Apollonia Shares Stories Dating David Lee Roth While Filming Purple Rain. 

LOL right?

Diamond Dave a goodamn pimp

I thought he came out of the closet?

He was the poster boy for the ultimate rock star & yes, he sure could jump.

Watched him from the rail on the diver down tour and his footwork and dance timing blew my mind!

Who cares that his voice basically sucked, as long as he can jump around and tell the same rehearsed jokes every night of the tour....lol

@@pulsarlights2825 he admitted in an interview once, he can't sing but screams well. 😆😆 I think he has a great voice for rock with tremendous showmanship.

@@jdrosy4414 Ted Templeman was a magician to make Roth sound decent in the studio, but I don't think I ever heard a live performance of Roth that was good...is that why VH never released a live album with Roth?

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Yup, only he didn’t realize it wasn’t lake Minnetonka

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

This bores me, do you want to play some basketball? 🤘

I remember back in the day someone asked him about dating and he said something to the effect that he pretty much leaves everything he has out on stage, so he really didn't have an interest in "continuing the show" after he got off it. First I've heard that he and Apollonia were an item. Interesting.

Maybe he didn't kiss and tell but I'll still never see him as a classy guy. He's a narcissist and definitely left some bad blood with Van Halen at the time. He's also an asshole for what he did to Beck at the MTV awards. He had no reason to attack Beck other than he was jealous that he wasn't the center of attention anymore and Beck was getting an award and he wasn't.

@Anderson Coopertakes one to know one I guess 😆

Right!

Beck sucks

I wish VH and Price would have collaborated on something more than poontang!!! I think it would have been fantastic!!!

Or in my case I Didn’t love the Beatles or the Stones…Lol

@@luv2cook. Hey theres room for everybody. Im sure back in the day there were people who couldnt stand Mozart and Beethoven.

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE -=- HAMMER OF THE GODS

@@sabrewolf1030 That's me! . 👷🏽‍♀️ 😵Owoh!!. . 💥🥒💥

Wow!

Great story

Wonder if Apple did any with him🤔

At your age how could you not know you were talking to David Lee Roth?

Love the story

They would have made beautiful babies...

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@@bettyb1313 ....with cheekbones for YEARS

DLR always had access to the hottest women

Absolutely

i saw VH spring of 84 and prince the same year both here in detroit. i also saw New Edition in detroit both shows and i gotta say, NE is right up there with them

DLR was an awful live performer

You obviously didn't see Guns N Roses

Check out Rob Zombie.

Booger Sugar Maybe! That's What he was Thinkin Bout

Booger sugar...😂😂😂❤

Truly bad ass rock stars always chose drugs over women 😂

That's exactly right, I can verify that.😊

DLR:s look with VH was very much taken from Jim Dandy Mangrum. The long blonde hair parted in the middle, open shirts, the tight white pants and flat boots. And he was all over the stage. Black Oak was a great live band. Roth had to have seen him in the pages of Circus and other rock mags. The girls, including my sister, loved Jim Dandy.

@@TheBent139 Roth actually approached Mr.Dandy and asked if he could video him preforming.Dandy was flattered and said yes.But keep it real people don’t act like Dave’s a clone not even close!!!!!

@@earachemyeye1751 Oh hell no. DLR is a clone of no one. But he took some some cues from Jim Dandy. Never said it was a bad idea.

Yeah Dave's not a Jim Dandy clone. Duh,Jim can actually sing.

@@careful...Icarus Roth had a decent voice early on. He trashed his voice within a couple years. Always a great entertainer though.

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Lmao

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I agree. I've never seen cheeks so proud and swollen. Oh, you meant the outfit.

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How little is the question?

A classic!

@@earachemyeye1751 ✔️😸

@@scorpiorising3741 creep

@@joeldukes303 more delicious words have never been spoken

No way!?

Steven Tyler had a pretty unique voice too.

You forgot the greatest frontman of all-time: Freddie Mercury

Same here. My musical DNA is purely VH and Prince.

They're 2 of my Big 4 musicians/artists of all time.

Same here but with Sammy fronting VH :)

There's no way her face is pulled tight...she has big laugh lines which is common with age...I have them. The reason she has some difficulty speaking is most likely caused by her nervousness and possibly a bit of dry mouth and whatever dental work she may have had. I don't even think Apollonia has any fillers in her face. I think she's just doing her best to age gracefully...and she's pulling it off.

