By Paul Shaffer
Paul Shaffer—born and bred song junkie and longtime chief of David Letterman’s Late Show band—opens up during this candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir. From taking part in seedy strip joints in Toronto, to being the 1st musical director of Saturday evening Live and aiding to shape the Blues Brothers, to being onstage each evening with David Letterman and fidgeting with the best musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the final word showbiz life. Now—dishing on all people from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears—Paul supplies us the total behind-the-scenes tale of his existence, from banging out pop tunes at the piano on the age of twelve to prime the band each evening on the Sullivan Theater.
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I used to be beaten. The band I enjoyed belonged to someone else. in the meantime, issues received worse. while Lorne performed the checklist for my good friend Jerry Wexler, the mythical manufacturer, Wex stated, “Hey, you’re approximately to do Gilda reside! on Broadway besides. simply checklist the fuckin’ exhibit and disregard those tracks. ” The tracks have been forgotten. The tracks have been shelved. Lorne produced Gilda dwell! as a restricted run on the wintry weather backyard Theater. I ran backward and forward from the pit band to the degree, the place I performed various elements, together with superschlep Arnie Schneckman to Gilda’s supernerd Lisa Lupner. The spotlight was once Gilda doing the “Judy Miller exhibit” the place, as a bit woman, she’s actually bouncing off the partitions. At one element Gilda stated to Lorne, “Paul’s nice within the exhibit, yet he turns out so unhappy. ” “That’s simply because Paul was once within the Blues Brothers band,” Lorne answered. “Now he’s within the Judy Miller convey. ” regardless of, the crowds have been huge and enthusiastic. Lorne was once in a position to safe a movie deal for Gilda reside! and that i had the excitement of operating for director Mike Nichols. Mike graciously provided me a fit in his actor’s workshop in Connecticut. I toyed with the assumption, however it might have intended lacking the 5th season of SNL. That used to be the season that started with out Danny, John, and the musicians within the Blues Brothers band. Their motion picture had long gone additional time, they usually couldn’t come again to manhattan. in the meantime, Howard Shore prepare a brand new SNL band that integrated soul saxist David Sanborn. Then, an enormous shock: It occurred while i used to be out in l. a. for the weekend. i used to be on the sundown Marquis lodge, sunbathing on a Saturday afternoon, while Danny Aykroyd noticed me. He couldn't were nicer. “Duck Dunn’s having a barbeque for the band tomorrow,” he stated. “You’ve acquired to return. ” “I’d love that,” I acknowledged. Danny hastened so as to add, “Belushi could be there. ” I hesitated for an immediate. Danny learn my brain and acknowledged, “John can be pleased to work out you, guy. ” John was once. He embraced me once I arrived. And the very first thing he desired to do used to be to play me the sound music from the movie—the sound tune, in fact, I had had not anything to do with. because it performed, the band did their choreography with John and Danny fronting. They have been all so pleased with the stairs they'd discovered and sought after my approval. i used to be touched, but in addition conflicted and brokenhearted. in the end, this used to be my band, yet a band from which i used to be now excluded. the whole lot was once bittersweet. a number of weeks later, although, the candy beaten the sour while John requested me to come as musical director of the Blues Brothers for the large upcoming travel. certainly i used to be chuffed to take action. Who doesn’t are looking to be a Blues Brother? We toured 8 or 9 towns and traveled on a twin-engine prop aircraft supplied through Aspen airways. The aircraft used to be shaky, making we all aware of the past due greats—Buddy Holly, immense Bopper, and Richie Valens. As we bounced via a ferocious lightning typhoon among Detroit and Memphis, I steered that we write a tune and provides the publishing to our households. “If we crash,” I acknowledged, “at least we’ll go away at the back of an annuity for our household.