GREAT RIVER - New York's Most Dangerous Big Band.

Events such as these earned Guns N' Roses the moniker "The Most Dangerous Band in the World."

Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band performed the Chuck Berry song "Roll over Beethoven" for the 1992 film Beethoven.

Ciola and Dankert did not play on the show because many bands simply sat in with and The World's Most Dangerous Band.

In 1982, Lee became one of the original members of The World's Most Dangerous Band, the house band on NBCs Late Night with David Letterman.

Sanborn had previously been a guest saxophonist in The World's Most Dangerous Band during Late Night with David Letterman.

The show also got a house band, hiring prominent musician Paul Shaffer to lead the group named The World's Most Dangerous Band.

Similarly, the in-house band was unable to use the name "The World's Most Dangerous Band" so they instead called themselves the CBS Orchestra starring Paul Shaffer.

Great River New York's Most Dangerous Big Band.

By 1987, the "NBC Orchestra" name was being used in the opening announcements, before "The World's Most Dangerous Band" became the official name circa 1988.