VAN HALEN - The Making Of DAVID LEE ROTH’s The Roth Show

April 11, 2013, 11 years ago

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Freelance writer Alison Richter has interviewed DAVID LEE ROTH’s video editor, Shelly Toscano; an excerpt follows:

If you’ve spent any amount of time watching The Roth Show, you’ve noticed all the nuances and special features that connect sections of dialogue and enhance each segment’s topics. Photographs, comic book imagery, film clips of David Lee Roth at work, archival footage that brings to life the history and memories that he shares, online quotes from fans — all of this is the work of video editor Shelly Toscano.

"I was home for a few weeks from the New York trip when Dave asked me to come down to work on the Van Halen 'Tattoo' video," says Toscano. "They secretly rehearsed for the tour at The Roxy for a few months and no one there spilled the beans, which I thought was great, because all it takes is one person and their cover would have been blown. We shot the 'Tattoo' video there on October 22, 24 and 26. Everyone who could carry a Canon camera did. We had sometimes three or five cameras going and people taking photos. It was a fun shoot. While I am the editor of the music video, I wasn’t the creative source behind it. That was Dave and Al [Van Halen]. They directed and post-produced the video. I would sit at the keyboard and make the edits they wanted. They would say stuff like, 'Put this here,' and 'Make that part backward.' We’d all get together at Dave’s house very early in the morning and get to work.

'She’s The Woman' I edited on the tour bus. We had all this great footage from tour from different cities, from Café Wha, from rehearsal spaces. I showed Dave and Al what I put together. They liked it, but they decided to add some photographs. It was an interesting way to edit. I had sort of taken over the whole back room of Dave’s crew bus. I used the same rig I’m editing on today — a 17-inch Macbook Pro hooked up to four 12-terabytes G-raids."

Read more at vhnd.com, and check out all 13 episodes of The Roth Show

here.


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