Death From Above 1979 playing Romantic Rights live on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on 11/03/2005. Make sure to watch the end as Max Weinberg takes over on the drums!
A Total Bastard Their original name was just Death from Above. They added the “1979” due to legal pressures from DFA (Death from Above) Records, James Murphy/Tim Goldsworthy’s label. Still a little odd to me that legal action was taken at all, since the label and the production duo were known almost exclusively as DFA, not Death from Above, but who knows what was going on behind the scenes.
I played bass in my middle school band because my parents wanted me to learn an instrument. Hated every second of it - nothing about the orchestral show tunes we were playing appealed to me - and as soon as grade 7 drew to a close, I returned it to the shop, assuming I'd never have to pick the damn thing up again. Fast forward several years, I'm 19 and living halfway across the country, smoking a joint on Wreck Beach with some friends. We decide to leave, walk up the hundreds of stairs back to the car, and by the time we finally made it there I could barely move from exhaustion. I'm sitting there in the backseat hyperventilating and my buddy puts a CD in the deck and this album comes on, cranked to 11. I don't think I said a word for the entire ride - not that anyone would have been able to hear me over the racket - just sat there, completely entranced by what I was hearing. When they dropped me off, I immediately looked up the band and legitimately could not believe that the sound I'd just heard was made by a mere two musicians. Something about that You're A Woman record just spoke to me and inspired me in a way that no album ever had before. It was a genuinely life-changing moment; the next day I trekked out to Long & McQuade on the bus and rented a P-Bass and a shitty little practice amp, and wrote my first (gloriously crappy) song on it later that night. It's a hobby that I've loved dearly since that day, one that has helped me find some stability and groundedness throughout the chaotic years of addiction, poverty and depression that followed - and one that has been equally crucial in keeping me going since getting sober and turning things around in 2018. I still listen to DFA1979's first two albums all the time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who was inspired in such a way by their unique sound.
@@anthonygarcia2457 I was there too. Friend next to me was checking Astro's scores on his phone the whole time and I was getting mad that he was just ignoring this awesome band.
This video has definitely only been made available recently because I had to watch this in DailyMotion. I love this performance and I love Max running in like a supportive dad.
I heard this record, it was sitting in the new release pile at my college radio when I took up a DJ slot. I always wondered if they could pull it off live being only two of them and it's clearly more produced than that on the recording, well I'm not wrong but Max running in to pick up the drums and being 101% on page is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
I’ve been looking for this clip for years. I listened to this album all through college, and it was so great when Conan had them on. And then Max took off his coat (eventually), sat down, and rocked the fuck out with them. I loved this so much back then and it’s still cool now! 🤟
I saw them perform at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto just as this album came out. It was Canadian Music Week. They BLEW the doors off the place. I was in the front waiting for someone when they went on, and I thought it was a full band. Max Weinberg is amazing. It just shows how talented a drummer he is.
Similar introduction to them! Walked into the Black Cat in Washington DC in 2005 to see another band, had never heard of these guys. Opened the doors to the upper room and my head nearly exploded. It was empty, so I went right up to the stage. Could not believe it was only two dudes making that much (awesome) noise! Here I am in 2021 still frequently listening to You're a Woman. And just saw they're touring in 2022. My god.
session musicians buddy, I was almost surprised he couldn't keep the beat and singing at the same time. but not really. We're all human, max is a legend though.
Just saw them last night at the Horseshoe! They're doing 4 nights in a row there this week. This was the 4th time I've seen them and man do they still have it! Always a great show!
Amazing! Jesse and Sebby rocking out on Conan. I think I followed Sebby’s sock style he used to do back then. The coolest. One of our best bands from Toronto.
I used to listen to these dudes way back when and I found out they released a new album. I fell in love with them all over again. Their sound is timeless.
Max used to hop on drums for all kinds of different bands on the original Conan show, but I'm pretty sure this was the only time he just randomly ran in.
No its been posted a million times NBC always makes them take it down, there used to be one with millions of views at one point its a famous late night moment, it ends up on those top 10 late night musical performance lists time to time
@@McDoinky Eh, not really, neither are particularly difficult, and id argue royal bloods frequent use of high end bends and solos make them more difficult a good deal of the time. Their music isnt even really similar, they just both happen to use bass guitars, and death from above were far from the first band to use a bass as the leading instrument.
@@Ptolomey Royal blood play some basic bluesy guitar solos on a bass, which from my experience is easy to pull off. JFK’s dense basslines are definitely more challenging to play at their original speed.
I've forgotten about the beaches those freaking beaches l o l... They should have been more popular just for their songs were Gimmicky but I was about it
