January 2010
19 posts
Pavement Tuesday #4
“Box Elder” is...
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien
(via lunchbreak) (via claspy)
(via anthonyking)
“For me, it was over when the Springfield wanted to do the Johnny Carson show....”
– Neil Young, in Shakey by Jimmy McDonough (page 210), citing the reason that he left Buffalo Springfield was because the band wanted to appear on The Tonight Show. Neil wanted no part of that. Now he’s gonna stick it to the man as the final musical guest on The Tonight Show with Conan...
“Jay had concerns, of course. He thought about his writers and other staff...”
– The Late Shift by Bill Carter, page 194.
In 1993, NBC was considering firing Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show (he had only been host for eight months at this point) and replacing him with David Letterman. Leno was worried about the effect this would have on his staff.
WatchIn honor of Charles Barkley hosting SNL this weekend, here’s some hilarious footage of The Round Mound of Rebound doing promos with Nirvana for his last SNL appearance in 1993. It’s probably the only time you’ll ever see Sir Charles shake hands with Kurt Cobain.
