Favorite Spoken Quotes From Live Shows

Jim Morrison (tons)
"NY joints are so thin you could pick your teeth with them"

I love the "Tale to the Cities"
"Dallas, Texas..Hi Ya'll!"

Deep Purple -- Made in Japan. Ian Gillan: "Yes, can we have everything louder than everything else?"

After seeing something on the stage floor, IA bends down to pick it up, looks at it and states, "Oh my God, it's a hair! Is it yours, Martin? You really should be more careful with what you're doing with the little hair you have got left! Do you want it back? If you won't have it, I sure will take it!

Mikael Akerfeldt comes out with some pearlers..........
“ If you don’t recognise this next song, you’re a f**kng c**t “”

Edited by Atavachron - November 22 2018 at 14:04

Curt Smith - Tears for Fears in Paris - from Secret World (2006)

"Old Michael, walked past the pet shop – which was never open – into the park – which was never closed. And in the park was a very smooth, clean green grass. So Michael, took off all his clothes, and began rubbing his flesh into the wet, clean green grass. He accompanies himself with a little tune… It went like this..........

Beneath the ground, the dirty brown writhing things, called worms, interpreted the pitter patter from above as rainfall. Rainfall in worm-world means two things: Mating and Bathtime. Both of these experiences were found thoroughly enjoyable to the worm colony… simultaneously. And within seconds, the entire surface of the park was a mass of dirty, brown, soggy, writhing forms. He was still pleased – Old Michael, and he began whistling a tune this time, to accompany himself. It went like this............

Jerusalem Boogie to us perhaps, but to the birds it meant SUPPER'S READY!

I have a Crimson live recording where Fripp says if you don’t like why we play you can go and piss holes in the snow...... cool Fripp...   

Edited by Tom Ozric - November 24 2018 at 05:22

On a personal level, I remember seeing Eric Clapton with Phil Collins on drums in Detroit, 1987. After the last encore, Phil throws his sticks into the crowd and yells:

Tom Ozric wrote: I have a Crimson live recording where Fripp says if you don’t like why we play you can go and piss holes in the snow...... cool Fripp...