DAVID LEE ROTH
Biography and discography of David Lee Roth, Van Halen's former singer, with a page for each of his eight solo records from the 1985 EP Crazy from the Heat to Diamond Dave in 2003, including running orders, CD details, liner notes, official videos and his concerts in Japan.
Biography
DAVID LEE ROTH
Biography
David Lee Roth is an American singer, born in Bloomington, Indiana, on 10 October 1954. He fronted Van Halen from 1974 to 1985, returned briefly in 1996 and was the band's singer again from 2007 to 2020. On his own he followed the 1985 EP Crazy from the Heat with Eat 'Em and Smile and its Spanish-language version, Sonrisa Salvaje, in 1986, Skyscraper in 1988, A Little Ain't Enough in 1991 and Your Filthy Little Mouth in 1994; after the 1997 compilation The Best came DLR Band in 1998 and Diamond Dave in 2003. His highest placing on the Billboard 200 is No. 4, for Eat 'Em and Smile, and "California Girls" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. He announced his retirement in 2021, returned to the stage in 2025 and toured North America again in 2026.
Early life (1954-1973)
David Lee Roth was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on 10 October 1954, the son of an ophthalmologist (Biography.com). In his own telling, his grandparents came over from Europe in 1917 and ran a general store in New Castle, Indiana, and his father studied at Indiana University before becoming a doctor (The Guardian, 2012).
As a child Roth divided his time between the Indiana countryside and the Greenwich Village home of his uncle Manny Roth, who ran the nightclub Café Wha? in New York. In the early 1960s he lived above the club, where he saw performers such as Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce (official site, 2005; The Guardian, 2012). He has practised martial arts since he was twelve (official site, 2005).
Roth moved to Pasadena, California, as a teenager. At Pasadena City College he studied music theory and met the brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen (Biography.com; The Guardian, 2012). He sang in bands including the Red Ball Jets, and the brothers' band, Mammoth, sometimes rented his PA system for their shows (Biography.com).
The Van Halen years (1974-1985)
Roth joined Mammoth, and the band changed its name to Van Halen (Biography.com). By 1974 the line-up was Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2020). After Gene Simmons of Kiss helped them record a demo, they signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1977 and released their debut album, Van Halen, in 1978 (Biography.com; Rolling Stone, 2019). Roth wrote many of the band's lyrics and co-directed videos such as "Hot for Teacher", and the 1984 album 1984 gave the band its first No. 1 single, "Jump" (Biography.com). "Jump" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985 (Recording Academy).
The tension between Roth and Eddie Van Halen kept growing, and on the 1984 tour Roth travelled separately. The Monsters of Rock date in Nuremberg, Germany, on 2 September 1984 turned out to be Van Halen's last show with Roth for more than two decades (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015). Roth left the band in 1985 and Sammy Hagar replaced him; accounts of the date differ, one giving 1 April and another saying the departure became official in mid-August (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2014 and 2015).
Crazy from the Heat (1985)
While still a member of Van Halen, Roth released the four-song EP Crazy from the Heat early in 1985 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2020 and 2014). Nothing on it sounded like Van Halen: "Easy Street", written by Dan Hartman for the Edgar Winter Group; a medley of "Just a Gigolo" and "I Ain't Got Nobody" based on Louis Prima's 1956 arrangement; "California Girls", with the Beach Boys' Carl Wilson and Christopher Cross on backing vocals; and the Lovin' Spoonful's "Coconut Grove" (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2020). Ted Templeman, Van Halen's producer, worked on it (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021).
The EP reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200, "California Girls" No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" No. 12 (Billboard). It went platinum, and both videos were in heavy rotation on MTV (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2014). A film of the same name was also planned: Roth wrote a screenplay and secured a 10-million-dollar budget from CBS Theatrical Films, but in November 1985, days before shooting was due to begin, CBS closed its film division and the project died (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021).
