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THE DAY DAVID LEE ROTH WAS ARRESTED

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 16, 2019…TODAY IS THE 26TH ANNIVERSARY OF DAVID LEE ROTH GETTING ARRESTED! IT WAS 1993 AND THE NYPD WAS DOING A SWEEP OF DRUG BUYERS AND PUSHERS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. ONE OF THE PEOPLE THEY ARRESTED TURNED OUT TO BE DAVID LEE ROTH, WHO WAS BUSTED AFTER SCORING SOME “JAMAICAN BUNK REEFER.”

WHAT’S REALLY IRONIC ABOUT ROTH GETTING BUSTED WAS IN 1992 HE TOLD AN INTERVIEWER HE LEFT VAN HALEN BECAUSE HE FELT “DISGUST OVER BAND MEMBERS USING DRUGS.”

HERE’S ROTH WITH THE BAND FROM 1984

HERE’S THE NEWS ITEM THAT RAN THE DAY HE WAS BUSTED

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photo courtesy of Jimmy O’Sheehan Photography https://www.facebook.com/jimmyosheehan/