The Lemonheads - “It's A Shame About Ray" Live on Letterman

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  • @timoraymo
    @timoraymo Годину тому

    I like to believe we all get that time of great art/music. Many had the 50’s (Elvis, Berry) then the 60’s. Skip a few decades and the late 80’s to the 90’s came. Amazing. I’m hoping this magic happens again soon for the kids growing up today.

  • @brysimm404
    @brysimm404 7 місяців тому +8

    Evan was blessed with a great smooth voice - one of the best of his generation.

    • @thefeeps
      @thefeeps 3 місяці тому +2

      100% ...he is so underrated...and in terms of writing perfect pop rock that has a soul...he was on a par with Kurt Cobain during this era, but overlooked in terms of his original songs

  • @gar137
    @gar137 7 місяців тому +45

    Several weeks prior to this performance my girlfriend and I went to the old RCKNDY music venue in Portland, Oregon to see Soul Asylum with the Lemonheads and the Jayhawks. My girlfriend was all giddy about seeing Evan Dando perform. When we got there the Jayhawks were already onstage and we made a beeline for the beer garden. While I was waiting to place an order she tapped me on the shoulder with some urgency and whispered very loudly in my ear: “Oh, my God! He’s right behind us!” Sure enough, standing at the edge of the beer garden with a brew in one hand and a cigarette in the other was Evan Dando. He was bopping his head to the music with the loopiest grin on his face and as Jehovah is my witness, wearing the same outfit that he wore on Letterman- complete with that brightly-colored faux-fur parka. She even bummed a smoke off of him which he gladly gave up and continued grooving to the Jayhawks. Later on the Lemonheads tore up the stage with a stellar performance that help set the tone for Soul Asylum. True story. Honest.

    • @jeffreybarkin3177
      @jeffreybarkin3177 5 місяців тому +1

      Did He behave himself, as 'The SHADOWS' were There Too and we need to be Human and Friendly...
      😂

    • @RoseanneSeason7
      @RoseanneSeason7 3 місяці тому

      Thanks for that little glimpse of your life

    • @gar137
      @gar137 3 місяці тому +3

      @@RoseanneSeason7 it’s all I have left in this world. That and the time I saw Tony Randall at an airport.

    • @RoseanneSeason7
      @RoseanneSeason7 3 місяці тому +1

      @@gar137 I ran away to Hollywood in 96 when I was 16. I used to see pat smear walking along sunset Blvd all the time with his gf. Would say hi pat and he always smiled and said hi back. Once I was deep down Melrose waking one night at like 4am and saw Beck with a back pack on walking with a friend. Didn't say shit. Hollywood was weird back then. Had lots of weird encounters with men trying to hook up with me. The weirdest encounter was I was waking by Tower records and this well dressed guy got locked out of his car and I helped him get into it with a coat hanger. For some reason I ended up at his house and he was in the music business and told me how Kurt Cobain was bi and had seen him giving a guy head. Thank God I ended up just hanging out and he drove me home in one piece. On a lighter note I used to give this homeless guy who I would see all over West Hollywood money to buy me porn magazines.

    • @basedsouljah
      @basedsouljah 2 місяці тому +1

      Rosanne youre a fucking hollywood legend my friend. What a cool ass story!! You ever thought about telling em and uploading the stories to UA-cam? Id sure subscribe haha

  • @esmith2313
    @esmith2313 10 місяців тому +45

    Frankly, this is one of the best songs ever and this live performance is truly and plainly amazing.

  • @oswaldnunag5400
    @oswaldnunag5400 Рік тому +23

    im already 47years old but im still listening to the lemonheads song..❤❤❤great cool band.

    • @rayc.8555
      @rayc.8555 11 місяців тому

      I'm 71 and still listening to them. Great songs are timeless.

    • @charleswhite9242
      @charleswhite9242 10 місяців тому +1

      I’m 46. I would have been about 16 / 17 when this song came out. Takes me back to a more carefree time

    • @BassPlayerSusan
      @BassPlayerSusan 6 місяців тому

      @@charleswhite9242 47 y/o here and I feel the same way.

