J Mascis really the kind of dude that would give Paul Schaffer and his band full free reign to make the song as loud as possible. Real recognize real. I wonder whose idea it actually was.
@@j.mduett4992Paul's an utterly self-involved dick. To have had the nerve to, in service to himself and his stoopid studio chops, subvert the sound and authenticity of this quintessential band is too telling to tolerate. (At least Sid & Fig demonstrated an awareness of & respect for that to which they were doing such silly violence.)
J put stickers all over a Fender Jazzmaster, David Sanborn is there, Paul is playing the bells, Murph doesn't have a kick drum for some inexplicable reason and dropped a stick at like 2:06. Epic.
That's the guitar he bought from slimy Bobs guitar rip off. He went down there to buy a strat but SB raised the price $200 so he chose the Jazz because it was all he could afford. And it WAS Fenders flagship model. It ended up working out for him.
Love the juxtaposition…music is chaos and completely wild, all the while J is completely calm and in his own world. Quite possibly the loudest performance I’ve ever seen on this show
Jennifer Lyons what you mean by that? Wasn’t there a feud between Alice and Dino at that ‘93 Lolla? What about J performing with Tony Bennett? I don’t know if that video was finally released
Sax player hosted a show for a few seasons in late 80’s on nbc called night music some great bands came thru and played live and house band usually collab they were killers!
"Bass guitar. Double speed guitar. 2 slightly distorted guitars. Saxophone. PLUS TUBULAR BELLS!" Does this video make anyone else feel like listening to Mike Oldfield.
Untrue. Mastodon played 'Oblivion' live on Letterman and it sounded like shit. I love Mastodon but they're really bad at singing and playing at the same time.
What an epic hot mess!!! J saves it, sort of. going to see these bands as a teenager in the 90s was so exciting. You never knew what you were going to get.
Back then, they were called Paul Schaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band. This is Pre CBS days. Back when it was Late Night with David Letterman on NBC.
+AlternativeStrings omg bald chime guy is hilarious - right after such a raw guitar solo too. haha thats probably the funniest thing I've seen in a while
Stooges / Steve Mackay vibes with the sax there (David Sanborn, legend), and that's Paul Effing Schaeffer (Letterman's legendary bandleader for about 150 years) playing those bells - simply incredible.
Dinosaur Jr is one of the greatest power trios ever, and to be humble enough to just say, sure lets make it a huge house band mashup with the high-waisted jeans guy on the bass and some sax and bells and a 2nd drummer, 3 background singers, just throw everything in there, why not!
This entire performance is amazing. The Letterman band is dressed for success for the 90z and DJ can simply pop in today and still look cool and relevant, except the drummer... It shows how they were so ahead of their time. I dig how they play, the look, the cool factor, and overall knowing yourself as a performer...I can watch this performance over and over. Hopefully the corporate dumbasses don't kill it..
I can’t imagine being in the audience for that awesome wall of sound D Jr. is known for. One of the loudest bands I’ve ever seen…in the best possible way.
STELLAR BAND MIX! Anton Fig drumming...Sanborn on Sax...Paul...playing everything...wow...a musical mess that came together in a very rare moment of rock n' roll. Great version.
saw it the first time on regular tv.. saw them twice later that year.. best thing ever seeing their prime. This record should go into my casket along with maybe two more.
Oh my god, thanks you! I've been hoping this would show up on youtube again... there was another version with better quality... but either way, this is probably one of my favorite Dinosaur Jr. performances ever, it was such a shame to see it disappear... it's great that it's back... THANKS!
That was F'ing awesome. I thought it was great to have the sax and paul schaffer with them...sounded like the freedom of D Jr and the perfect tempo and playing by the boys melded into a sweet jam of two parallel universes that merge for around 4min
hehe well that certainly shook things up and gave the audience more than they likely bargained for. :) Sax just added to the pandemonium...kinda reminded me of Fun House.
This was after Barlow and Murph left the band. The band was basically J Mascis solo band because of losing the original lineup and having issues keeping bassists. The Dinosaur Jr name was retired in 1997 in favor of J Mascis solo efforts until the original lineup reunited in 2005. Bug pretty much destroyed the band back in 1988 and there was a fight on stage between Barlow and Mascis that same year that led to Barlow and murph leaving in 89’.
J Mascis really the kind of dude that would give Paul Schaffer and his band full free reign to make the song as loud as possible. Real recognize real. I wonder whose idea it actually was.
Paul’s contract at the time
@@j.mduett4992Paul's an utterly self-involved dick. To have had the nerve to, in service to himself and his stoopid studio chops, subvert the sound and authenticity of this quintessential band is too telling to tolerate. (At least Sid & Fig demonstrated an awareness of & respect for that to which they were doing such silly violence.)
I love the synchronized guitar lift right around 2:04
me too!
HAHAHA omg i thought you mispelt riff, but no lift was correct, love it
J put stickers all over a Fender Jazzmaster, David Sanborn is there, Paul is playing the bells, Murph doesn't have a kick drum for some inexplicable reason and dropped a stick at like 2:06.
