Dinosaur Jr - Out There on Letterman

Dinosaur Jr performing "Out There" on David Letterman with Paul Shaffer's band and David Sanborn on the saxamaphone

[@joeb5773]

J Mascis really the kind of dude that would give Paul Schaffer and his band full free reign to make the song as loud as possible. Real recognize real. I wonder whose idea it actually was.

[@j.mduett4992]

Paul’s contract at the time

[@Mode-7]

I love the synchronized guitar lift right around 2:04

[@annep5861]

me too!

[@liammcooper]

J put stickers all over a Fender Jazzmaster, David Sanborn is there, Paul is playing the bells, Murph doesn't have a kick drum for some inexplicable reason and dropped a stick at like 2:06. Epic.

[@pickituup34]

agreed, and all good points, this is without question one of the oddest musical collaborations ever

[@bassfishingwiththeantichri2921]

That sounded so good! And felt even better! Glorious! And I think I got some dust in my eyes....

[@bassfishingwiththeantichri2921]

That's the guitar he bought from slimy Bobs guitar rip off. He went down there to buy a strat but SB raised the price $200 so he chose the Jazz because it was all he could afford. And it WAS Fenders flagship model. It ended up working out for him.

[@SPINUNDRUM]

that ain't Murph...

[@1985cactus]

@@SPINUNDRUM it is

[@lootwijk]

This has to place among the craziest shows that Dinosaur jr have ever done. Wow.

[@bluebirdgirly]

lol except when they played OdgenUTAH IN 1993 with Alice in CHAINs. I was one happy little mormon girl that day, jen, now ex-mormon

[@Caribou1983]

Jennifer Lyons what you mean by that? Wasn’t there a feud between Alice and Dino at that ‘93 Lolla? What about J performing with Tony Bennett? I don’t know if that video was finally released

[@lootwijk]

Caribou1983 - Well, J has a way with people because of his quiet charm. But Tony Bennett? Really? And I have missed the beef with Alice, apparently.

[@HumGuitar]

Right up there with the Jenny Jones performance.

[@jasonclark9963]

It’s not the full band lol

[@KingMedicine721]

What an awesome fucking mess!

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

+The Blissful Zombie You must only listen to manufactured pop music from the comments I've seen from you before.

[@movimentodoscacos]

ok

[@monstermash7465]

Awesome band!

[@barny15]

This is one of the most rock and roll things I've ever seen. Amazing performance. D.Jr. were out of their minds.

[@user-lt8ow9oj7i]

Right?

[@PokeySoggybottom]

I love this so much. Just when you think it can't get any crazier, Paul Shaffer kicks in with the bells. Hilarious!

[@xx4248]

That's why I remember this

[@PokeySoggybottom]

@Chet Senior Right you are!

[@TheILLTechnics]

How is that hilarious? 🤔

[@PokeySoggybottom]

@@TheILLTechnics Trying to explain hilariousness would be very unhilarious.

[@TheILLTechnics]

@@PokeySoggybottom Okay. now, THAT, is hilarious 🤣

[@dragonballs512]

Letterman always has good musical guests

[@DavidFobare]

I remember some clunkers.

[@nickpelletier3056]

"Bass guitar. Double speed guitar. 2 slightly distorted guitars. Saxophone. PLUS TUBULAR BELLS!" Does this video make anyone else feel like listening to Mike Oldfield.

[@bluemountainway0098]

Yeah I can see why it reminds you of it! I love tubular bells, as well as the sax work in this performance

[@dr.professor5229]

This is the most rock n roll thing ever put to film

[@Deetroiter]

Love the juxtaposition…music is chaos and completely wild, all the while J is completely calm and in his own world. Quite possibly the loudest performance I’ve ever seen on this show

[@TheMaestro40]

The word “epic” was coined to describe this very onslaught

[@johnybaltimore3687]

Paul Schaffer and David Sanborn played on all the great grunge records of the 90's.

[@darthmon26]

Grunge is not a thing, that coporate marketing buzz word and j mascis DEFINITELY does not consider himself grunge

[@AlternativeStrings]

Also funny how a bunch of them did the same move at around 2:06. At the same time the drummer on the right also dropped one of his sticks :P

[@Livenow11484]

WOW! a band would not get away with this kind of stuff today!!!

[@chadnips]

What do you mean

[@Livenow11484]

its so raw and uncut and creative its amazing

[@NyQuilDonut]

Untrue. Mastodon played 'Oblivion' live on Letterman and it sounded like shit. I love Mastodon but they're really bad at singing and playing at the same time.

[@Livenow11484]

actually i meant my comment as a complement. I love this style of performance. It's so authentic and real and it unfortunately died out in the 90's.

[@hamupinhere]

I see The CBS Orchestra took over bass drum duties for Murph.

[@cactaceous]

Back then, they were called Paul Schaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band. This is Pre CBS days. Back when it was Late Night with David Letterman on NBC.

