Naff things that vocalists say (during the song)

[GBH]

"Here's a song i wrote for Prince" just before we do purple rain.

[squire5]

I remember a covers band here in N.Ireland back in the 60s who used to preface each song with "This next song is an imitation of the recording of (song name) by(artist's name) every single time.

[uk_lefty]

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Ever do a song and get 1 person clap and then stop very quickly when he realises hes the only one? Our response to that is "Thank you for the clap!"
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I have once said:
Don't clap on your own, someone will throw fish for you!
Premeditated jokes... Not sure I always like them

Edited August 23, 2017 by uk_lefty

[ricksterphil]

[quote name='Johnny Wishbone' timestamp='1503476843' post='3358471']

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+1

[ricksterphil]

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1503435770' post='3358306']
"Was I supposed to come in there?"
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...if at first.....hey I'm dumb I play bass

[bobbytodd]

during all right now our singer changes the words to "I took her home to my place and I came all over her face"

[fretmeister]

If we were on first our singer used to say

"Thank you to the warm down bands"

[Marillionred]

Lead vox: "This next ones originally by the late Brittney Spears"

Guitard, looking concerned - "Didn't know she'd died"

Lead Vox: "No <looks pointedly at watch> she's just late"

Cue Toxic

[mep]

Ours like to swap certain lyrics for swearwords. Funny the first few times, years later the novelty has worn off.

[Painy]

Our old singer used to change one of the lyrics in Living on a Prayer.

Instead of "When she cries in the night, Tommy Whispers", he would sing "When she cries in the night" and then shout at the top of his voice "TOMMY FISTS HER"!

Nobody ever seemed to notice though.

[paul_5]

"Well it's a fabulous night for a Moondance"

[Kevin Dean]

My old singer would change the words to "No More Heroes " to who ever had died that week ..."Whatever happened to David Bowie , Purple Prince & the Great Paul Daniels " .

[darkandrew]

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Ours like to swap certain lyrics for swearwords. Funny the first few times, years later the novelty has worn off.
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Having our singer rephrase Robert Palmer's "Addicted to love" as "Addicted to muff" became a little tedious (and more than mildly embarrassing) after a while.

[tonyquipment]

Now here's wonderwall

*proceed to play something else *

[squire5]

At weddings at some point our singer will say to the crowd,"We'd just like to take a couple of minutes to introduce ourselves",at which point we all proceed to shake hands with each other.Always gets a laugh.

[mep]

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Having our singer rephrase Robert Palmer's "Addicted to love" as "Addicted to muff" became a little tedious (and more than mildly embarrassing) after a while.
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Glad it's not us then. We get the F Word as the substitute in one song and Mother F****** in another when the originals are nothing like that. Ho hum.

[Oopsdabassist]

[quote name='squire5' timestamp='1503606587' post='3359686']
At weddings at some point our singer will say to the crowd,"We'd just like to take a couple of minutes to introduce ourselves",at which point we all proceed to shake hands with each other.Always gets a laugh.
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I like that..might have to nick it....gotta be better than me trying to do a bass solo at introduction time!!... The mental image is vaguely Bonzo Dog Doodah Band!!!

[Dan Dare]

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I like that..might have to nick it....gotta be better than me trying to do a bass solo at introduction time!!... The mental image is vaguely Bonzo Dog Doodah Band!!!
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Why not play a full version of The Intro and The Outro? You'll need to take a few extra instruments of course...

[Grassie]

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1503479037' post='3358494']
I used to play in a (blues) band in which the singer would preface EVERY guitar solo with 'play me some blues on that thing' and every one of his harp solos with 'excuse me a while'.
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My toes curled just reading that. 😊