Shits Fired! David Lee Roth comes for Wolfie Van Halen

I can't wait to hear what crybaby whiner Valerie Bertinelli posts on her social media.

David Lee Roth is poking the Mama Bear!

Wolfie was asked for comment but declined comment, since his mouth was full. As it always is

Wolfie seems nice, but I'll bet he acts like a big baby.

It's always that way when a smothering Italian mom like Valerie, dotes on her "baby" the way she does with Wolfie.

Wolfie? More like Pussy.

His father was a fucking guitar GOD, indeed!

I still listen to them.

David Lee Roth has a girlfriend?

Eddie Van Halen was indeed a very unique and talented guitarist. Woffie is pretty good, but of course not on that level. He is a qualified guitarist. However, the claim that he would have gotten the guitarist part regardless of who his father was is ridiculous.

Here we go, Bitches!

Wolfie is a Nepo baby? Wasn’t DLR’s father a big record company exec?

[quote]David Lee Roth has a girlfriend?

R7, this is a blind item from November:

[quote]Reader Blind: A couple decades plus ago, This A list vocalist (David Lee Roth) in his day from a permanent A+ band (“Van Halen”) was working on a writing project. He was assisted by this jack of all trades (writing, acting) (Henry Rollins) who is probably most famous for music. The A list vocalist is bisexual but has leaned more towards men as he has grown older. The jack of all trades is homosexual. Both men have never married and are deeply closeted but there have been rumors. During the time they were together, they had a torrid sexual affair but this was not the first time they hooked up. When the jack of all trades was starting out as the singer in a band with color in the name (“Black Flag“), he had a one night stand with the already established A list vocalist. David Lee Roth/”Van Halen”/Henry Rollins/”Black Flag”

Henry Rollins is gay?

Where's that hilarious video of David Lee Roth "singing" in Japan or somewhere that was posted on DL a few years ago?

That's an interesting Blind Item, R11.

David Lee Roth and Henry Rollins are both batshit crazy, so that must have been some HOT sex!

Rollins has said that he does not have religious or spiritual beliefs, though he also does not consider himself an atheist. He has mostly avoided recreational drugs throughout his life, but experimented a few times with alcohol, cannabis, and LSD during his teens and early 20s.

Rollins is childless by choice, and says that he has not been in a romantic relationship since his 20s. Rollins said, "I am not that interested in having someone to account to and be romantic with on a regular basis. Every once in a while I think I want it, but it's like holding on to sand. It always slips away. Falling in love does not interest me." A lifelong bachelor, Rollins considers himself a solitary person, and maintains few deep relationships outside of his professional ones. One of his closest personal friends is musician Ian MacKaye, with whom he has been close since they met as children. He also enjoys a friendship with actor William Shatner, which developed after he performed on Shatner's album Has Been.

After nearly 40 years of living in Los Angeles Rollins mentioned during his "Good to see you" tour that he had relocated to Nashville.

In an interview with Jason Tanamor of Zoiks! Online, when asked about a longtime rumor of Rollins being homosexual, the singer said, "Perhaps wishful thinking. If I were gay, believe me, you would know."

Rollins looks like Eric Forrester, character on the Bold and the Beautiful.

Henry Rollins was living with his “lifelong best friend” Joe Cole when Joe was murdered in an armed robbery.

Perhaps Joe was the love of his life and he never wanted another relationship because of the trauma of losing him.

Team Wolfie

Very interesting, R16.

Joe Cole (right) was a cute twink. And Henry Rollins (left) had long hair.

Now that I know who you're talking about, I can totally see it.

Since the 1980s, Henry Rollins has been a vital figure in the hardcore punk scene. As the story goes for many punk musicians, Rollins discovered the Sex Pistols and a switch flipped. He realised that music could be used to channel anger and discontent, subsequently immersing himself in all things punk.

Rollins formed State of Alert with the remaining members of the Extorts after their frontman, Lyle Prelar, joined Minor Threat. However, the following year, Rollins, a massive fan of Black Flag, was invited by the band to become their new lead singer. His intense stage presence, often getting into fights with crowd members, made him the perfect choice. Rollins enjoyed success with Black Flag for several years until their change of musical direction led to tensions in the band and within the audience.

