David Lee Roth trains to become paramedic
NEW YORK (AP) - Rocker David Lee Roth, the former Van Halen frontman, is
taking up a new trade.
Several weeks ago, David Lee Roth, 50, saved the life of a heart
attack victim in the Bronx by using a defibrillator.
By Don Emmert, AFP
Instead of screaming "Jump," he'll be yelling "Clear!"
Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew
in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday.
"I have been on over 200 individual rides now," said Roth. "Not once has
anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me."
The singer, who spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo
career, except a collaboration with the band for two new songs on a greatest
hits album, has been riding along with crews in the Bronx, Manhattan and
Brooklyn several nights a week.
His training seems to be going well.
Several weeks ago, Roth saved the life of a heart attack victim in the Bronx
by using a defibrillator.
He takes his work so seriously that he did not want publicity so that it
would not "diminish what I am trying to do here." He has said that he did
not want the neighborhoods he was working in named so that he would not draw
attention to himself or co-workers.
"You would never know you were dealing with a rock-'n'-roll guy," said Linda
Reissman, Roth's EMS consultant and tutor. "His commitment really is
touching. He wants to help people."
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Haha the thing is that was the song I referenced when I was joking about it, I was like "GET OUT, LIFE GOES ON WITHOUT YOU!"
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)
fourteen years pass...