Fan Request: How Much Will It Cost Dave To Play Eagles Music? | Letterman

maybe you can maybe you can say uh looking at home I hope we have that kind of relationship you can say I'm excited that you're looking at a man for the first time in a long, long time Saturday night I have a date to get to the limit baby, I'm a little nervous now I was hoping there's a little behind-the-scenes info on showbiz here that you may or may not know I was hoping we could listen to some Eagles

music

yeah, 'cause I'm going to the concert with this guy's wife on Saturday night, that's great, he's back in New Jersey getting drunk with his friends, so I thought maybe we'd hear a lot of Eagles

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, but Dan Federer told me it's too

much

. expensive, do you know anything about that?

Paul, yes, yes, how expensive is too expensive. Well, how

much

? What are we talking about? Well, I don't know, it's like every time we

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a song, a song, a song, probably like a thousand dollars total. Choose your favorite Eagles song carefully and we'll listen to it. How much does it

cost

? I can't, I can't hear a word you say, who said no, where are the licenses? Paul I I would license the Eagles, no. I don't know, maybe someone who works for you. I guess who owns the Eagles music, then it's not the Eagles. I wish I had one of those cars you once drove.

A beautiful BMI. I had one in California cornered like. a snake in a rat hole, so if we

play

an Eagles song, they'll sue us, is that right? Yes, to Leslie from Minnesota, exceptions, they have an absolute no-ban policy for television, you still want to go, Leslie, boy, I'm just. I'm just Paul, aren't you really dying to play an eagle? I wish I could touch it. Someone becomes strong. Unfortunately, it

cost

s too much. I think it costs. Is there a minimum? Can we play like three bars of a song? I don't even do that, no, I know this, what were you going to say Bill?

Bill, well, when I, well, when I was trying to get a license, there's less than four lines, three lines of a song, three lines of a song, no, you can do three lines, is there? Is anyone awake in the control room? I can talk? Can I talk to someone in the control room? Hi, I'm Dave, oh, hi, Jerry, how are you? Very good. I thought you went home early on Thursdays. Okay, Jerry, help us here. We're having a little discussion about the Eagles licensing fees and what do you say, you're the director, you're the captain of the ship, what do you think, stop, that's the best thing I've heard all summer.

Now, okay, Paul, let's talk. about what would you play, we have a chance here, let's do one, one, yeah, and we'll see what happens, so what

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become of the Eagles songbook and we recognize that we are on the verge of legal action? Well, yeah, I mean, I love Life in the Fast Lane, but you're the one who's going to pay, so you should pick Life in the Fast Lane, it probably wouldn't be the one I'd pick, okay, uh, Hotel California, probably It wouldn't be the one I would choose. Pick, uh, what would Lee sing and push him over the edge?

That's good. Don't know. Don't know. I'm going to have to apologize for someone with whom we can do a certain amount of Life in the Fast Lane without without having to pay do you want to listen just a little no no I don't want to hear how you won't have to pay no no I don't care I don't have a feeling if we start paying for it they

will

close the program right now, okay, then let's choose something else, okay, let's push everything to the limit, take it easy, we've all heard it a billion times, yeah, too many times, you know, I'm not so interested.

This is great, this is, I have the drop down list here of music that we can't play or we'll get sued, interestingly, at the top of the list, Jimi Hendrix, yeah, but I've heard you play. Throughout Watchtower, but that's a Bob Dylan song, is that how it works well, we also play summer hits, you know, yeah, you know, this has absolutely no Jimi Hendrix that they're playing all the time. I mean, life is worth living, yes, if you can. I don't have Jimi Hendrix for God's sake, it's a good thing we play it all the time.

Nobody has ever said not to play. Bruce Springsteen. I can't play Born to Run. I can't play Born to Run. I can't play Born to Run. so he'll let us play, yes, that's right, there are some that you can play. 10 000 Avenue freeze yeah you can play uh Glory Days Thunder Road and dance in the dark well yeah we could at least play those yeah so we can we should be us. I could play with some Hendricks, I guess so, well, no, he says don't play, don't play, says don't play, Bruce Springsteen and Jimi Hendrix. Now what we came up with is that I think it's a reasonable compromise and we're trying to work on it. even okay, you know the song I Can't Tell You Why Oh, that's great, yeah, yeah, now it's not an eagle song strictly speaking.

I'm asking why not. I think that's what you think. It's what you believe. No, you don't believe it. I understand that they wrote it, no, they wrote it, yes. I think they wrote I Can't Tell You. Why did you say Bill? I thought he released it as a single. Museum Timothy and Schmidt are baseball, they are bassist, okay, we were. We can very closely blame Irving Azo for this. I think Irving's age can be blamed. Okay, yes, the important thing is that we find someone to take charge of the blockade. Yeah, okay, so does Billy Joel.

You have to be careful with Billy Joel. I can't play no Billy Joel Sam Cooke Why are you kidding me? We can't play I can't play Sam Cooke uh Disney uh Pirates of the Caribbean uh you can't play any of that uh Jerry or or by or anything by Jerry Bruckheimer or Pixar unless someone is promoting a movie I watch about Captain and Tennille Captain and Tennille , let's see, we can, but I'll tell you something and I don't know if I'm supposed to say this or not, except for the Eagles' music. You know what they want if we can play it, but you know what it's going to cost us to take a song, a song, I guess it must be more than a thousand, so oh yeah, it's five thousand dollars more than five thousand. actually just because I can't, I can't, that was like 100, but be careful, there's a hundred dollars right there because I don't have that kind of I don't have I don't have it on I don't, well, there in the candy, you got it, it I bought in the city, I don't have ten thousand dollars because I can't tell you what, over a hundred thousand, up, Irving Asa, this guy is in trouble, yeah, yeah.

Now, if everyone here wants to put up some money, then you mean half a million, half a million dollars, half a million, actually, a quarter of a million dollars to play with. I can't tell you why, okay, show it right now if People want to elect a ratings captain and for the rest of the show he contributes whatever he can that will get us closer to a quarter of a million. Wow, then we take away the reserve, we're going to increase the reserve, uh, yeah, it's only 500. one piece that I really want to talk about I really want to get to the bottom of this Eagles thing.

I'm, how are we? Where are we now? Well, we can't, uh, we can't afford it, I mean, a big A show as big as yours, yeah, you could afford it. Could we afford it? Don't know. I think the Eagles are tough. I think it's good at that price. I think at Hotel California we wanted to play, yeah, and then who could get away with that? You'd probably have to take a pay cut that week, but you could get away with it. No, personally, I'm extraordinarily rich, so I could take care of it, but that's why CBS is the most watched television network in the world that they got tired of.

The Eagles say no, no, it's going to cost you a million, no, no, so what they did was commission a song called uh, supercharger, supercharger, yeah, an instrumental, it's called supercharged, yeah, supercharger, which is an imitation of Life in the Fast Lane, oh, okay, like that, like that. now we're going to listen to, oh, okay, the supercharger commissioned by CBS this weekend, yeah, and we'll see if it's coming, okay, and this will be exactly the same, it won't cost us a dime, am I right? this absolutely absolutely fine let's take it away here we go supercharger Foreign supercharger well I wonder if they're playing Supercharger at the Garden on Saturday night