Favorite Spoken Quotes From Live Albums?

"Everybody say, 'Larry, you're a bastard!'."

 

"I don't believe you. You're a liar."

 

to paraphrase, it's been a real gas this time around. A real gas! something like that. I've been listening to the album since it was released so you would think that I might know it.

 

Elvin Bishop:

Now remember: this is not a rock concert, this is a cultural event. We won't have anybody raisin' their voices and gettin' rowdy!

 

"Everyone up front here is geting horribly smashed. If you just move back some...." - Jerry
"then all your friends up front won't look real bug-eyed." - Bob
5/8/77

 

"I'M GONNA GET MY KICKS BEFORE THE WHOLE ****HOUSE GOES UP IN FLAMES. ALRIGHT."

 

That old sun's making our instruments get mighty strange. - Bob Weir, 8/27/72

 

Raisin' Hell has quite a few gems.

"What's that Jack Daniels, I'll be damned if I'll take a drink of that"

 

"Thank you, goodnight. You've been the noisiest audience I've ever listened to."-- The Cure, Concert

 

"You'll hurt yourself, stop it"

"Ok. Hit it Zubin"

"The show is about to begin but don't let it bother you"

"Take it away Don Pardo"

 

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night." - Johnny Rotten, Winterland '78. Final Sex Pistols show.

 

"Here's Andy Summers... Farting about." Kevin Coyne, In Living Black and White.
"This one's called ... 'Checkin' on my Baby'!" Lee Brilleaux, Stupidity.
The whole of Take No Prisoners, Lou Reed.

 

"SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!"

 

"Evrybody crap your hands" - Japanese metal band Loudness on their 8186 Live cd!

 

"I Don't Believe You"

 

"Well, after eating that chicken vindaloo, I wanna be well!"

 

I also liked Bob Weir's yellow dog story. The dog wins the dogfight. Then the owner points out that until he was painted yellow it was an alligator

 

"Now then... I take it the majority of you are from the Smoke...
so I want all of the young ladies of London to put their hands up... very high in the air.
Now you'll notice from that... that about nine chicks put their hands up... high in the air.
The rest of them... therefore... must be slags!

Which is great... there's nothing wrong with a slag."

Ian Hunter on Mott The Hoople 'Live'

 

This is the first one I thought of! But why?

 

"The next song is from our latest album...or noise depending on who you talk to-John Lennon Live at The Hollywood Bowl.

 

And just prior to that...

"I don't know how many you people believe in astrology.
Yeah, that's right, that's right, baby, I, I am a Sagittarius -
the most philosophical of all the signs.

But anyway, I don't believe in it.
I think it's a bunch of bullsh-t, myself.

 

There's at least one where Pigpen takes over and delivers the punchline while Weir tries to get a word in edgewise.

 

"Here's a little Victorian melodrama for you with a slight surgical incision here and there"

Rob Halford introducing The Ripper on Live Vengeance

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Emerson… Lake… and Palmer!