Grinderman (Nick Cave) on Letterman Honey Bee

[@devoroberts1765]

The greatest artist alive today Nick Cave is the man

[@hellmoto191]

Heard part of this song last night on True Detective! A bad ass show and a killer song? WIN-WIN!!

[@harryredin6167]

The best episode, that long single tracking shot so full of adrenaline and tension and then Grinderman fucking kicks in out of nowhere!

[@richardthomas2250]

This got me here, not disappointed 😂

[@KayBeeGlass]

Genius... punk rock in a leisure suit.... and that hair! Awesome...

[@lillynietz17]

Well..Now? right....Here his coif is about to fly to..........

[@mattgeary9987]

I remember watching this live with my roommate at the time. I was excited to see Nick and the boys do their thing. Forgot he took a few hits of acid about 30 mins before.. he looked frightened and didn't say a word. For the next 5 hours he made more buzzing sounds than complete normal sentences. It was fucked up. Anyways, so glad I found this.. such a great performance.

[@theresalemieux6993]

awesome

[@stephansong]

How is he today. Lol.

[@stephansong]

Funny roomie bee sounds

[@mattgeary9987]

@@stephansong Anthony? He’s good, man. Married, 2 daughters, manages a Foot Locker at the outlet malls… not sure if he still makes bee noises though.

[@stephansong]

Haaaaaa. Well. Good thing. Maybe the buzzing helps with the sales. If he made it through that with minor side effects for....life. then it's all good. Good man Anthony. I wonder what he recalls. The beers knees. 🍻 intrigued. Feeling better that I know he's not in a psyc ward buzzing away.

[@flemwad]

beyond cool..way way beyond...different galaxy...different dimension

[@nightshade7206]

Nick Cave on Letterman buzzing like a bee! I freakin Love It!!!!!!

[@MattyBurr]

I think these are just one of those bands you have to 'get' - and I certainly 'get' them. Fucking fantastic. Viva Nick Cave!

[@Barison]

Goddam. I just listen to this song today for the first time. It blew me away. Un-fuckin'-believable.

[@cannonball5856]

watching this on tv with my old man was what put me onto nick cave in like, junior high and that record was one of the first records i went out and bought new in the cellophane shortly after. now, all these years later, i'm firmly of the opinion that nick cave and his various projects are one of the few discographies with no bad records and he puts on one of the best live shows a person can see

[@CinnaBlaze]

Love this! Love his movements, his vocals.....everything....he is fabulous!

[@theoriginaljeffro]

Every time I watch this, I imagine Dave's face and I laugh.

[@Brisvegas420]

I don't think middle America is ready for the pure genius of Nick Cave and Grinderman... But we know their brilliance!

[@elgiacomo]

This is beyond amazing. Remember seeing this "live" on tape. Would have loved to see Dave shake their hands again. But glad the performance lives on....

[@moonmonkey999]

very awesome. Nick is prob the best frontman ever

[@TheUnsatisfied]

George Armour you are correct

[@silvio.r8443]

Iggy pop

[@youremybiggestfan]

The guy with the child guitarr made my day tho.. lmao

[@jeanluc1313]

No such thing.

[@MrBrodman98]

Jack White but still solid choice.

[@PaleBullet]

Anyone in 2024?

[@earpodo]

2025

[@Ironnow]

🎉

[@artv_limbico6301]

more than ever!

[@TheOwlinbayern]

Grinderman is for life, not just Christmas.

[@vod2222]

Hell yes!! and hopefully for many more years!! Much love from Canada!

[@israelheller7524]

warren and the TINY GUITAR

[@hillbettyblue]

love that he got through the ballad stage back to the grit & dirt of life..

[@BradMichaelElmore]

Nick Cave turns fifty and makes the most virile and potent music of his career. Awesome. Truly a living legend.

[@zellah]

50 isn't old

[@darrelljesonis8860]

For him it was. He probably never thought he’d see 50

[@TheSpewdog]

nick it would not matter what name you roam under you are fucking brilliant and have been for a long time a true Australian talent

[@mangus1971]

last 10 minutes of true detective leave breathless, best tv scene in years do yourself a favour, go get it

[@Gagilence]

Not better than Breaking Bad ending, but yes, one of the best scenes.

[@ClusterFoxtrot]

Dragoljub Kojadinović I'd call that last 6 minutes better than any scene in Breaking Bad. And I love Breaking Bad.

[@solargesture]

Dragoljub Kojadinović lol better than breaking bad ending lol man i get how much people can get into a new show but damn nothing was really happening outside of the viewers head lol

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@solargesture Still better than Breaking Bad.

