{"id":2081,"date":"2009-03-27T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-27T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T23:25:11","slug":"between-song-banter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/between-song-banter\/","title":{"rendered":"Between-Song Banter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gL8U458dm04?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your feeling on <strong>between-song stage banter<\/strong>? I usually dread it, but every once in a while I see an artist who&#8217;s good at it. <strong>Richard Thompson<\/strong>&#8216;s banter was highly entertaining when I saw him with a band in the late-80s. RTH contributor <strong>Rodney Anonymous<\/strong> from the Dead Milkmen used to talk like crazy, but he was like a punk rock George Carlin and his rants added to the energy of the band&#8217;s shows. I&#8217;ve seen Pere Ubu more than any other non-local band, and although <strong>David Thomas<\/strong> is usually awkward and miserable, he&#8217;s highly entertaining. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there&#8217;s <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, who&#8217;s not bad but overstays his welcome. Most other performers mumble stuff half-heartedly, making me wish more bands would play nonstop segues like The Ramones. Then there&#8217;s <strong>Bruce<\/strong>. His long, corny raps about his Dad at the breakfast table, giving him hell for his long hair and rock &#8216;n roll are cherished by his fans, but when I saw him live in 1980, they almost single-handedly threatened to ruin what little I enjoyed about the show. The Boss is also big on the rah-rah stuff, the &#8220;Hello Cleveland!&#8221; incantations. It all reminds me of some of the reasons I don&#8217;t attend any kind of church.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I don&#8217;t dislike all between-song banter and I&#8217;d love to recount a specific story that made the concert experience better than it already was. However, I&#8217;m not one of those guys who can recite quotes from favorite movies that I&#8217;ve seen a dozen times, so I&#8217;m definitely not one of those guys who can recount a particularly good piece of between-song banter. But I&#8217;ve heard more than a few of you spit back Monty Python routines and the like. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve got a particularly good and\/or bad stage-banter experience to recount.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s your feeling on between-song stage banter? I usually dread it, but every once in a while I see an artist who&#8217;s good at it. Richard Thompson&#8216;s banter was highly entertaining when I saw him with a band in the late-80s. RTH contributor Rodney Anonymous from the Dead Milkmen used to talk like crazy, but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/between-song-banter\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}