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Tegan & Sara have the best stage banter.

Also +1 for Steely Dan, the hall of fame of session drummers

 

Donovan Woods is the funniest artist I've ever seen stage-banter wise

 

my favorite stage banter of all time is in the "final" mclusky show

 

Need to be Reeling in the take.

 

Steely Dan would crush "I Miss You" but Blink couldn't manage a bar of "Deacon Blues"

 

so true king!

 

All sorts of session players constantly, thats part of why I would still go see them with no hesitation even with Becker gone. Like, if anyone is gonna go out with an incredible band every single time, it's them

 

Also I agree about stage banter, any band that puts in the effort to do a different show in some way shape or form each night is a +1 for me

 

i prefer the coheed and cambria live show method: very little talking on stage, just blasting through the tunes

 

same. Idles mainly ripped through tunes the other night, but when Joe gave some stage banter about being thankful to be back in Australia and led a “fuck the king” chant, it was even sweeter bc we’d moshed to seven songs in a row so it was nice to just listen to him haha

 

Dave from Gang Of Youths also gave a five-minute speech after a boring song when I saw them last and it was like, you could’ve played another song instead. You do you but I’m not there for much stage banter

 

I saw Ray Lamontagne once. These very intimate conversational songs. He spoke twice.

First time:
"Sorry I'm not very chatty. Must be the cocaine"

Second time, in response to someone yelling "Freebird":
"Every asshole thinks he's the first one to come up with that joke"

 

i remember seeing real friends back in like 2014-15 and their old singer dan would stop between songs and rant about not committing suicide for like 10 solid minutes. it's important to talk about that stuff but it's a damper on the show, man lol

 

I saw Hawk Nelson at a free outdoor jesus fest called Godstock back in the day and lo and behold the singer talked about god for at least 7-8 minutes between every song

Never less wanted to be alive in my life

 

stage banter has tough because it needs to be authentic, nothing worse than when you can tell they have a script, and awkward but in a nice fun way not a sad way

 

I don't mind if it's a story behind a song they're telling on every stop of the tour. But when like jokes or crowd work or unrelated stuff is rehearsed and repeated it's really deflating.

 

paul stanley from kiss is the best at crowd work. there's my bad opinion

 

I dunno about banter, but I've always felt Jacoby from Papa Roach is really great at crowd work.

 

anytime i've caught them at a festival i thought the same. they're very good at what they do

 

I don't remember the band name, but they opened for The Hotelier and we're like "we're such-and-such. We don't matter." Then they just started playing and after every song the singer would say "you guys like that shit?" and then they'd just go into the next song lol

 

Greet death did something similar. Shit like “this song is called new hell and it sucks ass”

 

bands should also say the name of the song after every song, in case someone likes it but doesn't know it and wants to look it up later

 

I saw Haim open for Mumford and Sons before they got big but they never introduced themselves. I spent 25mins of the set trying to google what I thought they were singing

 

I would never be able to do that because I would not be able to avoid the incredible bit of being like this song is called Santeria and then playing Wrong Way or whatever

 

Totally irrelevant but didn’t he semi-recently post that he was questioning his faith and moving towards being agnostic or was that somebody else?