Not Exactly Whipping the Crowd Into a Frenzy

I’ve seen a lot of shows in my life as well as hearing many live albums. To get the crowd going, bands will often speak to you between the songs. Just mentioning the town they are in can often get the crowd so charged up they blow the roof off the motherfucker (rock lingo). Not often, but sometimes, (perhaps due to the near heroic amounts of drugs and alcohol in their system), they fail miserably.

Off of Anthrax’s new live album:
“How you feelin’ out there tonight Chicago!? Yeah, you’re rockin’ tonight! Like an antique chair on a motherfuckin porch! You know, like on a pleasant day with a glass of lemonade, fresh fuckin squeezed! This one’s called ‘Caught in A Mosh!’”

Marilyn Manson show ’99:
“How many AnitChrists do we have here tonight?! It’s time to destroy all those wholesome things we believed in that have soured and become rotten! So help me out, who wants death to conformity?! Death to the government?! Death to God? Death to LITTER?! Let’s start by cleaning up our own mess, this one’s ‘Cake and Sodomy!’”

Anti-Flag show ‘03:
“This one’s about local measure 67; rewording of the treasurer’s official job description including all obligations and responsibilities! Overseeing, but NOT necessarily responsible for all oversight of budget spending directly or in any way having to do with special interests regarding water and power! The corruption ends NOW!

Kiss live album ‘78:
“Now my people I know you believe in the spirit of ROCK N ROLL! But sometimes when people talk about rock, it turns out they’re all talk. When you rock, you gotta walk the walk, not just talk the talk. It’s cool to talk the talk—about rock—as long as you’re rockin’ the walk… or walkin’, wait… rock walkin’ YEAH!” People in the back, you ready to rock?! I can barely hear you, sounds like you’re just talk! So people, if you believe in rock, let me hear you WALK!