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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Sorry Mr. Letterman
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 07:59:00 EDT
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I have the feeling these people don't watch too much
Letterman.  To begin, this is NOT a musical variety show,
it is a comic variety show.  Second, if you will pay
close attention to the members of the band, you will
note that 3 out of 4 nights, there is someone guesting
in the band.   Sometimes they are NAME players, sometimes
not.  Letterman, to my knowledge, has never featured
the band guests unless they were sit-down guests also.

I, for one, would rather have it this way.  If you had
noticed, while DL was in LA, there was a guest band 
member every night.  Only one was introduced, Van Halen.
The same thing happens on the Carson show with not
as much regularity, but it happens.  If the guest happens
to have a name most people will recognize, they are
introduced and take a bow.  Otherwise, they go unoticed
except by the folks who do recognize them.

Saturday Night Live has guest bands.  How many times have
you retched when some of them came out to play.  They could
well eliminate the guest bands on SNL as most of them are
terrible anyway.  I think DL does a good job not letting
the show become a showcase for some artist pushing their
latest album.  Keep the comedy.  If you want to enjoy te
music, get tickets and listen during commercial breaks.
T. C. Wheeler