Some stats: Rogue Wave on Craig: January 19, 2006. Performed "Publish My Love." January 8, 2008. Performed "Lake Michigan."
Rogue Wave on Dave: April 15, 2008. Performed "Lake Michigan." All before Fallon's show. On Jan 4, 7:02 pm, Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
