Ten Worst On-Stage %3&@ Ups (With Clips)

[@CS-mo7xp]

saw Mumford & Sons live once, and the entire show passed without major incident... horrific. I'm still traumatised.

[@starmersbarber]

😂😂😂😂

[@thisisnotachannel]

Having to endure an entire concert of their music? I would be traumatised too!

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@CS-mo7xp The f**k-up WAS the show, lol

[@JasonSmith-jr7jh]

@CS-mo7xp F 'em. We know how great they are, and even better Live!

[@anthonyscully2998]

No one can beat an 18 inch Stonehenge

[@chrismcgovern1647]

In danger of being crushed by a dwarf

[@anthonyscully2998]

@@chrismcgovern1647 making a big thing out of it would have been good

[@JasonSmith-jr7jh]

"Noooo...we're not gonna focking do Stonehenge!!!"

[@anthonyscully2998]

@@JasonSmith-jr7jh should have seen the cover they wanted to do - believe me, it wasn't a glove

[@JasonSmith-jr7jh]

@@anthonyscully2998 "Whats wrong with being sexy?"

[@snowdog64]

If we wrote better songs we wouldn't have to do this shit cracks me up everytime I hear that story

[@geoffclements269]

Actually, I do have a short atte

[@SPY1964-LL]

Attention wot?.......

[@kallymavromatis123]

Squirrel!

[@GrahamSouthorn]

Me t…

[@AB-mt9nf]

Is this really nece?

[@simpleman5688]

Hell’s Bells, we All do..👍🏿

[@thunderdeed1]

Truthfully the worst F**k up on stage was Great White at the Station Nightclub. No disrespect intended.

[@joshuaporterfield6774]

I’d like to take issue with that.. But I can’t.

[@jcsolomon6470]

That was a Travesty,not a F up!😮

[@Jonhobbs64]

@@thunderdeed1 I had to watch a safety training video about that fire. It is documented from start to finish. Everyone waited until it was too late to even start to exit the building. Sad.

[@keithcummings3260]

It was an incident that sent ripples through every venue in America.

[@atatterson6992]

The dry, wry wit and timing in impeccable. Another excellent submission that I, for one, thank you greatly. Well done, Sir

[@ladystoneheart8155]

On behalf of everyone on KZbin I thank you for getting the to the point and being concise. It’s such a rarity

[@84homey]

My worst gig F*** Up was in the 80s. An All England Hells Angels chapter had come down to the Isle of Wight to initiate a local new chapter apparently and our lead singer knew someone who knew someone who'd got us a gig with them in the field they'd hired and were all camping at - rows of gleaming Harleys and they all looked over 6ft 5" and had the usual leathers and jean jackets and either with long hair or bald with mirror glasses. You get the idea.. Anyway, we set up in the main tent and started playing and pretty much immediately they hated us, started spitting and throwing stuff at us, first just the contents, then the cans, but ended with bottles. Then they rushed the stage and we ran for our lives. They took our gear, loaded it into our van and drove it into the river. I kept a hold of my guitar (A blue Gordon Smith Gypsy II if anyone wishes to care) and scaled a few fences to make it safely back to a main road. Police refused to come out, lol. Our drummer resigned and refused to ever play live again. In fact I never saw him again after that gig, since it wasn't too long after that that I moved to London. A few people went back the next day and got "permission" from the HA to take our van and equipment away (luckily it was still operational). I have no recollection how I actually got home (I was only 17 and still living with my parents) or what I told my mum and dad hahahah. All in all it was quite a traumatic night. But we learned a valuable lesson about not letting the lead singer book any more gigs for us. The band was called the Ghetto Rockers, the lead singer was the (locally) infamous Dan Damage, and I was the guitar player, Dick Dirt. Of course this was a very long time ago. All three of the other band members are now dead, sadly. It all feels like it happened to someone else, or in a dream or something, it's such a long time ago. Dan Damage was very much a central character in the local punk and rock music scene. He was what you might call a rough diamond. It was never a dull moment with Dan around. I loved the guy, as did many others. We used to practice in the basement of an old hospital in Ryde that his father owned and that he let out rooms in. I had just lef school and was doing a part time A level in Sociology and hating it. London beckoned and I started work at Soho Soundhouse in Soho Square selling guitars - funnily enough in the very shop where I'd bought my Gordon Smith. So there's a thing. Those were the days when i ould fit i nto tight leather trousers with a 30" waist no problem lol!

[@brettcleveland6335]

That's hilarious. I can only imagine what was going through your head at 17 in that situation lol.

