Ridiculous On-Stage, Between Song Banter

Of course, there is always this guy

(I do have PiL on American Bandstand doing "Poptones")

"This is for all you Gucci bag carriers out there, You've Got Gooooooooooooooooooood taste!"

Elvis on stage
Freddie Hubbard (famous "you white mother*****s rant to audience)
Donovan
Slayer (from the live album, not the infamous boot)
Mercyfyl Fate
Mark E. Smith at fateful brownies punch-up show
Nirvana show where drunk European yells "play the song about fucking girls" for 10 minutes
Venom at City Gardens from Ecstatic Peace 7"
Jim Morrison from celebs at their worst
Steve Albini making fun of Germans from a Big Black soundboard tape
Klaus Kinski "I am Jesus" tour ranting on stage
Jefferson Airplane/Grace Slick at Altamont when Hells Angels punch out guitarist
Stoned hippie with chicken onstage at Glastonbury 70
Roger Waters from Floyd boot yelling at audience
Black Sabbath tour manager "This isn't 1776" rant from boot LP
Courtney Love meltdown
Brown acid spiel at Woodstock from MC 1969
Tom Jones horny dialogue strung together from a live album
Lou Reed from Take No Prisoners
Mike Love debasing the band
Iggy from Metallic KO

I guess parts of Wire's Document & Eyewitness and Turns And Strokes would qualify.

Is this for a WFMU premium?

Best Jonathan Richman stuff is the stuff about the taking the brand new shirt out of the package from Modern Lovers Live or the stuff about getting back in Precise Modern Lovers Order from that album.

How about this exchange from Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Joe Cocker: Ah, yes indeed, it's Easter time, living by the days...
[Guitar testing lick, possibly a stage direction to the singer to get on with it]
Leon Russell: I just wanted to say, don't get all hung up on Easter now.

wha..?

haha... although I think it is Shakey Mo and not his brother.

Lou Reed from Take No Prisoners
Is this the album with the famous "where's the money, Clive?" comment? I've been meaning to hear this album, for the overall entertainment value if not for the music.

And Brian, just one more pesky clarification- there must be a live audience present, is that correct? No rehearsal type stuff, like Chuck Berry arguing with Keef about "They'll hear it the way Chuck Berry played it!" in Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll? No fake pre-performance chat with Hef on Playboy After Dark?

also, zappa to thread.

What about Hendrix from Live at Monterey, "Like a Rolling Stone"- "Aw, this is a song by Mister Bob Dylan, that's his grandmother over there" (points to Noel Redding?!) "Yeah, I know I skipped a verse, wait a minute, I'll get back to it" but this not between song, but during-song. Is there a minimum length of soundbite?

OTM! Jarvis seems to find it extremely hard not to yak on at length between songs, often to highly amusing effect. Even when "in character" as Darren Spooner for the Relaxed Muscle project, he spent ages gabbling through a vocoder.

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"Shit Shower and Shave" - Paul talks about how they've learned all kinds of "audience rapport" from Tom Petty. "I think I've got a few of it down."

Double Live Gonzo by Sir Theodore of the House of Nugent boasts some typically idiotic things...and is, not least, the origin of the Athens, GA band, NASHVILLE PUSSY's name.

Also, check out Kick Out the Jams by ye olde MC5 for lots of ridiculous onstage exhortations.

OTM that shit is classik.

god i hadn't thought about nashville pussy for a very long time.

Might be on that CD she also says something like "dudududududududddudduddududud-bam de de de de" etc... or am i hallucinating?

* Fiona Apple losing her shit on the Radio City stage
* the Brian Jonestown Massacre - don't know if they've ever released a live LP, but _Dig_ has some absurd audience-participation moments
* Calvin Johnson asking for American jokes at a Beat Happening show in Europe (on some circa-1991 comp, I think)
* GG Allin's "OK, I'm ignorant, but I like to fuck/drink/suck cock, WHO GIVES A FUCK?" from Hated In the Nation

ah yes. "what do you do when your mom is a skinhead?" classick. That was the first "rock" show I ever went to, at the ripe olde age of 16. It wasn't me that screamed "fuck her" (that was one of the guys I was with), but we were all yelling stuff.

Sadly I was not there.

