later.

@Roth_Leaps_83: You never fail to show up with your insults for Sammy fans, do you? I’m curious – how can Dave singing this kind of music be okay but Sammy singing his style of stuff not be? I’d say the clue that needs to be got is on your end of the discussion.

Steve isn’t a real classic Van Halen fan If he dosn’t get this ! This is classic Dave I love It and thats what I love about VAN HALEN 100% pure fun! ROTH LEAPS YOUR MY IDOL!

What NAT just said TIMES TWO! Amen, Brother!

@Roth_Leaps_83 … No one likes a know-it-all like you. P.S. You know nothing about the REAL VH. So go away. Please & Thank You.

I’ve never liked the song but the video is classic!

On a side note – Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody gets a LOT of airplay in Australia, as do Just Like Paradise and California Girls.

It was a fun song, fun album and a fun time…only David Lee Roth could cover those songs and make those videos.

@ Steve —-

I’m not preaching, bud — putting my laser sights on ya and pulling the trigger!

Seriously though — you got a very warped sense of what the CVH “glory days” were all about. You seem to think it was pure heavy metal with an angry attitude 24/7 like Metallica or Megadeth. Sure, CVH had those kind of tunes (“Aint Talkin Bout Love” and “Unchained”), but they also had a HEAVY dose of tongue-in-cheek fun with songs like “Ice Cream Man”, “Beautiful Girls”, and “Hot for Teacher” to name a few. Dave was ALWAYS about the showbiz and he was even funnier in concert. “Just a Gigolo” might have been just a tad heavy on the campy humor, but it is PURE DAVE.

Like I already said — you seem CLUELESS.

I guess my original point has been lost.The music in CVH was heavy as you said, with a campy, fun and intelligent humor. As the years went on, the music started taking a back seat,especially live, and thus the tension in the band became a serious,and then fatal issue. Yes, “Just a Gigolo” is fun in a campy, alternative lifestyle sort of way, but it IS NOT Van Halen, and to compare what Dave did afterward with classic VH is ridiculous. That was my only point;that the video and song sucks. Not everything Dave touched was gold. The only people who are clueless are the ones who are more into the spandex and pimped hair, as opposed to the guitars and amps.

This is the funniest Video that Dave has put out. Davercise LOL!!!!

I’ll put it this way . . . when I saw this video for the first time I instantly understood why the other members of VH were tired of Dave’s schtick and ready to replace him.

WoW. Great Memories. Never shall there be another. Hope a little of his old self can come out again (with Eddie’s blessing LOL) when they tour again.

A classic! A couple of tunes mashed together and just all around fun! This was definitely Roth expressing himself and having fun! My friends and I knew all the lines from his videos and would recite them over and over! “FuggetaboutitDave!” I still have my Dave TV shirt!

@ Steve-It’s not ‘real Van Halen’????? It’s a David Lee Roth SOLO lp! I think, besides you and a handful of others on here, that the ones who don’t like this video/song are mostly the Van Hagar fans. Though I find this debate tiresome at times, I DO think it goes to show the different personalities of fans. I knew growing up, a lot of Dave fans and a few van hagar fans. There was a huge difference.The funnest guys and gals to hang with were Dave fans, and the quiet, shy types were sambo fans. Girls were the same. The musicians that I’ve played with over the years are the same. Hagar fans are always going on about how nice the guy is and I could not care any less than I do or did! IF I want to meet a nice guy, I would go find Mike Anthony. Dave was entertaining, and besides vocally, sammy wasn’t entertaining(to me). I got over that who can sing higher thing way back when. I love Daves ash-tray voice. I don’t think Sammy could sing this song and make it sound this good. And whether you dig this tune or not, Mr Roth nails it. I think this(video/song) is a great example of Dave vs. sambo clearification! If you don’t get this(video/song), than you don’t get why people think VH died after Dave vamoosed’. It WAS WAS WAS a different band after that, and I think they should have changed the name and people wouldn’t be on here argueing as much. And when Dave and Eddie got back on the ride together, and had they let Mike back on too. We could have been sayin “Hey, isn’t it great that Van Halen are back together”!
I mean, I plugged in ‘Ain’t talkin bout love’ this morning and thought.”How this must’ve sounded to the world in 78?” I mean, there was NO other band out at the time with that nasty of a sound! Boston’ had a big sound but even that was 2 guitars going. I mean who else could pull off having ‘Runnin with the devil’ and ‘Ice cream man’ on the same album? Ice cream man’ and the above song/video are not that different. Now I was 8 in 78 and it would be the next year before stealing my brothers VH II 8-track tape and wearin it out, Thus, becoming a CVH fan for life, but even my 9 year old ears knew this was special. Lets hope the guys (less Mike) can pull it off. It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten an album and been excited to here it. So, Here’s to making it happen VH!

Kayser Sozay said:

“I’ll put it this way . . . when I saw this video for the first time I instantly understood why the other members of VH were tired of Dave’s schtick and ready to replace him.”

You’re wrong about how Ed, Al, & Mike thought of Dave before the band broke up. Eddie has said in many interviews that the remaining band members were “devastated” and cried when Roth left.

Sure, Dave was a handful at times, but they would have to be the biggest morons in rock to want to “replace him” as you put it. Roth was the most popular hard rock singer in America at the time. And that was BEFORE his solo album was released. And that album, along with his MTV videos, shot him into the stratosphere. Dave was EVERYWHERE and most people loved him, whether you were mostly into heavy metal, rock, or pop.

