My personal favorite, from Michael Stipe of REM:
MS: "Let me hear you scream!"
{the crowd screams}
MS: "Let me hear you say herd mentality"
{the crowd shouts out "herd mentality"}
Brilliant.
2007-10-18 08:09:04 · 16 answers · asked by Mike AKA Mike 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
That's awesome.
Eddie Vedder at a Pearl Jam show in Detroit: "Miller Lite... Now there's a beer. I'll tell you what, I could piss in a cup and give it to this guy here and he'd like it better than a Miller Lite."
Part stage banter, part product critique.
2007-10-18 08:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by Sookie 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Anything by Gordon Downie of The Tragically Hip! His stream-of-consciousness rant are legendary. And comments like this-
"Hey, all the girls up front are getting crushed by the guys in the back. Wait a minute! This isn't supposed to mirror society!"
2007-10-18 15:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dave Mustaine at a Megadeth show in Detroit: "It's nice to see a city that actually appreciates metal!"
Nikki Sixx at a Motley Crue show in Detroit: "Hey, Detroit. How does it feel to be the greatest f--king rock n roll city in the world?"
2007-10-18 16:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by Child Of Decadence 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iron Maiden's Life After Death during the song Running Free when Bruce says his favourite line,,"Scream for me"..he then tells the audience (In Long Beach Arena)...to "Make me go to my hearing doctor and say Long beach f**ked up my hearing for good"
2007-10-18 22:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by ash_beer59 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ozzy- simple yet effective...
Clap your F**kin hands and the whole crowd in unison does as he wishes.
Michael Anthony _ allowing his bass solo to rile up different parts of the crowd....and then chugging jack to teh delight of all!
2007-10-18 16:09:52 · answer #5 · answered by James M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have 3 instances......all from an MSI show I went to......
Steve, Righ? : you do the crime, got to pay the time
Little Jimmy Urine: Wait Wait! I need guy-liner, hold on (puts it on like a football player).......all right, now I'm ready to be Panic At The Disco.
Urine: I'm sad (putting on deodorant), cause I'll never be on MTV....but wait, maybe we don't need MTV. No we do need MTV for shows like Laguna Beach and Ashley Simpson.....and you can't really get those on Fuse can you? But wait we don't really need them since we have You Tube. We can put me on Youtube..................(says a couple of things I can't remember).............. So all of you little boot leggers break out your cameras and camera phones. Come on, there's a lot more cameraphones out there.........you need to call mommy to pick you up after the show. There they are............now we play my favorite game........you be Hype Williams, we be Ja Rule, okay.......... (crowd screams)
Jimmy Urine: Remember the days you would get beat up for listening to Mindless Self Indulgence? Now you get laid. When the f*ck did that happen?
2007-10-18 15:38:12 · answer #6 · answered by Dani G 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
bela fleck. "jesus christ! you guys'll listen to anything, won't you?"
(they have a moment where each member of the band goes solo...everyone else walks off....he started playing different parts of his instrument percussively, and i guess the people in the crowd thought he was being artsy and interesting (it IS a jazz show) and it fed their pseudo-intellectual snob images, so he kept going....after a while, he said that....funny as hell. people who were pretending to be especially "in tune" with him turned red.)
2007-10-18 17:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by blue-in-groove 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heard on a 1978(?) Black Sabbath concert bootleg:
Ozzy: I'd like to say on behalf of the group.....WE THINK DISCO *SUCKS*!!!
Audience: wild cheers/screams
Was told a riot ensued sometime afterwards....
2007-10-18 16:11:04 · answer #8 · answered by Fonzie T 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A Diesel Boy show.
Girl: I love your Bass!
Dave Lake: Really?!?! What exactly do you like about it? Is it the shape? The texture? Do you love the way it feels? Can you see yourself holding it all night?....
He continues making more and more innuendos until the girl is bright red.
2007-10-18 15:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by Master C 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not so much banter but crowd participation:
Steve Vai - gets stage right audience to scream, then stage left and then stage right, stage left, right, left etc....quicker and quicker. Then signals for them all to stop and says: "I wrote that!"
2007-10-18 15:42:50 · answer #10 · answered by Next evolutionary step... 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