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Article: The Roots of late-night TV; ?uestlove and Black Thought say their gig on Jimmy Fallon's show won't stop other gigs, including one Saturday in Minneapolis.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 6, 2009
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Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER
It's not the TV cameras and millions of viewers that have been hard to get used to, nor the 90-minute drive back and forth from Philadelphia to New York every day.
No, members of the Roots say the hardest adjustment in their transformation to house band on NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" has been the one thing that a constantly touring rock or hip-hop band doesn't need to do very often.
"We had to get used to actual rehearsing," Roots drummer/bandleader Ahmir (?uestlove) Thompson said. "Seriously, we have never prepped so much for any project."
Talking in a teleconference interview from ...