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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Wed May 20, 2015, 12:51 PM May 2015

Odds are The Foo Fighters will play Everlong on Letterman tonight.

It looked like Bob Dylan, who performed on last night’s penultimate episode, would be the last musical guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. But now, Rolling Stone is reporting that David Letterman’s “favorite band,” the Foo Fighters, will play a song on tonight’s final episode.

When Letterman returned to his show in 2008 after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery, the musical guest that night was the Foo Fighters. “Ladies and gentlemen, my favorite band playing my favorite song,” the host said, as the group launched into their 1997 “Everlong.” It’s a good bet that they will reprise that performance tonight.

“We’ve always shared a special relationship with Letterman,” lead singer Dave Grohl told the Orange County Register last fall ahead of a week-long residency on the Late Show. “When he had his open-heart surgery, he was gone for a while and when he came back he requested the Foo Fighters be the first band to perform for his first week back because he wanted to hear the song ‘Everlong.’ Ever since that day, we’ve been in love. I don’t know how many times we’ve played that show but every time we do and I stand in the Ed Sullivan Theater, I never take that for granted.”

Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company also served as a co-producer on the band’s widely-praised HBO documentary series Sonic Highways.


http://www.mediaite.com/tv/david-lettermans-favorite-band-will-perform-on-final-show/

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Odds are The Foo Fighters will play Everlong on Letterman tonight. (Original Post) sufrommich May 2015 OP
It's 'The Fighters of Foo' pinboy3niner May 2015 #1
Good!! KT2000 May 2015 #2
probably true IcyPeas May 2015 #3
Everlong - Not bad. Scurrilous May 2015 #4

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
2. Good!!
Wed May 20, 2015, 12:56 PM
May 2015

Dylan has always had odd performances on the show but last night was quite uncomfortable. Foo Fighters will give him a great send off. And I bet they will collaborate on other projects.

IcyPeas

(21,842 posts)
3. probably true
Wed May 20, 2015, 02:32 PM
May 2015

Rolling Stone reports it but "a representative for Foo Fighters declined to comment on the band's appearance".

I liked Eddie Vedder's performance and I liked that he played with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.

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