#David lee roth skyscraper video crack#

I adore the whole album, with the notable exceptions of 'Just Like Paradise' (lame middle of the road crap) and 'Perfect Timing' (just not any good). The guy could barely keep a website up without being sued over it.Ĭlick to expand.That's interesting. I'd been saying for years that I really needed to managed Dave's career as I thought he had been mismanaged up until he rejoined VH (several examples listed above), but it probably would have been shortlived. Then we end up with all the dance-out versions of stuff on Diamond Dave, some of which was left over from that BBQ video he did. People were so desperate for some VH-flavored rock, that he could have literally done like 10 follow-ups to Diver Down - mixing a few high-energy covers with a few originals - and it would have been great. I think that's what he was shooting for with the ill-conceived Diamond Dave album. It should also be added that in one of the interviews I read about the 1996 VH reunion collapse with Michael Anthony, Roth was pushing the VH brothers to go in more of a 'Chemical Brothers' direction. He gave me and Ron a gold plated carabinier engraved “Diamond Dave” on it after the shoot.Click to expand.There's a 12' remix of 'Stand Up' from that album. Kauks eyes roll again and we’re out of there after cleaning the rest of that sh-ity mess.Īnd David Lee Roth becomes the “Skyscraper” I clean the piton he was on with one jerk of my hand. Galen shoots off his 20 or so rolls in record time and David gets his rope back from above and jugs out. smiles and all in between bouts of shakes and deep breaths. The shoot is on! David does his Hollywood mode. Finally after more bullshit lines David buys them and gently as hell gets on that thing shaking like sh-it until Galen shoots the camera. Ron hears the whole dialog and starts to roll his eyes and hint to me keep it going all while Galen is starting to get impatient with our scared mans delay.

#David lee roth skyscraper video crack#

I tell him that piton is one foot long! And that 7” of that sucker he’s looking at is buried in that horizontal crack to his total disbelief. Now David has probably heard every bullshit line but then he’s never really aid climbed. I tell David that I’m the rigger and that he has to have faith in the rigger and the rigger will never lie to you. He is now visibly shaking real bad and scared shitless. He takes one look at that thing and says “fu-ck! I’m not hanging off that thing, It’ll pull out and I’ll die”. I’m on a separate rope and David rappels down to the last pin Ron placed. Ron tells me to go to David’s position and set him up when he gets there. Ron tells me he hopes it holds David’s ass. Lost arrow) sticking more than ¾ of the way out. The final piton where David is supposed to hang off is this pin Kuak puts in (a long med. Kauk goes down and places a bunch of A4 sh-it. I go WTF Galen there’s nothing out there and he tells us to do the best we can. Now we didn’t even have a bolt kit with us, and Galen wants David out in some no mans land with very little features for anything that’ll hold worth sh-it.

He spots his ace in the hole and tells Ron and me to set up David at the spot you see on that cover. Galen is running around with his camera trying to figure out the best location. The next day we all troop up to the top for the cover shot shoot. We make camp at the saddle for tomorrows shoot. We approach towards the saddle the horse became more and more tired, somehow it made it. Ron tells me I’m not riding that thing by myself and he then hops on too. He jogs up the mist trail and catches up to me at the top of Nevada Falls. He catches up to the crew and asks where I am? They tell him I’m riding David’s horse. Now Kauk was lagging behind somewhere else during this time sorting out his last minute details telling me earlier he’ll catch up to us. “Sure go ahead” he says, “I want to walk”.

David decided he wanted to walk and not ride his horse so I asked if I could ride it. His production people got him a horse to ride to half dome along with all of the other equipment for this shoot. Wbraun was hired by David Lee Roth in 1987 do shoot Roth’s Skyscraper album cover in Yosemite:Ī trip down the memory lane ……for anyone who even cares ………ĭavid Lee Roth hired Ron Kauk and me to help Galen Rowell do this album cover.

From the thread, “Some Bass ass dude from the past” posted by WBraun on.