Teddy Swims brought out David Lee Roth at Stagecoach on Saturday night, and the crowd had no complaints. The two performed Van Halen’s 1984 hit Jump together, marking the third time they’ve shared a stage for the song in a single April. They had already done it twice at Coachella the previous weekends.
Swims was midway through his set, having performed his new single Mr. Know It All and Some Things I’ll Never Know from his debut album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), when he invited the former Van Halen frontman out. Fans in cowboy hats sang along and fist-pumped their way through the whole thing.
The night itself was rocky. High winds earlier forced a temporary evacuation of the festival grounds and triggered a round of schedule changes. But Swims’ set went ahead, and Roth’s appearance landed as one of the cleaner moments of the evening.
Roth, speaking after the show, described the pairing with Swims as a natural one. He noted that the two come from similar working-class musical roots and that Swims knows his Van Halen catalog cold. As for why Jump keeps showing up, Roth said the song carries a universal energy that lands every time, regardless of the crowd or the setting.
Stagecoach runs through this weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
