Beck plays Black Tambourine on David Letterman

[DAVET0NE]

letterman wants to lick beck 0:20

[srh1511]

he may have been having a seizure there towards the end... it's a bit discerning...

[srh1511]

i think the guy that actually has the tambourine did a line before he played.

[muthusid]

Looking at the guy with the Black Tambourine, I can see why they're singing about it.

[bradleyjay1970]

you can't go wrong with Justin Stanley(g,K), Dan Rothchild(b), and Matt Sherrod(d)!!!...some of LA's heaviest cats!

[tajeeboy1]

Beck is the genuine article.



[immoralbutton]

3 people just got punched by the spazzing tambourine guy

[immoralbutton]

Hey who invited Paul McCartney and napoleon dynamite?

[horbath1]

i wish i was hot like them. oh wait, i am.

[thenewfun]

bought this album after Katrina. Listened to it on the way to and from a strip club in Dothan Alabama while staying in Florida. Goodtimes.

[Way2manydoses]

love the tambourine guy freak out @ 1:50 lol.

[mrzachattackf]

I always liked Loser and got into a couple of there songs but after this I'm fuckin obsessed his monotone look is so ghetto

[extremelybusy123]

wait for 3:36 and have a hard laugh. Dang. Dancer almost bunches Beck in the back of the head.

[manvsfur0n]

I like how he needs 2 drummers, both working their hardest.

[aaron28532]

@yousuck65432 Actually Guy Picciotto of "Fugazi" was doing it back in the late 80's before anyone else. Google it. Kid had some epic moves. 

[rydeeh11]

INLAND EMPIRE

[yousuck65432]

Jason Sudeikis' b-boy on what's up with that

Beck did it first

[andrewtheman19]

Damn. Napoleon Dynamite can jam...

[StrongBad3]

tambourine man in the background is my hero!

[orangierocks]

@StrongBad3 hell yeah! i want to dance with guy!

[allon33]

That dancer taught Jack Black everything he knows :)

[Jemonster]

HAHAHAHA, I love how Letterman pronounces guero it like an English word. Such a guero...

[louieaubergine]

Beck can have aaaallll of my babies

[blackcrowstudio]

bad ass!

[theligbabowski]

the fella with the tie is juat a really shit Bez.

[SunbeltRyders]

LMAO at the dancing dude

[aerialgymnast10]

44 yrs old and I think Beck is amazing. I also love the dancer! Obama??? Ya, I like him too.

[aerialgymnast10]

44 yrs old and I think Beck is amazing. I also love the dancer!

[mugsymalon]

a rare tune that gets you hooked in 15 seconds! superb thanks for posting!

[MsGoodtimegail]

suck a cock douche bag. beck rocks!

[tebe2k]

I am 25 years of age and I like Beck. Theory disproven

[crookhunter]

The same people that like Beck likeJustin Bieber.. This guy sucks.. They give grammys out in America like they give out Noble Peace prizes to idiots like Obama and Oscars to Gore. No one over 20 likes Beck.. Geez America is doomed.

[nemesis3001]

@crookhunter 31 and love Beck :)

[LouReedsBooks]

@crookhunter That might just be the stupidest thing I've heard anybody say about anything

[ScottMasson]

@crookhunter People who sit around on their asses, visiting the YouTube pages of artists they don't even like, are probably the ones who are really doomed. Thanks for your concern though.

[Gilsams]

LULZ Guy w/ tambourine what a doofus

[Dannypack87]

3 people aren't real people

[Dannypack87]

3 people aren't real people

[Dissiprin]

soo good

[HillbillySid1]

Totally mesmerized by the dancer!!!

[coldbloodedMuse]

The dancing guy is amazing!

[xyeBbIu]

who are these guys?



[esomary]

great show! performance is always much better when not taken serious! and they don't need fire ;-)

[fjdksla243]

wow. smoking drummer, literally.

[Omie789]

I love thst dancing guy!

