Paul Carrack is a legend in his own way, and he sings and has written many great hits, he did not write "Tempted", Difford and Tilbrook of Squeeze wrote it.

can't mistake him

No I didn't. Thanks for the heads up. 😎

Noticed Carrack about half way through CTBK...

Paul who?

Yes, I didn't know Carrack played with Nick Lowe.

I.e. Elvis Costello.

right on. And he had Steve Jordan and Hiram Bullock in the band then too.

disagree. respectfully. I think Dave's show remained solid through its run. especially the musical guests. not just the first few years. just do a search of every musical guest from the first show to the last. 33yrs and only the first few were good? no.

I was born in ‘82 and we were a Letterman household. In ‘87 I remember my mom letting me stay up to watch the Sonny and Cher epp but little did she know I would watch from the top of the steps when they thought I was in bed.

….if I recall, back then he was on daytime TV

What I noticed over the years was that musicians sounded better on the Letterman show than other shows. I don’t know why, but hearing the same song performed on a different show never sounded as good.

The great Bobby Irwin. (R.I.P.)

Every player in this band is top notch. Did you notice Paul Carrack on the piano?

I noticed the drummer too.

Nudie Shirt!

Lucky!! Technically, this band is way more dynamic than Rockpile.

Directed by Hal Gurnee.

Wishing they had more theatrical lighting, like a spot in Nick sometimes.

So was David Bowi. ;-)

The story at the time was that some promoter was on a talk show and the host said it was a good thing that payola no longer existed in the music industry. The exec told him that he didn't know what he was talking about and said he could make any song a hit. He said he could do it with someone like Nick Lowe and his song "Cruel to be kind. One week later, it hit #1.

He and Edmunds had some successful club dates, though. They flat burned the place down, when we saw them.

I don't think the 80s were a Nick Lowe kind of decade. Nick Lowe's well constructed songs weren't going to pull the kids away from Michael Jackson, Prince, Wham, Madonna, and Springsteen. It's a miracle Huey Lewis did as well as he did in that environment.

I think that KLOS in LA played "Cruel" "Squirm" and maybe one other track from the album.

@@mikestevenson576 I think Nick made the most money from, "What's So Funny", but not from a Costello record.

"Who's gonna tell her.......not this fella"

Yeah, great line.

“Sometimes she’s as mean as a M -16 automatic”.

Agreed, Lowe has done brilliant stuff in the later parts of his career. But ILOAB (co-written by Lowe & Carrack!) was written at least 32 years ago, since Diana Ross released her take on it in 1991. So quite old, but sure, it came after Lowe's early 80's pop.

And checking my Carrack best of I now realise his version was relased first, in 1989.

I'm old.......but not so old that 32 years should be "latter day"! @@JeansWebbTv

@@richardmindemann6935 Same here. But I do sometimes find myself thinking of, let's say Dylan's "Oh Mercy", as quite a recent one :)

We still have ........there are a few twats out there

I saw him live in 2002 at the beautiful Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara (founded in 1873). It was an acoustic concert, just him sitting on a barstool with a well-behaved audience of no more than 200 people. He stayed after the show to meet fans, give autographs, and answer questions. I had him sign the insert from his fabulous 4 CD collection, "The Doings", and asked him "Who were the SPGs and why were they clearing the streets?" From a lyric from his song, "Half a Boy and Half a Man". He told me they were the London Special Police Guard, who were known for being unnecessarily rough with punk rockers and bashed a lot of heads. I told him we have something similar here, the LAPD Rampart Division. He still had beautiful hair and eyes in 2002, snow white hair and sparkling blue eyes. My husband took a pic of us, Nick put his arm around me! I still haven't come down off that cloud of bliss, 21 years later!

Well put!!!!

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So true!

Before it was in the contract that Paul and the band must play with each live act.

He's so pesky...

That's one of the standard patterns, called "four on the snare." Sometimes you play the hi hat twice that speed. Of course you're right, it's not featured that often. There's lots of famous songs that use it, that I can't think of right now! On KZfaq you can see: The Equals - Baby Come Back, Sniff 'n' The Tears - "Driver's Seat"

A true journeyman if ever there was one!

I remember that. Is he the one that did, "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" or the Ian that did, "Hold On"?

Okay, it was Ian Dury with "Hit Me"

"Hold On" is such a great song.

Leah Allen And he's got Raging Hair!

Who's that guy dansmusic 4579? He writes just like me!

It's "belmont" and that is NOT Terry Williams.

Bet he played, "Gaijin Man"

Agreed. While the UK was embracing punk/new wave, North America was dominated by those bloated studio bands. Sure, they could play their instruments, but god it was boring music.

I was a Senior when "Labour of Lust" came out. All those bands were good (Wheel in the Sky is epic), but Nick was better, unique.

Agree with the springboard comment. It is obvious to me that the latest single "Raging Eyes" was pushed to second song after a decision to go with the more familiar "Cruel to Be Kind" was made after rehearsal. The camera blocking is so much better in the second song that I feel that the TV crew obviously worked harder on "Raging Eyes". From a TV production point, the crew would not work harder to televise Song #2. "Raging Eyes" is just so much better shot it is the only explanation in my view.

Carrack played on some fun songs..but he's not such a great player. Sorry.

At least you don't challenge that he has a great voice that was always in demand as his numerous studio/live concert credits proved. So I guess all those OTHER times he was hired to only play keyboards, especially live, was because he is such a good bloke?

Why would I "challenge" his great voice?

Dave Edmunds ran away with Geraint Watkins who also play a great accordeon. That s 2 times 10, 20 out of 10. But both, Edmunds and Lowe are great !! Saw them with Rockpile 2 times at Paradiso, Amsterdam

The greatest

No. It clearly shows in the video that the drums are directly behind the bass. Oh. Wait. You mean musically.

James Eller on bass, Bobby Irwin on drums. Nick's ex-bandmate in Rockpile, Terry Williams, was the one who went on to play drums for Dire Straits.

No and No. Not Dave on Bass and not Terry on Drums.

Full band information has always been in the description just below the title. Copied and repasted here: Nick Lowe - Vox, gtr Paul Carrack - vox, piano Martin Belmont - gtr James Eller - bass Bobby Irwin - drums

WHAT???

So true

Were they on stage together?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aq-GeLGLm7Wqg4U.html

@@gregghumphrey3626 Thanks Gregg. Awesome band.

Click Show More under description full band info is there.

Thanks

James Eller was great on bass with The The.