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

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  • @esmith2313
    @esmith2313 Před 8 měsíci +35

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

    • @coldium
      @coldium Před 7 měsíci +5

      Frankly one of the best power pop albums of all time

  • @gar137
    @gar137 Před 4 měsíci +23

    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 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

    • @RoseanneSeason6
      @RoseanneSeason6 Před 17 dny

      Thanks for that little glimpse of your life

    • @gar137
      @gar137 Před 17 dny +2

      @@RoseanneSeason6 it’s all I have left in this world. That and the time I saw Tony Randall at an airport.

    • @RoseanneSeason6
      @RoseanneSeason6 Před 17 dny +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 Před dnem +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 CZcams? Id sure subscribe haha

  • @timothylewis2450
    @timothylewis2450 Před měsícem +9

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

  • @beetlerunner
    @beetlerunner Před rokem +87

    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 Před rokem +3

      lol

    • @hazysativa3045
      @hazysativa3045 Před 11 měsíci +5

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

    • @BassPlayerSusan
      @BassPlayerSusan Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @cameronprior5227
      @cameronprior5227 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @BassPlayerSusan
      @BassPlayerSusan Před 10 měsíci +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.

  • @stephenweber8694
    @stephenweber8694 Před měsícem +3

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

  • @snowblind229
    @snowblind229 Před 11 měsíci +20

    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 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @patrickbyron8952
      @patrickbyron8952 Před 6 měsíci +1

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

  • @brysimm404
    @brysimm404 Před 4 měsíci +4

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

    • @thefeeps
      @thefeeps Před 17 dny +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

  • @oswaldnunag5400
    @oswaldnunag5400 Před 11 měsíci +18

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

    • @rayc.8555
      @rayc.8555 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @charleswhite9242
      @charleswhite9242 Před 7 měsíci +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 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @leslierobertson1823
    @leslierobertson1823 Před 7 měsíci +11

    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

  • @camduncan8694
    @camduncan8694 Před rokem +18

    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.

  • @skullduggery3377
    @skullduggery3377 Před rokem +35

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

  • @douglasmcconnell8116
    @douglasmcconnell8116 Před rokem +11

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

  • @johnlambert7124
    @johnlambert7124 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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

  • @superbug1977
    @superbug1977 Před 10 měsíci +16

    Dando is a stoned out fool! Love it.

  • @thaumaston7
    @thaumaston7 Před rokem +17

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

  • @mattmacneil3424
    @mattmacneil3424 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @Dmab661
    @Dmab661 Před 17 dny

    That performance is absolutely amazing!!

  • @pewpewTN
    @pewpewTN Před rokem +19

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

    • @tagacale1733
      @tagacale1733 Před rokem +5

      It was magical. I lived it as a kid

    • @davidmoss9461
      @davidmoss9461 Před rokem +1

      Amazing era. But I am biased.

    • @eddygsmusicworld1708
      @eddygsmusicworld1708 Před rokem +1

      @@davidmoss9461 me too.Saw these guys live.

    • @namtilal
      @namtilal Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

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

  • @michaelbanaszak7775
    @michaelbanaszak7775 Před rokem +16

    David Letterman and Evan Dando equal comedy gold!

  • @dannyboy1990
    @dannyboy1990 Před rokem +3

    This make me so happy. 💓

  • @TIGERSDFW
    @TIGERSDFW Před rokem +16

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

    • @Primus-ue4th
      @Primus-ue4th Před rokem +1

      Me, too! I was seven. Great times😂

    • @thinkingallowed7042
      @thinkingallowed7042 Před 10 měsíci +2

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

  • @jamestracey5958
    @jamestracey5958 Před rokem +14

    Nice request Dave

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Před rokem +7

    great banter tbh

  • @brauliomtzoo
    @brauliomtzoo Před rokem +11

    Letterman was the goat

  • @matthewbuxton4476
    @matthewbuxton4476 Před 8 měsíci +1

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

  • @jimpatsouris2171
    @jimpatsouris2171 Před rokem +2

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

  • @rickdelagarza4ever
    @rickdelagarza4ever Před rokem +1

    Superb selection❗❣

  • @user-mn5wk7hw9n
    @user-mn5wk7hw9n Před 20 dny +2

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

  • @Loggy3025
    @Loggy3025 Před 2 měsíci +1

    A video EXACTLY for me!

  • @MarkCranerium
    @MarkCranerium Před 4 dny

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

  • @chrisod22
    @chrisod22 Před rokem +3

    Killer song

  • @Stralanista
    @Stralanista Před rokem +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

  • @carlcasoco710
    @carlcasoco710 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @Worm-ex9vq
    @Worm-ex9vq Před 2 měsíci +2

    3:52 mosquitos at my terrace in the evening

  • @bijibadness
    @bijibadness Před 11 měsíci +5

    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!!)

  • @Lunch_Box_74_
    @Lunch_Box_74_ Před 8 měsíci

    Amazing!!!

  • @cameronprior5227
    @cameronprior5227 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @donenzoworld-canada9460
    @donenzoworld-canada9460 Před 4 měsíci

    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

  • @Truthmoses
    @Truthmoses Před 4 měsíci +1

    "some things need to go away..."

  • @colorfields
    @colorfields Před rokem +10

    Seems like yesterday

  • @briannugent7836
    @briannugent7836 Před 10 měsíci +5

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

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Před rokem +2

    great magician's hoodie too tbh

  • @thomaskeegan2179
    @thomaskeegan2179 Před 2 měsíci

    Cool band

  • @Marygane637
    @Marygane637 Před 4 měsíci

    Omg yes

  • @corshawnhughes8325
    @corshawnhughes8325 Před rokem +3

    December 1992

  • @cotiaratv3651
    @cotiaratv3651 Před 4 měsíci

    🌹

  • @maddimusicfan
    @maddimusicfan Před rokem +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 czcams.com/video/r3_EhLy3iqY/video.html

  • @carljansen6896
    @carljansen6896 Před 7 měsíci

    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 CZcams. 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 Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @scalzmoney
    @scalzmoney Před 8 měsíci +1

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

  • @michaelturner6030
    @michaelturner6030 Před 24 dny

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

  • @darrenlew
    @darrenlew Před rokem +1

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

    • @emmagarrard4841
      @emmagarrard4841 Před rokem +2

      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 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@emmagarrard4841 Sounds like a feminist spin

  • @johnmckeever4734
    @johnmckeever4734 Před 8 měsíci

    It is a shame about Ray. Sad stuff

  • @juliawirch2454
    @juliawirch2454 Před rokem +1

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

  • @notpub
    @notpub Před rokem +8

    Dave was kinda D to Evan

  • @freddiewadling2090
    @freddiewadling2090 Před rokem +1

    Is that Tom Petty on guitarr...?

    • @TR-yi8up
      @TR-yi8up Před rokem +3

      Joe Walsh Jr

    • @jg769
      @jg769 Před rokem +5

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

  • @DestinoIncertorock
    @DestinoIncertorock Před rokem +1

    enjoy my band on this channel

  • @sumeursault
    @sumeursault Před rokem +4

    It’s a shame about Evan

  • @jacquesdemolay5171
    @jacquesdemolay5171 Před rokem +3

    Singing in tune is optional? What an embarrassment.

    • @frisbeeshawn5356
      @frisbeeshawn5356 Před 10 měsíci +9

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

  • @cameronphlodge1293
    @cameronphlodge1293 Před 18 dny

    Trustfund indie. Glad they failed