[LouReedsBooks]

@Omie789 seriously all he does in every beck performance is dance and play a small percussion. Its Awesome!

[rastafury17]

two drummers. that's how hard it is to contain Beck's awesomeness

[rdecredico]

@rastafury17 FOUR percussionists, actually.

[Birdietweet]

Birdie likes!!!

[ChablesMan]

I didn't know they still had 240p videos on Youtube...

[ChannelSurfer]

easily one of the finest performances I've seen on Letterman.

[PRSGuitarist1]

Beck influenced me to play and write folk music

[ChickenGoujons]

A band of nerds. There is literally nothing better.

[gueibor]

This vid is cleverly disguised as a glorious celebration of white loser-ness at its geekiest. From Beck's own Napoleon Dynamite boots, to Tambounerd's hysterical dance, it all nearly succeeds at distracting you from the fact that Lord Of Da Drumz back there is thoroughly owning all of our asses. Awesome!

[TheLiesette]

I love that rush sticker on his guitar.

[cjd1490]

Is that Rocky Balboa on the Drumset? If he keeps doing these gigs, he'll never beat Drago.

But seriously, this performance is amazing.

[mrniceguyrick90]

that dancer is a freak man!!! hahahaha!!!

[richmonksgtr]

Great song, great rythym, and I could probably watch an hour of dude doing the funky white boy dance behind him. Dave loves his enthusiasm too!

[schaefersmann]

can go forever...

[norsef]

Love his percussion driven stuff.

More like this please sir.

[rlegear19]

yet another song with the Bo Diddley beat. ......... cool

[mrfudgeyhead]

Beck is everything that makes hipsters so douchey.

But when him and his backing band do it.

By god, I can't help but feel a powerful respect.

Deep in my heart.

And pants.

More so my heart though

Guess he gives me a heart on! Bam! Puntastic.

Retracting the last statement, this performance was as the kids say, bad in the ass.

[inthefirstperson]

brilliant!!

[HairrySasquatch]

The dude dancing is hilarious

[Deadgoat222]

Did anyone catch a little bit of beck doing a little guitar from "landslide" at the bridge?

[ddptlsg]

what a dirty song!

[iammready]

Beck reminds me of Neil Young in a way. Cares not what the masses think. lol` I like this one- he breaks into a nice jam at the bridge, then back again. Effective!

[nick1137]

does that guy on the left ever use his guitar

[emptyNINE]

Hahaha, yeah, but not until the VERY END lol.

[jackpott0169]

Nearly 10 seconds long xD

[RichardBLongly]

i love green and pink together.

espesially soft tones

especially on beck

B\

[4gem4]

letterman says: "please welcome back to the program: mmbeck" - letterman is so silly! but beck is a genius, yeah!!!

[tenorspaz]

That guy is my new idol. *wanders off to get her tambourine*

[2322008]

Rock on with your bad self, tamourbine player in the background!!!

Made my day...hahaha

[4watchintube]

thought it was just me - dude is cuttin the rug aint he??

[t1ket]

there's something wrong with that guy dancing and punching the air..but its cool

[prodrum19]

Is that ?uestlove on drums?

[cactaceous]

That's not ?uestlove. Not all black guys with afros are the same guy you know.

[geebs100]

or so they want you to think...

[howard22]

beck really is a great original artist

its also pretty cool that this song was in david lynch's movie INLAND EMPIRE

[J2digital]

Beck is totally my favorite artist- he has always been a musical influence for me. totally da bomb

[vacuumnoise]

@J2digital haha da bomb, too good

[cheeseburgerInc]

that dude with the tambourine made me laugh

[Ana4star2]

I L O V E his music is so exciting !

[JiffySpook]

This is actually much more enticing than the studio version. Very strong track visually, as the great David Lynch picked up upon. What a band.

[MyNamesAlreadyInUse]

Man, are you from outta space? It's the Dance Commander, probably the most important and far too underestimated part of a music band these days. It's a shame. You know what Dylan said? "I see myself more as a sing and dance man." So by now you should realize how far the history of the dance commander reaches back in music history!

