Best Lines you've heard onstage?

[Holy Diver]

Fine. Heehee.

 

[Old P Bass Guy]

Fine. Heehee.

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Well, if you have to barff i guess this as good a place as any.

 

[Old P Bass Guy]

Our lead singer responded to a request once and told them we had to stay. We were paid up to 1AM.

Another request we had once was a song called "far, far away".

 

[keyboardguy]

From Steve Allen,

"There was a freak accident on the expressway today..... Three freaks ran into a bus !"

 

[bassdiggle]

I'm trying to figure out which iteration of Dragon you would have seen - there were a lot of lineup changes between 1980 and '85. Brothers Marc and Todd Hunter (vocals and bass). Robert Taylor on guitar. Maybe Richard Lee if there was a second guitar. Paul Hewson (not the one a.k.a. Bono) on keys - he died in '85. The drummer might have been Kerry Jacobson, in which case that would have been the "classic Dragon" lineup. If it was late '83 or 84 it might have been ex-XTC drummer Terry Chambers, which was my favourite live iteration of the band.

Hi whero.....certainly had the great Mark Hunter on vocals....and Tod on bass.....I'm not sure of the other members.....but it was a great night

 

[bassdiggle]

Wasn't that in the late 70's when Dragon were in the US? I remember reading about the incident and I'm sure it was the late 70's and they got booed off stage... I could be wrong though

.....maybe Todd used it as a regular line

 

[7615]

YES SIR I WAS STARING AT YOUR WIFE ... BUT ONLY AS A COURTESY.

 

[lowfreq58]

Just before break our front man said
"I'd like to remind you that this portion of our show has been brought to you by Hardy's shoes. All you guys run right out tomorrow And get you a pair because remember,,,
All the girls go for the guys with their Hardy's on!

 

[NZBassman]

in an old band I played in if we played a song and no-one got up on the dance floor, the drummer would say 'you just missed our $10,000 dance song'
a few times I've said "if you have any requests please write them on the back of a $20 note"
another time I said "We've had a request - but NO I'm not taking my shirt off"!

my first gig with my new band on Saturday went well and the singer did band introductions at the end... and he said "on the Bass is Nick.... he's our new bass player, he's so new in fact I don't know what his surname is yet"!
it made me chuckle!

 

[whero]

a few times I've said "if you have any requests please write them on the back of a $20 note"

I may have the details all wrong, but isn't there a story about a band leader who received a request written on a $5 note and he sent a $10 note back with "We don't do requests" written on it?

 

[Mr_Moo]

.....maybe Todd used it as a regular line

That sounds quite likely.

 

[Bob Rhett]

I've used this many times, "If you have any requests write them down on a little piece of paper and shove it up your @$$ cause we don't do requests."

 

[Fredrik E. Nilsen]

I've used this many times, "If you have any requests write them down on a little piece of paper and shove it up your @$$ cause we don't do requests."

Stay classy, Bob.

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

Last weekend Amanda was chatting to the crowd at Gilley's and asked, "How ya doing Las Vegas?"

I joined the dialog and said, "Well, I just lost my mood ring and I don't know how I feel about it."

It got a chuckle from the band anyway.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[Chains]

Hey, we're gonna take a 5 minute break. We'll be back in 20 minutes.

 

[Clark Dark]

Rodney "Skeet" Curtis' soloing over Bernie Worrell playing Flashlight.

 

[Bizorballs]

During a week long gig at a nite club, it was Wednesday night (when business people usually "packed" in). They were really visiting/talking with an occasional clap for a tune, but VISITING. So we, a 4 piece, played a really avant tear off of Eleanor Rigby with rhythm, key, etc changes. It was progressive, inventive, taxing and fun. 20 minutes later we finished it and nothing....just visiting buzz. Our younger, very gifted guitarist just stood there for a few seconds, walked to his mic and said, "thank you for that sudden burst of indifference."
Our older keyboardist reddened with total piss off while I convulsed in laughter!
Net effect?.....audience visited.

 

[lfmn16]

If people applaud more than usual my drummer will say (into the mic of course), Hey they like that one, let's play it again. It's so stupid that I always laugh.

 

[BassCliff]

Hi,

Whenever the audience really enjoys a tune, or the band really blows the intro and we have to start over, I like to say...

"We are the band that puts the 'fun' back in dysfunctional!".

I'll hang up on myself now.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Mid 1980s, the Monk tribute band, Invalid Link Removed is playing at the RegattaBar in Cambridge MA. Kenny Barron in the role of Monk, with bassist Buster Williams and two of Monk's sidemen, Charlie Crouse, tenor, and Ben Riley, drums. They have just finished playing "If Ever I Should Leave You." Buster goes to the mic and says "That was 'If Ever I Should Leave You'. By...?" He scans the audience. Silence. "Well," he says, "If no one knows, then I guess it doesn't really matter." Then he points at the saxophonist and says "Charlie Rouse wrote it." And the audience begins to applaud. "HE DID NOT!" roars Buster. "I could tell you people anything." Audience laughs. What else can they do? The show goes on.