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Originally Posted by Brad_Wood  Sorry to nitpick, but Letterman & Leno tape their shows in sequence in real time, to minimize the amount of editing needed before airtime. With Letterman, you'll notice there is always an extra set of commercials to allow for a quick line check before air. The producers of the show are verrrry upset if you screw up the timing. Letterman does his intro, Paul counts you in & you're off. In rare cases, you can retrack a bad vocal in the few minutes after the show ends in their basement audio studio, but, again, they really don't like that. That contributes to the pressure cooker feeling- you really are on the spot- contrary to what anyone who hasn't played the show says. That, and the cold temperature makes it quite the surreal experience. Its over so quick! The times I played, I was struck by how we were "wrangled". These folks crank this out 5 days a week & deal w/all manner of temperaments- wild animals, stars, folks off the street, Dave, Jay, weather- you name it. They have to step on some toes to get it done, but it is impressive. Sorry for the long post. Oh, SP was.... eh, but I am biased.
Best- Brad |
By far the coolest performance I ever saw on Letterman was when the original Black Sabbath lineup reunited before that Ozzfest tour.
No little combo amps, Geezer Butler had two SVT's and Iommi had two Laney stacks (he likes them for some reason)....as soon as they kicked into it you could hear the broadcast limiters just pegging out, the audio sounded like a soaked sponge it was being limited so hard...you could just tell it was loud as piss on the set.
By the end of the song, people were STANDING ON THEIR CHAIRS CHEERING, YELLING and just in general going off, I have NEVER seen a band elicit that kind of reaction on a late night TV show.
Letterman came out and was VISIBLY PISSED, as it would have been a very hard act to follow. He was grimacing and just real curtly said "Black Sabbath folks, uhhh Black Sabbath"....he said it almost like it was Ed Sullivan...
Usually the bands that play on Letterman come out and play, and people clap politely then it's off to the rest of the show.
That night the band OWNED the friggin show it was just really strange to see a TV audience react like that....I've never seen it before or since.
Analogeezer