Going back and watching some of these performances, I learned that Dave was very influential in growing the success of some of the great indie bands and other genre based musicians of my childhood and so many others. Thank you Mr. Letterman.
Howard Stern once pointed this out and he was 100% right. Whoever films these bands on late night or award shows needs to be a musician. They never capture specific moments when a musician performs. Example, during a guitar solo, rather than show the guitarist and his fingers, they go to the singer dancing. In this clip, the drummer is playing such a strange and unique beat…yet let’s focus on the fingers playing two notes on the keyboard. Haha
The sound engineers nailed for recording purposes. The producers for camera angles absolutley dropped the ball by not showing some aspects of the drummer who glues all the music together.
There's a split moment at around the 2:00 mark where they are juuuuust about to start pulling the tempo, and correct themselves, as a band, in that single beat, and it's just fucking insaaaane! As a drummer, we can sometimes find our bodies naturally stop ourselves from rushing the beat, and it's just so damn pro to see the whole band do it! This is a really tricky tempo to sustain for a whole song too!
Oh wow I really couldn’t even hear it until after I listened to that section like 4 or 5 times, good catch. Did you feel like the keyboard was somewhat causing that? Not to blame him specifically, just something I noticed.
