![]() ![]() Sitting third row center stage at Carnegie Hall, I beamed with pride as Linda performed with Roger Daltry. It was the first time I had watched Linda sing from an audience perspective in years. After the show a bunch of us went out to some fancy club and I sat next to Terry Gilliam for hours trying to convince him to cast me in a movie. John Entwistle played bass on some songs during the show which was amazing to witness. That question was a no-brainer, how cool it would be to watch Linda perform with Roger Daltry?! I had a great time both at the show and hanging around backstage, most memorably meeting Roger Daltry, Pete Townsend, Sinaed O’Connor, and Alice Cooper. In February we got offered a choice have the band play a song at the Daltry Sings Townsend show at Carnegie Hall, or Linda could sing a solo tune and also a duet with Roger Daltry. And getting snowed in while visiting NYC is one of my favorite things. Then we got snowed in for an extra day or so. When Dave walked over after we had played I mock-spanked his butt with the neck of my bass. It was weird and annoying.Īnd I was still hungover from my trip to London. They sang on top of Linda during the chorus and walked all over my background vocals, too. I remember the guitar player saying “don’t worry – we won’t play this much when you tape” … and they did anyway. I guess a little Paul on the piano would have worked fine, but that was not to be. We really just wanted to do our song ourselves, they way we always did it. During the rehearsal the band kept playing with us – overplaying – which honestly cheesed out the song into some kind of fucked up “we are the world” anthem. Paul Shaffer was really friendly, he came into our dressing room and introduced himself before the rehearsal. I had wanted to meet Sandra Bernhart ever since I saw The King of Comedy and we were all big fans. ![]() Sandra Bernhart was a guest that night and I remember Linda ran out to a toy store and bought her a stuffed bunny rabbit. I flew all night to NYC and we were at NBC studios by noon. I hopped a flight to San Francisco, where a town car picked me up and drove me home to get my bass and take a quick shower, then it was off to the airport for the red-eye. “You need to get on the red-eye to NYC tonight – you are playing the Letterman Show tomorrow”. I received a call at the white courtesy phone at LAX when I reached Los Angeles from Heathrow. After Christmas I spent a few weeks hiding out in London with friends. January 1994 started off with the Dave Letterman show. ![]() We were nominated in the Rolling Stone 1994 reader’s poll in three categories: Best New Band, Best New Female Singer, and Worst Single. ![]()
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