[themindfuck]

ahh this is so cool and refresshing!

[maiozeta]

whats up whith the guy jumping a having espasms ??

[JuanDeSoCal]

i don't know what's up with it, but i loved it

[heyheyodelay]

3:14 Did anybody hear some Landslide in there?

[thelifeaquatica]

nope

[emptyNINE]

Yeah, I heard it. It's very possible, seeing as Beck began working on The Information pretty much at the same time he started on Guero.

[thelifeaquatica]

Sorry, I thought he meant Landslide by Stevie Nicks lol. Yeah its prolly in there he does it often :)

[legatoblue217]

I love and hate the guy playing tambourine

[PhasersOnFunky]

Hahahaha he said it Guero.

[harbinger123]

That drummer with the cig in his mouth is sooo ridiculous.

[cupnoodle0718]

notice that the uploader is him, very possibly ;)

[5ftaxeman]

Does anyone know what effects Becks using on his guitar from about 1:50 onwards??

[LozJBell]

just sounds like a delay with distortion

[5ftaxeman]

Cheers

[ScottZSLC]

loadsa reverb as well

[sp0ngess]

some tremolo would get kinda of the effect as well :)

[FukinMikeAlright]

forogt to add if he does think hes in that contest, nowonder hes happy cos hed fukin win it

[FukinMikeAlright]

wat the fuk is that prick trying to do at the back? does he think hes in the most idiotic inbred thing in human form contest? what a pure cunt,

[oftheguard]

you don't get it.

[joncaldwell68]

that was fuckin energy!!! loved it, the dancer is legendary

[aerialgymnast10]

Holy Cow! I want to be able to dance like the wild tambourine man. Who is that guy?

[djmrbrown00]

is that dipsetmuthafucka???? he has a youtube channel... I SWEAR THAT'S HIM!!!!! IS IT?????

[xinfiniblex]

ryan falkner

[conspicuouscoke]

such a TUNE....

[schilzy1]

Brilliant...the drummer with a smoke in his mouth...the dude dancing in the background...love the energy...Beck ROCKS!!

[RatatRatR]

Beck's done some great TV performances over the years.  I'd like to see a compilation of 'em...

[septip123]

i get the feeling that the Lettermans, the Lenos and the Sterns of the show biz world really dig these artists like Wilco and Beck. They just have to put up with the other new shit like Carrie Underwood, and crap like that.

[septip123]

his music is so much fun

[ghfan37]

Beck is fuckin awesome

[emptyNINE]

Beck's hair looks a lot better this way than it's current length.

[YodaPala]

THIS IS AWESOME

I cant get enough

[soylattedrinker]

I'm surprised he performed 'Black Tambourine', I've always considered it an album filler. 'Guero' has some much stronger material. But it's a very good live version nonetheless!

[mrjesus6666]

He left his pick in the guitar!?

[chemohormesis]

It's an extra pick threaded between the strings before they reach the nut. It's not affecting the sound at all.

[irinkaboom]

i like the mormon guy, he´s opposite to Beck´s calmness, he brings action to the gig, and the song deserves it!!!

[gamboge79]

no no....it's julian!!!  my mormon friend!!

[neeters27]

why does the percussionist have a cigarette in his mouth?

[jerryloupenguin]

why not?

[pepenores2]

he should've had a joint

[Shalomp]

who's that dipshit jumping around like a maniac in the back? he looks like ryan gosling on a caffeine diet.

[tydye69]

You have very bad taste....not to mentio0n you are rude, too. He's called a dancer, and he's part of the band. Perhaps you should just stick to the CD vs. video...and oh......shut your pie hole, too.

[Shalomp]

i'm pretty sure u can dance better than him! but before u take that as a compliment, let me just tell u that u are equally as rude as me! shut your pie hole u douchebag!

[tydye69]

I've been called worse by better.

