PAUL SHAFFER
Paul Shaffer (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian-American singer, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman’s musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015). (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)
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Hiram Bullock, Give it What U Got – Hiram Bullock is a longtime New York session guitarist who played on some of the finest pop albums of the 1970’s, such as Billy Joel’s The Stranger and Steely Dan’s Aja (both released in 1977). He was also one of the bandmembers in the original incarnation of the World’s Most Dangerous Band that Paul Shaffer assembled when Late Night with David Letterman first went on the air in 1982. Beginning in 1986, Hiram Bullock released more than a dozen albums as a solo artist. Give it What U Got (1987), his second album is an enjoyable blend of jazz, rock and funk that he would perfect even further over time. The final track is an instrumental treatment of a Steely Dan song, “Pretzel Logic”, the title song to their third album, Pretzel Logic; “Pretzel Logic” was the follow-up single to their major hit “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number”.
(December 2015)
