Paul Schaffer and Late Show Band Own some band called The Orwells

I loved the Strokes - Is this It

Sound reminds me of it. I'm indifferent to the rest of the thread though.

 

Letterman performance of the year:

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Future Islands are awesome. They were the kings of this past SXSW.

 

Been listening to their new album every day. Would love to see them live.

 

I always wondered what happened to Jim Carey.

 

He looks like what Burt Reynold's goofy brother would look like.

 

They actually played at Rudyards back in 2012. I actually know Sam Herring and Will Cashion from when I used to live in Baltimore. That is where they reside now, although originally from NC. Really nice down to earth folks. They put in a lot of effort through these years so everyone in the industry was really happy they made it big now. Now they are playing venues of 1-2K and all the major festival circuit.

 

All i hear is that old church song... I've got the joy joy joy down in my heart... where?

 

Interesting. Never heard of them until I saw their latest album on a bunch of top lists for 2014.

 

Sure it did. It gave them publicity to start with. They were the "buzz" in alt rock music for a little while because of letterman.

Sold out? I don't think so, although, we may have differing views of 'selling out'. There have been so many bands blow up in the indie scene in the past few years due to commercials and google searches for them. I think they just hit the jackpot in the mainstream as well as gratifying their fans in the indie scene that have been following them.

 

Now this is a performance.

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If yall were putting together a mixtape with bands like The Nationals and Future Islands what other bands/songs would yall include?

 

Then I have no idea why you are complaining about Letterman.

 

Because in an attempt to mock a performance of some 'punk kids' that he/his staff booked for his own show for what I assume as what he thought was outlandish, it backfired and gave them more publicity because of it. Now they're on an apple commercial with people searching out of them even more than before.

 

band of horses

 

WTF are you talking about? All Letterman did was enjoy the hell out of their performance and ask them to play it again. Also, he brought them back a couple of months later and asked them for an encore yet again. If anything, Letterman has been one of their biggest and most important supporters.

As for the Orwells, their only sin was being completely naive of what was going on and probably never watching Letterman in their young lives. They thought they were being asked to do it again for the sake of having another take to use to edit a better performance when really it was a very rock n' roll moment for Letterman to break format and ask for them to play an encore. They clearly had a better idea when they came back.

 

Elvis Costello and the Doors were both banned from major shows for misbehaving. Keith Moon put explosives in his kick drum without telling anyone and set them off on live TV. Sly Stone didn't even bother to show up once when booked on Dick Cavett.

I would have loved to see what would have happened if Letterman had been around in '78 and booked the Sex Pistols or the Dead Boys.

I'm sure Paul Shaffer is a fine musician, but he is as 'rock and roll' as a bottle of Geratol, or Phil Spector's hair-do.

 

Are you their cousin's boyfriend's sister's neighbor's babysitter's best friend ever?

 

I don't understand why paul and the band would mimic their song after they played it? It definitely didn't seem like a form of flattery. It seemed to me as an attempt to say hey you guys are a semi or not even talented band cause we can pick up the notes just listening to y'all for 3 minutes.

Sure, dude, all of the above. Definitely not a fan of this band. I just don't believe in bringing in a band and then mocking them for performing a show on your set in which you booked them to.

 

Indie bands have been used in commercials for years.