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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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This is all the way from back in 2013. David Lee Roth in studio, along with Alison Rosen and Brian Bishop. Adam talking to David Lee Roth about taking over for Howard Stern in 2006. Adam Kroll got the West Coast. David Lee Roth got the East Coast. Another dude who got the Midwest, not Mankow.
And they kind of divided up all three territories, thinking they would need three people to cover in Howard Stern's absence. David Lee Roth is in the studio from the beginning of the show. And it's funny how the show's format changes based on his arrival, including Adam's closing drop.
It's a funny thread throughout the episode about how the world bends around David Lee Roth as opposed to normal people. Hope you guys enjoy it.
At first, I didn't think it was real. I woke up to this blinding light, and I was transported to another place. Pluto TV! Then, I heard a voice.
Come with me if you want to live.
There were thousands of movies and shows, and they were all free! The truth is ours. It's just so beautiful!
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Chapter 2: What was David Lee Roth's experience taking over for Howard Stern?
That might have been, but that was a short moment, actually. We played every prom. We played every wedding, every bar mitzvah, even funerals. We played all around the San Gabriel area, like bicycle distance from where we are right now. So how's it all start for you? You're a young lad. You're growing up in Pasadena. You guys met in Pasadena City College. Oh, no. It's a good story. Let's hear it.
I was part of the integrational busing program thing here. Everybody thinks that happened in Alabama, but it didn't. It happened like walking distance from here. So I was going to John Muir High School, and I was going to Elliott Junior High. It was all black and Spanish. John Muir is in Burbank. No, it's in Pasadena.
The whole thing is in Pasadena.
There's another Muir. Isn't there a Muir out here? There's a lot of Muir things. I'm confused. So you get bussed in from where? Right down the street from Van Halen's, who were kind of attending kind of Ridgemont High, I think sort of Jeff Spicoli sort of. They were heavy metal, and we were listening to Sly and the Family Stone meets Superfly.
So you're getting this sort of funk because you're getting into the urban scene before it was even called urban. And now these guys are playing rock. And how do you guys connect? Well, originally, the guys needed to get some jobs playing at the clubs, right? And you can't get that playing, you know, one side of Tommy. You can't really get that.
You can't get that playing, you know, the live version of, you know, whatever given band. And the only stuff that we ever heard going to the youth club dance was, again, you know, was probably Rick James or Motown or what have you. So I knew how to dance. That's where the Diamond Dave moniker comes from.
Right.
You know, I would go over to the Pasadena High School, and I would have pants all the way up to my armpits here. Yeah, like a rerun. Like a skinny white rerun. Exactly the same as rerun, except for skinny, white, and now alive.
Yeah, and I have my two-toned shoes.
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Chapter 3: How did David Lee Roth connect with Van Halen?
And over the people's heads at the ends of those really long poles that you use for skimming, big swimming pools, you know, they're extra long poles, were mechanical seagulls that were full of what looked like shaving cream or whipped cream. Right. And he made them, you know, shit all over everybody as they were playing while they would move down the street and make everything.
See, I would argue this is what makes this country great. This is why the terrorists hate us, because somebody put in several hundred hours and several hundred dollars creating a stick that has a fake seagull that shits on people. You don't see that in war-torn nations or trouble where they're looking, you know, where there's ethnic cleansing and places where they're looking for clean water.
No one has that kind of time to put into shit. Yeah. David Lee, by the way, the podcast... I've learned something here already, please. Well, if you have time to fuck around, it means you don't have as many problems as many nations do.
Yeah, it's really gilding lily, too, because it's not as if there's a shortage of birds who will shit everywhere.
Yeah, we have real birds that will happily shit on you and do. Video podcast, The Roth Show, available on iTunes and YouTube. So, you guys, and by the way, the website, davidleroth.com. So- And David, you're set for cash at this point. This is you just bringing it to your fans, right? It's a labor of love. I like broadcasting. I know.
Going all the way back to listening to Wolfman Jack on way too echoey, I guess, XCRB, the Spanish station when I was maybe 9, 10 years old in the early 60s. Trying to imitate that. And I just never lost that taste. I wanted to be a disc jockey before I wanted to sing and dance, actually.
So now you hook up with Van Halen and you're going to start ā you decide you better start playing your own music or writing some songs because covering songs ain't cutting it, right? Covering songs with the Van Halen band? Yeah. Well, you know, it's like I'm pretty sure most of the original band and the original audience for Beethoven's passed on. to the never after.
We still go listen to him play his greatest hit. So Van Halen will always have a future playing da-da-da-da. Right. If you string it out. But you guys, at a certain point, want to start making original music. Oh, certainly. And we were already in collision course about that, so we're already discussing it. And once it starts happening, how fast does it happen? You know, good question.
Somebody asked me once in a radio interview, Dave, how long does it take? He was making fun of how long does it really take to write lyrics, to write the melodies to a popular song. And I thought out loud, I said, well, if you've watched 10,000 movies and if you've read 1,000 books and you've listened to a couple hundred thousand hours of radio, it would take you about 45 minutes.
