hi I'm Barbara Gaines and today on the show we have Paul Shaffer and Dave thank you nice
to be here good to have you back good to see you David it's nice to see you and I
heard Paul might drop in that's why I came to be on the show today thank you don't take it
uh the wrong way but no no very exciting always to have Paul now I was thinking of
a song uh somebody who had been on the show singing oh David Bo was David boy on our show
old show many times three times four times well I'm not sure I remember really one do
you remember what he Sayang no just throw that in Walter right now let's look at that [Music]
now the late Prince was on the show and um he he I don't know he had some
sort of a seizure uh and you had to run backstage to check on him but he turned
out he was okay you shouldn't be laughing at it because the Man's
dead yeah he didn't really have a seizure something happened no no he just want I've
read you know what what I've read there's lots written on him lots of literature and
apparently he doing our show if I may was not his favorite experience is that a fact this is
what I've read and I I don't want to be quoted you know no you know how much I love Prince well
we all love Prince yeah uh but he preferred and I think it was kind of well known that
he preferred a gentleman on the other coast on the west coast he he'd rather be on J he went
on Leno ah and he kind of you know as you Leno would have with certain entertainers kind of
had a little friendship or relationship going what I read was he didn't want to really talk
to you at the end he didn't want that moment where I come over when you came over remember
this is brand new to me okay I'm just reading it from the show the G stuff but I remember
that he didn't want to talk and so made Believe something was wrong well he just you know I uh uh
I thought at the time it was part of the number the drama of the number that he had died whether
as a performer giv his all or the drum of the lyric whatever it was and a bodyguard came one
or two of them and just took him and grabbed him dragged him out so that when you came
over I'm alarmed yes when you came over there was well first of all there was nobody to you
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yeah W now this is absolutely a true story and I've never really told this part but it I went
to see him in Las Vegas when he had a residency going at the Rio I managed to get tickets to this
thing it might maybe it was his second night before closing up this residency I went to the
club 3 a.m. now I'm at the club where he comes on and does it's supposed to be jip Prince does some
cool Jazz he comes on with a full on show just a second very except in a smaller room now and now
it's 5 a.m. and I get that wonderful message Prince inviting you up to this week oh that's
exciting to totally exciting it was a very subdued crowd Prince two lovely Australian gals a DJ you
know female DJ of course and um huge screen he was watching back the show and he was just a really
really normal guy MH you know and was expressing he had had a lot of fun you know doing the Vegas
thing but it might be might be shutting down uh and I just had a wonderful year I never been
able interact with him at all even the times that he had done the show uh but at 7 a.m. they were
ordering breakfast and asking me what I want but I said you know I got a the family were back at the
room over at the at the wind okay so now we cut to a thing and this is you could back this up I've
seen this I I I think maybe on YouTube uh Prince's appearance on Leno not too much not too much after
that where he performed Leno came out they had a great interaction Prince was holding a sign
and it said Lena was the best even Paul Schaefer knows what he a thrill and I you know mysterious
thrill and crazy again this is all new to me uh and that's fantastic because that that after the
show experience is kind of what you live for to to to do the really early morning show to do this in
Vegas well I that's what I pretend to live for but really I couldn't stay up I was absolutely
exhausted like a zombie and and but this is great because I had no knowledge that there was this
enmity for me for Prince and myself what did I do and then the other thing that's interesting
to imagine uh Jay I I if you gave me a list of a thousand people that were friends with Jay I don't
know that I would find Prince on that an unlikely friendship no insult to either man it just seems
in congruous okay I mean I'm not disagreeing but does that mean at the end just Dave's little
courtesy how how much of those drums that is that is that what he wanted to avoid or or did he say
he wanted to avoid a whole interview I must have offended him over the years because this sounds
like it was building and building and building but you're you're uh invites you to the Big
Show so that's great for you holds up the sign uh avowing how great you are but me I take it right
on the chin speaking of the purple one slammed you there's no this is great there's no way around it
was this in your book you should put that in your book in the next one it was after yeah I would
have to go in the next one yeah you know what I was wondering for another all I know we put
together a list of people musicians specifically musicians who did not like being on our show okay
because I didn't realize Prince so now in my head I have three I have uh G Brooks didn't want any
part of us yeah Mark knofler no no thanks and now Prince had no idea well Mark noler did do
it once yeah yeah back in the day didn't have a good time back in 6A at NBC I guess he didn't
have a good time so next time Paul we'll have to load up another good show bus story well you don't
have to load anything up the man is Show Business stories I know he's got nothing but yeah oh well
thank you I wonder I wonder if Paul's appearance on the show is too late to save this little uh
Lifeboat thing you're running no Paul's going to save the whole thing one hopes yeah he will all
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