Something Special on Letterman Friday Night

[Trauma-san]

I know most of you probably watch Leno but on the Letterman show Friday night, there's gonna be something great.

Every year, just before Christmas, David Letterman has Darlene Love come on his show. 

The reason for that is that Darlene Love, when she was the lead singer of the Crystals, recorded "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" on Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You" album.

Phil Spector was a genius who invented this recording technique called "The Wall Of Sound" which doesn't do live very well becuase he'd do things like record 3 drummers, 8 guitars, 15 singers, etc.  So usually people don't play his stuff live and make it sound any good.

Well, "A christmas gift for you" is considered the greatest christmas record ever, and every year Darlene Love shows up to sing the song "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" on Letterman... as you know Paul Schafer is a huge audiophile and a hell of a band leader... for the performance every year, he brings in extra musicians and extra back up singers and plays the song the way it was originally recorded with a huge band.  Darlene Love still sounds great, too.

You should check it out, it's something to see. 

[Suga Foot]

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[Westcoastin']

conan beats 'em both

[Sofa_King_Awesome]

Kimmel shits on all of them fags

[J Bananas]

conan cockslaps kimmel

[ecrazy]

Phil Spector was a genius who invented this recording technique called "The Wall Of Sound" which doesn't do live very well becuase he'd do things like record 3 drummers, 8 guitars, 15 singers, etc.  So usually people don't play his stuff live and make it sound any good.

You Can Use Protools and get the same effect now, just for that type of layering and the reverb that it created as well, having everyone in the same room like that. there is a VST called "Wall Of Sound 2" and on the CD it has his mugg, so he might have helped in creating that. He was odd though, he wasnt a fan of Multi-tracking, i guess a jealousy thing or something, thats why he did that whole "Wall of Sound" thing, he did not want to layer anything at the time. Didnt he murder someone or do something to someone? whatever happend to him?

[Trauma-san]

^ You can mimick it with Pro Tools of course but it's so sterile many times you can tell it was done.  Nothing like a room full of live musicians, it adds things a computer program can't.  He didn't have anything to do with programming that, they just put his face on it as a  prop.

Phil Spector's crazy and always has been.  A couple years ago, he went to a club and picked up some woman, and took her back to his house.  He called police shortly after and said "Oh my god, I think I just killed somebody"... the police came over, took him into custody, and there's a woman laying dead on his foyer floor.  He now says that the woman took his gun and committed suicide, which I think is probably bullshit.  He probably shot her himself... he's got a history of doing crazy things in the studio.

Brian Wilson used to idolize him, and worked with him on a song.  Brian sat in on the recording of "Frosty The Snowman" on this christmas album, and then wrote a song for Phil to record... he played Piano on the song, but Phil kicked Brian out of the studio telling him he was a shitty piano player and didn't know how to record, lol.  Phil still released the song as some sort of commercial jingle that brian had wrote.

Later, Phil worked with the Beatles cleaning up their "Let It Be" tapes and making an album out of it.  John Lennon was a big fan of his, so him and Lennon recorded together several times... one time Spector was so upset at something that happened, he pulled out a pistol and shot it inside the mixing room with John Lennon sitting in a chair right next to him.  John famously said "If you're gonna kill me Phil, Kill me, but I need my ears!"

[Trauma-san]

Oh, btw the performance on Letterman was amazing considering Darlene Love's in her 60's now. 

[Trauma-san]

From his court appearance two years ago:

[eS El Duque]

he looks fukin crazy

[truedupbluedup]

Fuck all late nite TV! Watch Sportscenter at Nite!