[@bumsquad41]

Amazing...Nick Cave still come up with this kind of shit after thirty years...he the man

[@egocandy]

Letterman has been an avowed fan of Nick's for years. Dave has never hesitated to have him on.

[@RicardoPestana]

Nick Cave and ZZ Top are great!

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Is it safe to assume that “ZZ Top” is your nickname for Warren Ellis?

[@elgiacomo]

Dave and Paul always had the best musical guests. Killer performance. \m/ \m/

[@musicandstories2994]

Loved this track in True Detective series 1.

[@malibumut]

How dare you. Nick Cave is one of the most ultimate musicians to grace this world... Have you ever seen him perform live, I don't care whether you knew him when you were in school... Have you seen him perform ? Live ? In front of thousands?? He is friggen awesome. Private or Public schooling, also means nothing, depends on the student.. Doesn't matter if you are born in a suit or not, if a human can perform and give others pleasure,,, Listen, Indulge & Enjoy... :)

[@WhitePony-zu5pi]

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been killing it with soundtrack music. True Detective, Wind River, Hell or High Water. They’re amazing.

[@hailingpearl]

Nick Cave (the front man) is an Australian music legend. Johnny Cash and Metallica have covered HIS songs. Johnny Cash covered "The Mercy Seat" and Metallica covered "Loverman" on Garage Inc.

[@Hainsworth123]

Only Nick Cave can pull off something this. He is too awesome for American TV.

[@Rikitocker]

Great Aussie rock is what this is ... the best kept secret of our pub music born in the 70's.

[@shaft9000]

i'd take this any day over 99/100 of the fluff that gets marketed as "real music". ENERGY and PASSION.

[@millicentbistander]

The energy is in his finger... don't stare at it directly but more from a peripheral angle... or you will die. The dimension in which this performance exists in is what is better known as the thirteenth floor realm. Please do not disturb...

[@djmortimer2978]

This is fucking brilliant!

[@samuraipigeon]

Christ, warren and jim are lookin scary nowadays...what a performance! cheers for posting mate.

[@TheJustageek]

After all these years, its still, fuck yeah!!!!

[@PureSalemGuitars]

No band can touch GRINDERMAN ... Damn !!!

[@grahamfuray2106]

The birthday party reincarnated

[@malibumut]

Somebody touch me, somebody touch me, God this is good.. you forget sometimes, just how much!

[@TrillKump]

haha how awesome, i wonder what the crowd was like, D. Letterman seemed to have dug it quite well

[@malcolmcarter2675]

Just discovered this one, my ears are bleeding, my teeth are itching and my groin is solid steel, faaark! True Detective bought me here. And WTF Nick is an Aussie!, cheers from Sydney..........

[@thk5150]

How fuckin cool is this? Man, they just kick ass!

[@Shortmetrage]

Great perfomance!, I love this song.

[@cristianodimatteo]

The contrapposition between their aspect and their outfit, the energy, everything is so amazing. This is real music, Nick Cave is a genius.

[@indorr]

Real music? Papa papapaaa papapaaa Papa. Guitars sound like suffering cats.oh.and I'm metalhead myself and you don't know what good music is.(thinking metal is just loud noise?and what can I know about it?)this is rubbish

[@djuri1985]

If you ever come across even the smallest truth of Nick Cave's world, you'll shiver at the thought that you ever said that!

[@isidrorosa]

pretty amazing!!!!!

[@3cliffsbay]

Man this is sooooooo good!

[@ThePoorhillbilly]

this is band is fucking sweet can't wait for their next release in september

[@DingbatToast]

There is one thing of which there is no doubt when you watch Nick Cave perform - he fuckin' means it!

[@lspol]

Nick Cave is the man. Grinderman on Letterman was like that scene from Spinal Tap when the band played Sex Farm for the Military Dance. Too, too funny. Letterman doesn't know what just happened.

[@ieainuk]

I could search some adjectives for Nick Cave... But He is crazyyyy... A great great great mad man....

[@Sh4despawn]

this is pure rock n roll. nothing less

[@OctomomsBaby]

He's playing a tenor guitar (5 strings) of which he has his own signature model .I believe Eastwood is the maker.

[@Trumptydumpty978]

Amazing

[@louquarm]

Nick Cave is a bad BAD boy...

[@recovergirl]

Excellent ..love Jim's pink wedding suit, it makes me swoon!

[@stevenmreinhardt]

Nick Cave is fucking awesome!!! I love his piano stance, looks like he's swashbuckling! haha

[@tylersims6937]

Sry I'm over a fucking decade late, but it's also like one of those southern baptist preachers.. pentecostals, ect. Ya know, them Fire & Brimstone preacher..ers?