  • @leslierobertson1823
    @leslierobertson1823 10 місяців тому +16

    Back in the days, when i was young
    I'm not a kid anymore
    But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again

  • @stephenweber8694
    @stephenweber8694 4 місяці тому +11

    Dang! Evan's voice! Born with a gift.

  • @beetlerunner
    @beetlerunner Рік тому +99

    This was such an incredible time to be alive. Right before music got really bad and the internet. The end of an era. Letterman was the best.

    • @bubmaterial
      @bubmaterial Рік тому +3

      lol

    • @hazysativa3045
      @hazysativa3045 Рік тому +6

      1990-1995 was the best era of music...

    • @BassPlayerSusan
      @BassPlayerSusan Рік тому

      @@hazysativa3045 A great era, I'll agree. I was born in '77 so I grew up on this stuff.

    • @cameronprior5227
      @cameronprior5227 Рік тому +1

      I think I worked with his dad at a law firm in the 80s in Boston.

    • @BassPlayerSusan
      @BassPlayerSusan Рік тому +6

      "Right before music got really bad and the internet." Yet here we are viewing it on the internet watching it. And thanks to You Tube we can again see great stuff like this. But yeah, Matterhune, I'll agree that most modern stuff is disposable cr@p. My now 75-year-old father calls the 1990s "The last great era of music" (secretly he liked Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.) Some good bands emerged in the early 2000s: White Stripes, early Coldplay, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, Cage the Elephant, etc.
      But much of today's stuff makes atrocities like "We Built This City", "Disco Duck", "Escape, the Pina Colada Song", "Kokomo", "Don't Worry, Be Happy", and "We Didn't Start the Fire" seem downright tolerable.

  • @snowblind229
    @snowblind229 Рік тому +22

    The test of time. This song endures. One of the best since the birth of rock and roll. And I'm so old my first rock song I ever heard was I Want to Hold Your Hand. The first thing on the radio that got my attention was Hey Jude, in 1968. Dando is fiercely underrated.

    • @damotheman4196
      @damotheman4196 Рік тому +1

      Agreed.. Hes got loadsa little "beatles-y" sounding chord progressions...he's got a hell of a way with melody.

    • @patrickbyron8952
      @patrickbyron8952 9 місяців тому +1

      His phrasing and how he can subtly change a melody is so interesting.

    • @igordewit7357
      @igordewit7357 25 днів тому

      Snowblind?? Love that song!!

  • @skullduggery3377
    @skullduggery3377 2 роки тому +35

    definitely in the top 10 performances on the geek's show.

  • @superbug1977
    @superbug1977 Рік тому +16

    Dando is a stoned out fool! Love it.

  • @timothylewis2450
    @timothylewis2450 4 місяці тому +13

    Dave had THE best music, bands you rarely got to see on tv then.

  • @camduncan8694
    @camduncan8694 Рік тому +20

    This is my all-time favourite version! What a great time in music ‘92 was. Letterman had all the best bands on weekly. I saw Nirvana in Melbourne Australia in January ‘92 and for me that was where it all began.

  • @MarkCranerium
    @MarkCranerium 2 місяці тому +9

    “You’re just the one to give it to me”

  • @robertcoulter7592
    @robertcoulter7592 Місяць тому +2

    One of the most perfect and beautiful albums of all time.

  • @JClaus1221
    @JClaus1221 26 днів тому

    Being a late boomer, I consider the 70's/80's/90's the music of my life. The innocence of my youth, the blast of my twenties, the darkness of my thirties. I can pinpoint my whole life during that time in tunes. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

  • @thaumaston7
    @thaumaston7 Рік тому +18

    Great performance, cool harmonies with vocals and guitars, lots of nice nuances for a live performance.

  • @johnlambert7124
    @johnlambert7124 6 місяців тому +6

    I wanna time travel back to the summer of my youth- all the mystery's and the adventures ahead- and nothing in between but a fools lust for living an entire life in just one moment

  • @douglasmcconnell8116
    @douglasmcconnell8116 Рік тому +11

    Awesome Love Classic Late night & Paul Schaeffer was playing guitar even.