Eat 'Em and Smile and the solo band (1985-1987)
Now out of Van Halen, Roth put together a band of his own with guitarist Steve Vai, formerly of Frank Zappa's band, bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Gregg Bissonette (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2026). Ted Templeman, who had produced all six Van Halen albums of the Roth era, produced the record; in his 2020 memoir he recalled thinking that with these three players he could get as close as possible to Van Halen's sound (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021).
The first full-length album, Eat 'Em and Smile, came out in July 1986 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2026). It reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum, while "Yankee Rose" reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Goin' Crazy!" No. 66 and "That's Life" No. 85 (Billboard; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021). The same year brought Sonrisa Salvaje, the album with its vocals re-recorded in Spanish; it was on sale on vinyl only briefly and first came out on CD in 2007 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016; Blabbermouth, 2007). At the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988, Roth was nominated for Best Concept Music Video (Recording Academy).
Skyscraper (1988-1989)
The second album, Skyscraper, followed in January 1988. Sheehan had already left by then and Gregg Bissonette's brother Matt Bissonette had taken his place, and the synthesizer-led sound of the newly added keyboard player, Brett Tuggle, divided fans (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016). The first single, "Just Like Paradise", co-written by Tuggle and co-produced by Vai, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2022; Billboard). The album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 (Billboard) and, like its predecessor, went platinum (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015).
The cover photograph was taken on the rock face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, on the same shoot as scenes for the "Just Like Paradise" video (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2024). The tour was a success, but it was also the end of Vai's time with Roth (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2022).
A Little Ain't Enough (1990-1992)
The third album, A Little Ain't Enough, came out in January 1991. Bob Rock produced it, and the band now had a young guitarist, Jason Becker, formerly of Cacophony with Marty Friedman, alongside Steve Hunter, Brett Tuggle and the Bissonette brothers (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016; Blabbermouth, 2007). Soon after joining, Becker was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); he recorded the album as the illness advanced but could not tour with it (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016 and 2026).
The album reached No. 18 on the Billboard 200 and went gold, but by the summer it had run its course (Billboard; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016). Gregg Bissonette was the only member of the Eat 'Em and Smile band left on it, and he too left afterwards (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015).
Your Filthy Little Mouth and Las Vegas (1993-1995)
Roth moved from Los Angeles to New York and cut his long hair (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015). The fourth album, Your Filthy Little Mouth, came out in March 1994. Nile Rodgers of Chic produced it, and guitarist Terry Kilgore was Roth's main songwriting partner. Its range ran from rock to the country-rock of "Cheatin' Heart Cafe" with Travis Tritt, horn-driven pop with female backing singers, lounge music and reggae, and the first single, "She's My Machine", reached No. 12 on Billboard's rock chart (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015), but the album stalled at No. 78 on the Billboard 200 (Billboard).
In 1995 Roth started a lounge act in Las Vegas (Biography.com), backed by a band called the Blues-Bustin' Mambo Slammers; a New Year's Eve show in Las Vegas that year was his last performance of the period (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021).
The 1996 reunion
After Sammy Hagar left Van Halen in June 1996, Roth reconnected with Eddie Van Halen in July and recorded two new songs, "Me Wise Magic" and "Can't Get This Stuff No More", for the compilation Best Of – Volume I, the first new music by the original four in twelve years (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021). In early September the four appeared together at the MTV Video Music Awards, but on 2 October Roth issued a statement saying the reunion would not happen, and the band answered with a statement of its own the next day. "Me Wise Magic" went to No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart on 26 October and stayed there for six weeks (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021). Gary Cherone of Extreme became Van Halen's next singer (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2016).
The memoir and DLR Band (1997-2001)
In 1997 Roth published his memoir, Crazy from the Heat (Biography.com; official site, 2005). The compilation The Best, released the same year, spent a single week on the Billboard 200, at No. 199 (Billboard).
In May 1998 Roth released a double A-side single, "Slam Dunk!" and "King of the Hill", and in June the album DLR Band on the independent label Wawazat!! Records. On about half of the album the guitar and bass came from John 5, then still using his own name, John Lowery; the other players were the young guitarist Mike Hartman, Roth's old Red Ball Jets bandmate Terry Kilgore, and drummer Ray Luzier. There was no tour for the album; a year later Roth spent the summer opening for a reunited Bad Company (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2018).