In 1986, Black Flag disbanded, and Rollins moved on to solo work, as well as forming the Rollins Band. Yet, just a few years later, a major tragedy would change Rollins’ life forever. It was 1991, and Rollins was living in a house with his best friend and Black Flag roadie Joe Cole in Venice Beach, California. On December 19th, the pair went to see Hole (who Cole had previously worked for as a roadie) at Whisky a Go Go. On their return home, two men accosted the pair outside, demanding they give them their money.

However, Rollins and Cole had just $50 in their pockets. Annoyed, the men, wielding guns, demanded they go into their home and retrieve more money. Rollins remembers: “The guy who was on me said, ‘If you yell or if you scream, I’m going to blow your head off.’ And I said, ‘Okay’.”

As Rollins went inside, Cole was shot in the head, dying instantly. Miraculously, Rollins managed to run out the back of his house and call the police. Although he survived the terrible ordeal, Rollins lost his best friend to a senseless act of violence, which remains unsolved. In 1996, the musician even appeared on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, hoping to uncover more information on who killed Cole.

A year after the incident, Rollins revealed to The Los Angeles Times: “I dug up all the earth where his head fell – he was shot in the face – and I’ve got all the dirt here, and so Joe Cole’s in the house. I say good morning to him every day. I got his phone, too, so I got a direct line to him. So that feels good.”

Cole’s father, the actor Dennis Cole, subsequently became an activist against violence following the death of his son. He explained: “There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about him. And we’ve always shared things… and it’s like I have no one to call up and say, ‘Hey Joe, guess what happened?’ And he would do the same thing with me. And it’s like a part of your heart was just taken and pulled out.”

Since his passing, Rollins has remembered his friend through various songs and spoken word pieces. Moreover, Sonic Youth dedicated two songs to Cole, ‘100%’ and ‘JC’, on their album Dirty. The band were close friends of Cole’s, and the murder also greatly affected them. Bassist Kim Gordon once shared: “When Henry called to tell me about Joe. I burst into tears. I didn’t get over it for a couple of years, to be honest.”

While the motive and suspect behind Cole’s murder remains unclear, Rollins has since revealed that he predicted that something terrible would happen to them due to the sketchy nature of the area where they lived. A few days before the incident, Rollins had written in his journal that the house was “going to get popped” after Rick Rubin visited in his Rolls Royce.

The murder of Cole was a true tragedy that deeply affected Rollins, and you only have to listen to the artist’s spoken word pieces, such as ‘The Story of Two Boys’, to understand how much Cole’s murder devastated him.

Shits fired?

r19 Wow, I never knew any of that - heartbreaking.

Cole’s father, actor Dennis Cole, became an activist after his son’s murder. But his life completely fell apart.

Dennis Cole is Bootsie Gumdrops-adjacent.

So where does Valerie Bertinelli sit in all of this?

[quote] So where does Valerie Bertinelli sit in all of this?

She's going to give David Lee Roth a beat down, if he doesn't stop bothering her baby Wolfie!

Decades ago, I saw Dennis Cole dining at Madame Wu’s Garden. Years later, I spied Jacklyn Smith at a Chuck E. Cheese (don’t ask). She was impossibly beautiful, and gracious to the people who wanted to talk to her (I didn’t bother her).

Henry Rollins was on ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ talking about his friend’s murder.

I have no idea if Henry Rollins is gay or not, but when i saw that Unsolved Mysteries segment as a kid, even I could pick up that was acting more like someone who lost a lover than who lost a friend.

Here's Henry Rollins performing "A Story of Two Boys," referenced at R19.

R19 So Jackie O. of him to save the blood. I have a friend who lived in LA then and he said the newscast about it said it was gay bashing, but then, it suddenly changed to a robbery and now it's being called that.

Pretty sure that Rollins would simply say he's gay if he was, in fact, gay. I've listened to his radio show for years. He's liberal as fuck, is very, very pro gay, and doesn't seem the type to lie about anything. He's refreshingly honest.

