{"id":2390219,"date":"2026-04-26T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2390219"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:10:18","slug":"10-more-minutes-backstage-with-david-lee-roth-at-stagecoach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/10-more-minutes-backstage-with-david-lee-roth-at-stagecoach\/","title":{"rendered":"10 (more) minutes backstage with David Lee Roth at Stagecoach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>After <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2026-04-11\/coachella-david-lee-roth-interview-teddy-swims\">back-to-back appearances<\/a> at both weekends of Coachella, David Lee Roth popped out Saturday at Stagecoach to sing Van Halen\u2019s \u201cJump\u201d with Teddy Swims for the third (and final?) time. To discuss what he called his \u201cthree-peat,\u201d I caught up later with the 71-year-old singer, who wore a bedazzled jacket and a leather vest.<\/p>\n<p><b>Have you bought property in Indio? Do you just live here now? <\/b><br \/>No, I\u2019ve bought property in the American musical fabric that extends beyond time frame, that extends beyond shoes and haircuts. It includes cowboy hats and yarmulkes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"enhancement\" data-click=\"enhancement\" data-align-right=\"\">\n<div class=\"video-enhancement\" data-vertical=\"\" data-video-disable-history=\"\">\n<div class=\"video-enhancement-player\">    <gn-video-player class=\"gvp  block relative  aspect-[9\/16] overflow-hidden  w-full bg-cms-color-brand-background lg:z-10\" data-video-player=\"\" data-video-authors=\"Mikael Wood, Vanessa Franko, Mark E. 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Will you be back to sing \u201cJump\u201d with nobody?<\/b><br \/>There\u2019ll be plenty of people here for the Diamond Dave Big Rig Trucking School and Day Care Center.<\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019re on your own tour right now. How are those shows going? <\/b><br \/>They go exquisitely because if you enjoy what you saw onstage [tonight], it\u2019s that times 22 songs.<\/p>\n<p><b>Twenty-two songs in the set.<\/b><br \/>Oh yeah. I wrote every word that I sing, I wrote every note that I sing \u2014 all the melodies \u2014 and I stacked all the harmonies. Ed [Van Halen], of course, contributed all the great guitar parts. And we wrote all of those parts literally sitting in a tiny little alcove room where you put a washer and a dryer. We would sit knee-to-knee the room was so small, and he\u2019d play the electric guitar. His mom wouldn\u2019t let him plug in because it would be too loud, so I had to lean over. Every song that you know of Van Halen, I heard from an unplugged-in electric guitar from four inches away, going, \u201cToo long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Tighten it up.<\/b><br \/>Cut it short. All great musicians finish long after the ending.<\/p>\n<p><b>Last time we talked, you said you were wearing Artemis II. What\u2019s the outfit tonight? <\/b><br \/>This is classic Nudie\u2019s western wear from Lankershim. This is from the \u201950s. This has been all over the world. This is made by Nudie\u2019s of Hollywood, who made all of Roy Rogers\u2019 and Jean Autry\u2019s [clothes] and all of \u201cBonanza,\u201d \u201cGunsmoke,\u201d \u201cRawhide\u2019s\u201d wear. Look up Nudie of Hollywood, OK? This baby\u2019s worth more than my shoes, and they\u2019re custom-made. This jacket\u2019s worth more than my teeth \u2014 same thing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After back-to-back appearances at both weekends of Coachella, David Lee Roth popped out Saturday at Stagecoach to sing Van Halen\u2019s \u201cJump\u201d with Teddy Swims for the third (and final?) time. To discuss what he called his \u201cthree-peat,\u201d I caught up later with the 71-year-old singer, who wore a bedazzled jacket and a leather vest. 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