Heckling; C/D?

Also; what are the best heckles you've heard?

I terms of your second question, there's some good stuff here:

Your most succesful heckle at a live show.

As for why bothering. Other than the obvious reason that it's fun to be a smartass when you're drunk, there is perhaps a certain noble function of challenging the stage-worthiness of the performer. I think an old favourite like "Play your other song!" is quite acceptable. If it gets a laugh then the audience has agreed that it's appropriate. There's way too many people that have no right to be on stage, imho. I think we are all usually too kind.

classic when one or two small (and mostly harmless) comments lead to band anger and/or laughter, dud when its some loudmouth going on for an entire show

At a gig at the LSE, about 1986 or so.

The support act (main act was Danielle Dax) were two blokes with various electrical stuff, somewhat Cabaret Voltaire like.

Heckle: "AT LAST, THE 1981 SHOW!!"

See, there's a heckle that is wayyyy too thought out, smarmy and essentially Rik-like in it's "hey look at me I'm clever" ness.

London Uni's dontchaloveem.

Heckling/Throwing piss at Josh Homme C/D?

I see most of the comments are defending the kid.

(I've not watched the video, but...)

Hang on, I'd assume even if Josh Homme had sat down and thought about was it right to beat up a kid, he'd say no.

But if he'd suddenly been covered in someone else's piss (and that's not something the kid did by accident, right?), too right he's going to be angry. He's now wet, and now smells bad.

If a 15 year old kid threw a bottle of piss at you in the street and did not leg it, you'd lump him too right?

Also; what are the best heckles you've heard?

young lady, to Fergie: "I wanna see you piss your pants!"

Punker in front of stage at 1985 Meat Puppets show in Providence, RI: "Speed it up! We're not fucking critics!"
Curt Kirkwood's riposte: "Ahhh, no man ..."

The scene: Last week at the MFA in Boston, Mark Kozelek is being a passive-aggressive jerk to the audience, which is apparently his deal. He backtracks a little bit, saying something like "You know, it's just a weird life. I drive all day, then I'm in front of 500 people, then I'm alone in my hotel room, then I do it again. It's just a weird life."

From the audience, timed perfectly: "Why don't you write a song about it?"

ugh, I'm feeling guilty about heckling somebody tonight

wish I could go back in time and stfu

I mean, I think he deserved it for his noisebro audience-baiting antics, but I could tell that it depressed him bigtime

my playing-live-shows karma is now dented

did u hit him w/ a thrown beer can???

http://stereogum.com/969681/bradford-cox-covers-my-sharona-for-an-hour-in-concert/video/

All hell broke loose during last night’s Atlas Sound show in Minneapolis when an audience member jokingly yelled “My Sharona,” referencing the Knack’s classic track, and Bradford Cox took him up on his suggestion. From the video description:

A drunk heckler jokingly shouted “MY SHARONA!” at the Cedar Cultural Center. Bradford responded, “Fuck you. You want to do this motherfucker?” and proceeded to go on a nearly hour-long epic jam/cover of it out of spite.

Classic.

I find over-enthusiastic drunk people to be more annoying than hecklers, in most cases. I once had a show ruined by this drunk dude shouting "YOU'RE MAGIC - YOU'RE FUCKING MAGIC!" over and over again the entire night.

The above is the proper way to handle a heckler. I remember seeing some band in the late-90s deal with someone yelling "Freebird!" (christ remember when people did that constantly?) by playing "Freebird", complete with dueling guitar solos. When they got done the singer said "not so funny anymore?" and he was right.

Over-enthusiastic drunks I find you have to put hands on in order to get shut up.

It's a funny story, but you'd pretty fucked off if you'd paid to see a band and they spent an hour covering My Sharona just because of one dude, wouldn't you?

Eh, by the sound of it, it could have come across like an awesome drone-noise piece and, tbh, there are far worse bands than Atlas Sound to pull that off.

And if it shuts up some dumbass in the future, I'm willing to sacrifice.

Wasn't there a story about Modest Mouse playing "Freebird" a bunch of times in a row to punish hecklers?

So one of my co-workers went to the Atlas Sound show here in Cleveland over the weekend, and apparently Cox got into an argument with an audience member about whether or not David Thomas of Pere Ubu was actually born in Cleveland, and made the guy come up on stage.