
Last updated: Sunday, April 13, 2008
BRET MICHAELS was overjoyed to find himself partying with his rock hero DAVID LEE ROTH when he first moved to Los Angeles - until someone told him he was actually hanging out with an impersonator.
Bret Michaels performing live at Club Madrid inside Sunset Station. Las Vegas, Nevada - 12.04.08
The Poison frontman was amazed to find himself watching what he thought was legendary group Van Halen in small Hollywood club Whiskey A Go Go in the mid-'80s, just weeks after moving from Pennsylvania to California.
Michaels says, "When I came out here (Los Angeles), one of my best experiences ever was going to the Whiskey A Go Go. I was a Van Halen freak, so I went down there (after) I was told they were doing a special show.
"David Lee Roth was on the stage, the band was identical (sic) and they played.
"I hung out with David Lee Roth and no one was talking to him and it was the coolest thing. I'm at the bar, I'm hammered, I'm enjoying myself. I was like, 'I rock. This is the greatest thing ever. No one's talking to Dave.'
"I realised I was a complete idiot because someone came up and said, 'That's not David Lee Roth you're talking to and it's an imitation Van Halen band.'"
- THE THINGS THEY SAY:
- MICHAELS: 'I THOUGHT I'D DIED AND GONE TO OZ'
- MICHAELS' NOSE FRACTURED IN TONY AWARDS SLIP-UP
- INJURED MICHAELS HOBBLES OFF TONY AWARDS STAGE
- ELLIOTT & MICHAELS FRIENDS AGAIN
- MICHAELS HOPES ANISTON LIKES THE TASTE OF POISON!
- MICHAELS' DRIVER IN DOUBLE CAR CRASH FATALITY
- DEF LEPPARD VS POISON
- Bret Michaels New Solo Album 'Rock My World'
- JACKSON VIDEO WAS A HOAX
Source: WENN
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