Rollins is probably asexual at this point in his life anyway, so why would he feel the need to commit publicly to a defined sexual preference? It's not about being honest or not, it's probably just wanting to keep that part of his life private.

[quote]However, the claim that he would have gotten the guitarist part regardless of who his father was is ridiculous.

Faux Wolfgang made that claim, not Real Wolfgang.

R33 Thanks. That Faux Wolfgang can be such a rascal at times.

Rollins doesn't seem like the type to be closeted and he said it himself

[QUOTE]Perhaps wishful thinking. If I were gay, believe me, you would know."

I can believe he's closeted. I don't find it hard to believe that a man born in 1961 is closeted.

Very self-loathing, makes up for it with the fitness, etc.

The tattoos are always covering something.

Poor Wolfie. So fundamentally boring, a thread about him is nearly 75% about Rollins.

Whoa, I had never heard about that R19.

[quote]A year after the incident, Rollins revealed to The Los Angeles Times: “I dug up all the earth where his head fell – he was shot in the face – and I’ve got all the dirt here, and so Joe Cole’s in the house. I say good morning to him every day. I got his phone, too, so I got a direct line to him. So that feels good.”

R28, I didn't see the Unsolved Mysteries segment but based on everything posted in this thread, I agree that it sounds more like losing a lover than a friend.

Saw this YT clip on an old Reddit post but haven't watched it yet.

[quote]"This fucking kid, he's complaining the entire tour like I'm not paying enough attention to him on stage. Like Santa Claus coming down the chimney and popping out on Christmas with nobody paying attention. Shalom to the dome, homie. I'm giving him the best. Everything I've got in front of twenty, thirty thousand people at a clip, and he's complaining to everybody around me — the business manager, the security guy, the clothing lady — 'Dave's not paying enough attention to me.' Cut to New York City — glamorous, glistening, shimmering New York City, and we're at Jones Beach with twenty thousand of my closest friends. I walk out into the middle of the stage and I'm gonna do 'Ice Cream Man', and I'm testifying to the brothers, Eddie [Van Halen] and Al [Alex Van Halen], 'Man, this is how many times we've played New York. This is spectacular.' And what I don't know is this kid, this schlemiel kid, has commandeered a couple of monkeys to go in back, behind my back, over to the side of the stage and throw out these two great dames that I invited to be my guests to the show. And these dames are in their forties, okay? Business women. In fact, you aren't gonna believe this shit. This fucking kid, what he doesn't know is that these two dames work for the accounting firm that represent him, not me. But as usual, he, just like his uncle and his uncle's brother, stiffed them for tickets. I know they're gonna do that, so I got ahead of things and I give them tickets. I put 'em way off to the side. And I'm not talking about MÖTLEY CRÜE groupies here. This is the real deal. And they're both carrying big satchel purses, right? Like Gucci. Here we go. And he throws them out of the building. He's teaching me a lesson. What this fucking kid doesn't know, they're carrying the paychecks for all 82 people on the road crew. Nobody tells me till I'm parked in the middle of that fuckin bridge... You know fuckin' Jones Beach, they think I'm gonna freak out. I laughed so hard I spilled my Snapple."

[quote]Roth continued: "Cut to Hollywood — that's Gooey Ballyhooey Hollywood. We're playing the Hollywood Bowl [in October 2015]. It's the last two shows of the tour, and Ed's not having a good day this year. So I know, hey, maybe, I always gotta play it like what if this was the last show I ever have with the brothers. This is important to me. We're celebrating fiftieth anniversary here from when we first started arguing over which song is first. Stay focused. The brothers are playing. I walk out on stage at the Hollywood Bowl. This is the very last show that we're playing. And I start getting tears in my eyes 'cause I testify to Ed and I testify to Al that, 'Hey, we started right down the street at a little nightclub called Gazzarri's. We were playing dance tunes and our parents didn't give us shit. We made every penny go right into the gas tank or on to the guitar strings fretboard. Okay, here we go.' We're at the Hollywood Bowl. I'm about to launch into 'Ice Cream Man', and this fuckin kid! He commandeers two muscle monkeys, locates the one dame that is my guest; she's off in the wings of the Hollywood Bowl. They find her, make her do the walk of shame past all the other guests, out into the parking lot and throw her out of the building! Wolfie Van Halen's gonna teach me a lesson by throwing out what he thinks is my girlfriend. But guess what? Not only is this an accountant again, and not only is she carrying the paychecks for 82 of us on the road crew, but she's carrying cash bonuses for everybody there. You may wanna pull over on this next one; you're gonna pee your pants. Remember New York City? It's the same fuckin lady!"