[@hamupinhere]

@@cactaceous You are correct

[@Dan-yq8lf]

And the bass too

[@sarahclark6376]

So ridiculously 90's

[@kmanthecoolest9304]

might even be 80s but im probably wrong

[@deadlegs187]

Best live version of anything on KZbin

[@darrindavis2952]

What an epic hot mess!!! J saves it, sort of. going to see these bands as a teenager in the 90s was so exciting. You never knew what you were going to get.

[@strictlydubwise]

I saw Sugar on the Beaster tour at Roseland the night that Dino taped this Letterman appearance, and J was there, still rocking that smoking jacket.

[@francisqchristopher8684]

Pretty sure I was at the same show. I saw Dino there too around the same time, with Gumball.

[@paulsethre6651]

Murph is dressed like Ice Cube

[@ErnestoVodka]

Paul Sethre hahahah

[@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009]

I thought that was ice cube?????

[@serge96]

😂😂😂

[@landoncrouch2857]

Serge Achten nice to see someone else watching in 2020

[@serge96]

@@landoncrouch2857 I love Dinosaur Jr !

[@LfunkeyA]

the sax is awesome

[@franc124816]

Haha!! - Sure it is. ;o)

[@orlandosierra]

This entire performance is amazing. The Letterman band is dressed for success for the 90z and DJ can simply pop in today and still look cool and relevant, except the drummer... It shows how they were so ahead of their time. I dig how they play, the look, the cool factor, and overall knowing yourself as a performer...I can watch this performance over and over. Hopefully the corporate dumbasses don't kill it..

[@poopdogg666]

um excuse me i feel like more white people need to rock cornrows but yeah this performance was fucking amazing

[@g0ldbuG]

So that's sorta what Coltrane and Hendrix sound like jammin' in heaven!

[@AlternativeStrings]

The sax was an interesting addition :P. I love what everyone does at the end, it was funny to see the guy waling away at the chimes

[@stevebean1234]

+AlternativeStrings omg bald chime guy is hilarious - right after such a raw guitar solo too. haha thats probably the funniest thing I've seen in a while

[@familyhyounborolla7159]

Stooges / Steve Mackay vibes with the sax there (David Sanborn, legend), and that's Paul Effing Schaeffer (Letterman's legendary bandleader for about 150 years) playing those bells - simply incredible.

[@mariovazquez4436]

Do people forget theirs bells in the original recording of the song?

[@jackburton3540]

this has gotta be the best letterman performance ever

[@transact69]

Half the Letterman studio audience after the song: "I've never heard anything so loud! Why didn't they hand out earplugs?" The other half: "What? WHAT? I CAN"T HEAR YOU?"

[@Waxy_Lou]

David Sanborn Killed that SAX!!

[@apastasauce5905]

House band is so tight they immediately switched to shotgun for the commercial break Epic

[@PedroPetracco]

Great song!

[@08bourquem]

They come through in the second half. I imagine %90 of america at the time changing the channel

[@El_myth]

So true

[@TheHexpane]

Dinosaur Jr is one of the greatest power trios ever, and to be humble enough to just say, sure lets make it a huge house band mashup with the high-waisted jeans guy on the bass and some sax and bells and a 2nd drummer, 3 background singers, just throw everything in there, why not!

[@utlpetmusic2759]

Rarely has a song title fit the performance as good as this.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Have you seen the music video???

[@utlpetmusic2759]

Joey Jo-Jo Shabadu I actually hadn’t - now I see what you mean. 😳 Thanks!

[@thaddlewis2609]

That fucking ruled

[@ricflair5956]

This is rock n roll gold. Does anyone understand what they’re watching and listening to?? My goodness.

[@matthewmoran3041]

Just the most awesome thing I've ever seen

[@frsty5783]

STELLAR BAND MIX! Anton Fig drumming...Sanborn on Sax...Paul...playing everything...wow...a musical mess that came together in a very rare moment of rock n' roll. Great version.

[@marcellussantos9588]

Dinosaur Jr. + one sax, - one bass drum.

[@hellakooked]

ok this is epic.

[@samuelmorse784]

David Sanborn the legend.

[@disconnected22]

Seeing Paul Schaffer keep time and sing high background with Dinosaur Jr...wow

[@joelless01]

best version ever

[@StarBellySneetch]

saw it the first time on regular tv.. saw them twice later that year.. best thing ever seeing their prime. This record should go into my casket along with maybe two more.

[@kevinreay1510]

Fucking rocks. The band are great, not sure why anyone would knock that. The bells... the bells .. the bells.

[@Den9iel]

one of the best band I've seen live

[@prettycolors2]

Oh my god, thanks you! I've been hoping this would show up on youtube again... there was another version with better quality... but either way, this is probably one of my favorite Dinosaur Jr. performances ever, it was such a shame to see it disappear... it's great that it's back... THANKS!

[@postmortemritual]

this is just EPIC !!!