I think its her loose dentures. If you listen closely you can hear them click when she talks

@@jipfluffy2143 Hey, "Jip Fluffy"...where's YOUR pic?!!

They shoulda played one-on-one basketball and winner gets Apollonia and loser gets a stack of cold pancakes 😂😂

Nah.

Really? DLR is so cool.

MJ had two white gloves on ,and Dave said “No one wears just one glove “,Mike thought it was a good ideal.

@@boardtrackbmx1109 That was a joke story Roth told dude, it’s not true.

Mmmmmmm.. I’d love to be the meat in that sandwich!!!

Vanity was messing around with Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx as well. At one point, they were engaged.

Plenty of people have talked about Roth doing acrobatics like the mid air splits and other feats as far back as the mid 70's at backyard parties in the L.A. area when VH were playing before they ever got signed, and VH's first album came out in 1978. So it's pretty common knowledge in the L.A. area, and I lived there for well over 15 years and ran in musical circles, that Roth was doing this years before their debut album in 78'. It's one of the main reasons they got signed. VH, and in particular Roth, were blowing people away with their stage presence. David Lee Roth's influence on frontmen during his era was incalculable. The ENTIRE decade of the 80's was more or less one rock frontman after another trying, and failing, to be like David Lee Roth. I would watch videos on MTV and inevitably you'd see it. I would often think to myself when watching these other guys in videos "yep, trying to be like David Lee Roth". Prince was obviously very talented, but that doesn't mean he was the originator of everything he played or performed. He wasn't.

Dave was doing it long before 79' so Prince still came later with that date. Prince was influenced by Dave, it's clear.

@@KingDevilCharger You cannot actually say that. It makes no difference at all. All im saying is assuming a little black kid in min knows about a white up and coming rock god in the mid 70s without internet cable etc is a stretch. Van halen I videos did not have any acrobatics from what i have seen. Dave is way way underrated i love Van halen. And sure it is possible prince copied dave. More likely Prince copied someone.

@@totalsavagepunk1240 DLR is a Rock God, one of the best frontmen in the history of rock and roll.

@@KingDevilCharger That is not clear at all. That is your imagination running wild.

I am sure it did even Dave has said he had to have back surgeries from jumping

Soo so true

That would be very interesting to say the least. Maybe we can get some photos?

Now THAT'S funny.

Exactly

Prince didn't care about who she was dating. He had just made the greatest rock movie ever and wanted his co-stars to promote it. Its called business. Prince was too busy living his life to worry about making plans for dividing up his money after it.

@@onesong2001 And look where that got him and the protracted legal battles for his estate. None of us knows when we're going to go.

@@tc556guy Yeah... Prince was so busy with "business" and "living his life" that he ended up squandering the last quarter-century of his existence.

Just watched the video. That’s a different kind of spilts. She’s talking about jumping off the piano or drum riser and doing spilts.

@@TheSteveSteele I hope so.

I was about to say this. He also did the splits in the videos for "Dirty Mind" and "Sexuality" before that. He more likely borrowed those moves from Little Richard and James Brown, although I wouldn't be surprised if DLR lent inspiration to him.

@@nickstadler1906 Roth has been doing the splits in the air since the mid-late 70’s.

That’s not what she claimed.

James Brown is the obvious influence on Prince from hairdo, splits and all around movement... I'm sure the same goes for DLR who was a huge funk/R&B fan with his stage movements and of course a huge bit of DLR stage persona draws from Jim Dandy. Dandy is modest (don't kniw him real well) about it but knows it's true.

@@osiruskat The first time I saw David Lee Roth in Creem Magazine I immediately thought...That guy is exactly like Jim Dandy from Black Oak Arkansas - it was the same look & act. Jim Dandy was always so cool about the fact that he knew that David Roth was totally ripping him off. I knew that he was seeing Appolonia at the time that Purple Rain was in the Theaters & thought it was so cool, but I wasn't surprised (Awesome movie & Soundtrack).

@@osiruskat DLR does what he does on stage because he is a black belt martial artist. Most of his moves are karate kicks converted to look like a dance move. That splits-thing is just a byproduct of what he can do, easily improvised.

@@johnbeckwith1361 granted that but did you watch the most recent Joe Rogan podcast where he talks about the music he grew up on?