In the summer of 2000 Roth and the Van Halen brothers recorded new songs together, but they did not become an album (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021).
Diamond Dave and the radio show (2002-2006)
In 2002 Roth toured with his old rival Sammy Hagar, and the tour was a success (Biography.com). In July 2003 he released Diamond Dave on Magnatude Records, part of Magna Carta. Alongside a few new songs it covers three Savoy Brown songs and songs by Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and the Beatles, and on "Ice Cream Man" Edgar Winter plays saxophone and Nile Rodgers guitar (Blabbermouth, 2003).
On 3 January 2006 Roth took over the CBS Radio morning show of Howard Stern, who had moved to satellite radio. The show aired in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and four other cities, but it was dropped after little more than three months, on 21 April (Blabbermouth, 2021; AP, 2006; NPR, 2006).
Back in Van Halen (2007-2020)
In 2007 Van Halen were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Roth among the five inductees, though he did not attend the ceremony (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Biography.com). That year he rejoined the band with Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang Van Halen on bass, and the tour that ran until June 2008 grossed more than 93 million dollars from 74 shows (Billboard, 2008).
In 2012 came A Different Kind of Truth, Roth's first Van Halen studio album since 1984 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2015 and 2020). By early 2013 he had made his home in Tokyo, where he trained in Japanese swordsmanship and went to Japanese classes (Rolling Stone, 2013). Van Halen's last concert was at the Hollywood Bowl on 4 October 2015 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2026). Eddie Van Halen died on 6 October 2020; Roth had remained the band's singer to the end (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2020; Blabbermouth, 2025).
Solo again, and the retirement announcement (2019-2022)
On 8 January 2020 Roth began a residency at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, and from February he opened for Kiss on their End of the Road tour (Rolling Stone, 2019; Blabbermouth, 2022). The pandemic halted the tour and the last six Las Vegas shows were postponed. His opening set for Kiss at the United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas, on 10 March 2020 was his last official show until 2025 (Rolling Stone, 2022; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2025; Blabbermouth, 2022).
On 30 October 2020 Roth released "Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bar and Grill", dedicated to the late Eddie Van Halen, a song from an unreleased album he had recorded with John 5 early in the 2010s (Guitar.com, 2020; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2020). On 1 October 2021 he released another single, "Lo-Rez Sunset" (Consequence, 2021).
The same day, 1 October 2021, Roth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he was retiring, and that five shows over the New Year at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay would be his last. More dates were added, but in January 2022 the whole run was cancelled, with the organisers citing circumstances related to COVID (Consequence, 2021; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2021; Billboard, 2022; Blabbermouth, 2025).
On 3 May 2022, at Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood, Roth recorded fourteen Van Halen songs in two hours, live and without pitch correction, and later released the recordings one by one under his own name (Blabbermouth, 2025). Alex Van Halen said in 2024 that after Eddie Van Halen's death he had planned a tribute tour with Roth and rehearsed with him in 2022, but that the plan ended when the two clashed over whether the show should acknowledge Eddie Van Halen; Roth declined to comment on that account (Billboard, 2024).
Back on stage (2025-2026)
On 3 May 2025 Roth played the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, Maryland, singing sixteen songs, all from Van Halen's repertoire: his first full show in five years (Consequence, 2025; Blabbermouth, 2025). That summer he toured the United States, from Paso Robles, California, on 22 July to Napa on 14 September (Blabbermouth, 2025 and 2026). In 2025 he also sold his publishing catalogue (Blabbermouth, 2026), and The Warner Recordings 1985–1994, a box set of his first five solo releases, came out (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2025).
