TNA champion Nic Nemeth admires David Lee Roth’s style but doesn’t wear assless chaps.
“I usually say Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, Ratt, whatever but the absolute… my favorite one [is] David Lee Roth,” Nemeth shared during a recent appearance on The Paltrocast. “DLR, no matter what, is the absolute. [He’s] very much the reason [why] I got a lot of my outfit choices.”
“I couldn’t do the assless chaps,” Nic also noted. “As much as I thought about it. Two different pairs [I wore] had mesh over the cheek so I got one cheek and then some were banned from ringside permanently but, one hundred percent, yes. David Lee Roth is the guy for me.”
Roth mostly had flamboyant and bold choices on stage. Besides his outfits, the singer was also praised for his skills as a frontman. “With Van Halen in the early days, David Lee Roth was God,” Gene Simmons previously praised DLR in a chat with Classic Rock. “On stage, nobody could touch him. So you couldn’t imagine Van Halen without Roth.”
He also added, “But you know what? Life actually happens while you’re busy making plans. And AC/DC, without Bon Scott, became an even bigger band. So rules are pretty much made to be broken. Could AC/DC still be AC/DC with Axl Rose? Sure they could! Because it’s either convincing or it’s not.”
Sammy Hagar also praised Diamond Dave, explaining, “He’s a showman. Hey, listen, I’m a showman too. But that’s his gig. He doesn’t care about singing. If he did, he’d take care of his voice or he’d take voice lessons and get warmed up and do something. ‘Cause the guy sang so bad last time he was doing shows, it was embarrassing… But he’s a showman.”
The Red Rocker further discussed, “Everything’s show, show, show, show, show, show, show. And he doesn’t care about his voice, which drives me nuts, man. I care more about my voice than I do my d*ck. If my d*ck didn’t work a couple of times, I’d be okay with it — I’d be bummed out — but if my voice f*cks up onstage, I’m f*cking bummed, man.”
Roth is busy with his artwork nowadays. He released a new one in July by describing it as “violence, nudity, obscene language, and constant danger.”