Letterman's last shows

[vixnix]

A thread to appreciate his last few musical guests.

I know you guys are not fans of pop GET OVER IT. There are some interesting performances happening at the moment - in terms of people with long spanning careers playing old favourites, kinda interesting to see bonafide career musicians bring classics from the American Song Book to life...I wonder if they might release them as a DVD or something...these songs are all very hard to inject new life into and it's pretty cool seeing these people try as a favour to Dave.

Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires play Warren Zevon's "Mutineer"


Tracy Chapman plays Ben E King's Stand By Me


John Mayer plays Don MacLean's American Pie

This song would just be a giant pig beast of a song to play in this setting so I have to give some props to Sexual Napalm Mayer here, for giving it a go. Orchestration/arrangements were all wrong...might have been a bit of a Schaffer mishap, I dunno. He did start and finish well, at least. The middle was all bit tiring and same-y.

[Sonic Johnny]

Tracy Chapman is so great. I can't get past my intense dislike of John Mayer enough to click on his video though.

[Dogfighter28]

Isbells last album is fucking great.

Elephant is one of the most tear jerking songs I've heard

[Trotskilicious]

sk was good on lettermans

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Tracy Chapman is so great. I can't get past my intense dislike of John Mayer enough to click on his video though.

Yeah I completely understand that. And I love TC too. I cried watching that.

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

Isbells last album is fucking great.

Elephant is one of the most tear jerking songs I've heard

I'll have to check it out, I hadn't heard of him before now, believe it or not!

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

sk was good on lettermans

I'll have to check this out, too.

This was Monday, John Mellencamp "Longest Days"



This made me tear up.

[vixnix]

He gave a great interview, too:

american pie is the worst song ever made

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Aeris Hilton

american pie is the worst song ever made

not john cougars song

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by Aeris Hilton

american pie is the worst song ever made

It is pretty fake and contrived, but that's par for the course in that genre. It's similar to a Gershwin or Cole Porter song in that regard - more about the words fitting nicely together than them being deeply meaningful.

Not that it's as interesting as a Cole Porter or Gershwin song an you could probably cut out a few verses and not miss anything.

You could cut out the whole song and not miss anything

There's lots of solid gold 70s soft rock that I like
Just not the literal worst song on ugliest guitar

[Trotskilicious]

isnt american pie about howrock died when buddyholly did?

enough reason to hate it right there

[Dogfighter28]

meant to embed this earlier but youtube mobile app is dumb

[vixnix]

it's a tearjerker alright. cheers for sharing.

[vixnix]

Originally Posted by Aeris Hilton

You could cut out the whole song and not miss anything

Originally Posted by Aeris Hilton

There's lots of solid gold 70s soft rock that I like
Just not the literal worst song on ugliest guitar

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

isnt american pie about howrock died when buddyholly did?

enough reason to hate it right there

I have never voluntarily listened to this song, but you two paying it out makes me want to attempt to bring it to life. Most songs have a bit of life in 'em somewhere I reckon. I say this as a church pianist - I've had to try and bring truly, truly naff music to life...stuff with titles like:

Make me a Channel of your Peace
Beauty for brokenness, Hope for Despair
I the God of Earth and Sky, I have Heard my People Cry
Jesus the Lord Said I am The Bread

So American Pie doesn't grate on me too much. But yeah...I've never listened to it voluntarily. I just assumed there would be better renditions out there, than Sexual Napalm Mayer's, but I accept I could be wrong about that and it is an unpolishable turd.

[Trotskilicious]

ive only heard don mclean

[Trotskilicious]

as god intended

[vixnix]

keepin' urself pure. That's very commendable.

[Andy /]

i love tracy chapman

[sppunk]

Norah Jones this past week. That performance was incredible, thought Dave was going to bust out in tears.

[vixnix]

Oh wow, she was beautiful. This performance is all class. Consummate professional if ever there was one, on this show.

[vixnix]

Steve Martin on Banjo, with EmmyLou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Mark O'Connor and Amos Lee...singing a gospel classic "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".

Can't go wrong with this line up...man I love Steve Martin.

[vixnix]

They re-aired this classic from the archives, too...nearly killed myself laughing. My 9 year old loved it, too.

Steve and Dave's Gay Vacation:

[Sonic Johnny]

Am I missing something or is the whole joke "hahahahaha gay men hahahahaha"?

[vixnix]

It's just hilarious as a cute "what if...?" thing. What if these two nerdy white middle aged straight guys went on a romantic holiday together because they were a couple...

OMG just found this video of Chaka Khan flubbing all her lines from the auto cue, while still obviously trying to read it.

I didn't realise Paul Schaffer wrote this song. Props Paul. It's a classic.

[redbull]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Am I missing something or is the whole joke "hahahahaha gay men hahahahaha"?

fags r s00000 funny

[redbull]

the only one of these artists i can listen to without shooting myself in the head is norah jones

american pie is good song tho

[slunken]

i never had parents or grand parents that watched late night tv so this whole phenomenon is entirely lost on me.

[yo soy el mejor]

me neither! o/

what phenomenon, though?

[D.]

My parents never were into the late night TV thing either.

My bro and I did share.a room for like five years and we did watch a lot of Conan, back when he was an orange sheep and no one seemed to like him.