On 10 April 2026 Roth joined Teddy Swims on stage at the Coachella festival to sing "Jump", and later that month the two did it again at the country festival Stagecoach (Los Angeles Times, 2026; Guitar.com, 2026; Billboard, 2026). On 16 April he opened a North American tour billed as "Don't Love Me, Rent Me" at Spokane Live! in Airway Heights, Washington, with Al Estrada on guitar, Sean McNabb on bass, Francis Valentino on drums and Danny Wagner on keyboards (Blabbermouth, 2026; Ultimate Classic Rock, 2026). On 23 July most of the remaining dates were cancelled, with no reason given (Billboard, 2026; Blabbermouth, 2026). On 30 July he took part in a conversation at a TEDx event in Fargo, North Dakota, with Alex Van Halen and the artist Robert Vargas, the first time he and Alex Van Halen had appeared in public together since October 2015 (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2026).
Beyond music
In the autumn of 2012 Roth launched an internet show, The Roth Show, which he also broadcast from Tokyo (Rolling Stone, 2013). He is also a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York, and in 2012 he said he had been on more than 200 emergency calls in the previous six years (The Guardian, 2012).
Roth paints and publishes his own artwork (official site; Blabbermouth, 2021). With partners including Ami James he ran INK the Original, a skin-care line made to protect tattoos, which he talked about in 2018; in March 2022 it was reported to have closed (Blabbermouth, 2022). He is also a keen climber and traveller who has made trips to the Himalayas, New Guinea, the Amazon and the South Pacific (official site, 2005).
Discography
The six solo studio albums, the EP, the Spanish-language version and the compilation, in order of first release. Beyond these there are the 2013 compilation Greatest Hits: The Deluxe Edition and the 2025 box set The Warner Recordings 1985–1994, and since 2020 Roth has released a number of single songs as downloads and streams (Ultimate Classic Rock, 2013, 2025 and 2020).
| Released | Title | Type | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Crazy from the Heat | EP | Warner Bros. Records | Four songs; "California Girls" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 1986 | Eat 'Em and Smile | Studio album | Warner Bros. Records | The first with Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan and Gregg Bissonette; No. 4 on the Billboard 200 |
| 1986 | Sonrisa Salvaje | Studio album (the Spanish-language version of Eat 'Em and Smile) | Warner Bros. Records | Vocals re-recorded in Spanish; first issued on CD in 2007 |
| 1988 | Skyscraper | Studio album | Warner Bros. Records | "Just Like Paradise" reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 1991 | A Little Ain't Enough | Studio album | Warner Bros. Records | Produced by Bob Rock; Jason Becker on guitar |
| 1994 | Your Filthy Little Mouth | Studio album | Reprise Records | Produced by Nile Rodgers |
| 1997 | The Best | Compilation | Rhino Records | The best-known songs of his solo career |
| 1998 | DLR Band | Studio album | Wawazat!! Records | John 5 plays guitar and bass on about half of it |
| 2003 | Diamond Dave | Studio album | Magna Carta / Magnatude Records | New songs and covers |
Concerts in Japan
In Japan, Crazy from the Heat and Eat 'Em and Smile first came out on Warner-Pioneer. Skyscraper was released there on 25 February 1988 and reached No. 12 on the Oricon albums chart; A Little Ain't Enough followed on 25 February 1991 (No. 17) and Your Filthy Little Mouth on 18 March 1994 (No. 26), its Japanese edition adding the bonus track "Mississippi Power". The Best came out on 25 November 1997 and Diamond Dave, on Victor Entertainment, on 21 September 2003; DLR Band was never issued in Japan. On 4 March 2026 the four Warner albums were reissued in Japan from new masters (Oricon; Tower Records; Warner Music Japan).