What a sellout. Er, corporate sellout.

This was so ridiculous. It was cool for about ten seconds.

How is this any different than the makeup that KISS or Motley Crue wore? How is it any different than Alice Cooper? Because he doesn’t take himself seriously? And, those other people do?

Dave is pure vaudeville. Period. It’s all he ever was. His lyics weren’t cryptic, his live vocals were average, his ability to recall lyrics was below average. In fact, if it werent for Eddie Van Halen……Roth might not have been anything.

RothSheeple defend this guy to no end. No end.

Did Diamond Dean just give props for MUSIC VIDEOS? Wasn’t MTV the bane of rock n roll? Didn’t it end rock? Yet, we’re supposed to act like these stupid fucking videos were legendary?

Carnal Knowledge..I’ve answered many times over..ad nauseum why as a fan of CVH why I didn’t care for Hagar in the band even though I acknowledge that he kept VH relevant for far longer than they would’v been even if Roth stayed. Look back on former Sam/Van Hagar topics if you’re interested.

sorry i forgot to put fun in the thing about r&r but i also like sam, not as much as dave but after dave left or whatever do you recall any awesome fun rocking video of VH.

@ Panama Red —-

“Dave has a great sense of humor, great wit, great showmanship and he’s a man of many trades. He also has a talent for making entertaining videos. The dude is one of a kind. Many tried to copy but there is only one original.”

Damn, brah — you gettin’ me a little misty-eyed with that heartfelt passage about Dave. I might have hope for some of you diehard Sammy sheep yet! Now got to work on Carnal Knowledge and make grow a few brain cells LOL.

@ Adam —-

“You’re wrong about how Ed, Al, & Mike thought of Dave before the band broke up. Eddie has said in many interviews that the remaining band members were “devastated” and cried when Roth left.

Sure, Dave was a handful at times, but they would have to be the biggest morons in rock to want to “replace him” as you put it. Roth was the most popular hard rock singer in America at the time. And that was BEFORE his solo album was released. And that album, along with his MTV videos, shot him into the stratosphere. Dave was EVERYWHERE and most people loved him, whether you were mostly into heavy metal, rock, or pop.”

Once again, you speak the truth and got the Hagar apologists running for their mommies! Read any interview from around the breakup and Eddie clearly makes it known that the guys in VH were DEVASTATED when Dave left. Dave and Eddie have both admitted they cried when they shook hands and parted ways on that fateful day in April 1985. The mighty VH was very close to shutting down for good. Diamond Dave was a GLOBAL SUPERSTAR in 1985 as much as the Hagar sheep want to deny that fact. Any band would be shell-shocked to lose someone of that magnitude.

But of course — we’ll hear from morons like Carnal Knowledge trying to revise history and tell all of us that Dave was just a nobody clown and the bigger superstar Sammy Hagar swooped in to save the day. Gotta love the delusions — keep ‘em coming!

Diamond Dean said: “You guys have got to be kidding , this is Dave at his best , these are classic , these videos defined a generation. Visually Dave was VAN HALEN fullstop.”

I never said this wasn’t great, I totally loved this and the California Girls video. This particular song just isn’t very VH-ish, in my opinion. And from everything I’ve read, this is the kind of stuff that Eddie didn’t like doing.

And I disagree that Dave was everything visual about VH. Are you saying that the image of Ed shredding on his guitar in every video, every magazine shoot and anywhere else you saw them wasn’t part of their image? I’d say the image of Ed walking down the library tables during his solo is as much a part of the Hot for Teacher video than any of the rest of the stuff.

I suspect that’s what was missing from a lot of Dave’s stuff after he left the band. It became all about the showman and less about the musician.

Tommy Boy, f’n hilarious man! A message to Diamond Dave: YOU ARE THE FUCKING MAN! Not only are you the coolest dude on the planet, you are f’n hilarious. Thank you for 1976 thru 1984 w/ your band that YOU named VAN HALEN. Every chick wanted to DO you, and every dude wanted to BE you. From “ON FIRE” to “JUMP” you are one of a kind. Can’t wait for your new stuff, and 20’000 of your closest friends will be there to see ya when you come roll’in into town.

to chopper… why the negativity? I think that most of the general public liked or even loved this video when it came out….does that mean most of the nation had a “man crush” on Dave?

No negativity at all. For it’s time, it was a “fun” video. It tweaks me to read how some people take the band a little too seriously. Like I said, there a lot of intelligent people who comment on these posts, and I enjoy reading different veiwpoints. But there are some who are WAY to serious about the band. Yes, VH is extremely talented! Eddie inspired me to start playing back when they first came on the scene. I have emulated his style ever since but for gods sake… the way some people get upset about someones view of any of the band members, you would think they found a cure for cancer!

Carnal Knowledge says:
“It’s be nice to get an answer, a real one, to this question:
Why so much hatred for Sammy Hagar?”

Read Sammy’s book – he answers your question in his own words.

Carnal Knowledge says:
“Dave is pure vaudeville. Period. It’s all he ever was. His lyics weren’t cryptic, his live vocals were average, his ability to recall lyrics was below average.”

At least he’s not the worst thing you can be in rock -boring.