Ridiculous On-Stage, Between Song Banter

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.

Only to be a fly on a wall armed with a tape recorder when Billy went up to Kim Thayil in that backstage room in Australia and told him "You HURT ME. You HURT ME in my heart!"

Why dont you...

a) hit it with your dick
b) play it with your dick
or c) use your dick

...it'll probably sound better.

FZ has a poetry recital with the audience during Don't Eat the Yellow Snow that takes over the whole song.

Also the many King Crimson live discs where at least one member of the band snootily shushes the audience...

"Whew...that [newly-born amongst the crowd] kid's gonna be far out, man!" - John Sebastian

"I don't know how many of you can dig how many people there are, man. Like I was rappin' to the fuzz, right. Can you dig it? Man, there's supposed to be a million and a half people there by tonight, man. Can you dig that? The New York State thruway's closed, man! Yeah, it's far out, man. Lotta freaks!" - Arlo Guthrie

"Far out. Far... around! Far down! Far up!" -- Sebastian again

"Everybody's...vibrating" - Grace Slick

"Blah blah woof woof" - Jimi Hendrix

Then he said: "Just what the world needs now: a Celtic Triumph of the Will."

But then the next morning, in the Washington Post, it was misquoted as "A triumph of the Celtic will." It made me very sad.

Was that Joni Mitchell near-breakdown at Woodstock?

Lots of crowd baiting - "why don't you f**king kids buy some drugs or something, your f**king boring" and when introducing Can't Keep My Eyes on You "this song is called Can't Keep My COCK in you!". Seriously, there something between each song that's quite good.

Also, the Fall Live '77 has some good stuff. Can't remember exactly but lots of talk and anger about spit and beers being thrown.

Heh. I was at that show, which was held on Columbus' own Bela K's birthday. Bela's a great guy, and totally deserved all the drunken praise.

However, this thread is owned by Having Fun With Stanley On Stage, which makes P. Stanley's Kiss Alive banter seem like a warmup. I've been looking for a copy of this '45 ever since I first heard it. Anyone?

Most of the Lauryn Hill Unpluggged album.

Most of the Lauryn Hill Unpluggged album.

*cringe*

sorry that was bugging me.

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

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