[quote]Roth added: "This fucking kid. This fucking kid!

[quote]"And that's how I remember my last show with Eddie Van Halen."

How’s she been?

Is his son the fat guy playing the yellow guitar?

David has memory issues. Looks like he's fried his brain.

I can believe Henry Rollins as gay but I can’t see him with a ridiculous queen like DLR

[quote] I got his phone, too, so I got a direct line to him. So that feels good.

Were there cell phones in 1991?

I think he might be mis-remembering.

[quote] And what I don't know is this kid, this schlemiel kid, has commandeered a couple of monkeys to go in back, behind my back, over to the side of the stage and throw out these two great dames that I invited to be my guests to the show. And these dames are in their forties, okay? Business women. In fact, you aren't gonna believe this shit.

[quote] This fucking kid, what he doesn't know is that these two dames work for the accounting firm that represent him, not me. But as usual, he, just like his uncle and his uncle's brother, stiffed them for tickets. I know they're gonna do that, so I got ahead of things and I give them tickets. I put 'em way off to the side. And I'm not talking about MÖTLEY CRÜE groupies here. This is the real deal.

[quote] And they're both carrying big satchel purses, right? Like Gucci. Here we go. And he throws them out of the building. He's teaching me a lesson. What this fucking kid doesn't know, they're carrying the paychecks for all 82 people on the road crew.

Hahahahaha!!!!

I love this story.

I hope the whole crew was pissed at Wolfie.

He sounds like a damned spoiled brat.

David Lee Roth sounds like a major pain in the ass, but he's been around the block..

It's a bad move to try to fuck with him.

Cell phones existed in 1991, but they were very different than they are today.

I've seen online Wolfie's response to what he considers criticism and he is just like Mama, he doesn't take it well.

Wolfie seems the spoiled nepo type to have gotten everything he has ever wanted in life.

Money, fame, attention, doting parents, a beautiful wife....

What a brat.

Let's be honest, a fat slob without the Van Halen last name is not getting the fame and woman he has.

Before I hit it big Roth used to turn tricks on the street

Man, I loved all of Van Halen's early hits.

They were the best of heavy metal pop.

Alas, then "Jump" the Shark and it was all she wrote.

Yeah, Wolfie definitely needs to make a clean cut away from mom's cooking. He looks like he's pushing 300 pounds now.

Dave likes his weed, or did.

Thirty years ago I met him at a book party in NYC. I was new in town. We were both standing at the bar.

He was really friendly and I said a couple things that set him off about the author looking like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and he lost it laughing. He was baked. What a good time. I got on a roll and he was doubled over. Good memories.

David Lee Roth had already lost his appeal and looks by 1990. Henry Rollins on the other hand still looks good today.

DLR and Henry fucking?

*EXPLODES INTO A OLYMPIC SWIMMING POOL SIZED VAT OF CUM*

The DLR chest hair in his prime has been my standard, my boyfriend is tall with the same build and chest hair and it is a turn on with that treasure trail...

I just remembered something I haven’t thought about for a very long time. When I was in college, a friend of mine (female) and I went and saw Henry perform his spoken word show. My friend, who was not a woman to tilt at homosexual windmills, asked me after if I thought he was gay.

R58. I almost frothed at the mouth at the thought of David Lee Roth (at his peak) and Henry Rollins doing the nasty.

Wolfgang is a ridiculous name for a child.

Fuck you, R62!

[quote]Were there cell phones in 1991?

Yes, R47, but they were big brick phones. Video mashup below.

Wolfie is fat deluded nepo bassist.