David Lee Roth played Nokia & Bluegrass again on Late Night

DAVID LEE ROTH IN MICHIGAN | JUNE 30, 2006 (CRED)

Remember how David Lee Roth did that bluegrass number on Leno and how he scheduled some recent comeback tour dates including one at NYC’s Nokia Theatre? Well, the NY Times went to the show, and David did bluegrass again, but this time on Conan.

As the camp factor skyrocketed during the second hour, the crowd’s affection began to sour. When Mr. Roth soft-shoed during “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody,” a heckler shouted, “Go back to Atlantic City!” When he told a rambling story about the naming of “Dance the Night Away” (something about a drunk woman “with her pants on backwards”), a group of men impatiently shouted “Van Halen!” And when he brought out a bluegrass band to play two songs from “Strummin’ With the Devil,” a countrified Van Halen tribute album, there was a mini-exodus from the main floor.