http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20040625/en_music_eo/14392&e=1
"Roth, 48, has reportedly relocated from his estate in Pasadena, California, and taken up residence in an apartment on New York’s Lower East Side, where he reports for EMT training several days a week.
The rocker says he hopes to earn his certification by November, at which point he plans to try to volunteer one weekend a month."
I might as well jump.
Mr. Roth is clearly just a Bobby Sherman wanna-be.
Considering the family and personal background he cites in that article, it’s not as odd as it sounds.
Exactly what WOULD you like someone who isn’t making a buck as a rocker to do? He did similar things before, he has experience and family support, and comes from a family of medically-oriented folks.
-shrug- Nice move. Get your hands a little dirty. Nothing wrong with that.
Cartooniverse, NYS E.M.T. for another 33 days or so… :dubious:
He could be an ice-cream man.
I didn’t mean to imply there was anything wrong with what he’s doing, it’s quite commendable. And it sounds like he ain’t gonna make a buck out of this, either, he’s volunteering.
But it would just be so mind-blowing to call 911 and have Diamond Dave show up. If you didn’t know he was doing this, and was a big enough fan to recognize him, wouldn’t it freak you out if he was one of the emergency guys who showed up? It would be unexpected, at the very least!
I’d be looking around for Ashton Kutcher.
Well, he’ll be ready for the EMT phase of his career in another (checks watch) 6 or 8 months.
Diamond Dave has a really bad comb-over and, depending on his locality, may have to get a haircut for EMT duty. If he showed up on my call, I doubt I’d recognize him.
Me too. I try to visualize him and I just see a bunch of spandex, some big hair, and a vague fog of obnoxious in between. Oh wait, there’s some ugly sunglasses in there, too.
I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to place him, especially if I was bleeding from the head or suffering from an accidental poisoning.
I think it’s pretty cool. The guy’s career is stalled, he’s made his millions, so now he’s giving something back to the community. Good on ya, Dave.
Seeing him show up for your heart attack would be about as surprising as being stuck on a mountain and having Harrison Ford show up in his helicopter to fly you out. He’s saved a couple of people that way.
I really, really like celebrities who do stuff like that. Beats the hell out of hanging out at the Neverland Ranch and getting monthly facelifts.
Considering how much he looks like the Crypt-Keeper these days, I’d probably assume that I hadn’t made it.
Along similar lines: James Woods volunteers in the L.A.P.D. as a reserve officer.
Imagine watching The Hard Way and then getting involved in some incident in which Woods shows up!
“911…hellllooooo Baaaaby!!!”
EMT’s are required to wear shirts, I hope.
NYS Dept. of Health ( the State agency charged with overseeing, testing and certifying all EMT, Paramedic’s and so on ) requires that all EMS service providers must be able to achieve a total HEPA mask seal. That is to say, you can have hair down to your ying-yang, but you cannot have a beard. Only a moustache and at that, one that does not stop a mask from making an excellent skin seal.
When I got hired by a paying EMS company, I had to have a HEPA mask check, it was something required. Shaved off the goatee, kept a moustache. :eek:
I stopped working for them, the goatee came back in a flash.
In a flash, I tell ya. Anyway, Diamond Dave as he is apparently called, can wear his hair down, and keep the earring. ( I did. I joined in 1996 with a pony tail and earring ).
Sorry, this is the Straight Dope.
Dave Lee Roth is barely a year older than me. Twenty odd years ago I used to console myself, on the cusp of my impending marraige and entry into 9 to 5 regular work environment, that I would have the last laugh over rock stars like him.
I can’t help but be overwhelmed by the irony in the situation that, after 20 odd years with my nose to the corporate grindstone, I could soon be outranked in the workplace by an ageing ex-rock & roll millionaire. :smack:
I can see a real downside to this. Not because I think DD couldn’t do the job, but because of crazy psychopathic fans who call in fake emergencies in hopes that Dave shows up. Yeah, they’ll get arrested and fined, but some of them will keep doing it, and sooner or later, something bad will happen because of it.
I respect the hell out of Dave, and haven’t enjoyed anything VH has done without him, but I hope that he changes his mind and does something else.
Some hikers got rescued by Harrison Ford once, and Steve Buscemi (formerly a NYC fireman) showed up to help during 9/11.
