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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i.e.,

Warren Zevon before the solos in "Werewolves of London": "Draw blood."

― Ess, Friday, 1 August 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Loudon Wainwright to band in "Dead Skunk" -- "Let's stink."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

James Brown has gotta own this thread:
"Maceo!"
"Boots!"
"Fred! Fred! Fred? Fred!"

― BrianB, Friday, 1 August 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"aaaaaaaaah haaaaaa.... YEAHSSS!"

- Bob Wills

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Have you seen Junior's grades?"

--Van Halen, "And the Cradle Will Rock"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"rock me joe"
pixies, this monkey's gone to heaven

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Move over, Rover, and let Jimi take over."

--"Fire," Jimi Hendrix Experience

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sting me/suck me/breeeeeathe!"

--Black Sabbath, "Meglomania"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"into the eyes of a jackal i say kaaa-boom!" BC-XYU
"fdgd ery wergdg fds g bs fb s hsf h fbg sgb hsfgh AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Boredoms-numerous times

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Bob Wills: "Take it away, Leon...."

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Doug Sahm, lots of great things, ranging from "Lay it on me, Augie!" to yelling out what chord is next ("D! D!")

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Perez Prado's always yelling "Dilo!" (literally "give it" I think) -- he even has an album with this title.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

MOTHER, I WANT TO....fff-ffffuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

shit yeah Kobra!

I get a huge kick out of the part in Primus' "The Air is Getting Slippery" when they break it down, and Les says: "Ler...banjo bwoy". It's far more exciting than it should be.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Okay, Edge, play the blues!"

(No wait that's the worst thing)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Okay, I'm gonna let the bass groove right here. A-doooo-reewww-dooo-reewt, a dooooreeeewwdoooreeewt."

― Ess, Friday, 1 August 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

A related thread.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

props to the mention of perez prado.
by the way, dilo means 'say it'.

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock it, Rockett!

I like when bands shout 1 2 3 4 in the MIDDLE of a song (Local H does it a few times), giving us some advance notice that cool shit is gonna happen.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

also bob wills: 'play it... you're a man after my own heart... with a RAZOR, yeah!'

― jl (Jon L), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

'Gimme some reeeeegggggaaaaeeeee!'

--Axel Rose

Er.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Dickinson must have a couple of good ones.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"C'mon Steve!" - Def Leppard

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You gonna look fine
& primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past

I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon every star
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars

You talk about day
I'm talking 'bout night time
When monsters call out
The names of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things at night
That are better not to behold

You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter- gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen him
I've seen him

ROCK!!!

― marcfan, Friday, 1 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"GO!" - James Hetfield in...well, every Metallica™ song ever made.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, it's not in the middle of a song but, hey.

"Are you ready Steve? uh huh. Andy? yeah! Mick? OK. Alright, fellas, let's goooooooooooo!!!!"

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fishbone = plenty o' great shouts to da playaz, even within one song!

Angelo Moore, to Chris Dowd on trombone, in the middle of "Ugly": "play it boy wonder!"

Angelo Moore, to Kendal Jones on geetar, in the latter-middle of "Ugly": "play it goldfinger!"

(cross-post, King Kobra, GET OUT OF MY HEAD! That part is hella great!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ur thinking of party @ ground zero.

i love it when prince yells "CONFUSION!!!!" in "It's Going to be a Beautiful Night"!!!

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Okay Rob play GUITAR now brother"--Eggs, "The Government Administrator"

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"then captain marvel zapped him right between the eyes..... ALL THE CHILDREN SING"

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Boys - Ain't Nothing to Do

"Hey, Cheetah
"Yea Stiv"
"Im bored lets go pick up some Hilly Girls or something"
"Alright!"

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 1 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I also like the BBC version of "Monkey Gone to Heaven":

"Rock me Joseph Alberto Santiago."

― Hammy (hammy), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You got me Chaki...I can't believe I F'd that up, I've been listening to that song since I was 10 years old!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 August 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

not the most creative or anything, but lee's exhortation to "kick it!" in "hey joni" gets me every time.

― Jay Kirsch (Jay Kirsch), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"One break, cooommmin' up!!"