[@SilentAlchemy1333]

I want to go back....... FOREVER

[@hawaiisaywhat]

3:10 haha so manic that sax those bells love it what a mess

[@nixdapogs]

Dayum! They jammed with the house band and it couldn’t be any more awesome!

[@MissEllieRigby]

CHILLS

[@sugarjohnson7402]

What a fucking train wreck...lol! I love it.

[@InAtlasAtLast]

I miss dave

[@whateverhappenshappens5023]

oh my god at 2.06 please tell me this wasn't practised I don't wanna imagine j orchestrating that.

[@keithg1313]

LOL! That was the band version of Dabbing.

[@alexanderstyrlander7991]

Actually you can see Paul Schaffer to the left orchestrating it with his hand as well.

[@Momointvland]

J. Mascis must of had a thing for wearing suit jackets on the Letterman show, haha

[@jetjaguar5045]

I love this song

[@souljahroch2519]

Mascis and Schaefer!!! GENIUS SQUARED.

[@LeotheOrangeCat]

Ha ha Paul playing chimes

[@robogles]

Wow the DL band really added sonic maximization and volume to an already great band. Kudos..

[@eddiemulnix5597]

I wanted to hate this but by the end it was so awesome! thanks for sharing this gem OP

[@mattb5659]

Its lucky that they have a song called "Out There On Letterman" to play on Letterman

[@bugsareeverywhere9016]

What is going on 😂 I love this

[@JoeHawkinsMusic]

Fantastic!

[@dynamicphotography_]

This was amazing.

[@macmaniac3080]

This song reminds me of the best times of my life…

[@rael2099]

What a mess of a performance. Fantastic.

[@MrFuzzySimpleton]

That was F'ing awesome. I thought it was great to have the sax and paul schaffer with them...sounded like the freedom of D Jr and the perfect tempo and playing by the boys melded into a sweet jam of two parallel universes that merge for around 4min

[@supergrover8or]

This is too funny! It's like trying to bring opposite poles of a magnet together. Kind of fun but you wouldn't want to do it all day :)

[@somethingbetter8822]

now he really really enjoys food

[@loosebelt]

hehe well that certainly shook things up and gave the audience more than they likely bargained for. :) Sax just added to the pandemonium...kinda reminded me of Fun House.

[@elektriccobra]

totally agree, NEVER should this song be edited, i remember the video cut parts out, broke my heart

[@JaQuicker]

Dinosaur Jr isn't loud enough, they need an entire other band to back them up

[@joshuapittman4663]

This was after Barlow and Murph left the band. The band was basically J Mascis solo band because of losing the original lineup and having issues keeping bassists. The Dinosaur Jr name was retired in 1997 in favor of J Mascis solo efforts until the original lineup reunited in 2005. Bug pretty much destroyed the band back in 1988 and there was a fight on stage between Barlow and Mascis that same year that led to Barlow and murph leaving in 89’.

[@roddangerson2046]

@@joshuapittman4663informed u are

[@12thsonofthelama86]

Awesome!!!

[@KingOfJamos.]

Triple J’s in the house. Dave, Joseph and Paul. What a hot mess :)

[@joshuafult84]

One of the only times it made sense Paul Shaffer was part of a performance with the bells.

[@atomicorang]

This one’s the best

[@steamedauroraborealis8208]

Man, I wish the sax was on the Album version.

[@toadetteremotewithwiimotio3330]

It was an Kazzoo XD

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Nah, the album version is perfect.

[@dizmation]

Best one.

[@teenagecaveman881]

This shreds

[@tadamcochran]

LOL! @2:06 Love all the orchestration in this including the sax.

[@sniffableandirresistble]

Oh wow 👏

[@jedinyt1]

The split-second of KITH at the end was the cherry on top...

[@billium79]

Them were the days

[@GuitarWithBrett]

Genius

[@DonTrump-sv1si]

A beautifully, organized, mess

[@BandFishHead]

Mike Johnson just exuding energy

[@SirClerihew]

😂

[@jimtroeltsch5998]

This is fucking amazing!

[@AWSOMEPOSSUM16]

This is fucking incredible

[@joshjames253]

awesome

[@scooter2377]

This is STOOGES GOOD!

[@merdefilms3837]

When rock was very mainstream

[@Illtempo-nz1de]

Lol. I love it!

[@jime6688]

Awesome performance! It seemed like Paul and the band were really into this one too.

[@3340steve]

Raging full ON....yea !!!!!

[@memekoko9952]

holy grail...

[@6V6band]

Paul Schafer is that dude man 😂

[@outsidethepyramid]

well that was a bit good. Can't wait to see them in concert soon in sunny Manchester.

[@foxdfive1]

need two more guitars

[@swankybeebop8449]

there is no such thing as "too many guitars"

[@gavinjones8543]

Did his audience know they were going to get their faces melted off?!!

[@MrFoodepedia]

I think it was very much during Js wig out arrogant phase, doing this to put a finger up to Lou

[@yaledelay]

They used to do this all the time, until about the mind 90s the band from the show would play with the guest band. It lead to some funny interactions.