  • @michaelbanaszak7775
    @michaelbanaszak7775 Рік тому +17

    David Letterman and Evan Dando equal comedy gold!

  • @igordewit7357
    @igordewit7357 25 днів тому

    Obviously a fun day for all on stage....great stuff. Reminds me of some good good times,playing with my first band,when i was 14 or 15 years old. Turned 50 rec3ntly🎉🤯🥳🤷🙄....time DOES fly🛸when you re having fun. 😊🖐️😽

  • @mattmacneil3424
    @mattmacneil3424 6 місяців тому +3

    such a great performance. i love how he really belts it in the chorus

  • @AlohaBlade
    @AlohaBlade Місяць тому +2

    Proto Grunge. We all miss you, Ray.

  • @buddyhughen8375
    @buddyhughen8375 2 місяці тому +1

    I just saw The Lemonheads last week and it ruled.

  • @jhchooo
    @jhchooo Місяць тому +1

    Criminally underrated band from the 90's.... two seminal albums It's A Same About Ray and Come On Feel the Lemonheads

  • @cswanson4476
    @cswanson4476 22 дні тому

    The sentiment in this song is rich and heavy with the tragic grain of everyday life, the compassion we have for people we don’t know well enough to save. I’ve known so many who’ve taken their own lives after drifting away socially. Like he says in the song, I remember faces.

    • @oppothumbs1
      @oppothumbs1 13 днів тому

      By save, do you mean Jesus saves? How can you know so many who take their own lives? Are you a social worker? I don't trust anything you say, but I'm skeptical.

    • @cswanson4476
      @cswanson4476 13 днів тому

      @ I am an atheist. By save, I mean somehow keep from spiraling out of this world. As for the people I know who’ve done it, I guess I owe it to them to at least say their names, as is done in the song, and I have to thank you for prompting me to do it: Tony. Eric. Marusela. Matt. John. Greg. Ellen.
      All so young. A real shame about them.

  • @belturbet4
    @belturbet4 8 днів тому

    the house band contribution was perfect.

  • @richardmanley2072
    @richardmanley2072 Місяць тому +2

    Evan dando is a awesome musician and a genius songwriter

  • @jamestracey5958
    @jamestracey5958 Рік тому +15

    Nice request Dave

  • @pewpewTN
    @pewpewTN Рік тому +21

    I bet this would have been a cool era to grow up in.

    • @tagacale1733
      @tagacale1733 Рік тому +5

      It was magical. I lived it as a kid

    • @davidmoss9461
      @davidmoss9461 Рік тому +1

      Amazing era. But I am biased.

    • @eddygsmusicworld1708
      @eddygsmusicworld1708 Рік тому +1

      @@davidmoss9461 me too.Saw these guys live.

    • @namtilal
      @namtilal Рік тому +2

      One friend knew some girls from a town over, we went and picked them up. Another friend had a brother in college radio and put in a tape. First song was the first time any of us heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. We drove around, 3 guys and 3 girls in my big Olds and listened to the song over and over all night and life was never the same again.

    • @eddygsmusicworld1708
      @eddygsmusicworld1708 Рік тому +1

      @@namtilal great memories CB. I remember Nirvana came to my town and I didn`t go. I wish I did.

  • @TIGERSDFW
    @TIGERSDFW Рік тому +18

    December 92 ? second year at the university. what i would do to revisit December 92

    • @Primus-ue4th
      @Primus-ue4th Рік тому +1

      Me, too! I was seven. Great times😂

    • @thinkingallowed7042
      @thinkingallowed7042 Рік тому +3

      Same with me, second year at University in 1992. If I only knew then what I know now.

  • @Dmab661
    @Dmab661 3 місяці тому

    That performance is absolutely amazing!!

  • @jimjohnson-p6b
    @jimjohnson-p6b 3 місяці тому +5

    that whole album was great... bit part , rudderless....

