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Rod Stewart: Grave Digger
After playing semi-pro soccer, Rod the Mod abandoned his athletic dreams to work with the dead. He dug graves at London’s Highgate Graveyard but laid down his shovel after just a few weeks.
Chubby Checker: Chicken Plucker
Before he was twisting, the rock ‘n’ roll legend was plucking. As a teenager, the man born Ernest Evans tore the feathers off dead chickens at the Fresh Farm Poultry Market in Philadelphia, where his boss gave him the nickname “Chubby” and occasionally let him sing to customers over the loudspeaker.
David Lee Roth: Hospital Orderly
Long before Van Halen, the not-yet-Diamond Dave fluffed pillows and emptied bedpans in a hospital. It’s a career field he almost went back to post-stardom — in 2004, Roth started training to become a paramedic.
Madonna: Doughnut Slinger
As a struggling dancer in New York City, Her Madgesty worked behind the counter at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Times Square. She was reportedly fired for squirting jelly on a customer.
James Brown: Pool Ball Racker
He was “the hardest-working man” even pre-show business! Brown grew up in Augusta, Ga., during the Great Depression, taking on several odd jobs to earn money, including shining shoes, washing cars, picking cotton and racking pool balls in local bars.
Gwen Stefani: Floor Scrubber
The Hollaback Girl’s very first job was mopping floors at a Dairy Queen near her home in Fullerton, Calif. She eventually left to work at a department store before joining her brother’s band, No Doubt.
Two Ontario police officers have been credited with saving the life of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth - after he suffered a severe allergic reaction.
The rocker was pulled over on a stretch of highway in Oakland, Ontario on June 8 for speeding, and when cops approached the vehicle, they realized the star was in anaphylactic shock.
Roth has an allergy to nuts and was suffering a severe reaction after coming into contact with a contaminated substance.
The officers called an ambulance and kept Roth calm until paramedics arrived on the scene, according to CTV.ca.
Constable Chris Thompson admits he didn’t realize that he was dealing with a famous rock star when he attended to the crisis.
He says, “At the time I wasn’t star struck, I was just trying to help him. The guy stuck out like a sore thumb. He was wearing a little silk scarf and flashy clothing - it’s not something you see in Oakland too often.”
Ha! This reminds me of the time Gene Simmons went skiing and ended up planted on his back in the middle of nowhere. Funny story if you watched the episode of Family Jewels.
The real Van Halen is getting back together for the first time in twenty years.
 Van Halen will announce a 50-date American reunion tour with original singer David Lee Roth during a news conference in Hollywood next week, sources said. The arena trek will begin in early October.
Roth, who split from the rock group in the mid-1980s in hopes of solo stardom, will reunite with co-founders Eddie Van Halen on guitar and brother Alex Van Halen on drums. Eddie’s teenage son Wolfgang will sub for Michael Anthony on bass.
We’ll see whether the old boy’s still got it.
Source: Van Halen, Roth to announce tour next week [Reuters]
Eddie Van Halen recently entered rehab, spoiling a potential comeback tour with David Lee Roth. Looks like he got his teeth taken care of too… Lookin’ Good Eddie!
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The 100 Unsexiest Men of 2007:
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[28] DUSTIN “SCREECH” DIAMOND
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[30] HOWIE MANDEL
[31] BILL BELICHICK
[32] JAMES LIPTON
[33] SPENCER PRATT
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[36] BRIAN POSEHN
[37] TONY KORNHEISER
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[42] JEFF FOXWORTHY
[43] PACMAN JONES
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[45] THE DUKE LACROSSE TEAM
[46] MARK FOLEY
[47] DR. NEIL CLARK WARREN
[48] ALAN COLMES
[49] RICHIE “LA BAMBA” ROSENBERG
[50] MITT ROMNEY
[51] ANTHONY CUMIA
[52] JAY-Z
[53] BUD SELIG
[54] DR. PHIL
[55] RONALDINHO
[56] KIM JONG-IL
[57] RANDY JOHNSON
[58] JACK ABRAMOFF
[59] GENE SIMMONS
[60] MALCOLM GLADWELL
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Van Halen is back. Van Hagar is no more.
