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18 September 2010

Celebrity Career Change: Rock Star to NYC Paramedic

You probably know David Lee Roth as a high-kicking, big-haired rock star, but in 2004 he took a major career "Jump" and began training to become a paramedic in the Bronx. Surely there couldn't have been much skills that transfer from the stage to the back of the ambulance?

Au contraire, says Roth. "I am a member of a team again, and that's what a rock band always was."

Check out
the full story from 2004 at the New York Post.