What Happened To The Old Saturday Night Live Band?

Empire Prod · 18th May 2008

What happened to the old SNL band from the 80's and early 90's? They were awesome!!! Why did they get replaced and where are they now?

Mike Brown · 18th May 2008

Their beats clearly weren't fat enough.

bigbone · 18th May 2008

They decide ( the producer ) that they need to change the sound of the show
a couple of years ago, so the change the MD to get another sound , but i do find that band, who's been there for about 10 years, as good as the other band in the past,
All the SNL band were great............

MooWahmBah · 18th May 2008

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Originally Posted by bigbone

They decide ( the producer ) that they need to change the sound of the show
a couple of years ago, so the change the MD to get another sound , but i do find that band, who's been there for about 10 years, as good as the other band in the past,
All the SNL band were great............

of course the current band is made up of great players .....but the original band of the 70`s was made up of legends ..... sound definers ! Hardly fair to ask the new batch to measure up to ....let`s see if I can remember .... ?
Richard Tee ,Eric Gale ,Steve Gadd , Steve Jordan , ...wasn`t "Stuff " an offshoot of SNL ? ....Howard Johnson,Lou Marini also played proud ...among others .

Lenny Pickett has a real unique sound and Alex Foster is grossly underused as a second sax ... Alex is one of the baddest tenors of anyone these days . But IMHO the fine younger rhythm section cats in the current band just can`t be compared to the sound and flavor of that early band .
alas......TV is different now

ScumBum · 18th May 2008

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Originally Posted by Empire Prod

What happened to the old SNL band from the 80's and early 90's? They were awesome!!! Why did they get replaced and where are they now?

I heard they took them out back and shot them !stike Damn that lorne michaels !!

Halfmoon · 18th May 2008

I've heard that if they hire any new musicians they are looking at 30 years and younger.

bigbone · 18th May 2008

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Originally Posted by MooWahmBah

of course the current band is made up of great players .....but the original band of the 70`s was made up of legends ..... sound definers ! Hardly fair to ask the new batch to measure up to ....let`s see if I can remember .... ?
Richard Tee ,Eric Gale ,Steve Gadd , Steve Jordan , ...wasn`t "Stuff " an offshoot of SNL ? ....Howard Johnson,Lou Marini also played proud ...among others .

Lenny Pickett has a real unique sound and Alex Foster is grossly underused as a second sax ... Alex is one of the baddest tenors of anyone these days . But IMHO the fine younger rhythm section cats in the current band just can`t be compared to the sound and flavor of that early band .
alas......TV is different now

I agree , the old line up was hard to beat with the all stars cast of cats......

malaclypse · 18th May 2008

yeah i used to tune in during the G.E. smith era, and wasn't aware they'd changed the band.

ThetaAlpha970 · 20th May 2008

Some of them are in the Original Blues Brothers Band.

MBishopSFX · 20th May 2008

Steve Turre, monster on trombone, was in the band, too. Awesome musician!

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edwinhurwitz · 20th May 2008

I don't know if you are asking about GE Smith, etc, but he's been playing with Moon
Alice, among other projects.

Edwin

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Mike Brown Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2007 Location: Minneapolis MN Posts: 3,188	Their beats clearly weren't fat enough.

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bigbone Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2005 Location: Montreal Qc Posts: 1,632	They decide ( the producer ) that they need to change the sound of the show a couple of years ago, so the change the MD to get another sound , but i do find that band, who's been there for about 10 years, as good as the other band in the past, All the SNL band were great............

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Halfmoon Gear maniac Joined: Dec 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 166	I've heard that if they hire any new musicians they are looking at 30 years and younger.

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ThetaAlpha970 Gear maniac Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 250	Some of them are in the Original Blues Brothers Band.

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MBishopSFX Gear addict Joined: Feb 2005 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 391	Steve Turre, monster on trombone, was in the band, too. Awesome musician! .

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edwinhurwitz Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: Boulder, CO Posts: 975 1 Review written	I don't know if you are asking about GE Smith, etc, but he's been playing with Moon Alice, among other projects. Edwin