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Article: The Roots ready for `Late Night' life
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2009
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NEW YORK - The Roots are making sandwiches.
The band is holed-up in a Manhattan studio, preparing for its new
gig as the house band on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," the NBC
show that will take Conan O'Brien's place when O'Brien moves to "The
Tonight Show."
They're working long days to create 200 "sandwiches" - the intros
and outros that will buffer each segment on the show.
"Right now, my whole life is this show," said drummer Ahmir
Thompson, better known as ?uestlove.
Since forming in Philadelphia in the early 1990s, the Roots has
been one of the best regarded bands in hip-hop. It was one of the