CBS ORCHESTRA
The CBS Orchestra was the house band, led by Paul Shaffer, that played for David Letterman’s CBS late-night talk show, Late Show with David Letterman. Minus its horn section and second guitarist, it was previously known as The World’s Most Dangerous Band (WMDB) from 1982 to 1993, during the group’s tenure as the house band for NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman. (More from Wikipedia)
More recently, I have picked up both albums that Link Wray recorded in 1977 and 1978 with the “bad boy of rockabilly”, Robert Gordon. When they quit playing together, Wray took most of the band with him, including drummer Anton Fig, and began touring on his own. Anton Fig would later join David Letterman’s band in 1986 that was led by Paul Shaffer called The World’s Most Dangerous Band; they later added a horn section, and he still plays with what is now known more tamely as the CBS Orchestra.
(February 2013)
