and the number one funny thing ever to happen in music
In regards to this post on VH1's list of funny music moments, and apropos to my making fun of David Lee Roth through the whole thing, I have discovered the specifics of what the "accident" that made Mr. Roth cancel his tour:
"It was an incident onstage where he was doing a kung fu maneuver and he got hit with a staff that he uses," spokesman Todd Brodginski said. "He was doing a very fast, complicated 15th-century samurai move."
The former Van Halen frontman needed 21 stitches on his face because of the Sept. 17 accident in Philadelphia. He called off seven dates in the tour of clubs and theaters because of the injury.
Beat that.
I can't stop laughing.
Comments
That's a hell of a fancy way to say "He fwapped himself in the face with a big stick!"
Posted by: Steve Gigl | September 29, 2003 10:39 AM
What a moron. LOL
Posted by: Kate | September 29, 2003 10:42 AM
He meant to do that.
</Pee-Wee Herman>
Posted by: McGehee | September 29, 2003 10:57 AM
Premiereship football fans will remember Eric Cantona's Bruce Lee impression was just as funny :-)
Posted by: glenn | September 29, 2003 11:00 AM
Well, now we know who isn't "The Last Samurai"...
Posted by: Jon | September 29, 2003 11:01 AM
Ummm...isn't that exactly what happened to Daffy Duck in the cartoon where he is playing Robin Hood?
Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust! BONK
Posted by: Leonidas | September 29, 2003 11:06 AM
Michele, if he had been "beating" it, it could never have reached his face.
And, hey, what if it was a fourteenth century move?
Posted by: Chuck | September 29, 2003 11:20 AM
Given recent events in the entertainment industry, I'm surprised he didn't kill himself!
Posted by: Mark | September 29, 2003 11:35 AM
Yeah, someone needs to remind Dave he ain't a kid anymore.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | September 29, 2003 12:40 PM
What's truly funny about it is that his own spokesman doesn't know diddly about martial arts. First, kung fu is a Chinese art, so samurai (Japanese knights) wouldn't have done it in the 15th Century or otherwise.
Or it could be that David Lee Roth didn't know what he was doing, which is why he ended up with stitches in his face.
Posted by: Dave | September 29, 2003 12:48 PM
Reminds me of the story where Henry Rollins came out on stage and in a fit of rock and roll enthusiasm simultaneously raised his knee and lowered his head in such a way to break his nose and render himself unconscious.
Didn't even get to the first song.
Posted by: ed | September 29, 2003 04:02 PM
Rollins should do that at the beginning of every show.
Posted by: Kevin Parrott | September 29, 2003 05:10 PM
I bet his ratings were high for that gig. I hope he didn't wake up and start spouting angry poetry.
Too bad Roth was aiming high. We could have had a new falsetto. Or is that castrato?
Posted by: alfredo stroessner | September 29, 2003 09:48 PM
Screw all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
D.L.R. IS GAWD!!! BOW DOWN!!!
Posted by: Yendor | December 13, 2003 02:02 PM