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Say Good-bye to Late Night With Seth Meyers’s Live Band


“Seth has been a big champion of ours from the get-go,” keyboardist Eli Janney says. “They couldn’t have been nicer about it.”

Fronted by Meyers’s former SNL colleague Fred Armisen, the collective — consisting of guitarist Seth Jabour, bassist Syd Butler, keyboardist Eli Janney, and, at the time, drummer Kimberly Thompson — proved to be more than capable. Since then, Armisen’s appearances on the show have grown more sporadic (he drops in for a week here and there), but Jabour, Butler, and Janney have been permanent fixtures alongside Meyers for 11 seasons. In a June 11 interview, associate musical director Janney indicated to Vulture that, at the conclusion of Late Night With Seth Meyers ’s current season, the show will undergo a “revamp” for budgetary reasons, and the 8G band will be let go.

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