@@XYang-jg6wu - Totally agree, yet, real fans are afraid to agree with you. I am a die-hard Zombie fan, but I'll never make the mistake of going to a third LIVE show of his.
@@XYang-jg6wu it's excellent when you're actually in the venue, I find you don't notice or care about screwups nearly as much. But yeah the albums are where he shines
I mean to be fair, apparently they almost set the building on fire the last time they were here, Rob was probably told to tone it down a bit. Stage doesn’t seem big enough for them to do their full act at full volume.
@@harveysengersmusic247 You think that talk shows / mainstream TV today has anything like that or anything like Rob Zombie today? It's really gone in the opposite direction.
Dude has super bad asthma from interviews over the years. So when hes running around hes just making it harder on himself. While if that is true the fact he still puts the performance on as well is pretty amazing.
hahaha It always bugs me when lead singers don’t say the last word of a song’s verse when singing live. He still does it too. I just saw him for the first time here in Phoenix. AMAZING show, but felt a little short
@VanScott100 So, the reason he's stopping early is so, he can take enough breath for the next phrase. In the original recording the last word of the phrase slightly overlaps the next phrase because they were recorded individually and not all in one take. Most artist don't write their songs for a live performance, which is why some bands can't play all of their songs live.
Yeah, I'm just surprised that Rob Zombie got to be on a late night show. And so proud he did. I was playing Twisted Metal 2 or 3 when I first heard this. What a legend.
No local cover band would accept this low level of talent. He had the vision artistically and that was about it everything else was his band members in White zombie that he left behind years ago
Rob Zombie had a very unique sound and the Hellbilly Deluxe album was a masterpiece, Living dead girl, Demonoid phenomenon, Meet the Creeper, Superbeast and Dragula are all sensational songs ⚡️
Yeah but the difference is the vocalist of an 80’s hair band is supposed to be able to sing! Rob zombie doesn’t have to be an amazing singer! That’s not what he’s known for!
Dude he leaves himself so little room to breath with his lyrics… but still performs the HELL out of his songs… he is almost rapping, but in a super gritty chest voice belt… that is not easy, at all. Gotta give him props
FACT: The song is about the coffin drag racing car ‘DRAG-U-LA’ on the tv show The Munsters. The fiberglass body of DRAG-U-LA was built from a coffin that Richard "Korky" Korkes, Barris's project engineer, was able to purchase from a funeral home in North Hollywood. Korkes said in 2013 that it was illegal to sell a coffin without a death certificate, so he made a deal with the funeral director to pay in cash and have the coffin left outside the rear door to be collected after dark. The car had a 350HP, 289ci Ford Mustang V-8 engine with a four-speed stick shift.[1] It had two four-barrel carburetors mounted on a Edelbrock Ram-Thrust manifold. The carburetors were mounted backwards in an effort to save space and the pull type throttle actuation modified into a pusher type. The rear tires were 10.00-15 Firestone racing slicks, mounted on custom 10-inch Radir aluminum and steel wheels. Each hubcap was decorated with a large silver spider. The front tires were 4-inch Italian tires on Speedsport English buggy wire wheels. To extend the Gothic motif further, Barris installed four Zoomie style organ pipes on each side of the car in lieu of a standard exhaust pipe, and mounted antique lamps on the front and rear. The front of the vehicle sported a marble gravestone-supposedly Grandpa Munster's license plate "from the Old Country"-with the inscription: "Born 1367, Died ?". A "hidden" radiator was topped with a small golden casket. The driver sat in the rear of the vehicle behind the engine, under a plastic bubble.
I’ve seen Powerman 5000 twice at the casino I work at!! One of the times meeting Spider and getting his autograph!! Nice guy! Friendly! But I actually had more of a conversation with the guitarist guy with the spikey hair!! I asked him how long he takes to get his hair like that and he said I think, “45 minutes to an hour” WOW I was like “jeez I thought that would take like half a day!” LOL he was even friendlier than Spider! But I got all the guys’ autographs on the liner notes for Tonight the Stars Revolt!
I had a college radio show in the 90's and would record stuff like this on VHS and later drop to MiniDisc so I could play it on the air of our little middle-of-nowhere station. I remember coming out of this one saying "Rob needs some breathing exercises."