I saw Calvin Johnson recently doing a solo acoustic thing where he started to strum some chords and told a story about North Dakota. It lasted for perhaps twenty minutes. He kept gently strumming the chords, as if all the time, he was about to play a song. Never happened. He's weird.

they frightened away their entire audience that night. including me, i'm sorry to say. only my mate newcastle andy stayed for the whole set, and that was because he was physically too drunk to move.

Anyone else have suggestions for good/surreal between-song banter from live recordings?

-- donut christ (do...), January 5th, 2005.

"At least Bozo loves me."

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The crowd golf-clap and boo a bit, then you hear someone shout "VANKER!" and hear a bottle landing on stage, and Murphy says something rude and walks off. I wish I fucking well still had that tape.

Also, though I dont know if there's a recording anywhere of this - saw Lush at the Palace in Melb in 1992 and they said nothing the whole gig, not a word - til some wag shouted "sharss ya tits Miki!" and she gave the crowd a filthy glare, shouted "get fucked, cunt!" and then ripped into "Babytalk" for the encore. Bloody hilarious.

"That's not a coat, that's a flannel shirt ... I can't understand you."

"Shit Shower and Shave" - Paul talks about how they've learned all kinds of "audience rapport" from Tom Petty. "I think I've got a few of it down."

That also contains a rare Tommy appearance on lead vocal on "Nightclub Jitters" where Paul then says something along the lines of "Sing it, Axl!" Oh, the foreshadowing...

OK, kind of lame, but it amused me.

Also I have an mp3 of Kristen Hirsh telling some story about a squirrel.

"I think the question I get asked most of all is, 'Tom...is it possible for a girl to get pregnant without intercourse?' Well, to answer to that question, we have to go back to the time of the Civil War..."

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - Johnny Rotten in San Francisco, CA

"You're all a bunch of fucking idiots!" - Jim Morrison in Miami, FL

"Who won the war?"/"I have a hard-on!" - Grace Slick in Lorelei, Germany

CLASSIC.

Dude I totally sing Lightning Bolt riffs in the shower, xpost to people I don't know from three years ago.

Anywho..... Goat vs. Liar thread has me listening to Jesus Lizard stuff I haven't dug out in a while. Bits from Show where they opened for The Damned at CBGBs are makin me laugh.

"Are you here for the Damned? Should we leave?"

After the last song in their set, "Thanks, check it out, there's a band from England up next."

Been really into the Paul Stanley record the past few days.

Are we sure it's Slayer on that Charles Bronson 7"? The dude on there sounds pretty Euro to me (I don't have it on me and am relying on old memories here, tho). Would love to find that whole recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNpwirurg8

Robyn Hitchcock knows what he's doing.

Daniel Johnston fan and member of Glass Eye, Kathy McCarty, was just hilarious between songs. There's a 45 Glass Eye put out with their cover of "Satellite of Love" and the B-Side was a track called "Rock of Hand" that's a hoot. Always remembered this awful gag from a Glass Eye show: "Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? No? They're making headlines!"

I'd like to hear more from the Stick Men With Ray Guns guy, his little voice cracks me up...

"There's gotta be a singer somewhere out there that knows every single song we've ever written."
"I got it! They're talkin about me! ... We came down her and we're glad you found us...We don't care if ya don't like us or if ya like us we came, that's that, we wanna see you guys...I'm from fuckin' Texas! I love everybody! FUCK REAGAAAAN!"

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Grant Lee Phillips plus Robyn Hitchcock is hilarious.

http://c.wrzuta.pl/wi4747/4c8cb6bc001c903a47679460/0/elvis%20presley%20-%20having%20fun%20with%20elvis%20on%20stage

Not on stage, but love David Johansen at the start of this cut of Pills:
http://www.willardswormholes.com/?p=474

"What you macho motherfuckers getting all ATTITUDICAL about, man? We know you both got COCKS!"

I was going to start a thread called "greatest thing ever said on stage", but I guess I'll revive this one unless someone can find one more appropriate. My first three nominations would be:

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - Johnny Rotten in San Francisco, CA

"You're all a bunch of fucking idiots!" - Jim Morrison in Miami, FL

"Who won the war?"/"I have a hard-on!" - Grace Slick in Lorelei, Germany

"We're different from the other bands here tonight. We're punk rock. Fuck you." - Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening onstage at some sort of grungefest in Seattle, 1991

These are all rubbish

'Sing it Axl' re. Westerberg and Stinson is hilarious

Yeah, you're also shite, Calvin