On 1/4/2011 12:34 PM, David Bruggeman wrote:
Not sure how much of Ferguson's musical lineup reflects his taste or a
cramped/limited performance space, but the lineups tend toward the
lesser-known.
I just read the article and the posts up until 6pm Tuesday night EDT.
The article is skewed horn-tooting. To say that Fallon's music guests
are "better" or "different" than the others is bullsh*t. It is an
article trying to get advertising money.
I say this because of a few reasons:
- Rogue Wave (mentioned in the article) has done Fallon, Ferg, and
Letterman. Letterman was in 2008 around the same tour as when I saw
them at Coachella 2008 in April.
- I'm into the indie music thing, attended Coachella 2008 and 2009 and
the damn lucky son of mine attended in 2010 again too. I'm familiar
with the artists of which the article speaks of.
- I have 4 TiVo's and one motorola that record every non-repeat late
night show including Conan, Ellen and The View during daytime. Me and
the kids skim through who the guests are and can watch the musical
performances in a cram session. My conclusion from the this 2-3 year
ritual is that bands go on tours and get booked on shows -- simple as
that. A band that is a debut act on Letterman, is then a guest band on
Fallon the next night. The density of performances on west-coast shows
is even higher. I've seen a band on Leno, Ferguson, Ellen all in the
same week(*).
Side topic - if you like Ferguson's puppets, watch his recent interview
with Michael Franti. It's on ferg's youtube channel. I think it was
December or late November.
(*) Those in music or tv industry would reply "yeah... well that's the
way it works" and my answer is "well yeah - no sh*t". Thus the premise
of the Fallon article is a fallacy.
For those on last.fm, my profile is here.
http://www.last.fm/user/deastick
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