  • @dannyboy1990
    @dannyboy1990 Рік тому +4

    This make me so happy. 💓

  • @BearIslandComics
    @BearIslandComics 25 днів тому

    That is one hell of a performance. Wow

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Рік тому +8

    great banter tbh

  • @pauljimenez2799
    @pauljimenez2799 2 місяці тому

    The SOUND MIX is PERFECT!

  • @Worm-ex9vq
    @Worm-ex9vq 5 місяців тому +3

    3:52 mosquitos at my terrace in the evening

  • @matthewbuxton4476
    @matthewbuxton4476 10 місяців тому +1

    LOVE THIS SONG🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🎙 The GROG SHOP COVENTRY, IN CLEVELAND 🎙

  • @RemoWilliams-jg4yb
    @RemoWilliams-jg4yb Місяць тому +1

    This is a GREAT live perfomance. Why is it live sound started to decline on tv after the 90's?

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 Рік тому +4

    Killer song

  • @Loggy3025
    @Loggy3025 5 місяців тому +1

    A video EXACTLY for me!

  • @jimpatsouris2171
    @jimpatsouris2171 Рік тому +2

    always found it very cool & satisfying that ED wore an Eastern Dark t shirt ..

  • @rickdelagarza4ever
    @rickdelagarza4ever Рік тому +1

    Superb selection❗❣

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Рік тому +3

    great magician's hoodie too tbh

  • @carlcasoco710
    @carlcasoco710 7 місяців тому

    My all time favorite band that has heads on their name.

  • @Lunch_Box_74_
    @Lunch_Box_74_ 11 місяців тому

    Amazing!!!

  • @Truthmoses
    @Truthmoses 6 місяців тому +1

    "some things need to go away..."

  • @thomaskeegan2179
    @thomaskeegan2179 5 місяців тому +1

    Cool band

  • @colorfields
    @colorfields 2 роки тому +10

    Seems like yesterday

  • @donenzoworld-canada9460
    @donenzoworld-canada9460 6 місяців тому

    Im here because i too am curious about the intro of the song Alapaap by Eraserheads..it really sounded the same..oh man..pinagtagpi tagpi nga nila pagka compose ng song taken from different songs..what the...anyhow, how i wish noon ko pa nalaman..but they are still one of my favorite filipino rock band. Cheers

  • @bijibadness
    @bijibadness Рік тому +6

    how many acoustic guitars does one song need?
    apparently 1, 2, 3 and then the additional electric rhythm, so . . . many. many, many, MANY acoustic guitars all doing the same part.
    I can imagine the sound mixer just going "What. How many you want? Three? Three big-body acoustic guitars . . . all doing the same part? And where do you suggest I place these guitars in the mix? Just everywhere? Check. Gotcha. It'll be great."
    moderation and musical temperance -- not something the early '90s were famous for. probably beats Cyndi Lauper, though.
    (though not if she's doing _Time After Time,_ that song fucking rules, man!!)

    • @nolagospeltracts8264
      @nolagospeltracts8264 Рік тому

      even Paul playing guitar.

    • @JClaus1221
      @JClaus1221 Місяць тому

      If you think they are all doing the same part, please get your ears checked.

  • @cameronprior5227
    @cameronprior5227 6 місяців тому +1

    I think I worked with his father at a law firm in the 80s in Boston.

  • @brauliomtzoo
    @brauliomtzoo Рік тому +11

    Letterman was the goat

  • @Stralanista
    @Stralanista Рік тому +8

    It’s a Shame About Ray
    Lyrics
    I've never been too good with names
    The cellar door was open, I could never stay away
    I know it's probably not my place
    It's either-or, I'm hoping for a simple way of saying
    It's a shame about Ray
    In the stone, under the dust, his name is still engraved
    Some things need to go away
    It's a shame about Ray
    (Put it away)
    If I make it through today
    I'll know tomorrow, not to leave my feelings out on display
    I'll put the cobwebs back in place
    I've never been too good with names, but I remember faces
    It's a shame about Ray
    In the stone, under the dust, his name is still engraved
    Some things need to go away (shame, shame)
    It's a shame about Ray
    (Put it away)
    Source: Musixmatch

