World's Most Dangerous Band on Letterman, December 6, 1983 

I knew Hiram and he was absolutely one of the greatest. One terrible night in Chicago he was playing at the cubby bear and a terrible snow storm hit. Me and my friend went anyway and only 25 people were there. I said to Hiram sorry about the weather and he said it didn’t matter and he put on a show for us for 2hrs and gave it everything he had. RIP brother my signed CD covers are proudly displayed on my walls.

Hiram Bullock was an awesome force - RIP

This is the most 80's thing I've seen in a while. I used to tune into Letterman just to hear Steve Jordan's high strung snare.

pound for pound The GOAT of the talkshow bands.

I remember being a saxophonist and not really knowing much about the drummer Steve Jordan in the early 80’s-I used to think to myself, “This guy is a serious player”. Now I know who he is and I can unequivocally tell you he is my favorite drummer

Hiram...superman of guitar....RIP my brother.....

Hiram! ..is the man ..Guitar Monster RIP

Impossible to overstate Paul Shaffer's influence on music, and on Dave's shows. The original concept and execution of "The World's Most Dangerous Band" was groundbreaking in style for the existing talk show template. The fact that he was so fantastic as a comedic performer was the icing on an already terrific cake.

Wow--the World's Most Dangerous Band killing it on a Sly tune?! I was sad to see Hyram and Steve leave, damn this sounds so good. Always just loved Will Lee's infectious stage presence and what a groove! And that guy Paul isn't too bad on keys-ha ha! Thanks so much Don for uploading this gem.

I just unliked it to liked it again, again and again. This is just golden.

They're super pumped and happy because it's the 80s and everything is GREAT.

Hiram Layed it out for real man.

When late night talk shows we’re enjoyable to watch

There was a bar in the woods outside Baltimore called the Rhapsody Club. In the real late 60s for a little while, Hiram was just one of the guys in one of the bands; so was I. He was good, but so were lotsa the guys. Man, who knew how far he'd go & that we'd all be watching him every night on national TV? And that was just a tiny slice of what he did. The house band there for a good while was The Upsetters. They ended UP with Otis Redding. We were happy for 'em - They deserved it. But not long after? They went DOWN with him. You never know! R.I.P. Y'all..

R.I.P MAESTRO BULLOCK

World's Most Dangerous Band. Paul, Hiram, Will and Steve...sophmore year at TSU every night after Johnny and a bowl!!!

RIP HIRAM...THE BEST!

One of the best guitarist in the world. Thanks Will

Letterman had the best front man in Paul Shaffer and band in talk show history. Only rivaled(a distant second) by Max Weinberg and the Weinberg 7 from Conans Late Night show.

I used to wait for the breaks so I could hear the band play! excellent post

Paul Shaffer is so legit

Baddest TV Band EVER!

Now we're talking! I saw a show from 1983 and saw who the band was and thought- oh shit!🎉 Righteous. Hiram Bullock on guitar 🎸 Steve Jordan on drums 🥁 Will Lee on bass 🔊 Paul Shaffer of course on keyboards! Ok. Super-group anyone 🕉?

My brother thanks for posting. You take me to a studio that I've been to twice for :Late Night with David Letterman and once to see Conan O'brien. The "most dangerous band" was just a nickname for "baddest, hippest, cutting edge sound on late night TV...

Not only the best looking drummer but damnn, the only reason he stopped playing that night is because that kit was abt to bust into flames 🔥🔥! I remember this...from when I was a fetus.

Back in the day...

Thanks Don ! I hope you can post more of the music Thanks for your great work Don !

Best band ever !

Will is slapping the shit out of that bass. ❤

Aired on the night of my 6th birthday. Thanks for uploading this.

David Letterman loved good music ! What a band ! Miss those days !

Hell yeah.

FIYAHHH!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I don't think Letterman would have been Letterman without these guys. (and Syd)

I loved when they used to have percussion week, five great drummers, one each night.

Steve Jordan = God

BTW, I always loved that old beat up Strat Hiram played. it was an early 60's Strat, with two actual Gibson humbuckers which I think he said a previous owner had installed them, and that as far as he could figure, they came off an old SG.

The Greatest TV Band Ever......

My Birthday:)

Very Nice ... Great Stuff ... 😊😀😁/👍👌👋

What if Hiram wore shoes? dream sequence

@2:22 Steve must have said “Lets GO~ SWAG!”

That's one helluva fat sound. Missing only a room full of whiskey fumes and weed smoke

You should do a collection of all the times the band play that James brown riff 'dat dah ba bah da do" usually before saves monologue.

1:32 I want to take you higher!

One of the most talented group of musicians ever but only got to hear them 10 seconds at a time on intros and network outs....

Why did they ever even invite other musical guests on?

Man any frontperson would of excelled with this version of WMDB...Bowie Jagger Lennon Gabriel

Frikin' Hiram !!! WTF !!!

Do y ou have the time they played Sex Machine? I remember this one time, they come back from an ad break, and Dave introduces what is presumably a comedy segment. He then asks Paul if he has music for it. Usually, that was a cue for Paul and the band to launch into a few bars of a cheesy "theme" song for the segment, but this time, they instead segue into Sex Machine, which is an instrumental by Sly And The Family Stone. This goes on for several minutes, after which Dave says they don't have time for the segment and instead segues back out to the next ad break. If I remember correctly, Neil Jason was deputizing for Will Lee that night.

They started out as the 24th Street Band, led by Clifford Carter. Essentially, Paul is just playing as if he was Clifford. Not much different.