Favorite Spoken Quotes From Live Shows
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Topic: Favorite Spoken Quotes From Live Shows
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Favorite Spoken Quotes From Live Shows
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 08:36
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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!"
Miami Concert is full of great uplifting things to wake up the audience. Roger Waters (Run Like Hell) "Have a good time! Enjoy yourselves!" (as he's shooting a machine gun) "This is for all the paranoid folks" "This is for all the disco fans!" "Is there anybody out there who worries about things? Pathetic!" ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 09:04
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Phil Lynott "Is there anyone in the audience with any Irish in them?" "Is there any of the girls that would like a bit more Irish in them?"
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 12:01
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Deep Purple -- Made in Japan. Ian Gillan: "Yes, can we have everything louder than everything else?" *Drops mic* ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 12:10
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Classic Ian: ..the Eagles used to be the opening act for Jethro Tull back in around 1970, when we used to play this. And a year or so later they came out with Hotel California. Martin noticed the fact that they were very similar. So, if the Eagles decide to give me the royalties from Hotel California, I want you to know I'm going to take you all out to dinner! What do you say? Heh? Good? Yeah, and what's more: we'll go somewhere nice! But somehow, the Eagles ain't going to be that f**king stupid. They're not going to give me the royalties for that. They're going to take you out for dinner! You can tell them I said so. ------------- |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 12:17
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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! ------------- |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 12:25
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Pink Floyd, Rotterdam Ahoy, 19 February 1977: "Back in twenty minutes" and "Good night". The only words they spoke during that gig (the first I attended). ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 12:36
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Mikael Akerfeldt comes out with some pearlers.......... “ If you don’t recognise this next song, you’re a f**kng c**t “” |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 13:49
One of my favorite Ian Anderson quotes (from the live side of Living in the Past): "I'd better not open this now because it might contain contraband. We'll give it to John to supplement his Camels. He was dropped on his head when he was very small. We occasionally cut his fingernails off and smoke them."
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Barbu wrote:Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 14:03
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another Ian Anderson gem, this time to Robert Plant during a Tull/Zeppelin double bill describing how the two bands could join forces-- "With my lyrics and Zeppelin's music we could really have something". Needless to say Plant didn't take it as intended. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 15:32
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Here's some of my favorites... 1) Fripp - from the '74 Crimson bootleg Senabular recorded in Arlington TX. Between songs, guy in audience screams: "LOUDER". Fripp: We have a request from a gentleman to play louder. May I make this kind suggestion to you sir that if we're not loud enough, perhaps you'd care to listen more attentively. 2) Fripp - from "The Road to Red"...Columbus OH 4/28/74: "...survey of our audiences if you like us or not. [applause] Ladies & gentlemen a most generous assessment...we're having a little difficulty with our violin over here...it was built by a celebrated English violin maker from Shepherds Bush named Mr Legs Quigly...you may heard of him...Legs plays in a very famous English rock band, Emerson, Legs, & Palmer. If you will just bear with us for a moment we will do what we can to improve the flaccid tone and wavering intonation of our violin player." 3) Fripp - from "The Road to Red" : El Paso 6/8/74. "good evening...madam, you would like me to adopt what is termed in the trade as 'doing the big willie' for you madam? Certainly, here I go. Are you ready for this young lads? This is part of the drive to commercialism, this is an appeal. Ladies and Gentlemen, please buy our records. Please. May I on behalf of the band initiate a campaign that I'm sure will capture the hearts of millions, ladies & gentlemen make King Crimson a top 10 band!" 4) Ian Anderson - from the '76 bootleg "A Sackful of Trousersnakes" recorded in Long Beach. IA: You may notice our drummer Barriemore Barlow wearing this fantastic Scottish kilt. He wore this at rehearsal the other day and I asked him what type of undergarment he would be wearing at the show to protect his private and quite naughty bits from your gaze. He said to have a look, so I did and I must tell you it was gruesome. And as I looked at it, it grew some more... 5) Keith Emerson - Works Tour, Oakland Arena 1977. Mid show Keith's tech comes out from backstage to work on some problem. Keith takes the mic and says, "I'm having a little organ trouble...bet you can all get into that" ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 16:49
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Curt Smith - Tears for Fears in Paris - from Secret World (2006) "I have a helicopter made of cheese"
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 17:14
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Dee Snider Twisted Sister at Reading Rock Festival in 82 or 83, "If you don't stop throwing bottles I'll come down there and f**k your girlfriend". ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 17:47
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"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! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: November 22 2018 at 18:23
I remember once Zappa saying that about Zeppelin, and I think specifically, "Stairway to Heaven" (he covered it, after all) ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 05:20
| 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... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 09:54
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Stones 1970....Get Yer Ya Yas.... Jagger: " I think I busted a button on me trousers....you don't want my trousers to fall down now...do ya?" ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 09:59
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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: "Not bad for a couple of old farts, eh?" ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: November 24 2018 at 11:37
It's kind of funny listening to artists referring to themselves as old all those years ago... Phil wouldn't have even been 40 in 1987! I've got a recording of Genesis in 1976 where one of them refers to Trespass as a "very old record". I guess they didn't think they'd still be performing in the 2000s.
------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: November 29 2018 at 09:32
That last part sounds like the title of live album from Apostrophe-era Frank Zappa.  Speaking of Zappa: "Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself." ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: November 29 2018 at 11:26
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Robert Fripp (from Doctor D, intro to Easy Money): Two apologies. First of all, to all the people standing in the back, we apologize for the discomfort. And an apology also to all those people whose conversations we're interrupting. Thank you. |
Posted By: tigerfeet
Date Posted: November 29 2018 at 20:58
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Roger Waters (Radio K.A.O.S Tour) Whilst trying to softly play "If" (Atom Heart Mother) the crowd was whistling really loudly and would not stop. Roger: "Please stop whistling" Crowd: Whistled like crazy more and more and louder.. Roger: (stops playing) "Ok, if you don't stop whistling, there will be no encore" |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 30 2018 at 05:11
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Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) Reading Festival 1987. "So, I hear that 9000 free condoms have been given out this weekend. So if there's 33,000 people here and 9000 condoms have been given out, that must mean there are 24,000 w**kers here" ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: November 30 2018 at 06:20
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This isn't prog, but what's the better, it could be seen as a complete short story actually, and it has always moved me. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN talking about his youth, and a troubled father-son relationship. If it's not yet familiar to you, have a listen, it comes before 'The River' starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FDIezoMtI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FDIezoMtI |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: November 30 2018 at 15:50
There's a TON of great Roger Waters' stuff.. I remember compilation videos entitled "Roger Waters Meltdowns" ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: December 06 2018 at 01:12
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There's P Tree bootleg (I have but can't remember which one) where SW spends some time winding up Richard Barbieri for his time (and more pertinently fashion sense while in the band Japan. It's quite funny... |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 14 2018 at 18:26