Ridiculous On-Stage, Between Song Banter

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...

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.