Melissa Etheridge on Surprising Fans at Her Broadway Show, “My Window”

[@melissaetheridge]

Thanks for having me, Stephen! Was a pleasure 🙏🤘

[@JuulsG]

Wauw. You are such an inspiring funkylady ❤️‍🔥 Wish I could come and see your show. Rock on 🤘

[@NikBY]

It was a big surprise to hear you jam with the band! I'm sorry that watching online I didn't get to hear more, but I love that song and it's always great to hear you.

[@graafisk]

I have been an unwavering fan since reading about Matthew Shepard and subsequently moved by your sorrowful yet strong song about him... and your letters to leaders about keeping their bigoted political views out of your personal life. You have a voice that is heard on stage, on radio, on debate and on record - and life would be better if everyone just perked up their ears and listened to you with open hearts and minds. Thank you for giving us what grows in your soul.

[@graafisk]

I read this earlier in the month, but it's worth pointing out here: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/12/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-the-tragic-death-of-matthew-shepard/

[@marietarnowski8761]

thank you for being you ❤

[@Catalystresource]

She's a legendary female musical Pioneer from my generation. Rock on, girl!

[@helios7212]

She seems awesome 💯🙏 Story about her son broke my heart tho, ugh 💔 sorry to hear, and definitely not alone this day and age 😔

[@cookinma]

Are you Lily Tomlin?

[@brendaoneill1581]

She looks great! Still gives me chills when she plays!

[@kateuhler7803]

❤ya Melissa!! ....I would have loved to see that whole song with her playing with the band!

[@Baribrotzer]

Really. She's killing it - and playing more guitar than I knew she could - with presumably little or no rehearsal. Just wish Louis had picked up his trombone instead of that tambourine.

[@SapphireandFadedJeans]

I was at the taping last night; she absolutely killed it! The audience was loving it.

[@kateuhler7803]

@@SapphireandFadedJeans 🥰

[@Tom-qx3oq]

Love this woman. I had the privilege to work for her record company in the 90's and I worked with her many times. I believe she is the sincerest artist I ever worked with and her dedication to her fan base is real. Many nights her tour manager kept telling her she had to get on the bus as she stayed and met everybody in line after the show. The last time I saw/talked to her was in pre-show catering as she juggled her sleeping son in one arm and tried to eat with the other. I was no longer with the record company, so we chatted and caught up. Honestly, she probably would not recognize me if we passed on the street today, but I will hold those memories and my gold record for Yes I Am...forever.

[@MirianBrazGomes]

Sera q ela conhesse a atriz LUCY LAULERES.A qua q amusica dela foi tema de xena e Gabriel

[@juliawolson6122]

I have loved her since the 80s. Finally managed to go see her in concert this year. Loved it! Keep rocking’, Melissa!

[@KouklaK]

Me, too. 1982 to be exact. Glad you were able to see her live this year!

[@CayugaKate]

I love that Henry wanted to ask Melissa a question too... and it was a good one! And that she joined in with the band at the end!! Great segment & guest choices : )

[@dylanmaxey2531]

Went to my first ME concert in the late 80's and discovered the true definition of "charisma". When she took that guitar growled into the mic we were all taken under her musical spell.

[@dwr4992]

Melissa Etheridge is a national treasure! What an inspiration.

[@petermuller4322]

instantly got goosebumps the moment Melissa started to sing ❤

[@patriciamurfitt4590]

That happens a lot 😅

[@septemberblueuk]

Been loving her since forever ❤

[@jimipalmer5041]

I love bad ass women, Melissa is a bad ass.🕊💖🎸

[@crisfield4364]

I've always loved Mellissa Etheridge and wished that I could sing like her. I pretended I could when I was alone in the car. She has such a beautiful and powerful voice. ♥

[@tleesink2145]

If you don’t want to know what happiness or the sad part of life is…don’t listen to her. You already missed the picture…she’s not a legend, because she still lives in the real world. Remarkable is the best word. If you want that…. She will captivate you!!!!! I still love every moment she has given me since I discovered her & that was 30 sum years ago. She will electrify & rock you!! & that’s just the beginning

[@justsomeguyinnc473]

Such an incredible person & musician. That guitar came alive in her hands!

[@robertharrie4513]

Years ago I won tickets to her concert. I knew her a little but wasn’t a big fan but then we heard her in concert ! Great guitarist and great musician. It was a wonderful experience

[@amajax24]

Her music has guided me through so many ups and downs in my life. I just adore her!

