Now it's a music on letterman thread.

[vgmrmojo]

This isn't from letterman but it is a great recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxWSOuNsN20

[dennisjames]

In a frantic state, I quickly scanned everyone's favorites looking for the Zevon show. Hands Down the finest musical moment for me on Letterman. I have it taped on VHS somewhere and while it's been a while, I often pull it down to remind myself that I'm not alone in this world ... that Zevon mattered ... and that television can actually NOT suck sometimes.

And while the internet doesn't apparently go back far enough for me to verify this, I do recall 2 encores from way, way back on Letterman -- John Hiatt and John Mellencamp ... I always assumed it was the Indiana thing??

[roscoenyc]

fucking cold in there but you are out by dinner!

[Suntower]

I dunno about 'artists', but every so often I hear snippets of the house band and am amazed at how nice Will Lee's bass sounds. It's -hard- to get a bass to come through a TV set.

AFA 'performances', I heard LCD SoundSystem 5-6 years ago, liked it enough to get the record... and was astounded at how much better the live performance sounded. Not just the performance---I mean the -mix-.