Sugar, is perhaps a common name for all the sweet thangs in his life. Much Love, "The Ice Cream Man"

Same here lol

Probably so he wouldn't have to try to remember their names.

@@ericdodson2644 👍😀

Best song on the album IMO!

I see what you did there

No.

@@chicovoylez3216"No," Chico? Then who do I think the coolest and hottest are?

@@DFVH5150 For the 80s'. WOMEN: Christy Brinkley, Brooke Shields, Tracy Lords, Bo Derek and a few Playboy playmates. For MEN: Don't care.

Liam Gallagher and Santanico Pandemonium.....

You care or you wouldn’t comment,give it to us Chico!

sure bout that?

@@WindomRettes I take it you haven't seen the movie Purple Rain have you?

Idk Vanity was gorgeous.

Chick from weird science was pretty hot...

Apollonia is the “great-value” Vanity. Sheila E looked good in Krush Groove. Vanity makes those two look average.

@@BBoiiLite totally agree

@@TheJakecakes Vanity was so gorgeous.

Reality is a friend.

Roth stole his schtick from Jim "Dandy" Mangrum of Black Oak Arkansas.

Who the hell are you talking to? lol...Prince fans are notorious for knowing all of Prince's influences and love pointing them out. And Prince's guitar playing was influenced more by Santana than by Hendrix.

@C J I love this. Thank you. WAY too many people have overidolized every little step Prince did. While he is in my top 4 musical influences, in no way do I fall over in blind worship. I started hearing stories of him in the early 90s when I was up in L.A. playing in various bands. Too much gossip about him that turned out to be true or just "what a prick" stuff. Stuff like that turns me off. I love him and always will. I cried like a busted water faucet when he died. But he's a human and faults need to be accepted as well.

@ Mike Little, Jim Dandy himself said “whatever he took from me he made it his own”.

@Gerron Marquel - Yep, but she 61 years of age, she lives in California with all that sun beaming down on her skin, it seems she's had that sh*t injected into her lip area, and she's Hispanic. It's par for the course, but unlike Prince, she still alive, still kicking, and is not under Prince's estate's confidentiality clause, that he began to force people who worked for him after The Revolution to sign. So she's pretty much free to discuss anything about her time with Prince without fear of a violation of clause, if it's still in affect.

She all tore up

She's beautiful & stunning. People would kill to have her beautiful hair and eyes.

@@ginachildfree3277 - No baby. Only you go to the store and buy hair from unknown origins. Dead people, sick people, poor and impoverished.

@@thespadestable Sweetheart I don't wear wigs or weave but Miss Apollonia still has a beautiful head of healthy hair & beautiful eyes. Since you want to speak about her looks why dont you show us how close to the handsome Odell Beckham you look like? If youre not a 8, 9 or 10 you need to have a seat sir. Apollonia was a 10 at your age. Sit down

This was 1984

Dave's been jumping off risers since 79 maybe earlier

@@marchenoecker I think they ment the 1999 era which was in 1982

Goddddd I wish.

Why you want to treat me so bad? the video clip.

Maybe there isn't video evidence, but Prince grew up watching James Brown and also took ballet lessons.. You think he wasn't practicing that shit in his teen years.. Trust me, he wasn't doing it because DLR. Take anything that Appolonia says with a grain of salt, she was nobody without PR.

she was in eddie moneys video before purple rain wasn't she?

When Dave was a teenage he hung with the blacks & Mexicans He was into soul music

@@ambervelvetarden4586 Yes she was.

@@iscleslie Yes, she is rosanna in the Shakin video. I was pretty sure that was before purple rain. :)

@Dennis Leavitt oh yeh thanks

He wasn't at the time. And I wouldn't call him a "master". Read their managers book. The rest of the band mocked his "Kung Fu" skills. He did live in Japan for some time though, after VH and his solo career cooled. . Mostly learned Japanese painting and culture and got all tatted up. He is a very interesting guy. But you have to separate his fact from fiction.

@@TheBent139 He studied with Ed Parker. Dave was no joke. I met someone who knew him in the early days = He was into fighting

@@TheBent139 sure the managers book contains no fiction.

I think you mean DIAMOND DAVE IS WHAT WE CALL HIM ? NOW IT'S DIARRHEA DAVE LOL.

@@thomasbrandt8265 when the new name started ?

