Robert Pollard just released a full album called "Relaxing the Asshole" of all GBV stage banter.
I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone else had some more suggestions for excepts of funny/ridiculous/unusual on-stage banter from concerts - am collecting here for a personal CD comp.
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)
whoops, sorry to repost that twice. I tried to revive the original one but it didn't seem to work at first.
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 5 February 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
The first thing that comes to mind is Black Oak Arkansas' "Raunch n Roll Live" LP. It has some great boisterous introductions by Jim Dandy, although these were probably scripted rather than improvised. Check out "Hot Rod," "Mutants of the Monster," and "Hot and Nasty."
― Curt W, Sunday, 6 February 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)
I know it doesn't qualify as "onstage".But, theres a Xiu Xiu bootleg from Tonic, NY and the entire way through these girls are having a conversation about the most banal fucking shit... I find it amusing.
"No, I can't smoke those they hurt my throat. My throat is sooo sore."
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 6 February 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)
there's a SRV live disc where he has a quite entertainingly incomprehensible mumbling rant......
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 6 February 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)
More essential stage-babble: Murray the K introducing Devo when they opened for Sun Ra (in Cleveland, Halloween 1975 I believe). This is on the live Devo Rykodisc CD. I can't seem to remember the exact title, "Devo Live" perhaps?
― Curt W, Monday, 7 February 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)
If you can find it, there's a 7-inch by a "band" called Jeff Leopard on TPOS records. All remaining copies were destroyed at someone's request, according to a story I heard, but some may still be lurking in stores. I think someone famous may have been involved and they didn't want this artifact embarassing them. Anyway, I believe it was recorded during a drunken open mike night somewhere in North Carolina.
Spoken highlights include (forgive me if it's not verbatim) :
*"I ran into this guy on the street and he said, "Hey Jeff Leopard, you can't be saying 'motherfucker' on stage. I told him, 'I can say motherfucker any time I want to, MOTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAAA!!!'"
*The singer trying unsuccessfully to get one half of the crowd to chant, "MOTHER," and the other half to respond, "FUCKER."
*People in the crowd laughing when the band announces it's "gonna lay back and play a little bit 'o blues for ya."
― Curt W, Monday, 7 February 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)