Hell yeah! I saw him in August too. Hottest day of the damn year and he's still out there going absolutely crazy on stage. Was a great gig. Even Mudvayne showed up
@@gc8972b he wrote the lyrics, but, I doubt if he wrote the melodies. I could be wrong, not gonna fact check before commenting. The big question is, do you know the difference without fact checking?
I remember having to get to work EARLY in the morning but staying up to see this!! It was worth it!! That was an amazing album.....if I ever had whiplash it was because of this!!!
This isn’t an easy tune to sing, u need a lot of breath to maintain the vocal distortion he’s doing, depending on his technique he could be using even more air for the higher notes, and he’s jumping around stage. His choices are basically a) workout a ton and have amazing cardio b) stop jumping around c) jump around and make ur performance just as much about physical presence as it is singing. This is where the movie director chops come into play.
Over 20 years ago Rob Zombie had these pyrotechnics going off on stage in Somerset Wisconsin and these giant green balls of fire were launching into the air.. It was awesome and I was up on this hill and the pit was so rowdy that the whole ground started to shake as if there were an earthquake.
Thank God these talk shows have had so many great musicians on from bands to solo artists. My favorite though is hard rock and heavy metal, just like here with Rob. He's always worked with great band members too. They were great here. Thank you Mr. Letterman.
I remember being pregnant with my first child in 98 and when she was born to awesome music and this song of course I think she knew what she was listening to as a baby
honestly looking up "dragula live" I did not expect to see it on letterman. i've seen some other groups i like on letterman its cool how varied the artists he had was. I feel like him and conan had some of the most unique
Their are three types of live performances. The type where the singer sounds just like the music video and doesn’t need and autotunning or sound studio to be good. The one that sounds a little off but is still a good singer. The last being is that the can’t sing at all and need auto tune and all the other bells and whistles. You guess what category this fits in.
I remember the first time I saw the music video for this. Not even a teenager, it came on the TV and my mom thought it was awful. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen and I never looked back. MTV became my default that day, loved music very since.
Part 2 of My comment. For 24+ Music .....This Man and Band Gives Young The Talk of Life. Thanks for What You've represented with the 90s music. Thank Sherri. Y'all Are that Music... With her vox too please. Please include Her in a Great Industrial sound that You All Do. Thanks...and thanks for Protecting the Teens and Young Adults with Your Message. Movies are rated to viewing age...They are very real scenarios. Thanks for You knowing and showing of such in the past....and here and Now.
I do! Dude! I remember playing that game when I was like 8 and loving this track but never knowing the name until one day later in life I came across Rob Zombie and heard this track again. It was the best day of my life.
@@PorkMarshmallow agreed. It was a terrible performance. Very hard to get through, but this song and album are incredible. He just is not a good live vocalist
I mean, his tone is the same here( and most of the 90s live performances); I love Layne Staley and Chris Cornell, Rob is not that kind of vocalist; still he had a grit in his voice and I like it.
We’re going to blame autocorrect. The thumbnail was correct 😞
We just got the new stats, Autocorrect is the top paid comedy writer in the industry today.
@Stephen Lemont you guys and your Phish finders.
Most aren't for a live metal performance LOL
Rob Zombie doesn’t forget the lyrics, he forgets he has asthma.
Fking ded 😂 I was wondering who else was going to notice
Rob Zombie live is a joke. But dam the studio version rocks.
@@XYang-jg6wu - Totally agree, yet, real fans are afraid to agree with you.
I am a die-hard Zombie fan, but I'll never make the mistake of going to a third LIVE show of his.
@@XYang-jg6wu it's excellent when you're actually in the venue, I find you don't notice or care about screwups nearly as much. But yeah the albums are where he shines
I mean to be fair, apparently they almost set the building on fire the last time they were here, Rob was probably told to tone it down a bit. Stage doesn’t seem big enough for them to do their full act at full volume.
“What key do you want to sing, Rob?”
“Yes”
To be fair this is some of the best live singing I've seen from him 😅
i was at 1:12 in the song when i read this comment and i actually choked laughing 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@titans2720literally same
I remember staying up to watch this with the volume down low to not get caught... Little did I know my mom was a fan too.
