Talkin' David Lee Roth & Other Stuff

David Lee Roth threw a party

For your sins

He tasted the vinegar and smiled

For your sins

David Lee Roth set up that party

All you gotta do is show up

David Lee Roth knows how to have fun

All you gotta do is show up

This is the end refrain of the song Hex. 23. There is a manifold meaning to what’s going on here. David Lee Roth (DLR) serves as something like a spirit animal in the song. Sorry Dave, please forgive me. You are everything I am not and are the highest form of animal. You can make things happen, whereas I frequently find myself lacking in that department. To be tiresome about the whole thing, the end refrain of the song breaks down into three bullets, and it’s really important for me to ruin this for you ‘cuz I’m no fun. It works like this, DLR is:

• Trying to absolve you (me) of the Sins of Introversion-- a lesson about how to ‘get down’ and have fun.

• Throwing a party because nobody else knows how to do it.

• Throwing a party because he has special knowledge about the nature of life. Here it follows that this action (partying) is the best course of action for now, because things are fucked up.

Taste the vinegar is a reference to these three dudes

Can you recognize him? That’s David Lee on the far right-- in the role of Lao Tzu. It has always been this way. Look at how Confucius and Buddha fume and suffer over the pot-- but there’s another take on this same brew. Bitter as it is, the Holy Fool finds something to appreciate. This is the path that I would like to find in life-- with bandanas tied at the knees of my spandex britches, doing high kicks of approval at just being here and alive. With you.