Once the King always a King.....you ever been the King? Shhhhhhh silly boi @thomas brandt

@@earachemyeye1751 and once a night is never enough! 😈

Well, he wrote every lyric and every melody, wrote and directed every video and handled all of the VH art work from day one...and he wrote, produced and was set to direct and star in the movie (along with other members of van halen) "crazy From the heat" which was in pre production before CBS studios went under ..and the next van halen album was to be the soundtrack to it...then vh broke up so then eat'em and smile was to be the soundtrack......anyway, when the movie studio went under he sued the movie company and won the producer fee. So Prince and Dave were both talented musically and in other artistic ways...Is prince more instrumentally talented..yeah..id give him that..prince can play all instruments..Dave can just play guitar at an average level.....they both wrote great songs and both wrote $hitty songs. With Prince though, it was all about him...with Dave in VH it was all about the band. All the focus was on Prince because he was essentially a solo act.

I’m sure Dave would agree...but who has the biggest balls!

I don't think that's even a question. Roth was one of the best hard rock lyricists and frontmen in the world. Prince is a prodigy musician, excellent songwriter, singer and performer. Both changed music in their times and influenced many, but to compare the two is like trying to look east and west at the same time. It's not worth the effort.

I mean.... Even Dave wouldn't dispute that. You're kind of stating the obvious. Now, Eddie is a different story if we are talking about genius.

But who has the best songs? VH Owned The 80’s

🖤💜🖤It was just Prince. Prince’s engineer and others confirm that. Sheila was bought in when everything else was done. It was that lie she told in her book that ended they’re friendship, sad. Also the song wasn’t about Apollonia like she use to say, it was about Denise Matthews aka Vanity. This everybody jumping on the “ credit train “ is not surprising, but I did expect more from Apollonia. I don’t know why.🖤💜🖤

@@purpleflowers699 that song was written for Vanity to sing by Prince, he also wrote Manic Monday for Vanity and Sugar Walls too. He was going to have her sing those songs but they broke up before purple rain and he gave those songs to other artists including Sheila E

@@sheriefrazier3479 🕊🧖🏽‍♂️🕊I knew about everything else, but I didn’t know about ‘ Sugar Walls ‘. Sheena Easton did a great job singing that one, she definitely was a better singer then the other three.🕊🧖🏽‍♂️🕊

@@purpleflowers699 now I don’t know what to believe anymore. I think she’s trying to say she contributed something but it wasn’t talked about all that much or something. The way how she said Prince was trying to make right.