We met your mom during his set at a festival back in the day. She was crowd surfing and we passed her along. Don’t worry; we were respectful.
Same 😂😂
@@thelettermanpodcast and this kid, is how I met your mother
@@Barnaby99 huzzah to Harrison’s mom!
Bros mom is a stranger to him 😂 stop making up stories i think youd know if your mom was a Rob Zombie fan. Dem likes feel good tho right?
The sound system just wasn't ready for this performance😅
Guitar sounds like ass
His awesomeness broke it. 😂🤘At least we know he doesn't have to lip sync like so many others.
Neither was Rob. Dude was out of breath 30 seconds in
😂😂😂😂😂
@@EntertainMeNow78FACTS
Dave really did have every genre of music on the show.
Ahh you think this is hardcore stuff eh? Cant remember him doing any blackmetal or grindcore 😂
@@harveysengersmusic247 lol imagine if they brought on some death metal bands back then
@@harveysengersmusic247imagine him having Gorgoroth on there. The whole show would have been taken off the air and banned indefinitely 😂
@@harveysengersmusic247 You think that talk shows / mainstream TV today has anything like that or anything like Rob Zombie today? It's really gone in the opposite direction.
@@harveysengersmusic247because that doesn’t sell albums. TV is a business
Old people falling asleep to letterman in 1998 thinking the devil has finally come for them
Underrated comment 😂
Winner.
Dude! I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
Lol i just imagined Abe Simpson "running" around the retirement home yelling exactly that
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Believe it or not, this is one of his better live performances.
That's actually sad
@@jagoisvara8178 😂🤷♂
Just goes to show how important cardio is for singing
Exactly!
Dude has super bad asthma from interviews over the years. So when hes running around hes just making it harder on himself. While if that is true the fact he still puts the performance on as well is pretty amazing.
@@BushyKalhe has bad asthma from interviews? 😭😭😭
@@dollsteak020 From interviews he has spoken about his asthma. im on the internet not a english lit class my b lol
I wasn't the only one confused, thanks for clarifying😅
Some say Rob is still trying to catch his breath (awesome performance either way, no denying the man brings it)
He was catching his breath from 1992 at this point...
Yeah,he can't do live ...
hahaha It always bugs me when lead singers don’t say the last word of a song’s verse when singing live. He still does it too. I just saw him for the first time here in Phoenix. AMAZING show, but felt a little short
@VanScott100 So, the reason he's stopping early is so, he can take enough breath for the next phrase. In the original recording the last word of the phrase slightly overlaps the next phrase because they were recorded individually and not all in one take. Most artist don't write their songs for a live performance, which is why some bands can't play all of their songs live.
@@anthonylopez5650 Maybe he should have. I can't imagine he can't sing every one of his songs live... which seems to be the case.
No lip syncing here. Just raw energy. Would not have Rob do it any other way.
More like raw lack of energy
"That's off their Christmas album, ladies and gentlemen." 🤣
If you ever feel embarrassed to do karaoke, just remember this was the best Rob Zombie could do on Letterman.
Nah, if this is really truly considered bad, I don’t even wanna know what my karaoke attempt would be, lololzz.
Yeah, I'm just surprised that Rob Zombie got to be on a late night show. And so proud he did. I was playing Twisted Metal 2 or 3 when I first heard this. What a legend.
I first heard it on sled storm ps1 game
That would be twisted metal 4 but the awesome remix from his 2nd album. Was listening to that games soundtrack. So many gems.
I remember hearing this for the first time in The Matrix movie.
He had slipknot promoting Iowa.
@@oldschooldude8370 That's cool
Rob Zombie live sounds like a local cover band playing Rob Zombie live
No local cover band would accept this low level of talent. He had the vision artistically and that was about it everything else was his band members in White zombie that he left behind years ago
Rob is out of breath from rocking so hard he is a legendary performer!
Rob Zombie had a very unique sound and the Hellbilly Deluxe album was a masterpiece, Living dead girl, Demonoid phenomenon, Meet the Creeper, Superbeast and Dragula are all sensational songs ⚡️
Meet the Creeper is on Sinister Urge, but yes Hellbilly Deluxe is so good he's never been able to top it since
I still remember that time I got hit by a drunk driver while listening to Demonoid Phenomenon
Yes this record defined my childhood, audible nostalgia!
