Earlier this month, David Lee Roth told The Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was “throwing in the shoes” after his 5-date residency in Las Vegas. The 67-year-old singer claimed to them, “my doctors, my handlers, compelled me to really address that every time I go onstage, I endanger that future.” It is a future he didn’t think he would have when he was younger. Diamond Dave thought he would go before his bandmate Eddie Van Halen, who passed away a year ago this week.
With a statement like that, you would think that this would be his final curtain call. However, the poster for those shows reads, “The Last Tour. Unless It Isn’t.”
That is why I never trust anyone when they say this is my last tour. Didn’t Cher say that? The Police? The Cure? Barbra Streisand? The Who? Mötley Crüe? And some of them are still touring.
So unless they are dead and buried like Michael Jackson, who died before his comeback, I never believe the fat lady sang until I hear her do it at their funeral.
Sh!t, even then, it might not be over because of this thing called holograms. I still can’t believe pay to see that.
Anyways, back to Roth. Tickets are available for his five “final” concerts at the Hard Rock in Vegas on December 31st, January 1st, 5th, 7th, and 8th here.
