As the nephew of entertainment impresario Manny Roth, who owned the famous New York (Washington Square) nightclub Café Wha? in the 1960s - where many notable musicians (Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and others) and comedians (Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen) - started their careers, it was only natural that David Lee Roth would have been bitten by the showbiz bug.

Starting his career with Van Halen in the early 1970’s, “Diamond Dave” wowed audiences with both his vocal, stage theatrics and campy lyrics, and after their debut record in 1978, he and his bandmates had established themselves as the ones to beat on the West Coast hard rock scene. Roth’s “love-em-or-hate-em” off-stage antics were also well-known, so it only made sense when the producers of his “Best of” compilation chose a photo of Mr. Roth from that era in which the viewer catches the singer admiring all of his talents – it’s a classic pose and one that also graced one of the most-popular posters of the man ever released.