From Van Halen to New York EMT to . . . Howard Stern’s mike? Today, he jumps right in.
By JOANNA WEISS
The Boston Globe
It takes a certain quality to succeed Howard Stern in the rock-radio morning time slot. A certain shamelessness. A certain knack for self-promotion. And David Lee Roth has been practicing for . . . well, a long time.
“I’m 51,” he says, “but my X-rays are 70.”
Buh-dum. And the lines keep coming. For the morning show that launches on WBCN-FM (104.1) today, he says, his models will be “Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Castro -- just in terms of delivery.” His politics, he promises, will rankle left and right: “I’m like a tomahawk missile right in the Cheerios.” His music-industry rants won’t hold back: “Ashlee Simpson has a career, and nobody’s doing anything about it.”
Full Story: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/01/03/roth_to_the_rescue/