[@steveknight1215]

I had the privilege of seeing Melissa this summer in Malone, NY. SHE AND HER BAND BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN!!!

[@catha.j.stuart2200]

So sad about her son, I remember when he died during COVID and feeling terrible for Melissa. She is amazingly strong and determined to keep living her best life. She is inspiring.

[@FLASH-MATT]

A true legend!

[@lashendawest7509]

We love melissa Etheridge

[@brendaoneill1581]

She will always be one of my favorites ,so great to see her after all these years. I'm so sorry about the loss of her son

[@whatranch]

What a treat! I had the privilege to see her in person in an underground (literally underground) venue in Aspen in the early 80's. Still remember how she moved the audience, pure magic.

[@luckan20]

She is awesome and a true legend

[@patriciawiskoff6959]

Love love love her!!!😍😍😍😍😍

[@rhondacleghorn5790]

I love Melissa Etheridge

[@jergervasi3331]

Melissa is awesome. Even when she hits the wrong notes on the guitar, and her reaction is hilarious!

[@heijxje]

That guitar is six strings short of what she is used to. 😉

[@jergervasi3331]

@@heijxje LOL…

[@HyperactiveNeuron]

As a member of the first MTV generation (but the one that basically killed it), Melissa is a very memorable creative force that was ubiquitous between Prince, Michael Jackson, Metallica and Nirvana.

[@theoloutlaw]

A Rock Star, A Pro in every way! This is how legends are made, get in there, tell it as it is, then finish it off by strapping on a guitar and doing what they do! No time for crap, legends just 'Do It!'.

[@helios7212]

💯💯💯🎯🙏🎸🎸🎸

[@gailreese4102]

Met Melissa, in passing, at a local Whole Foods many years ago. Vaguely recognized her & stopped to chat for a few moments' time. A very nice lady!

[@AntLisa]

Holy moly 19 yr has flown by . I still get chills watching, listening, and dancing to Melissa and Joss Stones performance at the 50th Grammy Awards . What an amazing performance that was . You are as beautiful bald as with a full head of hair . Thank you for sharing you and finding you ...Sad to hear you've lost our son to this horrible opioid crisis. I'm sure your voice is helping many trying to come to terms in their own heartbreak. NO THEOCRACY 👈🏻 VOTE

[@tiffanyalberti2029]

In her latest book she talks about how her religion and spirituality helped her with her sons death. If you are against God then you are against His followers which include Melissa.

[@jimipalmer5041]

@tiffanyalberti2029 You're supposed to ask people what they're for or against, not tell them. Whatever helped Melissa and her wife is their business, maybe it's just not for others. I'm not sure which God you speak of, but I know many that say gays should be stoned to death because it's an abomination to that god's law. Just a thought.

[@dielaughing73]

​@@tiffanyalberti2029 you think opposing theocracy is anti-god? Maybe go read a book

[@LillianHenegar]

Wow! I envy the studio audience getting to hear her do the whole song with the band.

[@dirtysoles]

Fabulous Artist…

[@waynetunks9942]

I got to see the show recently on my trip from Australia. It was amazing. Very moving and her voice was incredible. Go see it!!

[@TiagoNomad]

I’ve loved her as an artist ever since I first watched the video for “I Want To Come Over” back in the 90s. And “Angels Would Fall” takes me back to a very happy time in my life, so I have nothing but good memories associated with her music. 😃

[@dee_dee_place]

Please show the whole performance of "Broadway" with Ms. Etheridge & your band.

[@mandcbruce]

Loved Henry's curiosity-- asking questions and caring about the answers...gotta hear Come to My Window now.

[@tayloriginals999]

She has such an iconic voice! I have been listening to her since her very first album and Brave and Crazy is one of my favorite all time albums!

[@ScarlitWidow]

Effing rock superstar!❤

[@tiffanyalberti2029]

I love Melissa and wish I had the money to see her Broadway Performance.

[@debrahelmlinger6256]

Chills, have seen her twice, once in the second row, have loved her music ever since Yes, I Am was released 🤗

[@mariepanimdim4303]

Omg!!! Love ❤💙her and the end playing and singing with the band- priceless! I was11 when I watched movie “All that Jazz” and discovered George Benson’s song - On Broadway- I used to practice dancing in my room all the time. Wonderful interview 👏

[@angelariebli4843]

Love her!!

[@grnddesign]

Her voice is still fabulous. Not any female singers these days like her. Pink perhaps

[@mandcbruce]

She performed Born to Run for Springsteen's Kennedy Center Honors and just nailed it with her powerful voice and commanding stage presence.