Epic.
agreed, and all good points, this is without question one of the oddest musical collaborations ever
That sounded so good! And felt even better! Glorious! And I think I got some dust in my eyes....
That's the guitar he bought from slimy Bobs guitar rip off. He went down there to buy a strat but SB raised the price $200 so he chose the Jazz because it was all he could afford. And it WAS Fenders flagship model.
It ended up working out for him.
that ain't Murph...
@@SPINUNDRUM it is
I love this so much. Just when you think it can't get any crazier, Paul Shaffer kicks in with the bells. Hilarious!
That's why I remember this
I mean, they are on the song … bells
@@chetsenior7253 Right you are!
How is that hilarious? 🤔
@@TheILLTechnics Trying to explain hilariousness would be very unhilarious.
Love the juxtaposition…music is chaos and completely wild, all the while J is completely calm and in his own world. Quite possibly the loudest performance I’ve ever seen on this show
This has to place among the craziest shows that Dinosaur jr have ever done. Wow.
lol except when they played OdgenUTAH IN 1993 with Alice in CHAINs. I was one happy little mormon girl that day, jen, now ex-mormon
Jennifer Lyons what you mean by that? Wasn’t there a feud between Alice and Dino at that ‘93 Lolla? What about J performing with Tony Bennett? I don’t know if that video was finally released
Caribou1983 - Well, J has a way with people because of his quiet charm. But Tony Bennett? Really? And I have missed the beef with Alice, apparently.
Right up there with the Jenny Jones performance.
It’s not the full band lol
This is the most rock n roll thing ever put to film
Letterman always has good musical guests
I remember some clunkers.
This is one of the most rock and roll things I've ever seen. Amazing performance. D.Jr. were out of their minds.
Right?
Also funny how a bunch of them did the same move at around 2:06. At the same time the drummer on the right also dropped one of his sticks :P
What an awesome fucking mess!
+The Blissful Zombie You must only listen to manufactured pop music from the comments I've seen from you before.
ok
Awesome band!
Paul Schaffer and David Sanborn played on all the great grunge records of the 90's.
Grunge is not a thing, that coporate marketing buzz word and j mascis DEFINITELY does not consider himself grunge
Sax player hosted a show for a few seasons in late 80’s on nbc called night music some great bands came thru and played live and house band usually collab they were killers!
"Bass guitar. Double speed guitar. 2 slightly distorted guitars. Saxophone. PLUS TUBULAR BELLS!"
Does this video make anyone else feel like listening to Mike Oldfield.
Yeah I can see why it reminds you of it! I love tubular bells, as well as the sax work in this performance
Rarely has a song title fit the performance as good as this.
Have you seen the music video???
Joey Jo-Jo Shabadu I actually hadn’t - now I see what you mean. 😳 Thanks!
the sax is awesome
Haha!! - Sure it is. ;o)
I saw Sugar on the Beaster tour at Roseland the night that Dino taped this Letterman appearance, and J was there, still rocking that smoking jacket.
Pretty sure I was at the same show. I saw Dino there too around the same time, with Gumball.
WOW! a band would not get away with this kind of stuff today!!!
What do you mean
its so raw and uncut and creative its amazing
Untrue. Mastodon played 'Oblivion' live on Letterman and it sounded like shit. I love Mastodon but they're really bad at singing and playing at the same time.
actually i meant my comment as a complement. I love this style of performance. It's so authentic and real and it unfortunately died out in the 90's.
Best live version of anything on TH-cam
This is rock n roll gold. Does anyone understand what they’re watching and listening to?? My goodness.
What an epic hot mess!!! J saves it, sort of. going to see these bands as a teenager in the 90s was so exciting. You never knew what you were going to get.
The word “epic” was coined to describe this very onslaught
I see The CBS Orchestra took over bass drum duties for Murph.
Back then, they were called Paul Schaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band. This is Pre CBS days. Back when it was Late Night with David Letterman on NBC.
@@cactaceous You are correct
And the bass too
Anton Fig is no joke!
I have to comeback and watch this a couple of times a year because it might just be the most amazing late night performance ever!
The sax was an interesting addition :P. I love what everyone does at the end, it was funny to see the guy waling away at the chimes
+AlternativeStrings omg bald chime guy is hilarious - right after such a raw guitar solo too. haha thats probably the funniest thing I've seen in a while
Stooges / Steve Mackay vibes with the sax there (David Sanborn, legend), and that's Paul Effing Schaeffer (Letterman's legendary bandleader for about 150 years) playing those bells - simply incredible.
Do people forget theirs bells in the original recording of the song?
Dinosaur Jr is one of the greatest power trios ever, and to be humble enough to just say, sure lets make it a huge house band mashup with the high-waisted jeans guy on the bass and some sax and bells and a 2nd drummer, 3 background singers, just throw everything in there, why not!
This entire performance is amazing. The Letterman band is dressed for success for the 90z and DJ can simply pop in today and still look cool and relevant, except the drummer... It shows how they were so ahead of their time. I dig how they play, the look, the cool factor, and overall knowing yourself as a performer...I can watch this performance over and over. Hopefully the corporate dumbasses don't kill it..
um excuse me i feel like more white people need to rock cornrows but yeah this performance was fucking amazing
I can’t imagine being in the audience for that awesome wall of sound D Jr. is known for. One of the loudest bands I’ve ever seen…in the best possible way.
