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"Ahhahah! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Goodnight!"
Posted by Blue Sky on 10 February 2010 - 9:07am.
Are these the most iconic words ever uttered by a rock artist from the live stage?
I think so.
There is so much weight behind that sentence.
You could say those eight words shut the door on a whole movement.
What say the massive?
Sure beats "We're gonna play a some new stuff for ya".
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I don't believe you
You're a liar.
Play it fucking loud.
This is not only the last night of the tour
This is the last concert we'll ever play...........as usual
Kick out the jams...
motherf***ers!
on behalf of the band
I hope we've passed the audition
"Charlie's good tonight...
in'ee?!"
Not forgetting...
"Who's fightin' and what for? Why are we fighting? Why are we fighting?"
Rattle yer jewellery
class war at the Royal Variety show. John L meant it, man, far more than John R ever did.
Can anyone expand on this
Not having been alive in 1963, could any members of the massive expand on the contemporaneous impact of this statement. In retrospect it's painted as John L being bold with a cheeky wink, but was anyone offended at the time? Was it seen in '63 as a grenade thrown over the class wall? Anyone?
It was no big deal..
News, at that time, wasn't the monstrous 24/7 phenomenon it's turned into (see Barry McIlheney in he last issue on this very topic) and Britain was still quite a benevolent society. So it was just about as harmless then as it still appears to be. You know, the most minor items seem to generate "a furore" these days, it was a fair question DrJ.
The Beatles didn't become scandalous until heartland America took exception to Lennon's Jesus comment a couple of years later.
I seem to recall reading...
... that there was some discussion between Lennon and Epstein before that performance. Epstein wanted to know if Lennon was going going to talk to the audience and he said no, "I'll just tell them to rattle their f*ckin' jewellery." It's possible that at least one person was pretty worried about it ...
I'm currently watching the Beatles Anthology
And whilst the jewelry remark gets an appreciative laugh, this footage of John urging the audience to clap was far more shocking. Imagine this today.
The bit before..
When John crouches down at the end of "no fun" saying how "this is no fun at all" still blows me away.
In the context
it did indeed slam the door. Cook and Jones were on the legendary KSAN the night before asking female callers if they had "a hairy Jack n' Danny". General head scratching as to what that meant. Next day we drove into the city for the gig. An absolute shambles. Apart from hometown faves The Avengers (Penelope" sigh"). Afterward we drove into Golden Gate Park with more beers and joints to listen to KSAN's re-broadcast. At the close, it was like the scales fell from our eyes.
In contrast
the last words uttered by the Pistols (Sid) at their last UK gig were "Anyone want a fuck?"
This is a
FUCKING ROCK n' ROLL CONCERT, not a FUCKING tea party!!!” - Pete at a Who gig, Long Beach Arena, 10 December 1971
“Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!” - followed by guitar twatting Abbie Hoffman
"I can dig it. The next person who walks across this stage is going to get fucking killed, alright? You can laugh, I mean it"
I remember one.
Angry Anderson from Rose Tattoo at (possibly) Reading, back in the day. In rich Strine brogue.. "If yer standin' nexteran' imberseal 'oos throwin' cahns.. Spiddin' 'is oi!"
Hmmm
"D'yall remember Rudoph Hess?"
Bernard Albrecht/Dicken/Barney?Sumner at the Electric Circus in 1977.
And you wonder why they though Joy Division were nazis.
(really surpised no one else cited this one)