Ridiculous On-Stage, Between Song Banter

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?

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

"At least Bozo loves me."

http://www.smashingpumpkinstribute.hpg.ig.com.br/billy704.jpg

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...

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