The rumors were true. Van Halen will reunite with original singer David Lee Roth for a summer tour of North America.
“I am very excited to get back to the core of what made Van Halen,” guitarist Eddie Van Halen said in a statement posted Friday on the band’s website announcing a 40 city tour. No specific dates have been named.
It will be the first time that Roth performs live with the band since 1984, when he was replaced by Sammy Hagar. A brief reunion with Roth in 1996 resulted in two new songs but no tour. Original bassist Michael Anthony will not be a part of the reunion. Late last year he was replaced by Eddie Van Halen’s 15-year-old son Wolfgang.
On March 12 Van Halen will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York.
Eddie Van Halen’s guitars made Van Halen into a legendary band but it was just never the same after David Lee Roth went solo. And, man, that was a long time ago. I was a high school senior at the time.
David Lee Roth… back with Van Halen! Does it get any better than this?
A deal is almost set for David Lee Roth to return to the Van Halen fold for a summer tour of amphitheaters, sources told Billboard.com.
They said a contract could be signed as early as Wednesday for tour promoter Live Nation to produce a 40-date trek, which would mark Roth’s first outing with the rock band in more than 20 years.
Spokeswomen for Roth and the band said they were unable to provide any confirmation.
Guitarist Eddie Van Halen’s 15-year-old son Wolfgang has stepped in for original bassist Michael Anthony in the new incarnation of the group, which also features Eddie’s brother Alex Van Halen on drums.
Van Halen last toured in 2004 with vocalist Sammy Hagar, Roth’s replacement, grossing nearly $40 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. Hagar refused to collaborate further with the Van Halen brothers after the tour’s completion, although he has consistently played live with Anthony in recent years.
The warring factions may wind up meeting in public in March when Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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David Lee Roth is campaigning to rejoin Van Halen as its lead singer, saying putting the band back together isn’t exactly “rocket surgery.”
Now that he’s lost his radio job, David Lee Roth is seeking gainful employment in another capacity — as lead singer of Van Halen. Again.
“I see it absolutely as an inevitability,” says Roth, who was deposed by CBS Radio in late April as one of Howard Stern’s replacements. “There’s contact between the two camps, and they have legitimate management; Irv Azoff is part of their loop now. “To me, it’s not rocket surgery. It’s very simple to put together. And as far as hurt feelings and water under the dam, like what’s-her-name says to what’s-her-name at the end of the movie ‘Chicago’ — ‘So what? It’s showbiz!’ So I definitely see it happening.” Despite that claim, Roth — who was Van Halen’s singer from 1974-1985 — acknowledges that he hasn’t seen Edward Van Halen “in a couple of years.” The last time Roth recorded with Van Halen was for the group’s “Best Of Van Halen Volume 1″ album in 1996, though there have been periodic rumors ever since.
Roth isn’t sitting around while he waits for the call, however. He joins the John Jorgensen bluegrass band for two songs — “Jump” and “Jamie’s Cryin’ ” — on “Strummin’ With the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen,” a bluegrass-styled tribute to Van Halen. Roth calls it “a detour” as well as “an interesting return … Before there was rock ‘n’ roll, there was me and a single guitar, flat pickin’ Doc Watson (songs).” Roth plans to make a number of TV appearances on behalf of the album, which comes out June 6.
Roth is also planning to tour later this summer to play Van Halen hits — “I’m so proud of that music,” he says — favorites from his solo album and covers. He’ll leave the banjos and fiddles at home, though. “I like to bring out the brass section now and the keyboard players and the singers and so forth,” Roth explains. “It’s probably a little closer to the Rolling Stones’ revue than to the early three-piece power trio. But the demand is amazing; I guess I’m lucky enough to be one of those guys now who can point at the map and say ‘Let’s go here’ — or, rather, my favorite expression, which is ‘Let’s follow the sun.’ “
Given that Van Halen has been around far longer minus Roth than with him, I’m not sure this is in the cards. Still, the band’s best music was during that brief period when the original gang was together.
And I’ve just got to buy the Van Halen bluegrass tribute album.
Hat tip: Victorino Matus
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