Live Recordings Where the Audience Are Giving the Bands/ Performers/Artist a Hard Time

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Follwing on from here. Julio has suggested:

The Stooges - Metallic KO
Suicide - 21 Minutes In Brussels
John Cage - Empty Words (Part III)

Haven't heard the latter, but in a similar general area:

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Trans

- the audience boos at the end of the performance.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

a Goldfrapp mp3 i had of 'Physical (UK Girls)' has Alison starting by having a go at the "fucking arsehole" in the crowd putting her off tho that's not quite the same thing i spose

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report

Where at the end of Side 1, the audience are expressing their considerable disapproval of Throbbing Gristle, when the DJ at the gig somewhat hilariously loses it and starts laying into the audience (verbally not physically).

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan - 'Judas' gig

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the New order at Finsbury park one where Barney tells the crowd to get back or he'll set the dogs on them

― chris (chris), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan -- "Live at Royal Albert Hall", of course.
The audience seems very ... unsettled for the first few songs of Joy Division's Jan 1980 Eindoven gig. Strangely, both this one (in part, on the Les Bains disc) and the Preston gig (many, many technical mishaps) were given official release.

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― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to a Prom concert of contemporary music once where some campaign-for-'real'-music (read: dull as fuck tonal music) types set off a very loud electronic alarm in the middle of the first piece and simultaneously showered the audience with leaflets from the Gallery. The concert would have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, so I guess someone must have a recording of it.

Can't remember which piece was interrupted now, but Simon Rattle was conducting. He just stopped the performers, waited calmly for the Albert Hall flunkies to sort matters out, and then started the piece again from the top.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Modern Lovers Live - possibly the best bit on DEFINITELY the best live album EVER is when someone has a go at Jonathan about wearing the same shirt on consecutive nights.

"This is a new shirt! Help me out Modern Lovers, this is a NEW SHIRT!"

OK, it's not THAT much of a Hard Time, but still.

― MJ Hibbett, Monday, 22 March 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

the live tracks on Napalm Death's Death By Manipulation: "you fat bastard" chants from the audience.

― tod (tod), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ted Chippington - "Man in a Suitcase"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus and Mary Chain - Riot (Fierce 7"/CD)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ACR's Graveyard and the Ballroom - Topping sneers, sarcastically, at some heckler: "That sounds like Joy Division" doesn't it?" during the funky drummer intro to 'The Fox'.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Sabbath Riot on Khan's label. I wish I'd bought that at the time... never going to get the bugger now

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

fIREHOSE - Totem Pole, reminiscent of Metallic KO - you hear Watt at the end saying "Don't throw shit".

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Theres a recording somewhere on the net of a PA by Ja Rule and Ashanti - the booing of the crowd is almost louder than the music (hooray!)

― zappi (joni), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

PiL's Paris au Printemps, which I don't think is available on CD. The audience is gobbing at Lydon throughout the set. "I'll walk off this fucking stage if you don't quit spitting. DOGS!"
Shortly afterwards, in the middle of "Poptones," he does.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The "Bite Me" Hole bootleg. It's recorded in late 1994. It's more of a sociology experiment than an album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that live Johnny Thunders album-London, somewhere in the 80's-when he says:"Cool the fucking gobbing, man. Go gob on your mother, don't gob on me!" Great album, too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Beefheart - "I'm Going To Do What I Wanna Do" Live At My Father's Place NY 18/11/1978 (also bootlegged as "New York Hot Dog Night") has some members of the audience attempting to clap along with Don's recitation of "Well", causing him to lose his attention and admonish them saying "Cut it out man: this is not in 4:4 time! Some things are sacred!".

There are also people shouting out requests (including one in particular howling interminably for "Booglarise") which leads Don to demand "What is this gatling jukebox activity?" and of course "I'm going to do what I wanna do!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Alternative TV--Alternatives, really nothing BUT a bad time between performer and audience.

― Robert Porter (quahog), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a feeling the sex pistols have one or two.

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

no mention of lou reed yet? (i think that rock 'n' roll animal is the one where he's screaming at the audience?)

frank zappa, "honey, don't you want a man like me?" from zappa in new york and läther -- someone in the audience yells "fuck you!" and fz responds "fuck you, too, buddy fuck you very much!" then there's also that bit at the end of burnt weeny sandwich, where there's some hippy loudmouth going off on the cops.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a Bill Hicks CD of a gig he did on the Flying Saucer Tour, which is to a load of, essentially, rednecks in the middle of some southern state. They do not like him.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Filthy Lucre by the Sex Pistols, documenting the first stop (i believe) on their reunion tour. Seemingly the entirety of Finsbury Park chants "YOU FAT BASTARD!" at Lydon, who calmly retorts, "Now now, don't be naughty!"

Similarly, as the band stroll onstage during the opening moments of Final Damnation by the Damned ("Finall" my ass), you can hear the stage being pelted with projectiles, prompting Dave Vanian to exclaim "You're supposed to drink'em, not throw'em! Obnoxious!", before the busts into "See Her Tonight".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

On Live Excerpt by the Stranglers, Hugh silences the band just after starting "Dead Ringer" to ask the crowd, "Did someone say 'Wanker'?.....Come now, isn't he going to own up?"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

".... Final Damnation by the Damned...."

Isn't that also the one in which Cappers proclaims (over the top of the audience, who are all chanting "Sensible's a wanker", as usual): "We're not doing it for the money - we're doing it for you people, because we love you"?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That's right, Stew.

On the soundtrack to Penelope Spheeris' "The Decline of Western Civilization," there is a classic band/audience exchange courtesy of FEAR that is riddled with profanity (though it all sounds quite jovial, actually).