Roth first played Japan with Van Halen, in 1978 and 1979 (BARKS). On his own he toured the country in 1988, 1994 and 2004. The 1988 visit followed Skyscraper, and on 3 October he played the Nippon Budokan with a band that had Steve Vai on guitar (Guitar Player). The 1994 Japanese leg is recorded on the site of his drummer at the time, Ron Wikso, who notes that guitarist Terry Kilgore left the band during it (Ron Wikso's official site). In January 2004, promoted by Udo Artists, he played BIGCAT in Osaka on the 26th, Club Diamond Hall in Nagoya on the 28th and Shibuya Kokaido in Tokyo on the 30th. The three shows had first been booked for 18 October (Tokyo), 20 October (Nagoya) and 22 October 2003 (Osaka) and were postponed because of his injury, and the Osaka show moved from ON AIR OSAKA to BIGCAT; Udo called it his first visit in about ten years (Udo Artists; DIAMOND HALL). In June 2013 he returned with the reunited Van Halen, playing the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya on the 18th, the Tokyo Dome on the 21st and the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium on the 24th and 26th; the Tokyo Dome show was released as the live album Tokyo Dome Live in Concert (Udo Artists; BARKS; Billboard JAPAN; Tower Records).
| Date | Venue | Show |
|---|---|---|
| 3 October 1988 | Nippon Budokan (Tokyo) | The tour that followed Skyscraper; Steve Vai on guitar |
| 26 January 2004 | BIGCAT (Osaka) | In place of 22 October 2003; moved from ON AIR OSAKA |
| 28 January 2004 | Club Diamond Hall (Aichi) | In place of 20 October 2003 |
| 30 January 2004 | Shibuya Kokaido (Tokyo) | In place of 18 October 2003 |
About the sources
The sources are David Lee Roth's official site, davidleeroth.com (its 2005 biography as kept by the Internet Archive, and the current site); the Recording Academy's Grammy site; the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; Billboard (its chart records and news); Rolling Stone; The Guardian; the Los Angeles Times; the Associated Press; NPR; Blabbermouth.net; Ultimate Classic Rock; Consequence; Guitar.com; and Biography.com. The labels and some release dates were checked against MusicBrainz. The Japanese editions and the concerts in Japan were checked against Oricon, Tower Records, Warner Music Japan, BARKS, Billboard JAPAN, Guitar Player, Ron Wikso's official site and the pages of Udo Artists and DIAMOND HALL (as kept by the Internet Archive from 2003); some 1980s Japanese editions were checked against Discogs.
Trivia
By early 2013 Roth had moved to Tokyo. He said he first held a Japanese sword at nine or ten, and in Tokyo he trained four times a week with a professional instructor and spent two to four hours a day at Japanese language school. Having arrived alone, knowing neither the language nor anyone there, he admitted that the first three months were hard, but with Konishiki as his teacher he went to a sumo tournament and to a sumo stable, and he broadcast his internet show, The Roth Show, from the city.
Roth got his first tattoo in 1977 or 1978, a little seahorse on his ankle, at Cliff Raven Studio on Sunset Boulevard. In a 2018 interview he said he waited until he was 60 to get a full Japanese bodysuit, which took 300 hours of sitting over two years; the design, his own, is kabuki faces rendered in the Edo style so that it looks like a woodblock print. He was also a partner in INK the Original, a skin-care line for tattooed skin, which was reported in March 2022 to have closed.
As a child, David Lee Roth spent part of his time with his uncle Manny Roth, who ran the Café Wha? nightclub in New York's Greenwich Village. In the early 1960s he lived above the club and saw performers such as Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce up close. On his official site Roth recalled missing Jimi Hendrix one summer, because his uncle had fired Hendrix for being late. Manny Roth ran the club until 1988.
Roth has been nominated for a Grammy twice: Van Halen's "Jump" was a nominee for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985, and at the 30th, in 1988, he was nominated in his own right for Best Concept Music Video. He has not won.
Before Van Halen, Roth sang in bands including the Red Ball Jets. Mammoth, the band of Eddie and Alex Van Halen, sometimes rented Roth's PA system for its shows, and Roth eventually joined it. Years later he teamed up again with Terry Kilgore, a fellow member of the Red Ball Jets: Kilgore was his main songwriting partner and guitarist on Your Filthy Little Mouth and played guitar on DLR Band.
