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For TV Band, Jet-Lag Is Part Of The Job

Network — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:36:16 +0000

You can get a Juke out of New Jersey, but you can’t get New Jersey out of a Juke! It’s been proved again! The New York Times features Max Weinberg and the Tonight Show Band on it’s TV Feature:

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Izod Center in the New Jersey Meadowlands on May 21, there was one musician conspicuously absent: Max Weinberg, the group’s drummer for more than three decades.

As Mr. Springsteen tore into his opening number, “Badlands,” Mr. Weinberg was on another stage 3,000 miles away, pounding his drum kit through a dress rehearsal of “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien,” in advance of its debut last Monday on NBC.The following night Mr. Weinberg boarded a red eye for the East Coast so he could rejoin his E Street band mates, however temporarily, for the second show of that New Jersey stand, which fell on a rare night off from his new duties.

For Mr. Weinberg and the seven other East Coast musicians who have relocated to California along with Mr. O’Brien — including all the founding members of the Max Weinberg 7, the house band on Mr. O’Brien’s “Late Night” for 16 years — the turnover in hosts (and bands) on “Tonight” has proved to be both exhilarating and disruptive.

Visit the NYT to read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/arts/television/06max.html?_r=1

Walk Away – The alternate Version (live)

YouTube — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:13:13 +0000

I only heard of Southside Johnny and La Bamba’s gig at Conan’s Late Night in New York City, when it was already four weeks old news. Ever since, I have been spending hours deep into GOOGLE and searching YOUTUBE for a proof that it has really been happening. Not that I wouldn’t trust Joe – but there are things you need to see to believe ‘em… And after just 4 month worth of searchin’, it just needed one link to Sherry’s fine blog at Livejournal to find this wonderful video on the Dailymotion website.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & LA BAMBA’s BIG BAND – LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN – September 18th, 2008.

WHAT A DUET! Sherry said: “OMG – it just doesn’t get any better than this!” And she’s been more than right on the point with that statement! LaBamba shines so much in his various roles as a bandleader, trombonist and singer (!!!)… I truly and deeply love the album duet by Johnny & his Waitsness himself. But here, the song gets into a whole new dimension… I only wish I could get more of that one day on a stage in Europe…

And the South? He seems to have the fun of his life… truly wonderful stuff!

sly – I didn’t even know your blog! Forgive me my ignorance! All you out there probably know Sherry from her famous JUKESLEGS project… and only the very, very few and lucky of you know her by her famous cakes… ;-)