[@bobclarke2242]

😊

[@NewMessage]

The first time I ever heard of her was when she appeared at the Oscars (apperantly as a last minute thing), and blew my 17 year old mind with 'Bring Me Some Water'. I'd never 'felt the crowd' through the TV before. Loved her ever since.

[@NewMessage]

At least I think it was the oscars... can't seem to find it, though.

[@KouklaK]

@@NewMessage It was the 1989 Grammy Awards, nominated for Best Rock Vocal Female and introduced by Billy Crystal. I believe that was the first year for that particular category and, yes, there's a video of the performance on YT.

[@helios7212]

​@@KouklaK🔥🔥🔥🙏

[@NewMessage]

@@KouklaK That's the one! I owe ya bigtime! I seem to be misremembering the crowd... but that happens, I guess. Anyhow... Made my day!

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Love Colbert. He’s got guts. Nice to see somebody stick on his own value

[@Marco-zq9vd]

She should do a cover of Sugar Sugar! That moment of harmony w Stephen was nice

[@bakedbean3313]

Melissa Etheridge ❤🎶📢 You been having great guests lately.

[@laurabartoletti6412]

💙 Melissa Etheridge !! 🎶 👏

[@poledra73]

I have been following Taylor on KZbin shorts for a year now and she is effen awesome. So proud she got this gig. This chick is made for great things. Don't stop keeping it real Taylor. But also, you can learn how to bake at 3am more effectively.

[@joannamariaochoa6830]

Unforgettable🎉❤ Melissa.

[@weburnitatbothends]

Love Melissa, woud have learned more about her, what a voice!

[@cindymurphy7824]

What a treat!!!!! Wish she could’ve stayed longer💕👵🏽🙏🏽

[@Lily-cx1vo]

The first cassette tape I ever picked out for myself was her, back in the early 90’s. I thought she was so great! But then my family told me I should stop listening to her and they got weird when I, a preteen girl, sang along. Why? Why would they care when I had a strong, opinionated, talented role model and I had enjoyed her music so much? I was too young to realize she just came out if the closet around that time, and my family was full of homophobic individuals. For the record, you don’t “become gay” by listening to music. It is my biggest regret I stopped listening to her and had to hide that I liked her music back then because I was a child and didn’t know better. I needed a strong, independent role model like her. Today I am a staunch ALLY and I trace my support and acceptance if that community back to that experience.

[@bobclarke2242]

Melissa Rocks ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Per this Boomer

[@tonapittman]

Hey! I wanna see the rest of Melissa's singing! Purdy please!

[@joanbennettnyc]

That was WONDERFUL!

[@monl3807]

Saw her in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦 late 19080's het first album at a small theater....

[@delphinefernandez-nurdin]

Giant & Great is Melissa Etheridge! 🎉🎉🎉❤

[@Cobbmtngirl]

I had no idea she lost a son. Child loss is the worst nightmare a parent can endure. ✌️to her son.

[@dceplay]

Indeed. Her deceased son’s biological father was the late David Crosby who was the sperm donor to which her wife (at the time) supplied the egg. Sad to say that the substance addiction gene was passed down from father to son. 😕

[@Cobbmtngirl]

@@dceplay my daughter passed away due to complications of meth abuse almost 10 years ago. It’s still epidemic right now, sadly.

[@dceplay]

@Cobbmtngirl - Sorry to hear that, but yes sadly it is still a big problem...

[@MrWd69lapee]

Such an amazing artist. Been a huge fan since 1989!!! First three albums were so amazing. Late September Dogs, Brave And Crazy and Bring Me Some Water!!!

[@wilsonsmom411]

Totally rocking performance at the end! Wish it wasn’t cut off. 😢

[@daughteroftheblackmadonna8936]

I’m a strait woman that had the wicked hots for her back in ‘90s. Love her 🎼 music.😝

[@Violet-fj8yd]

You're not that straight. 😉

[@daughteroftheblackmadonna8936]

@@Violet-fj8yd 😛Haha!

[@whimsicalhamster88]

Melissa is the GOAT. I was so happy when she delivered my toaster for converting a new gay. Really a great day for me!

[@joannejohnson7006]

Great analogy of being in love every night 😂

[@JoeVideoed]

Wow, didn't expect her to get up & sing. She does 70s soul very well.

[@ursaltydog]

One of my fave artists, exuding a ferocious gentle strength in her music.. I recall my galpal who was fighting metastatic breast cancer as Melissa was fighting her cancer, and so enraged at the mean, indifferent comments of the time of her being gay and that the cancer was meant as a punishment. Melissa's fight not only against cancer but the mean-spirited evangelicals served as a catalyst for my galpal's 11 year fight.