STELLAR BAND MIX! Anton Fig drumming...Sanborn on Sax...Paul...playing everything...wow...a musical mess that came together in a very rare moment of rock n' roll. Great version.
So that's sorta what Coltrane and Hendrix sound like jammin' in heaven!
this has gotta be the best letterman performance ever
saw it the first time on regular tv.. saw them twice later that year.. best thing ever seeing their prime. This record should go into my casket along with maybe two more.
Just the most awesome thing I've ever seen
Murph is dressed like Ice Cube
Paul Sethre hahahah
I thought that was ice cube?????
😂😂😂
Serge Achten nice to see someone else watching in 2020
@@landoncrouch2857 I love Dinosaur Jr !
They come through in the second half. I imagine %90 of america at the time changing the channel
So true
So ridiculously 90's
might even be 80s but im probably wrong
@@kmanthecoolest9304 you are
@@Taterstiltskin I was thinking of you’re living all over me album
David Sanborn Killed that SAX!!
this is just EPIC !!!
Dayum! They jammed with the house band and it couldn’t be any more awesome!
one of the best band I've seen live
best version ever
I want to go back.......
FOREVER
That fucking ruled
House band is so tight they immediately switched to shotgun for the commercial break
Epic
Great song!
ok this is epic.
A beautifully, organized, mess
CHILLS
Seeing Paul Schaffer keep time and sing high background with Dinosaur Jr...wow
Fucking rocks. The band are great, not sure why anyone would knock that. The bells... the bells .. the bells.
Dinosaur Jr. + one sax, - one bass drum.
Oh my god, thanks you! I've been hoping this would show up on youtube again... there was another version with better quality... but either way, this is probably one of my favorite Dinosaur Jr. performances ever, it was such a shame to see it disappear... it's great that it's back... THANKS!
I miss dave
David Sanborn the legend.
Ha ha Paul playing chimes
What is going on 😂 I love this
oh my god at 2.06 please tell me this wasn't practised I don't wanna imagine j orchestrating that.
LOL!
That was the band version of Dabbing.
Actually you can see Paul Schaffer to the left orchestrating it with his hand as well.
LOL! @2:06
Love all the orchestration in this including the sax.
This song reminds me of the best times of my life…
This is too funny! It's like trying to bring opposite poles of a magnet together. Kind of fun but you wouldn't want to do it all day :)
J. Mascis must of had a thing for wearing suit jackets on the Letterman show, haha
Best one.
3:10 haha so manic that sax those bells love it what a mess
totally agree, NEVER should this song be edited, i remember the video cut parts out, broke my heart
Mascis and Schaefer!!!
GENIUS SQUARED.
This kind of performance could ONLY have happened in the mid 90’s.
Wow the DL band really added sonic maximization and volume to an already great band. Kudos..
This shreds
That was F'ing awesome. I thought it was great to have the sax and paul schaffer with them...sounded like the freedom of D Jr and the perfect tempo and playing by the boys melded into a sweet jam of two parallel universes that merge for around 4min
Its lucky that they have a song called "Out There On Letterman" to play on Letterman
This was amazing.
hehe well that certainly shook things up and gave the audience more than they likely bargained for. :) Sax just added to the pandemonium...kinda reminded me of Fun House.
I love this song
What a mess of a performance.
Fantastic.
One of the only times it made sense Paul Shaffer was part of a performance with the bells.
I wanted to hate this but by the end it was so awesome! thanks for sharing this gem OP
2:54 google show me pure joy.
Triple J’s in the house. Dave, Joseph and Paul. What a hot mess :)
Man, I wish the sax was on the Album version.
It was an Kazzoo XD
Nah, the album version is perfect.
This is fucking amazing!
RIP!David Sanborn.
This is STOOGES GOOD!
This is fucking incredible
now he really really enjoys food
Genius
The split-second of KITH at the end was the cherry on top...
Awesome performance! It seemed like Paul and the band were really into this one too.
need two more guitars
there is no such thing as "too many guitars"
Awesome!!!
Dinosaur Jr isn't loud enough, they need an entire other band to back them up
This was after Barlow and Murph left the band. The band was basically J Mascis solo band because of losing the original lineup and having issues keeping bassists. The Dinosaur Jr name was retired in 1997 in favor of J Mascis solo efforts until the original lineup reunited in 2005. Bug pretty much destroyed the band back in 1988 and there was a fight on stage between Barlow and Mascis that same year that led to Barlow and murph leaving in 89’.
@@joshuapittman4663informed u are
Fantastic!
This one’s the best
Raging full ON....yea !!!!!
Firehose reference!
awesome
Them were the days
stealing someones comment..."So that's sorta what Coltrane and Hendrix sound like jammin' in heaven!" RIP David Sanborn
holy grail...
Geddy Lee shredding the guitar?
The FUCKING HORNS! They add so much to the track!
Lol. I love it!
Oh wow 👏