Best thing a bandleader/singer says to his band to encourage them to rock the fuck out in the middle of a song

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"OK edge ... play the blues!"

ok, maybe not.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 2 August 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

'mr. len get busy!' by El-P on 'patriotism'

― tylero, Sunday, 3 August 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

"steve jones, eat your breakfast" before frank sidebottom launches into the solo in his the definitive version of "anarchy in the uk"

― kieron, Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

I suddenly remember the various invocations to "Take it, Jake!" in the history of the Raunchy Young Lepers. This makes sense, he was for the longest time the only one who knew how to play anything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

okay it's not really rock,and it's not the middle of the song,it's to sorta introduce the rocky outro of the song but it's still great...

"hand's up lads, i think theres some people who (Mu Mu) are a bit shy, muu muu as the KLF would say"

and then onto repeating the chorus for a last few goes

"And all the pop stars star at the length of hair,oh oh oh Kylie's got a crush on us!"...

BMX Bandits, Duglas Stewart,one of the greatest men in pop music, ever.

― Myles Bartoli, Sunday, 3 August 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

ALL of "Dance To The Music" by Sly, innit?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 3 August 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

"ROCK!"

eels -- souljacker pt 1

― person#0 (person#0), Monday, 4 August 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

he's saying it to himself rather than the rest of the band, but jimi's "let me, ah, prove it to you" before the backwards guitar bit in 'are you experienced?' is pretty great

― adam b (adam b), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:33 (twenty years ago) link

and it's at the beginning of the song, but bob dylan's "play fucking loud!" at the beginning of 'like a rolling stone' rules the school too

― adam b (adam b), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

Johnny Cash, Luther Played the Boogie

Luther played the boogie Luther's played the boogie in the strangest kind of way...

Play it strange!

― Flopsy (Flopsy), Saturday, 2 September 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

When Freddy Mercury says "GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!"

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lady be good" Velvet Underground--What Goes On

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince- "Baby I'm a Star" : "Doctor!"
Prince & the NPG - "Return Of The Bump Squad" : "I got something for your headache."
Prince - "Kiss"" "Think I wanna dance now!" and "Littl girl Wendy's parade."
Prince - "Rock Hard in a Funky Place': "Maybe if u cop a nut in the car/Maybe u could think about playing guitar"

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Saturday, 2 September 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince - Cream - "Look up in the air, it's your guitar"

Pretenders - Middle of the Road - "Brrrrrrr, nyowwww!"

In some other Pretenders song (live cut maybe?), Chrissie eggs on the band with a sly "Girls?..." Laurie Anderson pulls the same trick, only it's a Harmonizer-processed trio of her own voice that responds.

"And the colored girls go..."

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Sunday, 3 September 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

BBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Adam S S (Zephery), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"Aw, make it pretty now..." - Ernest Tubbs

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Come on honkey, do your thing - Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the one the Sun City Girls did before a particularly nasty sax solo? It was something like "play it sloppy for 'em" or something. It was hilarious anyway.

― Period period period (Period period period), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the rolling stones - 'little t & a"

"you got to shock them, show them!"

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Tennesse Flat-Top Box by Johnny Cash:

"And he would play . . . "

Also Elvis calling out "Show 'em, son" on Guitar Man.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

That Buddy Rich tape to thread again.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

In "The Last Gas" by Embrace Danny goes "BEEP BEEP!" like a car, and then Rik plays this retarded solo. It's great.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark E. Smith: "Don't start improvising, for christ's sake!"
Also,
"Will you fucking get it together instead of showing off!"

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

This is at the beginning of a song, but in my book should still count: The Boredoms, 'Telehorse Uma'.

"One...uhtwo...uhthree...four"
"Onetwo...threefour"
"One two"
"A one-two"
"One two thr..."
"One two three f..."
"ONETWOTHREEFOUR!!!"

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Hit that long rollin' note Mr. Zoot Horn Rollo and let it float.....

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"GO NIGEL GO!"

