David Lee Roth Had A Color-Coded System For Delivering Backstage Passes To Female Fans
David Lee Roth of Van Halen was known to be one of the biggest post-show partiers of all time, and after the concert was over he wanted a backstage area packed with young ladies. Here’s how he worked it. MTV VJ Mark Goodman explained that Roth “had the barriers in front of the stage painted different colors on the side that faced him: red, blue, and green, to denote the different areas of the audience. He’d look for hot girls in the crowd, and between songs, go to his assistant Eddie on the side of the stage, and say, ‘Green, right, fourteen rows back, three seats in.'” The assistant would deliver backstage passes as instructed, and after the show “there’d be twenty-five girls in the dressing room who all thought they’d been singled out to be with Dave that night.”