@@Bubba.mitchell4603 🖤💜🖤A lot of them are putting words into a dead mans mouth. Prince was a very religious and forgiving person, both of which I think made him very vulnerable to being taken advantage of by people who took advantage in the past. Their the only ones who keep saying that Prince was making amends to them before he passed on. ‘ AMENDS FOR WHAT ‘! Opening the door for each one of them into the entertainment industry! Giving them all the opportunity to make a career for themselves. It’s not Prince’s fault if most of them weren’t meant to be as talented and successful as he was meant to be. It was Prince who opened the door for Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, two talented men, but in this industry it takes a lot more than talent to get in. And when a talented person does get through that door, it usually can take about 10 years for them to really become successful....if ever. Some of them are so bitter about their lack of success without Prince, that one of them has gone around saying that he believes that Prince had him “ blackballed “, which is ridiculous! Because right after ‘ The Time ‘ broke up he got a record deal and put out a few albums in the 80s. If Prince wanted him or anyone else ‘ Blackballed ‘ than before he got signed to a record label would have been the time to do it. He just wants someone to blame because he couldn’t hold on to his record deal, which is not unusual. A lot of people get dropped once they’re sales start to drop. It happened to Morris, Lisa and Wendy and Brown Mark too. You just have to go and try you’re luck else where. Even Prince’s ex- bodyguard, Chick said he wondered if someone from Prince’s camp had him ‘ blackballed ‘ because he couldn’t find work in security after he stopped working for Prince. Working for Prince made him probably the first ‘ World Wide Famous Bodyguard In History ‘, which means that he was known in the industry, but he was also known for having an addiction problem. No one going to hired someone with a known addiction or dependency problem to work security! It’s just easier for all of them to put it on someone else, than to take responsibility for their own actions, behavior and lack of ability. Prince always was an easy target. He gave few interviews. He like a lot of celebrities didn’t get involved in a public ‘ back-and-forth ‘ with any of them. What for? They’re going to say what they’re going to say and believe what suits them the best. The only time I heard Prince comment on those people saying ‘ this and that ‘, was when he appeared on the ‘ Travis Smilely Show ‘. He basically said that he couldn’t understand how “ they “ didn’t think a lot of what they were claiming would eventually get back to him? He really looked sad when he was talking about this. That interview may still be up on RU-vid. Everybody has their opinions or assumptions about this depending on how they feel about Prince. If they’re a burch of trolls and haters, they’re loving every second of this. The same if they are some greedy opportunist, desperately trying to chip away or get some of that Prince Legacy on to themselves. Working for Prince or being the inspiration to one of Prince’s many songs or albums, doesn’t mean that you contributed in the actual creation of that song or album. Some of the women who were in Prince’s life act like if he wasn’t attracted to them or hadn’t been hired by him, that he never would have gotten anywhere. Dream on people. Even jimmy Jam knew in high school that Prince was going to make it. He said you don’t work that hard without getting somewhere. But still people are going to do their best to try and rewrite history. For example. Both Lisa and Wendy for decades have tried to include themselves in the creation of one of Prince’s most iconic songs. When Doves Cry. The core fams always knew that wasn’t true, but it went on for decades and because Prince never said anything about it, some people took that to mean it must be true. If you respond to a lie it just takes on a bigger life then if you ignore it, at least that’s what I used to think. Thankfully after Prince’s untimely death, an intelligent interviewer asked Lisa and Wendy to explain exactly what they did in the making of that song. I’ve been waiting for decades for someone to ask that question! They finally admitted that they didn’t write any of the lyrics or music for the song, but they still felt they contributed because Prince was so competitive with them. WOW...and people say that Prince had a huge ego. Prince was competitive with everyone, about everything! How does that make you a co-writer on a song? Oops..Sorry. I’ve been off of social media for awhile so I guess I got carried away. That sometimes happens when I talk about Prince, but at least I don’t get carried away like Prince’s former ex-employees and exes. Stay safe.🖤💜🖤

I think you did just fine!

@@SA-tr5lv Thank you :)

Girl you are crazy with those beautiful high cheekbones and slanted eyes with that smooth dewey and youthful skin you don't realize that all girls that are young between the age of 14 to 27 is at the height of being more beautiful than women that are in their 30s and older, even if they are Marilyn Monroe! You are more a knockout by your youth! Enjoy what God has given you as a Blessing by working on the inner beauty that complements the outer beauty. The boys, both black and white will see you are a standout among others when both inner beauty and outer beauty are married together. Then you will become a queen and a king will spot you from miles away and say that's the one I want to marry and be in love with forever. You go girl

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Wearing heels and crushing it for decades on stage will not be kind

That's Apollonia and her drugs talking. I'm sorry but Prince was doing his split long before David Lee Roth had a thought in his head because Prince was copying James Brown and he had been practicing that ever since he been a teenager. You can get out of here with that foolishness. Prince ruined his hips by years of leaping off his giant speakers then landing on the ground in a full split with both legs spreaded way far apart then a pair of scissors where his genitals practically touch the floor. That is what caused him to keep fracturing his hips, that the bones started to give away to breaking and rebreaking and rebreaking over the long periods of years of touring. And then he started to get painful arthritis where the fracturing and rebreaking of bones Cost him his health cause he had to take medications stronger then Motrin. He had to start taking narcotics and that's what started his drugs addictions.

I thought she was married as well.

She was probably their beards?

Dude come off that acid you're tripping on. There ain't nothing in Prince's dancing in rhythm and then jumping off his giant speakers in rhythm, only to land on the floor into a gymnastic split where his genitals kiss the floor in rhythm then bounce back up. all of which isJames Brown's moves influences there ain't anything remotely in Jaggers spastic unrhythmatic, jerking chickenwinged elbows out strutting around moves that he Jagger would do compared to anything James Brown. And he said he thought he was picking up some dance moves from Tina Turner! (hehehe) Cuz he would see her he said perform Shake a Tailfeather and call himself trying to copy her dance style!

Your comments are half right, but Prince got his influenced scream whoo! and uhn! from Michael Jackson whom got his grunts, screams, and uhn, from James Brown. Brown copied some of Jackie Wilson's screams, and whoo! and his dance styles like his spins and splits.

I thought Dave came out of the closet?

Van Halen did their first album in 77