He never reached the White Zombie level solo though.
@@Tenucha Tends to happen with artists once they put out their most popular piece of work...
many years later, this song is still FIRE !!!
Too bad he can’t sing his own song in the right key.
@@PorkMarshmallow and he still gets more women than you or anybody in your family tree !
@@MehrdadParthian True. But I can sing better and on key. :)
You ain’t lying 🔥 🤘🤘🤘
Fellow Iranian with great music taste? :)
I dont know why TH-cam only decided to show me this today, or how I'd never seen it before, but brilliant.
When you have the energy of Angus Young but the vocal delivery of post-2015 Vince Neil.
😂😂😂
Yeah but the difference is the vocalist of an 80’s hair band is supposed to be able to sing! Rob zombie doesn’t have to be an amazing singer! That’s not what he’s known for!
Dude he leaves himself so little room to breath with his lyrics… but still performs the HELL out of his songs… he is almost rapping, but in a super gritty chest voice belt… that is not easy, at all. Gotta give him props
FACT: The song is about the coffin drag racing car ‘DRAG-U-LA’ on the tv show The Munsters. The fiberglass body of DRAG-U-LA was built from a coffin that Richard "Korky" Korkes, Barris's project engineer, was able to purchase from a funeral home in North Hollywood. Korkes said in 2013 that it was illegal to sell a coffin without a death certificate, so he made a deal with the funeral director to pay in cash and have the coffin left outside the rear door to be collected after dark.
The car had a 350HP, 289ci Ford Mustang V-8 engine with a four-speed stick shift.[1] It had two four-barrel carburetors mounted on a Edelbrock Ram-Thrust manifold. The carburetors were mounted backwards in an effort to save space and the pull type throttle actuation modified into a pusher type.
The rear tires were 10.00-15 Firestone racing slicks, mounted on custom 10-inch Radir aluminum and steel wheels. Each hubcap was decorated with a large silver spider. The front tires were 4-inch Italian tires on Speedsport English buggy wire wheels. To extend the Gothic motif further, Barris installed four Zoomie style organ pipes on each side of the car in lieu of a standard exhaust pipe, and mounted antique lamps on the front and rear.
The front of the vehicle sported a marble gravestone-supposedly Grandpa Munster's license plate "from the Old Country"-with the inscription: "Born 1367, Died ?". A "hidden" radiator was topped with a small golden casket. The driver sat in the rear of the vehicle behind the engine, under a plastic bubble.
And it is also exactly how i want to be buried. Thanks Korky...
I remember when Dragula was seemingly in every video game for a stretch.
Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal 4, first Stage.
Was a wonderful time
meet the creeper twisted metal
I'm so late to this party but it was Sled Storm on PS1 for me
As a senior citizen in my 70’s I still LOVE me some Zombie!
One of the greatest to ever do it, Rob Zombie. I met him in 2011 after his gig in Manchester. I flew over from Dublin just to be there, gentleman.
I’ve seen Powerman 5000 twice at the casino I work at!! One of the times meeting Spider and getting his autograph!! Nice guy! Friendly! But I actually had more of a conversation with the guitarist guy with the spikey hair!! I asked him how long he takes to get his hair like that and he said I think, “45 minutes to an hour” WOW I was like “jeez I thought that would take like half a day!” LOL he was even friendlier than Spider! But I got all the guys’ autographs on the liner notes for Tonight the Stars Revolt!
I had a college radio show in the 90's and would record stuff like this on VHS and later drop to MiniDisc so I could play it on the air of our little middle-of-nowhere station. I remember coming out of this one saying "Rob needs some breathing exercises."
Well, he has always been like that LOL, even in a performance like on late show, he’ll be like that 😂
The master of understatement 😜 I've been laughing about that introduction since 1998 🔥🔥🔥
That’s off the Christmas album.
Great performance from Rob and the band. You'd never see this type of music on late night tv now. Those were the days.
De acuerdo!
All these years later, this song is still played in strip clubs across America.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it in a strip club before…it REALLY sets an atmosphere.