[MetalLink1979]

He can't dance. That's the whole point. He's just part of the performance, and he was added for extra weirdness. That's just how Beck rolls.

[OHAYYMEG]

heckkk yeah!

[schecterplayerr]

no... hell yes

[ohgreatguru]

this band is A+.

[pedromusgo]

eeeeeeeeexcellentt

[ModDrum13]

man this is great. really influential. i love how there are two drummers and one of them is playing on really bad cymbals, but it sounds so good.

[gliccstudios]

great song

[saguaro23]

so rad.

[Minute2Dawn]

Tremendous Cardio Workout XD...hahaha I love Dave!

[benefielblues]

haha, the horn section playing 'loser' at the end is awesome. :D

[hstolte12]

hahaha I really like there back-up dancer.

And the drummer that has the cigerette is awesome. hahaha.

[BirdofSaxony]

Loser sounds pretty good played on a horn section.

[LetsJustSayZac]

haha lettermans band plays loser at the end.

[jmd620]

gotta love the danelectro

[heyheymymy78]

Great Silvertone (danelectro made)

[candidate0]

Oh my oh my, hes a genius baby, oh yeah, genius. Beck you rule my musical world man.

[69adrummer]

His band is always dialed in tight!! I mean solid man!

[limowick]

excelent song great video brillant performance

[Kitschead]

kudos to the drummer on the floor to be able to smoke a cigarette while playing drums. Actually now that I look at it doesn't look like the cigarette is actually lit.

[ScapeGoatMusic]

yeah its not lit hes a POSER O,o lol jk

[clom23]

Baby, you´re so cute, i love you

[srfwaxamerica14]

-"we" just want to sing

-"we" have a plan

-lol ..and beck was born in California..

[pdumont16]

What is the name of the dancing tambourine guy? His energy is crazy!

[SynRaine]

Why did you get thumbs down for this?

[Prometheus1st]

I think the tambourine doooood should run for President if he was serious about the job....any person that brings THAT MUCH focus and enthusiasm to a job....deserves a vote, LOL

-Prometheus.

[blooeye]

great. especially the guy dancing

[vanessa8265314]

matt sherrod is my 2nd step uncle no lie

[Sersjee]

Not still, but again. They've reformed and Matt's the replacement for Paul Hester, he's played on the new album and is with them on tour, apparently as a full time band member instead of "hired hand".

[Sersjee]

Nope, it's Matt Sherrod. He's now playing with Crowded House.

[killernigger]

yeah i was gonna say, Questlove aint left handed either. that some has so much groove.

[sicigurl82]

so glad someone posted this been looking for it love that dancing and that hanging cig from the drummer... ice cold

[TheOnlyLMV]

Look at that sexy guy in the black hat on drums..mm mm..and I agree with Sally...no JMJ..:'(

[stankler]

love beck byt this is a lame ass take on a bo diidly riff no matter how much dressed up

[Cnew11]

good thing no one cares what u think

[Gubnito]

haha

[BeckRocks]

Beck is sooo cute!!!!!!

[thebili]

why cant I get a job like the guy playing tamborine. He's in all of Becks live performances, just dancing around like a nut! I want to be that guy... accept not in my house by myself listening to Beck.

[beckswitch]

You are, Bill. You are.

[beatlesfreak264]

=) that would be the coolest job ever!

[Gubnito]

I dont think I could agree with you more.

[drzm]

this is one of my favourite tracks on the album but disappointed with this performance. Guero is my fav album still

[Whitestripes33]

Bunch of crazy multi-instrumentalists. I love them.

[DMBwbg89]

I LOVE BECK...

but, he's got his guitar strap on upside down. :P

[Whitestripes33]

He has it on the right way.

[DMBwbg89]

No he doesn't retard.

Do you even play?

[sparshopper]

Beck is one of the few men who can look incredibly sexy in a Romanian peasant style shirt!

[sneakinsally]

steaming hunks indeed...but no JMJ...tsk tsk