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Chapter 4: What news topics are covered in this segment?
So, should we do a little news, by the way? Sure. Can we play that music? The News with Alison Rosen. She'll read some news from her iPad. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.
It's Allison, Allison. And when it's time to wrap it up, she'll sign it off with Zip It Cut. It's Allison, Allison.
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Chapter 5: How do personal tax experiences influence the discussion?
Just a round number. The gross national product of a small African nation times four. A round number. Think about it, and then I'll tell you about my friends over at Tax Resolution Services. You have problems. I had problems with taxes. I owed ā the IRS is ā They're not so good if they owe you money, but if you owe them money, they are sharp as needles and they will come after you.
And that's why you got to deal with my good friends over at Tax Resolution Services. They got over 15 years experience dealing with these guys who are trying to get you away from your money. So do not live in fear anymore. No more sleepless nights unless you're trying not to sleep. And then it's your own GD business. No threatening letters or frozen bank accounts or garnished wages.
No, deal with it now because it's only going to get worse.
Chapter 6: What insights are shared about public restroom cleanliness?
Call our friends. Tax Resolution Services, 800-805-0169. That's 800-905-0169. Or click through the Tax Resolution banner at Adam Carolla. Don't put it off. My tax forms are easy now. How much did you make? How much do you have left? Send it in. You paid over $100 million.
I don't know if I've paid $100 million, but probably the band all the way, all the live shows for the last 40 years, I wouldn't be surprised.
You guys got to start paying.
If that much actually rolled in and out of the coffers. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like a weekend to me. It's time for you to start paying your fair share. That's what I'm saying.
All right.
Tell Van Halen to pay their fair share. It's not enough. You can afford more.
All right. First of all, I have to tell you a disgusting thing that I witnessed today. You know how we were talking about the level of grossness in public restrooms and you were asking if you see big frothy bowls of golden urine everywhere. Just sitting there in the women's room. And I was saying, yes, sometimes you do.
Well, today I found that and a bloody sanitary napkin just sitting on the handrail. On the rail? What's going on? This person hates the bathroom.
This was in the museum?
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Chapter 7: What challenges do performers face when singing multiple shows a week?
And just the physical workload of doing eight shows a week is brutal. harder than being on the road and being in a band? Well, you're singing all the time. Like, you're singing every single night, and then you're doing two shows on Saturday, you're doing two shows on Sunday, and it's that 11 a.m. matinee that is the killer on a Sunday afternoon.
After you get your body acclimated to going on at 8 o'clock every night. Right. To do it at, like, the lunch hour is really where you earn your money. And I would be, like, sleeping in bed. I'd go, I can't do this. And then I would say, well, I can either give my understudy my money or I can go get the skrizosilich. And I would go down there. I'd go, give me my money.
How devastated would your understudy get when he got that big check of skrvacilich? Skrvacilich. Yeah, I mean that too. I'm a rapper now. So obviously you have to protect your voice, right? You have to warm it up.
Chapter 8: How do vocal warm-ups influence a singer's performance?
When I did Jekyll and Hyde, Jekyll and Hyde has 16 songs in the show for the lead. And they didn't want him, the lead in Jekyll and Hyde, doing two shows a day because it wouldn't sound good. By the end of 38 songs, you're like, okay, dude, take a rest, right? Right. But Jesus Christ Superstar. You played the Jew in Jesus Christ Superstar, right? The big guy. I played the dude. Right.
But the devil gets the cooler tunes. Which is always the way it works. So how does one warm up their voice? It's a boring answer. There's a scale, an Italian opera scale called bel canto, which is an old technique of singing. When I first joined Skid Row in 1987, John Bon Jovi sent me to this guy, Don Lawrence, who taught me these scales that go back to like the 1800s.
Everybody from Tony Bennett warms up to these scales, to Lady Gaga, to Christina Aguilera.
To Robert Davi. Oh, really? Yeah. The actor Robert Davi, who was in here.
Came in here. Yeah. Sinatra. Yeah. It's Belcon. It's an Italian. It's just li, li, li, li, li. It's about tone. It's about projection. There's no amplification on a theater stage. It's like supplementary mics that are like taped to your head. Yeah. So you really got to belt it out. And I'm not supposed to say this, but I just signed on for my fifth leading Broadway role that it's starting this...
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. How tough is it to, I mean, if it's something that's material you're not familiar with, you have to learn all the songs, you have to learn all the choreographed movements, you have to learn everything.
You have to learn the lines of the play. I remember I was actually, because I lived here, but I was desperate to see you in Jekyll and Hyde, Sebastian, and by the time I got there it was David Hasselhoff. I said, no, you know, I think I'll, I don't really need to see this that much anymore. Didn't he follow you? He followed you immediately.
Yes, I showed him the track. It was Jack Wagner before me. And then I came in and, you know, the Hoff came in. And he didn't get the best reviews as Jekyll and Hyde. And, you know, I felt for him, but there was no difference between his Jekyll and his Hyde. He'd be like, all that you are is a face in the mirror. I close my eyes and I go, dude, it's supposed to be two things.
Wow.
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