[@youngbull0]

Her energy and music was great at Woodstock ‘94!!!

[@triffus]

How does this woman only have 2 grammys!?

[@user-to2gh7sg3l]

Love how the cowbell is played in "Come To My Window."

[@richpeltier9519]

Her amswer to Henry's question, was the same as the lesson of Henry's book.

[@bobclarke2242]

...Stuck with it... And it worked out... ⭐

[@ivannano]

Watch her singing Janice on the Grammys - her first performance after cancer treatment. Talk about blowing roof off.

[@sethmunich4062]

Her show is great! this is the last week to see it. She shows what amazing music you can make with just your voice and an acoustic guitar. (She also plays some piano, drums, electric guitar and clarinet as well.)

[@hanksballoons]

1988 Letterman, Bring Me Some Water.... FAN FREAKING TASTIC!!!!!

[@toribarbaccio5459]

She should be in the rock and roll hall of fame

[@kellyburket6955]

I have a story about meeting her that I can never tell!!!

[@ShadoeHaze]

REALLY?! YOU GUYS CUT HER OFF, JUST TO GO TO END THIS CLIP. YOU KNOW SHE KEPT PLAYING, AND YOU KEPT FILMING. THAT SHIT IS WEAK.

[@dee_dee_place]

Tell me about it! I want to see the whole performance.

[@chrisstratton8443]

A girl I was dating in HS turned me on to Melissa....I've seen her live a dozen times....she can shred the frets like all the best.

[@Cobbmtngirl]

Darn wish we could see the entire song.

[@rachbun7290]

Legend

[@user-to2gh7sg3l]

I'd like to hear Melissa Etherige do a cover of "Wang Chung Tonight." Or any number of classic Folk Songs from the former Yugoslavia....

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Oh, now, that is _so_ incredibly unfortunate. She lost her son _during_ the pandemic, but not _from_ the pandemic.

[@danburnes722]

Yes, she said that he died from an overdose and if I recall he was made using David Crosby‘s sperm. He probably was very talented.

[@everycoLor_312]

❤

[@TPsynth]

Post the whole jam!!!

[@patriciamurfitt4590]

"Turned out alright" 😅😅😅😅

[@mightyone3737]

Great jam at the end! Way to outlive your cancer!

[@MartyVizinat]

Love coblbert that my show😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@CatyBee]

Oh, Missy. When my face is puffy like that, it means I'm drinking again. I hope I'm wrong and you are healthy. ❤

[@StephanieHummel]

Seriously

[@xxforeverxxo]

💙❤️

[@cnj67]

When I saw the thumbnail at first I thought: Isn't it that kid from "Daybreak", who's just gotten a little older? (Alyvia was born in 2007).

[@Dr_1212]

Cool

[@RuskoKain]

For a second I thought I was watching Ozzy Osbourne, who`d had dyed/colored his hair blonde

[@mauriceortiz8817]

Long overdue; induction into the Rock n Roll Hall if Fame. It's beginning to look like a cultural snub.

[@MsMcKat-ub4sm]

I hate that they cut her off

[@jeffclement2468]

Probably the best choice for the lead role in that Janis Joplin movie that's still never been made. (the Streisand one doesn't count.) 🤮

[@KouklaK]

Break a leg, Missy Lou.

[@mollykronberg6949]

❌⭕️❌⭕️‼️

[@Confoil]

Getting old sucks... I've been watching Steven Tyler morph into a hippy grandma, Vince Neil morph into Immortan Joe, Chrissie Hynde morph into a mashup of Steven Tyler and Christine McVie, David Lee Roth morph into William Lane Craig, Eddie Vedder morph into Russell Crowe, Madonna morph into a skinny version of Barf from _Spaceballs,_ Axl Rose morph into a swollen, squinty troll doll that was left in a hot car, and Mellisa Etheridge morph into the the Skipper from _Gilligan's Island._ And the worst of it all is that I don't look much better.

[@c.h.5389]

Getting older is better than the alternative....... Don't complain. The gift of life is denied to many.

[@massimobetti3635]

Well said! i also do not look much Better

[@anakeveney7186]

The mirror is never so harsh as when we see our idols in it.

[@dee_dee_place]

Time Stands Still For No One, so make the most of it.

[@shedroids]

Funny how they "lose their kid" right before they get their next big gig. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@markphc99]

How much do these guests have to pay to promote their latest product on the Colbert show?