Still think it must have had something to do with either union rules, royalty payments or both.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but the practice stopped when they went to CBS and they may have been worried about losing bookings to Leno.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
They still did a version of it at CBS: bands appear in their full lineups, but sometimes the house band would play along with them to beef up the sound. However, usually when this happened, Paul & co. wouldn't get as much screentime during the performances.
Speaking of CBS, Dave's people have been having clips from that era removed left and right as of late.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Dave's staff has really stepped up trying to post their own clips. Somewhat ghoulishly perhaps, anytime a celebrity who was on the show dies they'll get an old interview with them up that same day.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
...or just if somebody's in the news. Noticed they put up some Blink-182 stuff right after the reunion announcement.
Anyway, this is new to me: Sonic Youth (w/a very pregnant Kim) doing "Bull In The Heather" on the CBS show.
https://digg.com/music/link/sonic-youth-letterman-1994-GqIWpyBSo0
Paul and the band have to sit silently and watch.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
By the time Letterman moved to CBS, Shaffer’s band rarely accompanied musical guests.And I always assumed the main reason one or two members of a band had to play with Shaffer et al on NBC was the size of the studio. For the first few years of Late Night the Bangles, R.E.M., and Dylan, among others, played without Shaffer’s band, but Letterman was moved to a new, and smaller, studio around ‘86-‘87 or so, making it difficult-to-impossible to fit even just a four-piece band’s gear etc. onto the stage.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 16 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
when we played the CBS show Paul & the band hung around to watch our performance from their stations, even though we were dead last and they all could have bailed early. out of sight of the camera Schaeffer was there really bopping head head along and following what we were doing, just rocking out, and it made me feel like a million, billion bucks. One of the best "go ahead and meet your heroes" experiences I can imagine
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 16 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
Cool!
Another one of those 'discreet augmentation' bits from the CBS Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d75oeqBBVA
ZZ Top: "What's Up With That"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 October 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
On that same tip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpmUroL2D4
Johnny Winter: "Dust My Broom"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 October 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
oh man that Johnny Winter one is hot stuff
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 16 October 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
the letterman youtube videos have started including ads and psas at the end, it's lovely stuff
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 October 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
From now or then?
― 2-4-6-8 Motor Away (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 October 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
era appropriate
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 October 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdndYLhcJI
Richard Thompson: "I Feel So Good" (Will Lee going HAM during the guitar solo)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Posted before, but was taken down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Y_3t629YM
Breeders: "So Sad About Us" (with bonus Who from TWMDB afterwards)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MxcmfEtxo
Ray Davies (no Kinks, not even Dave): "How Do I Get Close?"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVgeAK6IN4s
Los Lobos: "Reva's House"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
I stayed up for that Ray Davies appearance (hey, 11:30-12:30 Central was LATE on a weeknight for a high schooler who had to get up at 6am for Jazz Band practice). I was disappointed that Dave wasn’t there, but liked the performance anyway. And Letterman’s wrong: it was their 26th album (counting live albums, not counting compilations), not their 48th. It’s hard to see the hype sticker, but it calls the Kinks “The World’s Premier Rock & Roll Band!” They really wanted to fill the stadiums that the Stones and Who had filled in the summer of ‘89, but UK Jive topped out at #122 in the US, and the best they could hope for was 1/2-empty sheds on their 1990 tour.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo6V2V6luLY
Liz Phair: "Supernova"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 November 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
WOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYifslpfSq8
The Feelies: "Doin' It Again"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 November 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
oh big cheers for that one - they sound good!
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Monday, 21 November 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaoEuyObRkY
Bo Diddley: "Bo Diddley Put The Rock In Rock-'n'-Roll"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 December 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
Lol @ Dave's bit of business with the LP cover at the start of the Liz Phair clip
(Liz doesn't sound her best there... too bad)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 9 December 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
https://consequence.net/2023/01/paul-shaffer-fill-in-the-roots-jimmy-fallon/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 January 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
(posted today)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUI4a7BKpE
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 July 2023 00:29 (ten months ago) link
Letterman did one of his primetime anniversary specials not long after the SNL incident, including part of that clip in a musical guests montage, and there was audible booing.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 July 2023 00:36 (ten months ago) link
On a related note, here's Julee Cruise w/the SNL band when she and the Spanic Boys pitch-hit for Sinead in '90.
https://vimeo.com/145203027
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 July 2023 00:50 (ten months ago) link
Borrowing from the "Controversial Opinions" thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29mx2bYvrJk
Herbie Hancock
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 July 2023 18:00 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htqlOFuO-QM
#onethread
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 August 2023 05:28 (ten months ago) link
Slightly fixated on that Jon Lovitz-looking background dancer.
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 August 2023 11:04 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LZodq5Qxg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 October 2023 23:29 (seven months ago) link
Ray Davies & The Max Weinberg 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYB22jmw3YY
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:33 (six months ago) link
David Johansen & The Max Weinberg 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQR52G6gvSk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:58 (six months ago) link
📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 7 December 2023 23:02 (six months ago) link
There's a bunch of Lou Reed clips like this, but singling this one out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFcj-QLpu0
"Busload of Faith" during a Chicago residency. The Lou Mullet is OUT OF CONTROL
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:33 (three months ago) link
^^James Cotton on harp!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:34 (three months ago) link
an example of this I quite admire is when XTC were on the show in 1989. I *think* this is the one and only time they played live on television after 1982 and PS and his band do a pretty good job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amx5CK7vdoc
― houdini said, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:20 (three months ago) link
from an interview with the plugz' bassist re: their famous/great turn as bob dylan's band on letterman in 1984:
Paul Shaffer tried to jam along with us at soundcheck. It didn't go well for Paul. Bob told Bill Graham, “Lose the clown on the keyboard.”
― adam, Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
Ok, so I nominate this as the best clip of all of this phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUPSilcJFrQ
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 26 April 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
Duane Eddy sits in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqy0JafNerE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 May 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link