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a friend of mine yells at shows:

"How about playing something you practiced!!"

ouch lol.

What's your best (worst) heard?

I always tell ppl to "play something you know" right after they fall apart on something

Yep - that's a good one, too, Kramer

I shall recount an incident at a little dumpy club in New Jersey many years back. The headliners were Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics, but the heckling incident involved The great band The Stranglers and a drunken asshole that was throwing pennies at the band. As I recall, after finishing up a rockin' set, the coin tosser scored a direct hit ,right into a pickup of Hugh Cornwell's guitar, which clanged magnificently through his miked up amp. The physical nature and supreme marksmanship of this "physical" form of heckling was not what burned the incident into my memory , however. Rather, it was the non chelant way in which Cornwell , after bending down to retrieve the projectile, stepped up to his mic, and holding up the penny, proclaimed in his best Cockney English, "I'm pliezed ta announce, that for the first time in our American tour, We've finally realized a profit!"
After which he dropped the coin into his pocket and kicked off another bitchin' tune!

MAN ! Thats COLD.. ..Was is real quiet where everyone could hear?

One that got me fightin mad was directed at ME .I was told my ride cymbal sucked (after EVERY TUNE..it was gettin old)) .Id sold my 22 and had been usin an 18 CR.This Cat was real smarmy..Just kept it up.I said , well man , your welcome to set in ,lets see if you can make it sound any better.He says NO, I wouldnt wanna embarrass you..That was it!!! I slammed a glass down on the table bustin it all over the place.I tried to up end the table but too many people had the arms on it.. so I took a chair and busted it over his back (actually more of the back of his CHAIR).I ran for the stage and grabbed a mic stand and came weilding it at the disoreinted table of people and him and all his buddys RAN...Nobody said an effin word to me for the rest of the night..

I dont know about heckling but it seems no matter were I play theres always some drunk yelling out to play some certain song and while im pretty easy going this particular nite im playing some ass keeps yelling out to play sweet home alabama all nite long and while we knew the song I wouldnt play it cause he was pissin me off,the other guys wanted me to play it just to shut him up but I was being stubborn so I played simple man instead .so mr ass evidently being a skynard fan now decides hes gonna come up on stage to sing.halfway up the stage the bouncers grab him .with his feet dangling in the air being hauled off I stopped playing simple man.and started playin sweet home alabama as they were taking him out the door ,everyone started laughing their butts off.

Haven't often been heckled much, other than the usual drunk yelling Freebird or Sweet Home Alabama, which I always ignore, but there was this one guy around 25 years ago in a wheel chair who kept spitting on me all night...I finally told his buddy after the 3rd set, wheel chair or not if he didn't quit spitting on me I was going to put him back in the hospital. I mean, my pants legs were getting soggy - enough is enough...His buddy actually tried to convince me it was a show of admiration...but he convinced the idiot to stop. I made the 4th set without being a moving target. But I was so mad I wasn't having a good time and I seriously doubt that I sounded very good, it had to show that I was not a happy camper even though I was trying to work around it and keep up a good front.

so howlinj was at a punk show... hmmm (plasmatics)

best heckle I've seen was at this punk show where we watched 'mondo knane' - this unknown but awesome band from michigan...
guy in audience kept punching the mic stand and giving lead singer bloody lip... so lead singer basically did a flying superman punch... brawled a bit... and mic punch dude was thrown out.
that must'v really hurt tho.

Kramerguy wrote:a friend of mine yells at shows:

"How about playing something you practiced!!"

ouch lol.

What's your best (worst) heard?

"I would, but your mom's not here tonight."

HaHa your mom gets em everytime
Would you believe someone yelled frebirdat our band on night?
I think he was kidding but the rest of the crowd had a nice laugh so I guess it dont count as a heckle.

If Im not pissn off at least one person in the room Im not doing my job.

The other night they were hollern gimme 3 steps and we gave them the punk fast version. It was funny watchin them try to dance to it in cut time. Funny thing noone complained, so we might just start kinda doing our own reved up versions of all the songs that we really dont want to play.

The Best Heckle That ive ever heard Actually Came from my Guitarist about ten years ago. Some drunk kid was yelling sh*t at hi, and Ripped on him about his hair. Now this guitar player was a friggin Huge cat right?

So He goes:

Mike (the bouncer) If this Gooney Bastard Dont Shut His Cockholster, Im Gonna Dive Off this stage and beat YOUR ASS.

So They kicked the kid outta the Club, and
No one heckled us the whole weekend!
It Was freakin beautiful , man. (weeping with Joy).

sanshouheil wrote:Would you believe someone yelled frebirdat our band on night?

I remember at Warped Tour this year, I was watching "As I Lay Dying" (A heavy metalcore band) perform, and they asked what song we wanted to hear, and some old guy in the back of the crowd yelled "FREEBIRD!". Too bad the band didn't hear him. But it was still really funny

I think it's required that somebody yells "Free Bird!" at every rock and roll show. Or at least the 5,869 I've been to.

When people would yell "freebird" at us, circa '92, my drummer would stick up his middle finger and say "here!..... take it!........ it's free!"

Im with Paul,

Heres Your Free Bird!


Actually we occasionally play Freebird, its kinda weird being three piece but hell I love a challenge.

The one that kills our singer is Dream On, you know the little high part in the middle that even Tyler cant hit. If we want to pick on our singer I'll play the opening to that song then go into something else.