Van Halen- "Unchained"

― Will (will), Friday, 1 August 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"...and then my mind split open"

Velvet Underground, I Heard Her Call My Name

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Let's ROOOOOCCCCCKK!"
- Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction in "Had a Dad"

There's a really brief "Yayuh!" courtesy of the late Layne Staley in the middle of "Them Bones" by Alice in Chains that just kicks a giant tub of ass.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm gonna add a little guit-tar--to make it EASY to move your feet!" (and just about every other lyric of "Dance to the Music," esp. "Listen to the voices!")

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto the exhortations of Archie Bell & the Drells' "Tighten Up"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

and of course "You're my gee-tar heee-ro!" (Clash, "Complete Control")

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha jl, that's great!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

some mc5 song("high school"?) : "Okay kids, let's ROCK this town/joint!"

also, the Aquabats had a track where they'd yell out "1-2-3-4" in japanese in themiddle of the song. classic.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Play that harmonica, son!" Frank Zappa in "Trouble Every Day" I think.

"Kick it!" Beasty Boys - "Fight for Your Right..."

And on the opposite tip: "That's plenty, studio." MES on the last track of the first LP ("Music Scene"?).

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Turn that bloody blimey Space Invader off!

― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Black (Black Francis) saying "Rock Me Joe" (to Joey Santiago) as the Pixies usher in the early Irony Age with "Monkey Gone To Heaven"!

― Leighton M., Friday, 1 August 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Alright Doll Face, come on out and bore me" - Iggy Pop. This one surely takes the cake.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 1 August 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Play it for me, guitarist" -- Alex Chilton in "Dream Lover"

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Saturday, 2 August 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"YEAH, DON'T CROSS MY PATH!!!!"
- Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats in "Stray Cat Strut"

"JUST WATCH YER STEP!"
- Bon Scott of AC/DC in "Problem Child"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"YEAH, TAKE IT, HUGH!"
-- J.J.Burnell of the Stranglers, prompting a guitar solo from Hugh Cornwell in "Something Better Change."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 2 August 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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"Alright, that's you!"

Ryan Adams - Chin Up, Cheer Up.

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

another MES one:

"Get the change right, FUCKERS!"

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

"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 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

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

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

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

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

"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 (eighteen years ago)

Correction.

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

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

* 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 (eighteen years ago)

* 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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

When Hector Lavoe says "¡Ataca Yomo!" meaning Yomo Toro during "La Murga."

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

And, by the same token, whenever either Hector Lavoe or Benny Moré screams "Diablo!" although no doubt plenty of others said it as well.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

I like when bands shout 1 2 3 4 in the MIDDLE of a song (Local H does it a few times), giving us some advance notice that cool shit is gonna happen.

best 1234 in the history of recorded sound? right here. green's "better way."

― Lawrence the Looter, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

"Er'n slutt nå, Eldar?" "NEI!"

Vazelina Bilopphøggers: "Gi meg fri ikveld" (1980) - translation: "Is it finished now, Eldar?" "NO!"

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 21 July 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

"She's About a Mover" has gotta be "Augie" rather than "honky."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 21 July 2007 07:09 (eighteen years ago)

"Okay Rob play GUITAR now brother"--Eggs, "The Government Administrator"

-- Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, August 2, 2003 2:17 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

oh i love this

― electricsound, Saturday, 21 July 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

In some other Pretenders song (live cut maybe?), Chrissie eggs on the band with a sly "Girls?..."

yep, live version of "precious," she says, "are you ready girls?" and then the shit just explodes.

― Lawrence the Looter, Saturday, 21 July 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

"Jesus Christ was born today. We're gonna get born now- [*guitar*]" -Alex Chilton, "Jesus Christ"

― shanecavanaugh, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, that's not really rocking the fuck out.

― shanecavanaugh, Saturday, 21 July 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

Wilbert Harrison in "Kansas City": "Aw, but ya know it -- yeah, mercy!"

I've developed a minor fixation with this Wilbert Harrison B-side. What the heck does he yell? (The second one sounds like "Mosquito Legs!!" but no idea about the first. "Ahh Conchy-toochee?")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1STTfLSaQ

― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Friday, 11 April 2014 16:24 (eleven years ago)

"Speakin' Out" -- "All right, Nils!"

― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 11 April 2014 16:25 (eleven years ago)

Always thought Warren Zevon was saying 'dog blood'

― owenf, Friday, 11 April 2014 16:41 (eleven years ago)

"Billy..."

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)

(Ween- Polka Dot Tail)

― global tetrahedron, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:00 (eleven years ago)

xp to eazy, was totally gonna post "all right nils!"

― marcos, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:10 (eleven years ago)

also i LOVE how JB says "gimme some flute!" in mind power, something about calling out a flautist to rock the fuck out in the middle of a funk jam is just fuckin great

― marcos, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:11 (eleven years ago)

some mc5 song("high school"?) : "Okay kids, let's ROCK this town/joint!"

also, the Aquabats had a track where they'd yell out "1-2-3-4" in japanese in themiddle of the song. classic.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, August 1, 2003 3:49 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MC5 thing is from "Tonite": "OK, kids...IT'S ROCKIN' TIME!"

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 April 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

also i LOVE how JB says "gimme some flute!" in mind power, something about calling out a flautist to rock the fuck out in the middle of a funk jam is just fuckin great

― marcos, Friday, April 11, 2014 2:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not on the studio version (or if it is, I've never been able to hear it), but in live versions of "Super Bad" James says to saxophonist Robert McCullough, "Blow me some Trane!"

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 11 April 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)

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

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, September 4, 2006 3:21 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

definitely "augie"

― 69, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:17 (eleven years ago)

Eddie Vedder saying "make me cry, baby" [I think] right before the solo in "Yellow Ledbetter."

― LimbsKing, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:31 (eleven years ago)

"CC pick up that guitar and talk to me!"-Poison

Tom Petty's "HEY!" before the solo in "Even the Losers" is a pretty euphoric moment.

"Somebody said fair warning! Lord strike that poor boy down!"-Van Halen

― DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:33 (eleven years ago)

"Blow Joe!" at 1:19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMBZHUhBAYU

― Jazzbo, Friday, 11 April 2014 18:41 (eleven years ago)

In "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" when Dr. Hook yells out "ROCK AND ROLLLLLLL!!!!!"... and you hear this atrocious out-of-tune electric guitar solo by a guy that clearly can't play the guitar to save his life and at the end Dr.'s like "Aw man, that's beautiful."

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 11 April 2014 22:42 (eleven years ago)

Eddie Vedder saying "make me cry, baby" [I think] right before the solo in "Yellow Ledbetter."

― LimbsKing, Friday, April 11, 2014 2:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post

i always heard it as "maybe twice," although that's definitely one song where no lyric is clear or makes complete sense

― some dude, Friday, 11 April 2014 23:56 (eleven years ago)

In the best Archers of Loaf song, "Freezing Point," Eric quite succinctly barks, "Guitar!" and out comes the solo...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:27 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 April 2014 00:26 (eleven years ago)

it's def. "make me cry" in Yellow Ledbetter

― Sandy, Saturday, 12 April 2014 01:58 (eleven years ago)

"Everybody solo!" --Otis Ball in "Hey Buddha"; everybody does, simultaneously.

― Set the Ctrl-Alt-Del for the heart of the sun (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 12 April 2014 02:03 (eleven years ago)

There's also an "everybody solo!" In Dash Rip Rock's "Let's go smoke some pot."

― LimbsKing, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:46 (eleven years ago)

Kev's part thrilled, part panicked "Jimmy!" before the trumpet break on Dexys' Plan B.

― piscesx, Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:08 (eleven years ago)

A slight shame-like, but it's oddly thrilling when the vocalist announces "Drums" just before the drums kick in in Richard X's 'Rock Jacket'

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 05:25 (eleven years ago)

I mean 'You', not 'Rock Jacket'

― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 05:59 (eleven years ago)

Iggy yelling "BLOW, STEVE!!!" on '1970' or 'Funhouse', I forget which, maybe both

― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 06:17 (eleven years ago)

I think he does it in both, though one is more "BLOW, STIVE!!!"

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 08:36 (eleven years ago)

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