Couldn't have said it better.

that wasn't an encore, that was a 'Do it again! Do it again!' lol

Every time I hear this song I talk about Letterman telling them to do an encore.

I'm stunned: terrific performance!!!

" I don’t recall him ever asking a band to keep going. " He did with Vintage Trouble as well.

U can even hear the audio engineer already turn down the reverbs, when he started singing its kinda dry .... David took everyone by suprised by asking them to have another go.😂 ... I ❤ it too

I think they said this was the only time. Saw it the night it was on, was shocked he asked

Yup. And the reason I don't like watching Fallon. Every single guest is the best ever. He thinks he is being nice. I find it disingenuous. Dave ruled.

@@ClaytonMacleod that big head Dave sucks too always ironic with his guest bahhhh don’t have much creative conversation just same ironic shit game is cool but then is like .............. wte

👀 Clayton, 👃🏽 👅 How you like Cesar now?

Dave’s favourite by far was Stone Temple Pilots.

I remember Dave being really into White Zombie

Not much of an expression, just hah

@@canlib even "hah" is an expression

This dude drums his way to heaven

That’s my Son - I was there when this took place. A truly unforgettable night 🙏

@@frankellul613 I saw them play at the Sixth & I in DC after this show and it was awesome. They weren't as big yet so I hung around after the show and got to meet them, made it a point to tell them how amazing they were on Letterman and even told Chris that the look of pure excitement / joy on his face (4:36 in the video) was just fantastic to watch. He said the whole thing was surreal and was really appreciative. Fantastic group of guys and still my favorite band.

He added in the Paul Schaffer orchestra on that one!

Check out the early on James Brown show....Dave went nuts....really, he just let JB take over....it was fantastic of course.

Same dude! You know you've just seen something special when Dave does that!

Imagine having that honour 🤩

He did it twice. Once here and once when they played What makes a Good Man many years later.

So they like it now?

@derp hilarious thanks

I always feel credit is due when I get a good laugh. @derp credit

I can't believe that The Heavy never became absolutely massive....

I can't believe it that it's been 10 years either.

@@navnig I agree, they deserved to be bigger than they are

I'll never forget that night, Conan was having his big feud with NBC and I was glued to the tv every night to watch. He went to commercial and I flipped over to Letterman just in time to see The Heavy. I thought the song was awesome but when Letterman told them to play it again I was floored. I've been watching Letterman since I was a little kid and had never seen him do anything like that, really was something special.

That’s my boy ❤

You're right though. Future Islands was pretty epic.

Nothing will ever top that Future Islands for me, but this is great as well.

I hadn't seen the Future Islands performance, but for me the best were always this one, Beastie Boys' "Ch-Check It Out" and LCD Soundsystem doing "Daft Punk is Playing at My House" cuz it was so damn WEIRD.

Oh, as an individual performance...check out the few that Robert Plant did on Dave...WOW ....few better singers on planet earth and his band is excellent.....Page taught him to only accept fantastically high standards while he was with LZ

Dap Kings rule!! King of the horn section!!

I remember seeing this when it aired and was blown away. Easily my favorite moment on Letterman, next to Neil Peart on drum week.

Members of the Hyperion corporation

Guess they didn't like him now.

@@Nio744 great answer

yes sir

I'm sure you'll recall the Orwell's "Who needs you" debacle lol. Letterman asked for an encore, and the singer basically nervously refused (My dad believed he chickened out, I thought he was trying to be a Jim Morrison type a-hole) Since it would include 4 songs+background story, I wonder if Don wants post a vid of that with a further behind the scenes explanation, of the thinking behind the band refusing, then the late show having them back and what discussions happened behind the scenes since they actually came back the second time to do it in less than a year I think and it was all pretty crazy + Pauls improv was one for the ages 😉

I captured it when the show uploaded it. I didn’t have the best software at the time to grab it, unfortunately.

Dud I saw this live on tv . Top5 performances . Fact is it's the first time David asked for an encore . He decided on his own . Legendary

@@michaelbaddyr7654 Totally agree in top 5..I recall another was James Brown mid 80's@ Letterman early years, Brown said it was one of his best performances as well and he had many in his life

@@dongiller yeah I saw this live too, figured I'd never see the full version, thanks for that Don! in fact I always thought they just played until off air, like I figured the studio monitors showed the credits and they didn't actually play the whole song again. I recall the very few times when Letterman saying something similar, and I thought it was a combination of Dave loving the song/garbage time