Coolest Crowd Quip on Record?

[Hamerhack]

How cool would it be to have been this guy in the crowd on Hendrix In The West?

Hendrix: "We'd like to do this loose jam type of thing..."

Guy: "Whoo, Johnny B, Goode!"

Hendrix: "Johnny B. Goode, what the hell !"

or, from Get Yer Ya Ya's Out:

Girl: "Paint it Black, ya devil!"

and the Stones do Sympathy For the Devil!

What's your favorite example?

[LordOfTheThighs]

KISS 1976 Destroyer Tour.

Flaming Youth

This makes me laff every time I watch it. There's no reply to the quip, but a nice call out from the crowd.

At the end of the song, as the band is walking off stage.

[Rich_S]

Chicago at Carnegie Hall. For two whole album sides, some guy in the audience is yelling "Colour My World!", increasingly hysterical. The song is, of course, an integral part of the suite "Ballet for a Girl In Buchannon", the band's big concert closer, so there's no way they're playing it until the end.

Finally, at the end of Disc 3, Side 2, Terry Kath yells, "Hey!.... You!.... SHUT UP!" to the cheers of the audience. He then rips into a swaggering version of the guitar-heavy blues tune, "I Don't Want Your Money".

[Rodan]

KISS 1976 Destroyer Tour.

Flaming Youth

This makes me laff every time I watch it. There's no reply to the quip, but a nice call out from the crowd.

At the end of the song, as the band is walking off stage.

Tough crowd!

[rj2858]

About 15 seconds in, the scream! And then again... LOL

Ian Hunter, better than YOU!

When I saw this thread last night, this was the song I thought of, but for the banter leading up to the song. I didn't post because it's so hard to hear on this recording - clear as a bell on the album;

CROWD - "Ian"

IAN - "What?"

CROWD = "We love you"

IAN - "Love you too" "Uh, this is a true story, people ask me if it's a true story, they say, Ian..."

CROWD - "Is this a true story?"

Found it funny back in '79 when I got the album, and it still makes me laugh now.

[Willie G. Moseley]

I wrote a whole commentary on this almost 20 years ago, citing something from Creem where some writer would bellow "Whipping Post!" regarding of what band was playing and regardless of what genre they were purveying. Funny article in Creem. which was indeed a one-of-a-kind periodical back in the mid-'70s to early '80s.

So this is self-plagiarization:

"Who made yer violin?"---at the end of "Larks Tongues in Apsic Part Two", on King Crimson's U.S.A.

"Boogie!!!" ---same album as above, as the band drones into another prog rock tune (I think it's "Exiles")

"(A whoop + one guy clapping)"---Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal. Happens on "Heroin", when the volume abruptly drops and a B-3 is grinding out a moody solo. Apparently the stoner (and that term didn't exist then) thought the song was over.

"Lou Reed sucks!"---Lou Reed Live (same sessions as Rock and Roll Animal). Happens as the applause dies out at the end of the album.

Technically, this one doesn't qualify, but John Mayall is befuddled by something said out of microphone range, asking "Chicky-Chicky wot?" before the last song, "Room to Move", on The Turning Point.

(Grunts, chants and screams, accompanied by a drum kit)---"Who Do You Love", Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails. Sounds like some kind of pagan ritual.

Jim Morrison's dialogue with an audience member about astrology (I'm too sleepy to type it out), concluding with what sounds like a cherry bomb exploding--- following "Roadhouse Blues" on the Doors' An American Prayer

(Indecipherable bellowing followed by) "Take off yore bloody uniform before it's too late, maaaan!" (audience member)...."Every person in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself." (Frank Zappa)...(more indecipherable bellowing from audience member)..."You'll hurt your throat! Stop it!" (Frank Zappa)...heard somewhere on the Mothers of Invention's Burnt Weenie Sandwich...IIRC

Another from-the-stage-instead-of-the-audience example: Bob Hite's threat to do his "Jim Morrison impersonation", followed by "Lookit this!" is greeted with derisive laughter from the audience during an amp breakdown on Canned Heat Live in Europe. I guess you had to be there.

I may be slightly off about the quotes but that's the way I remember 'em.

[RobB]

If I remember correctly, two songs into "The Concert For Bangladesh (vinyl)", someone shouts out "PLAY SOMETHING WE KNOW!", as the band slams into "Awaiting On You All." Seems it has been edited out of audio of the newer, DVD version that I own, and I don't have the LPs anymore. Selective memory?

[JohnnyB]

Buddy: Are you in my band?

Guy in front row: No.

Buddy: Then get your feet the hell off my stage.

Buddy: This is the regular band, too, folks. Some of these guys have been with me since we opened here Monday.