Spinal Tap, "Gimme Some Money"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael Nesmith to Glen Campbell: "Play magic fingers!" In the middle of that same guitar solo: "Yeee-ha! OH, pick it mister!" From the Monkees'"Papa Jean's Blues." When I was a kid, before I knew any better, I thought Nesmith was damned clever to intro HIS OWN SOLO that way...didn't know he had a studio stand-in...

Also: just got through listening to the upcoming Waylon Jennings box set. After he entered his outlaw phase (and ESPECIALLY after he started recording with his road band rather than Nashville studio guys), you could always hear him egging on the musicians everytime the band was about to throw down...usually something simple like "...alright." (I think he's definitely doing this on "Honky Tonk Heroes," when the song changes tempo after the beginning.)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

now lemme hear ya, tell em how i, tell em how i, tell em how i, tell em how I FEEL.
- stooges, "no fun"

"go guitar, go!"
- art brut, "good weekend"

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"Uh Uh...Right...Right...Just dig it"

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"Ben, you just show them how funky it can get when funky days are back in vogue again.."

― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"THERE'S A SALE AT HOT TOPIC!!!"
- Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"OK LET'S GIVE IT TO 'EM RIGHT NOW!" - The Kingsmen, 'Louie Louie'

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bulldog Skin", GBV

Bob: "Alright, get wild!"
Doug: [deadpan] "Look out!" [solo]

"Jumpers," Sleater-Kinney

Carrie: [giddily, to herself] "Let's go!"

― Faithful Shooter (faithfulshooter), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Alright, that's you!"

Ryan Adams - Chin Up, Cheer Up.

― Torgeir Hansen/MRZBW (MRZBW), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, rock on George, one time for me. - the Beatles' Honey Don't

― Lex D (finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Hit that long rollin' note Mr. Zoot Horn Rollo and let it float.....

Actually:

"Mr. Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note and let it float..."

― Ich Ber Ein Binliner (Dada), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"Show em, Stevie!!"- Mudhoney 'Overblown'

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Speedo from RFTC ha(d)s dozens.

"NAKED LADIES!" being my favorite on record, and "I'M HORNY FOR YOUR MONEY!" being my favorite live.

That second one is more for the audience than the band i guess.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

another MES one:

"Get the change right, FUCKERS!"

― mucho (mucho), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"New horizons in sound now as Roger plays a solo on the electric shirt collar"
- The Bonzo Dog Band, "Shirt"

"Oooh, press those trousers!"
- The Bonzo Dog Band, "Trouser Press"

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

"All right, Leroy, tell them"
-Jonathan Richman,"Abdul and Cleopatra"

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Whenever Beny Moré calls for a solo from "Chocolate."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"You're a monk, I'm a monk, we're all monks!
Dave, Larry, Eddie, Roger, everybody, let's go!
It's beat time, it's hop time, it's monk time now!"

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Correction.

BIG ACCORDION SOLO! before the big accordion solo on the small accordion in Shaddap You Face.

― MRZBW, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

* Neil Young in "The Losing End": "All right, Wilson -- pick it!"
* Ringo Starr in "You and Me (Babe)": "Play it for me, boys; there we are."
* Carl Perkins in "Blue Suede Shoes": "Awwww, let's go, cats!"
* Nick Lowe in the (most unbluesy) "I Love My Label": "Play the blues!"
* Bruce Springsteen in some live track I can't remember: "Professor, if you please!"
* Gene Vincent in every song he ever made: "RAAAAAHHHHCK!"

― The Deacon, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

* Elvis Costello in "Leave My Kitten Alone": "This here's a solo!"
* Wilbert Harrison in "Kansas City": "Aw, but ya know it -- yeah, mercy!"

― The Deacon, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Xiu Xiu on stage, "fire it up Jamie!" (undocumented)

― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I always liked when Weird Al tells himself to "make it talk" on the accordion solo of "I Love Rocky Road." Still cracks me up.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Terry Day towards the end of "Ruthless" by the London Improvisers Orchestra: "Everybody...a GREAT BIG FUCKING RACKET!" And that's exactly what you get.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

No Half Man Half Biscuit?

"Okay boys, fill the skip"
"Let's go to chapel"
"Let's pedestrianise the high street!"

I can't remember which songs these are all from, apart from the chapel one which is Bad Review.

― Bocken Social Scene, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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