Badass vocals, no lipsync, just how I like it. You can hear his exhaustion.
He has asthma.
“I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... But your kids are gonna love it”
Hahaha Rob Zombie held on to Letterman's handshake LOL
God I love this man! I just saw him in August and he still puts on 1 hell of a show!
Hell yeah! I saw him in August too. Hottest day of the damn year and he's still out there going absolutely crazy on stage. Was a great gig. Even Mudvayne showed up
I grew to enjoy this band and music genre after hearing it blasting from my son's bedroom for years. Took a little getting used to at first...😳🤘
As usual, he never fails to disappoint playing live 😏
Can't agree. It was fire.
he writes great melodies but is not interested in playing them live
@@gc8972b he wrote the lyrics, but, I doubt if he wrote the melodies. I could be wrong, not gonna fact check before commenting. The big question is, do you know the difference without fact checking?
@@retroidvania skipping words and unfinished stuttering sentence's.. super immersive ya your right..
@@benttwisted210 ?? what melody? even on the album it's not much more than old mcdonald had a farm
This guitar player lives in my hometown. I see him at Lowe's all the time. 😂 Super nice guy.
Bring back memories of seeing these guys back on that tour
I've seen him so many times in concert. Love him!
It's September 2023 .Dragula still rocks
It’s on one of my Halloween compilation cds!!!
The 1990's were so great miss my teen years
They played this last night...last song of the night......that was pretty f ing amazing.25 years and still hits hard as ever
I remember having to get to work EARLY in the morning but staying up to see this!! It was worth it!! That was an amazing album.....if I ever had whiplash it was because of this!!!
"The master of understatement... Rob Zombie"
man i saw him live recently, guess this song always hurt to sing for him. thought it was cause he was older but he sounds exactly the same now
yep he was 33 when this was performed/aired. He is pretty much doing the same at 57.
He was always a pretty terrible singer overall.
@@VuotoPneumaNN he always seemed more of an entertainer than singer
This isn’t an easy tune to sing, u need a lot of breath to maintain the vocal distortion he’s doing, depending on his technique he could be using even more air for the higher notes, and he’s jumping around stage. His choices are basically a) workout a ton and have amazing cardio b) stop jumping around c) jump around and make ur performance just as much about physical presence as it is singing. This is where the movie director chops come into play.
@@brendanmetz2306 yeah he's just out of breath from dancing not cause hes a bad singer and it sounded good anyway just had to cut some notes short
I searched everywhere for that christmas album and never found it :(
Rob is auditioning for the Dune remake.
My knees hurt watching this but my ears are smiling!
I remember this song very well while running races in Gran Turismo 2 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Wow. I'm impressed he sang 70% of the song. Lol
You’re being too generous lol
showed this to my grandparents last night, let's just say they weren't a fan, but i was. rob zombie 4ever🖤💚🖤🤘
I have seen this man twice now and he still is amazing
Rob never did think of doing something to improve his breathing techniques.
Saw him 2 months ago on Chicago! The man kicks ass!!
Over 20 years ago Rob Zombie had these pyrotechnics going off on stage in Somerset Wisconsin and these giant green balls of fire were launching into the air.. It was awesome and I was up on this hill and the pit was so rowdy that the whole ground started to shake as if there were an earthquake.
I used to record letterman music guests on VHS in highschool because it was always AWESOMEMEEEE
He’s so badass I love Rob Zombie forever🖤
Thank God these talk shows have had so many great musicians on from bands to solo artists. My favorite though is hard rock and heavy metal, just like here with Rob. He's always worked with great band members too. They were great here. Thank you Mr. Letterman.
Thank God? You are mistaken.
I remember being pregnant with my first child in 98 and when she was born to awesome music and this song of course I think she knew what she was listening to as a baby
My son and I would play the video games to this one!!! Brings back great memories!!! Great stress relief reliever. ☠️
Zombie, Blasko, Riggs & Tempesta. What a lineup
I was thinking the same thing……classic!
Only real OG's remember this song form Sled Storm.
