The Roots Talk Late Night, Commute

0209roots.jpg As Jimmy Fallon prepares for his Late Night close-up, house band The Roots are frantically writing hundreds of original songs to play on the show because NBC is refusing to pay music licensing fees. The group has 12 days til they take over the airwaves, and drummer ?uestlove told Rolling Stone that of the 200 songs they are attempting to pen, "we've written about 55 so far." In the same interview he tells the magazine that the entire band is "commuting via tour bus every morning at 8 am" from Philly. So it's safe to assume none of their 200 new jingles have to do with leaving a giant carbon footprint on the environment. Unless they use a biodiesel tour bus?

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The Roots is the house band?!?!?!?!

I'm afraid they're way too good for Jimmy Fallon, or any talk show for that matter. But that's enough reason for me to DVR the show, just so I can hear their parts So no complaints here.

Might I request that they play very LOUDLY so as to drown out all the blather from the Star Idiot?

Agreed. Although, I'm totally watching because really, it's going to be amazing. I'll just switch to something else when there's no music...

"So it's safe to assume none of their 200 new jingles have to do with leaving a giant carbon footprint on the environment."

Why in the hell does everything have to turn into some stupid diatribe on how green or not green something is? It's not easy being green, so relax and just let some stories be what they are.

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I wonder whether music licensing fees (really, NBC? you're that cheap?) cost less given the fact that nobody will be watching the show.

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