Jimmy Fallon Reveals House Band

Nathan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:07:54 +0000

So Jimmy Fallon has started a blog in an effort to build up his upcoming take over of Late Night on March 2nd. Apparently every night from now on Fallon is going to do a little webisode that he will upload onto his blog at 12:30. The majority of what he’ll be doing on them is answering his viewers questions. Yeah, so nothing to get too excited about. And you know I’m not too sure what I think about the one SNL cast member who could never make it through a sketch without laughing being a talk-show host. But one thing I did find interesting was who he chose to be his band. That’s right they are already a band, and one you’ve most likely heard of.

That’s right The Roots are going to be playing live on Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel every night. How weird is that. That seems to be reason enough that it won’t tank after just one season. Although I wonder how long they’ll want to do that. What would be cool though is if after a season then he gets another band to come and do it for a year. I wouldn’t doubt it if after this news there are a a bunch of bands contacting the other evening and late night hosts about becoming a permanent feature on their show.

Anyway, props to Jimmy for getting The Roots to join his crew. Maybe he will continue to bring artists with actual talent on his show as guests every night. I’m not getting my hopes up though. The one band that popped into his head as he was showing where the band would play on his model studio was Green Day. Well here are a few tracks from Rising Down, the newest release from The Roots.

The Roots – The Show (feat. Common and Dice R)

The Roots – Rising Up (feat. Wale & Chrisette Michele)

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Jimmy Fallon Reveals House Band