"How come they let all you long-hairs in here tonight, what's the problem? This is 1980, can't ya afford a fuckin' haircut?"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Curiously, that was actually one of only two occasions when I've really, genuinely believed that this was going to be the last time I'd ever see The Damned (the other one having been the first time they slipt up, in 1979).

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

slipt up? Do I mean split up, maybe?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and Finsbury Park was the second 'Pistols reunion gig IIRC - the first was a "warm-up" at Shepherds Bush Empire which seemed to sell out in a matter of seconds!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the band on the four that resulted in Final Damnation at the New Ritz on 54th street, and it seemed pretty final (being that Brian James was involved, and whatnot), but of course that was all bullshit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

on the Tour that....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure they meant it at the time.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

probably. Although I seem to remember the t-shirts for the gig being basica black with the legend, "Honestly, we really must be going!" on the back, under the logo from the Black Album

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

...meaning they were well aware of their own penchant to change their minds.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The only 'final' gig I went to (i.e. that they had announced as such, previously) was the Ramones one. Quite a few that turned out to be the final one without knowing (Stone Roses, World Domination Enterprises, and a band that supported Beck who's main guy got killed a week later)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Final gigs....this sounds like a good thread idea....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thank you, Good night, God Bless, Goodbye"....final gigs you've witnessed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

More Stranglers. There's that "Official Bootleg" 12-inch, featuring "An Evening With Hugh Cornwell" in which HC offers to personally knock a group of hecklers 'round Leeds.

― briania, Monday, 22 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny this has turned into a "Live Recordings Where the Audience Are Giving the Bands/ Performers/Artist a Hard Time and the Bands/ Performers/ Artists Subsequently Give the Audience a Hard Time Back and Appear Clever or Tough As a Result"

Which is fine.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

haha all the comebacks were probably overdubbed afterwards

i thought there had to be some stranglers examples on tape. I heard they positively tried to wind up audiences in the 70s

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark E. Smith rules this thread - mind you he usually spends more time attacking his band (verbally and physically) than the audience.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 22 March 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed, Totale's Turns by The Fall has a few of each.

Also, Kevin Hewick's side of A Factory Quartet.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Hamburger

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

daphne and celeste at reading. as soon as they finish there's a lone 'fuck offf!' followed by thousands of others booing. always makes me laugh

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Residents - conclusion of the track "Hallowed Be Thy Ween" cuts to a distorted recording of the aftermath of their Boarding House gig, it sounds like pigs being slaughtered

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

anal cunt probably would rule this thread, since seth putnam's idea of combatting hostile audience members is to throw cinder blocks at 'em.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

though that's not caught live on any recording that i am aware of, sadly(?)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlie Mingus' Live at Antibes: Listen closely during the legendary Mingus/Eric Dolphy "dialogue" to hear Charlie tell some ignorant Frenchman "You can go fuck y'self!" in response to (I think) the guy's heckling Dolphy's bass clarinet solo. The earliest audible recording of the word "fuck" that I've personally ever encountered. (1960, four years before Kink Dave Davies' "You Really Got Me" utterance. Or should that be gutterance?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Ochs' "Gunfight At Carnegie Hall" has a section where the audience are giving him a hard time for playing Buddy Holly & Merle Haggard songs rather than his protest material, but by the end of his set, Phil has completely turned them around. All thanks to his Elvis suit and winning personality...

>Kink Dave Davies' "You Really Got Me" utterance.

What? Is this the growling going into the guitar solo? He could be saying anything there...

― harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oh, get 'em off"... (official)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

>Kink Dave Davies' "You Really Got Me" utterance.

What? Is this the growling going into the guitar solo? He could be saying anything there...

Just one bar before the second verse begins ("See...), accompanied only by the drums, you can hear Dave's voice. Admittedly, you can't understand exactly what he says, but it's well documented that he was saying "Fuck off!" And once you know when to listen for it, you can even hear it on lo-fi AM radio.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 25 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

Are there any riot-grrrl-confrontation Bikini Kill bootlegs floating around?

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Consolidated - "Play More Music"

― mike a, Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

more please.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Tool's 1st Live EP Thing 'Get that Bob Marley wannabe motherfucker out of here!'

Tim Smith of Cardiacs is a master of orchestrated and theatrical audience and band member abuse.

― mzui (mzui), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Egads! How could ya'll forget...

G.G.! He gave the audience a hard time (piss! shit! puke!) and then they'd BEAT his ass.

G. G. Allen died for our sins.

― Joseph Cowart (Joseph Cowart), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

is there really a bootleg of Daphne & Celeste at Reading? How marvellous.

Oh and Finsbury Park was the second 'Pistols reunion gig IIRC - the first was a "warm-up" at Shepherds Bush Empire which seemed to sell out in a matter of seconds!

They'd also done a handful of European festivals or Belgian dates or whatnot beforehand. "You've got to rehearse somewhere, don't you?" quoth Lydon.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

Are there any riot-grrrl-confrontation Bikini Kill bootlegs floating around?

I have a comp LP with a suitably confrontational Huggy Bear live excerpt, if that helps

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 September 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

I have a Sundays bootleg, possibly one of if not their first live gig. In the audience, right next to (or with!) the taper, are some people who are presumably mates of hers, hollering things at her and giving her shit. Then the drummer fluffs the start of "Can't Be Sure" and stops, and they're howling in delight. It is rather hilarious.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 5 September 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

I've got a recording of an Allen Ginsberg reading at some college in Upstate NY, c. 1970, where an audience member is off their mind on acid and proceeds to disrupt the event. Ginsberg ends up engaging (!) the guy in a long conversation as opposed to letting Security eject him. It's something.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

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