death cab for cutie on conan- little bribes
July 7, 2009
death cab for cutie played little bribes on conan (the tonight show) last night from their latest release the open door ep.
i am a huge fan of conan o’brien and i caught his debut as the new tonight show host that aired tonight. it was a pretty good show, but he didn’t get up to his usual wacky antics. i figured that he’s trying to appeal to jay leno’s crowd and he’ll slowly work in his trademark insanity as he goes.
his guest was will ferrell who is nominated for a tony for his performance in you’re welcome america. a final night with george w. bush, which was amazing. if you haven’t seen it yet you have to. but that’s for a different post.
i wanted to talk about pearl jam’s performance. they played a song from their forthcoming album, backspacer. the performance was good and i liked the song, but the vocals were way too low. the rest of the band way overpowered vedder’s vocals. i felt bad for them. they got to perform a debut song from their upcoming album on conan’s tonight show debut and the guy at the soundboard effed up the vocals. as i was discussing this earlier with someone they said, “well the only place they have to go from here is up, the album cut will sound better than this performance.” which is true.
i’ll post the video of their performance here as soon as it’s available. for now enjoy conan o’brein apple picking with mr. t. it’s epic!
and here it is. pearl jam performing “got some” from their upcoming album, backspacer.
