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I promised not to post but this is so much fun, but I’m afraid not scientifically correct. Were there “boner pills” then? I’m not so sure, but as I recall no one needed them. Check it out!

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A fair point. It was definitely pre-Viagra; all they needed back then was cocaine!

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Sep 5, 2022Liked by Dan Epstein

DLR is underrated. People should know that was VH's chief lyricist. Those lyrics were 100% rock and roll. He was also an accomplished acoustic guitarist. No one had more charisma. The first six VH albums, through 1984, are timeless. DLR is the essence of what rock and roll should be. Eddie was brilliant but VH would have been nothing without DLR. That must have been a hell of an interview!

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Sep 5, 2022Liked by Dan Epstein

Being a Van Halen fan of vintage age, David Lee Roth was the best. He made you laugh, he made you cringe, he made you rock your brains out. Having seen Jim Dandy with Black Oak Arkansas at the California jam in 1974, and then seeing David Lee Roth several years later, I knew where DLR had his inspiration for his persona. Then in true DLR style, he boiled and baked it from there and he truly became the one and only Diamond David Lee Roth.

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What's that one quote of his? Something like "people tell me I live in a world of my own. Well, at least they know me there"?

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