Hired for the "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ) band its first season, Shaffer forged a solid reputation for himself as an innovative musician with an incomparable personal style - traits that he parlayed into a long-term gig as the band leader for talk show host David Letterman on ...
Shaffer served as musical director for "Late Night with David Letterman" from way back in 1982 on NBC and then to the "Late Show with David Letterman" from 1993-2015. Colbert introduced his band leader is a promo a few months before the launch of the show. "People keep asking who my ...
The relationship between David Letterman and Paul Shaffer as late night host and bandleader was one that lasted over many decades, which is why many have been awaiting the revelation of Stephen Colbert'sLate Nightbandleader with bated breath. Well, wait no more: he's here and his name is J...
The Associated Press profiles and interviews EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E about meeting and working with his musical heros and the 2011 EELS world tour. Read it HERE. 7/27/2011- SEE EELS ON LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: If you missed EELS performing on The Late Show with David...
He has performed on Americas most popular national television shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, and Great Performances, as well as the talk shows of Jay Leno, David Letterman, Regis Philbin and the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. Show More...
And an artist who was singled out by George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign for the U.S. presidency for writing "obscene" songs (the lovely "It's A Motherfucker" from DAISIES OF THE GALAXY, among them) and who, after being told by the Late Night With David Letterman producers that...
shortly after NBC recruited the talk show host to step into David Letterman’s gargantuan shoes. At the time, Weinberg was known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s famed E Street Band (touring with The Boss since the ’70s) and imparted O’Brien with some ideas he had for ...
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“I get a lot of weird people at my concerts, it’s rock ’n’ roll," Ozzy told David Letterman in 1982. "Somebody threw a bat onstage and I thought it was one of these toy bats, so I picked it up, bite the thing’s head off and suddenly everybody is freaking out ... I ...
“I get a lot of weird people at my concerts, it’s rock ’n’ roll," Ozzy told David Letterman in 1982. "Somebody threw a bat onstage and I thought it was one of these toy bats, so I picked it up, bite the thing’s head off and suddenly everybody is freaking out ... I ...