As I have "reported" before, David Lee Roth is training to be a paramedic. Here is an update billboard.com:
David Lee Roth, former frontman of storied rock act Van Halen, is taking up a new trade. The 50-year-old singer has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, the New York Post reports. "I have been on over 200 individual rides now," said Roth. "Not once has anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me."
Roth spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo career and briefly reunited with the band for two new songs on a 1996 greatest hits album. He has been riding along with ambulance 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 as to not "diminish what I am trying to do here." "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.
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This is really impressive to me. Especially that he hasn't done it for a reality show. Kudos to Mr. Roth!
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