Sounding a bit out of breath Rob haha👍👍 Love ya work!!
honestly looking up "dragula live" I did not expect to see it on letterman. i've seen some other groups i like on letterman its cool how varied the artists he had was. I feel like him and conan had some of the most unique
That outfit he has one is and has always been my favorite
This music is sooo much fun .... Letterman is the GOAT
What a masterpiece, the song through which I met Zombie.
Their are three types of live performances. The type where the singer sounds just like the music video and doesn’t need and autotunning or sound studio to be good. The one that sounds a little off but is still a good singer. The last being is that the can’t sing at all and need auto tune and all the other bells and whistles. You guess what category this fits in.
Love the live performance and this song is still fireeeeeee!
Riggs. blasko. tempesta..rob... KILLIN EM! 12 grade I wore this album out!
"That's off their Christmas album!" lol
The first time I went to Brutal Planet, the first thing I saw was a live show of the techno version of this song. Very cool.
Director , singer, doesn’t matter Rob Zombie is a legend and seems to be one of the nicest most humble people on the planet.
"Deep breath baby....Deep breath baby..... Deep breath baby."
He's really rocking that fremen suit!
I remember the first time I saw the music video for this.
Not even a teenager, it came on the TV and my mom thought it was awful.
It was the coolest thing I had ever seen and I never looked back.
MTV became my default that day, loved music very since.
Man, I was 15 when this album came out wish I could go back
Simply the Best
Rob Zombie's suit exhibits excellent water discipline.
Well he's conquering a snake or eel or something I don't remember
Rob Zombie rocks! Would be awesome if you also upload the American Witch performance 🔥
Perfect music for walking to groceries store🥦🥦🥦
Security guard that I work with used to work for a nearby concert venue. He said Rob was one of the nicest guys he ever met
"That's off their Christmas album ladies and gentlemen" 🤣👌 great time, grest song, i really felt the twisted metal vibes 👏
😂 When does Rob not tire himself out before he even starts 😂
Dragula with a G.
"That's off their Christmas album" 😆 I miss hosts like Letterman.
Rob the GOAT 🤘💗
This makes my heart happy❤ Saw him when he was White Zombie & Rib Zombie!! Superb shows🤘🤘
It’s “Dragula” btw. This song is in my top 10 driving songs. Gotta admit the album version sounds best.
Rob Zombie, definition of Cool 😎
Part 2 of My comment. For 24+ Music .....This Man and Band Gives Young The Talk of Life. Thanks for What You've represented with the 90s music. Thank Sherri. Y'all Are that Music... With her vox too please. Please include Her in a Great Industrial sound that You All Do. Thanks...and thanks for Protecting the Teens and Young Adults with Your Message. Movies are rated to viewing age...They are very real scenarios. Thanks for You knowing and showing of such in the past....and here and Now.
This never gets old! Real live gut punching, rip your throat out music!
Who remembers this being their rage mode on Twisted metal with sweet tooth
I do! Dude! I remember playing that game when I was like 8 and loving this track but never knowing the name until one day later in life I came across Rob Zombie and heard this track again. It was the best day of my life.
The struggle lol
Man this takes me back
This is way back but WOW!! I'm rawkin right along and WOW Rob did KILLAA!!!!!
I like it. Cause you know it ain't lipsynced like most performances on TV.
Amazing performance. By far, Rob Zombie's best album.
Awful performance. He’s not even in the correct key.
@@PorkMarshmallow agreed. It was a terrible performance. Very hard to get through, but this song and album are incredible. He just is not a good live vocalist
@@PorkMarshmallowAgreed. Not only that, he clearly fell out of breath and struggled to deliver all of the vocals smh
HOW AWESOME IT HAD TO OF BEEN TO BE IN THAT AUDIENCE!!! ❤❤❤❤
How many ya think were like "WTF am i watching?"
Or maybe his fans new he was playing that night?
*to have been
It means???
Basically every performance I have seen from Rob just reminds me how many vocal effects he uses in the studio.
Nah ir actually sounds insanely good he just never finished the word and just catches his breath
I mean, his tone is the same here( and most of the 90s live performances); I love Layne Staley and Chris Cornell, Rob is not that kind of vocalist; still he had a grit in his voice and I like it.
Just saw rob zombie with Alice cooper last week, in washington it was a awesome live show
He was running out of breath towards the end lol he kept it cool tho haha 😁