[@thestevenmccool]

@shalaholo actually warren ellis (the guitarist) is about 6 feet tall, that guitar is just a tenor guitar, a guitar with 4 strings instead of 6, and about half the size.

[@MyDogsNameIsTedBundy]

One one level, I legitimately love this band.. On another level, I don't think they would be famous were it not for Nick Cave's fame..

[@garali1973]

That was fucking brilliant!!!!!

[@harryredin6167]

My favourite cave era is the Warren Ellis years by far. What a potent pair

[@charlesrissbrook9612]

Stunning stuff I had no idea basil fawlty was such a faboulous singer

[@RonnieLasVegas]

the very end was cool as shit

[@massapower]

And that's how you entertain as a hard hitting ROCK BAND !! 😁👍🏻

[@mudchair16]

Gandalf was angry that day

[@jickmames]

Fuckin genius Aussie punk rock madness. Nick Cave is God. The Letterman crowd didn't know what hit em. saw Grinderman in October - one of the best shows I've seen! BTW Ellis was/is playing a mini strat, you can find em at most guitar shops. The guy plays his cymbals with that, his violin and his marracas!

[@cbdaudio7975]

It's a 1960's 4 string Fender "Mandocaster"; basically an electric mandolin, nout to do with a strat and defo not available at most guitar shops...

[@MrSmurfyDog]

Sleazy as f**k !!! Love it!

[@Axl8787]

The best one chord song !

[@MarkErickson-Painter]

ohhhh man Nick Cave is so there........wow!!!

[@87converse87]

Those two rock n roll mormons are priceless ...fockin rocks

[@shawndimery]

This is Grinderman, totally different songs to the Bad Seeds!

[@ldalda]

I want a Nick Cave Doll.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Trevor? What are you doing on Letterman? We have a heist to plan.

[@dirty30jr]

53 years old

[@disconnected22]

Yeah, the album credits I was talking about was on the "Abattoir Blues" live set. I'm sure it is a Fendocaster and the guys were just playing around with the name...

[@MrKaikue]

"the small guitar" haha. dude.

[@birthabutt9555]

Feckin epic

[@midnightrambler03]

Nick Cave, what a legend

[@FuckZePont]

Who are the Richard Stallman clones?

[@chipCharger]

letterman has seen it all ;)

[@marekryszard]

RELEASE THE BATS !!

[@Smackedup100]

Nick Cave, the greatest artist Australia has produced by a country mile

[@bertrandmoinault9704]

Fantastic perf !

[@Lieu3C4]

Hear she comes: get grinding NOW!!!

[@Alos21]

This is the real shit,you just cant get any cooler and manly then this guys !!!

[@edstone1]

loveitloveitloveitloveit!

[@amyling100]

Now this is rock'n'roll, come and touch me... and even a bit of surfer bird...

[@tiger1044]

The name Melissa means "Honeybee......"

[@TheDamageinc81]

This is Rock n Roll.

[@mikeduplessis6315]

Just this week an episode of 'Riverdale' on the CW ended with a Nick Cave cover(?). You hear the best music in the oddest places.

[@donkeypoopoo]

That's all that aired. I recorded it from start to finish.

[@zofodraziweht]

That right there kids is rock n roll

[@stephansong]

That drymmer is kick ass.

[@ani10881]

It'd be great if there were a nest of baby birds living in Warren Ellis' beard.

[@dictater2]

surely people saw this and thought who is this freak, not knowing Nick Cave has been flipping wigs for 30 years.

[@kerrytoner5053]

Love grinder man

[@MorcegoPlatonico]

É o maior de sempre... parece que está a começar uma carreira... e já lá vão 35 anos...

[@JEFFRAUSCHL]

HANDSOME FELLOW

[@thestevenmccool]

@StephenDorocke hmmm i guess youre right that is a mandocaster, but he does play tenor guitars also. aside from the longer scale i dont think there is a difference between them

[@matiastroncoso2293]

Los que vinieron por el indio ✌️😎...

[@crescentfreshbret]

Yeah, Warren has such a wild and ragged look. He looks like he just crawled out of a garbage can out in the alley ready to rock and got on stage. And there was a bit more to this. Dave shook hands with Nick, said "Hi, Nick," and appeared to be thinking "Is this the same man who performed a beautiful ballad on my show just a few years back?" He then asked him if they named their band after the grinder girl from the "Will It Float?" segment, to which Nick laughed and replied "No."

[@guitarsark]

effing brilliant !!!!