the fourth of july

[Dave Monroe]

What, Grand Funk was busy? Roth joins Esplanade fun
By Larry Katz
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

The Boston Pops' problem: What do you do when
Aerosmith, Boston's band of rock 'n' roll bad boys,
backs out of performing at your nationally televised
Fourth of July concert? 
 
The wacky solution: Get Diamond Dave, the bad boy of
rock 'n' roll, to do the gig instead. 
 
Hard to believe, but raunchy David Lee Roth, the
extra-extroverted ex-Van Halen frontman, will be the
guest star at Sunday's Esplanade bash. 
 
Roll over, Arthur Fiedler, and tell John Williams the
news....

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=33725

The next best thing to Steven Tyler? Former Van Halen
frontman David Lee Roth, apparently. The combed-over
crooner will join Jennifer Holliday as a guest
performer at the Boston Pops annual July Fourth
extravaganza. (Aerosmith was almost on the bill but
canceled due to scheduling issues.) Backed by Keith
Lockhart, not Eddie Van Halen, Roth will perform
'California Girls' and 'Jump,' and Holliday will belt
out a medley of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic,'
'When the Saints Go Marching In,' and 'America the
Beautiful.' The concert, to be broadcast nationally
from 10-11 p.m. on CBS, and locally beginning at 8:30
p.m., climaxes, as usual, with the orchestra's
signature performance of Sousa's 'The Stars and
Stripes Forever.'

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2004/06/29/david_lee_roth_joins_the_pops_moore_takes_nantucket/

--- joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Our holiday bash concluded with David Lee Roth and
> Keith Lockhart squaring off in a metrosexual 
> headcutting hoedown. This included a tuxedoed portly
> man repeatedly stage-diving in the woodwind section.
> He may have been a bassonist, I'm not sure. This
> really happened. I'm still absorbing it. It may
> signal the end of Western Civilization.


		
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