  • @briannugent7836
    @briannugent7836 Рік тому +9

    These chords were quickly ripped by Dave Grohl and Courtney Love with Learn to Fly and Awful

  • @maddimusicfan
    @maddimusicfan Рік тому +2

    Ever wondered about the magic behind "It's A Shame About Ray"? Get the inside scoop from Bruce Robb himself as he details the recording process in a fresh interview on "Produce Like A Pro" shot at #CherokeeStudios ua-cam.com/video/r3_EhLy3iqY/v-deo.html

  • @Marygane637
    @Marygane637 7 місяців тому

    Omg yes

  • @francisdejoya523
    @francisdejoya523 11 днів тому

    Alapaap.

  • @CruceEntertainment
    @CruceEntertainment Місяць тому

    He was still doing the rock thing like from Lovey.

  • @IFK55
    @IFK55 4 години тому

    The Lemonheads at their best were lightning in a bottle

  • @corshawnhughes8325
    @corshawnhughes8325 Рік тому +4

    December 1992

  • @cotiaratv3651
    @cotiaratv3651 7 місяців тому

    🌹

  • @johnmckeever4734
    @johnmckeever4734 11 місяців тому

    It is a shame about Ray. Sad stuff

  • @darrenlew
    @darrenlew Рік тому +2

    does anyone know what evan's reference to to edie brickell is about?

    • @emmagarrard4841
      @emmagarrard4841 Рік тому +3

      She is married to Paul Simon who wrote Ms. Robinson, so kind of teasing him by eluding his wife is a great/better song writer. Plus Evan really respects female singer/songwriters.

    • @UltrafineDeluxe
      @UltrafineDeluxe Рік тому +1

      @@emmagarrard4841 Sounds like a feminist spin

  • @scalzmoney
    @scalzmoney 11 місяців тому +2

    Always an interesting moment when you get on Letterman but your drummer and guitarist aren't needed. 😬

  • @carljansen6896
    @carljansen6896 10 місяців тому

    I had this song on a constant loop when it came out and it is still in my top 10 favorites. Evan was in top form vocally in this performance and it's the best live version I've seen on UA-cam. The only downside is Paul Shaffer and the band ruined the moment when they tried to sing "Raaaaaaaaaay" between verses. They sounded like a bunch of kids going through puberty.

    • @HDthis
      @HDthis 8 місяців тому

      They were dragging it out intentionally... even Evan was singing it that way. It's art.

  • @stuartmackinnon6786
    @stuartmackinnon6786 Місяць тому

    Evan was clearly a teenage fan club fan when he write this

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Рік тому +2

    Is that Tom Petty on guitarr...?

    • @TR-yi8up
      @TR-yi8up Рік тому +4

      Joe Walsh Jr

    • @jg769
      @jg769 Рік тому +6

      That’s Will Lee. He was a long term member of Letterman’s house band.

  • @michaelturner6030
    @michaelturner6030 3 місяці тому

    Was Paul Schaffer and the band contractually obligated to perform with every artist that appeared?

  • @notpub
    @notpub Рік тому +9

    Dave was kinda D to Evan

  • @sumeursault
    @sumeursault Рік тому +4

    It’s a shame about Evan

  • @DestinoIncertorock
    @DestinoIncertorock Рік тому +1

    enjoy my band on this channel

  • @juliawirch2454
    @juliawirch2454 Рік тому +1

    I don't love when singers perform songs that are popular, that they have to sing harmony, or a half step up.

  • @jacquesdemolay5171
    @jacquesdemolay5171 Рік тому +3

    Singing in tune is optional? What an embarrassment.

    • @frisbeeshawn5356
      @frisbeeshawn5356 Рік тому +12

      He jammed the song proper .. no one cares about your Simon Cowel remark ...

  • @cameronphlodge1293
    @cameronphlodge1293 3 місяці тому

    Trustfund indie. Glad they failed