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Last
night (July 21,) Tom closed Late Night
With Jimmy Fallon. As the “musical guest,” he wasn’t interviewed.
This seems to be what all the late night shows in the US (with the exception of
Jimmy Kimmel) are doing. Anyway, Tom sang with The Roots, Fallon’s house band.
The hip-hop band from Philadelphia has recorded with many artists, among them,
Etta James (Burning Down the House).
In 1999 the track You Got Me,
duet pairing their music with the vocals of Erykah Badu and Eve peaked at #39 on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned The Roots a Grammy® Award for Best
Performance By A Duo Or Group.
In the last couple of minutes of the show, Tom sang Never. The band sounded funkier than his regular group and, in all, the entire thing seemed somewhat odd. As soon as I get decent video, I’ll post it. (Note: As you might know, I’m not home; so I don’t have the equipment here to do it as quickly as I usually would. You understand, right?)
If you cannot wait for video, and you’re in the US (maybe Canada, not sure) you can watch the show here. It is at the very end of the video. Just click on the bar that shows the last commercial break.
Tonight is the much-anticipated show at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Lots of people who were at Westbury are going, but it should be a much more eclectic crowd and, of course, lots of fun. Paul McCartney is playing at Citi Stadium in Queens tonight.If this were a baseball game, as is the usual fare in the stadium, it would be called because of rain, as it’s supposed to rain all day. We’ll see. So, it’s a big night for music here. McCartney will probably get most of the attention, but we’ll be on the lookout for reviews.
(Cannot help wondering if, when they first met all those years ago, either Tom or McCartney could possibly imagine that they’d be playing the same night in big solo shows in New York City in 2009.)
