{"id":974328,"date":"2020-01-09T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935463"},"modified":"2020-01-09T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:31:42","slug":"watch-david-lee-roth-perform-unchained-at-launch-of-las-vegas-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-david-lee-roth-perform-unchained-at-launch-of-las-vegas-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch David Lee Roth Perform \u2018Unchained\u2019 at Launch of Las Vegas Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/davidlee.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-lee-roth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-lee-roth\" data-tag=\"david-lee-roth\">David Lee Roth<\/a> kicked off his new Las Vegas show at the House of Blues on Wednesday night with a set packed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/van-halen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_van-halen\" data-tag=\"van-halen\">Van Halen<\/a> classics like \u201cPanama,\u201d \u201cJamie\u2019s Cryin\u2019,\u201d \u201cJump\u201d and \u201cAtomic Punk.\u201d He also added a sprinkling of solo tunes, like \u201cJust Like Paradise\u201d and his cover of Louis Prima\u2019s \u201cJust a Gigolo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s video of \u201cUnchained\u201d where he briefly dons an Elvis Presley wig to honor The King on what would have been his 85th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The kickoff of David Lee Roth Rocks Vegas is the start of an extremely busy year for the singer; he\u2019ll open up for Kiss on an extensive arena tour while playing Vegas during the breaks. It\u2019ll be, by far, his most active year as a touring artist in quite a long time.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GLo7EEzu78A?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/entertainment\/music\/david-lee-roth-launching-las-vegas-residency-1930082\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">new interview<\/a> with the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal,<\/em> he said he\u2019s enjoying the challenge of playing the relatively small confines of the House of Blues. \u201cIt\u2019s nice and tight, you can see everybody\u2019s faces, you can see eyebrows,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve said that dogs are more popular than cats because they have eyebrows. You can tell what the dog is thinking. Kitty cats, they\u2019re like strippers: You can\u2019t tell what they\u2019re thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Halen hasn\u2019t performed since a 2015 summer tour, and Roth hinted again to the paper that the band might be over. \u201cEd\u2019s not doing well, and singing and dancing is a perishable skill,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you have the capacity, it\u2019s something that has to be used routinely, if not for the thrill of it and the magic of creating with other incandescent spirits.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AVxLo38a8U8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roth continues his Las Vegas residency on Friday and Saturday and then will meet up with the Kiss tour in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 1st. He has dates on the books through October 2nd, in Fort Worth, Texas. Eddie and Alex Van Halen, meanwhile, are continuing to keep a very low profile and have yet to announce any future plans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/david-lee-roth-vegas-935463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lee Roth kicked off his new Las Vegas show at the House of Blues on Wednesday night with a set packed with Van Halen classics like \u201cPanama,\u201d \u201cJamie\u2019s Cryin\u2019,\u201d \u201cJump\u201d and \u201cAtomic Punk.\u201d He also added a sprinkling of solo tunes, like \u201cJust Like Paradise\u201d and his cover of Louis Prima\u2019s \u201cJust a Gigolo.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:31:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}