Comments on: Purple Reign Makes David Letterman Go “Crazy”

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:37:33 +0000

@How do I say this ... THROWDINI!: The guy that books music for the Jimmy Kimmel Show has definitely done an exemplary job over the years. Sadly, there has been little/no acknowledgment of that fact, probably due to the lack of 'cool' factor you mention.

Plus Kimmel gets bonus points for hosting Justice when they had the pop star impersonators 'perform' "D.A.N.C.E." on the show. That was hilarious.

By: How do I say this ... THROWDINI!

How do I say this ... THROWDINI! — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:18:31 +0000

@AL: Yep, no good bands are from/travel to LA.

While its true that Dave and Conan get pretty good bands, I think the same could be said for Jimmy's show. While he has recently been able to secure "bigger" pop and hip-hop acts not generally beloved by idolator readers, he often has bands discussed on this here website. I suspect people think that Dave and Conan are "cooler" than Jimmy (probably true), so that their musical acts are correspondingly "cooler" (not necessarily true).

Although there is no doubt that Jay Leno's musical bookings mostly suck, but then his show is geared toward a demographic that does not include me.

By: AL

AL — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:16:39 +0000

@Tauwan: Probably because they're in NYC, while the others are in LA.

By: LeBron

LeBron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:15:37 +0000

I’d say stumbling across these guys playing a free show at some second-rate casino was easily the highlight of my first trip to Las Vegas six years ago. I mean, the guy went so far to imitate Prince that he actually LOOKS JUST LIKE the guy!

By: Tauwan

Tauwan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:58:09 +0000

@cockfightbarmitzvah:

I agree. He and Conan O'Brien always select awesome musical acts.

By: TheRunningboard7

TheRunningboard7 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:46:10 +0000

My first reaction to this week was “…really? OK.” But damn, that’s a pretty high bar for the rest of the week. I really did enjoy that quite a bit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:42:34 +0000

What’s next, “15 Year-Olds Playing Guitar Hero” week?

By: cockfightbarmitzvah

cockfightbarmitzvah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:18:51 +0000

These guys rock so much I wanna start a Purple Reign cover band and cover their covers of Prince songs. BTW how awesome is Dave for having a whole week of tribute acts on? Granted he usually has a better selection of musical acts on his show (instead say on Jay Leno or Kimmel), but giving these tribute acts a chance to be on TV instead of the usual batch of sad twerps/major label flash in the pans is a nice change of pace.