The Monsters of Rock show in Nuremberg, Germany, on 2 September 1984 turned out to be Van Halen's last with Roth for more than two decades. Roth had travelled separately on that year's tour, yet when he released the Crazy from the Heat EP early in 1985 he still insisted on Late Night with David Letterman that the band would go into the studio within a month "to start arguing again".
In the video for "Goin' Crazy!", the two record executives watching the band in disbelief from the control room are played by Roth, in a fat suit, and his manager and creative partner Pete Angelus, who together went by the name the Fabulous Picasso Brothers. Producer Ted Templeman wrote in his 2020 memoir that on the set an actor in a fat suit, dripping with gold chains, came up and chatted with him in character, and only after a minute revealed that he was Roth. The single reached No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.
For Eat 'Em and Smile, Ted Templeman wanted to set all-out metal alongside the big-band and vaudeville material of the Crazy from the Heat EP; in his 2020 memoir he said he was aiming for something like Van Halen's Diver Down meeting Fair Warning. On the opening "Yankee Rose" Steve Vai's guitar talks back to Roth, and "Shyboy", which follows it, is a song by Billy Sheehan's former band, Talas.
News
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Recalls Being Offered Guitarist Gig In DAVID LEE ROTH's Solo Band: 'I Probably Should Have Done It'
Speaking to Eonmusic, he said Roth, who had just left VAN HALEN, came to his 1985 shows all the time while TALAS, featuring Billy Sheehan, were the opening act.
VAN HALEN's DAVID LEE ROTH And ALEX VAN HALEN Appear Together In Public For The First Time In 11 Years; TEDxFargo Talk Posted
The pair took the stage at TEDxFargo on July 30 at Brewhalla in Fargo, North Dakota, for a 15-minute conversation titled "Beyond Boundaries: How Human Experience Informs Art And Music", moderated by painter Robert Vargas. It marked their first public appearance together since Van Halen's final concert at the Hollywood Bowl on October 4, 2015. The entire talk has now been uploaded to YouTube.
Play videoVAN HALEN: Previously Unreleased 1974 Demo “Glitter” To Be Included With ALEX VAN HALEN's Limited-Edition Book
Genesis Publications has revealed that the seven-inch picture disc accompanying Alex Van Halen's signed limited-edition book “Van Halen”, restricted to 1,500 numbered copies worldwide, will feature “Glitter”, a demo recorded in 1974. Featuring Alex and Eddie Van Halen alongside David Lee Roth and original bassist Mark Stone, it will be the earliest VAN HALEN recording ever officially released.
ALEX VAN HALEN And DAVID LEE ROTH To Reunite At TEDxFargo Event This Thursday
The pair join artist Robert Vargas on July 30 in Fargo, North Dakota; they are not expected to perform.
Albums
David Lee Roth's album of 8 July 2003 on Magna Carta: eleven covers, from Savoy Brown and the Doors to Jimi Hendrix, plus three originals.
David Lee Roth's 1998 album credited to the DLR Band, released on his own Wawazat!! label on 9 June and recorded and mixed in ten days.
David Lee Roth's 1997 Rhino compilation: nineteen songs from his five Warner releases of 1985 to 1994, opened by the new "Don't Piss Me Off".
David Lee Roth's fourth full-length album, released by Reprise on 8 March 1994 and produced by Nile Rodgers, ranges from country to reggae.
David Lee Roth's third full-length album, produced by Bob Rock and released on 15 January 1991, with Jason Becker on lead guitar.
David Lee Roth's second full-length album, released on 21 January 1988 and co-produced with Steve Vai, reached number 6 on the Billboard 200.
David Lee Roth's first full-length solo album, released on 7 July 1986 with Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan and Gregg Bissonette: a No. 4 hit.
David Lee Roth's first solo record, a four-song EP of covers released on 28 January 1985 while he was still Van Halen's singer.
BOX
Box sets and multi-disc anniversary and expanded editions, listed separately from the albums.
David Lee Roth's first five solo releases, from the Crazy from the Heat EP to Your Filthy Little Mouth, newly remastered and boxed for the first time.