[@VivaSepulchre]

😂 thank you for sharing that

[@84homey]

@@brettcleveland6335 Probably very little lol

[@newforestpixie5297]

up the estuary from Ryde was southampton Gaumont where in 1981 Rob Halford had arrived on stage - parked his Harley Davidson & proceeded to cooly lean against the saddle to begin singing. With that , a HA patch wearing imbecile hops out from nowhere, pushes Rob firmly in the chest ( perhaps the idiot deserves more credit for the Physics because) Rob is lifted off his feet & disappears arse over tit beyond the unsighted side of said motorcycle…. The band carried on playing as the mighty singer was helped back into his original pose or position where he continued as if nothing had happened. That’s how i remember it . I don’t remember the show really getting interrupted in spite of Robs’ unplanned aerobics ! 😃👍🐢❤️

[@martinportelance138]

In 1986 at Montreal, there was a double header including Celtic Frost and Voivod, IIRC (I saw a lot of shows in this period and was not always straight when I did) that turned into an engineer-borne nightmare. First, there was an horrific feedback at one point, like 5 minutes minutes long and so loud, all people (all of them metalheads) had their hands on their ears and grimaced on a background of 'EEEEEEEE'. Later, during a scarey demon-and-hell sounding guitar solo, someone accidently turned off all of the guitar effects, resulting in a short, and very loud 'BLING BLANG' of dumdum clean chords. As soon as that was heard. the whole venue had been exorcised. Ah, the good times.

[@mournblade1066]

I saw Pink Floyd in Pittsburgh, PA in 1988, and during one of the solos, the electricity went out. I don't remember how long it was out, but when it came back on, Gilmour said, dryly, "Well that was getting boring anyway," and then they took an intermission.

[@sinjin88]

I was there!! Full moon that night.

[@mattleppard1964]

Wasn’t that Roger Waters?

[@mournblade1066]

@@mattleppard1964 Roger Waters was no longer in Pink Floyd by 1988.

[@44BluesFan]

I know the old Civic Arena (where the Penguins played) had a roof that opened, and I seem to remember David Gilmour commenting that they'd have the building open the roof when they'd hit the lyric "Breathe, breathe in the air..."

[@mournblade1066]

@@44BluesFan I saw them at Three Rivers Stadium. If they ever played at the Civic Arena, that would have been in the 1970s. (I was literally born a block away from the Civic Area!) I don't know the name of the place where The Penguins play now, but I saw Iron Maiden there back in 2019, and will see them again in November.

[@leematthews6812]

A flame-throwing codpiece? Pure Spinal Tap.

[@leonmarkrodziewicz279]

The only on stage Balls Up (literally) that I witnessed was T.Rex at Sheffield City Hall in February 1974. The show opened with Bolan lying on a lighted star with his guitar. The star was more or less flat but raised up to an angle of about 45 degrees before suddenly catapulting Marc forward onto a stage extension as he launched into 20th Century Boy. Great way to open, but just one snag. Whilst Bolan landed as planned on the extension, his trousers split as his legs splayed for the landing and he spent the next 20 minutes or so with his goolies hanging out before he realised and dashed off stage for a quick change of trousers. Quite an infamous incident.

[@RyanKeogh-b7r]

What about when Lenny Kravitz gave his audience an "eyeful"? Granted that wasn't for 20 minutes. I would like to see a link to a story about the Bolan incident though.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

And all the female fans thinking damn, this is my lucky day! 😅

[@leonmarkrodziewicz279]

@@RyanKeogh-b7r Promise you it happened, I was there! Also, it was quite a story in he Sheffield Star newspaper afterwards as numerous people complained. If you want to delve into the paper's archives I'm sure you'll find it.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

​@@RyanKeogh-b7r When and where did that happen??

[@chrisw9096]

I am thinking that Perry Farrell's recent onstage antics would find a place in this now...

[@jasonturner2206]

That and the Brian Jonestown Massacre bust up on stage this year..

[@free2roam674]

Yes with multiple live angles from the myriad people who go to live music to watch the show on their devices.

[@mikemulligan5731]

Oh, the Fairy Peril..

[@KenLieck]

I still remember his old Lollapalooza interview where he was asked how and when he ever got a chance to hit a portapotty and he snorted "Why do you think they make 'adult diapers'?"

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@chrisw9096 I guess we'll have to wait 'til part 3

[@generalscheisskopf7435]

Good God you have a bizarre sense of humor - which is exactly why I subscribed! Plus the fact that your vids are entertaining and informative...

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

☝️ me too

[@IanYoung-u3v]

You should hear Floyd at (I think) Santa Monica 1970 where the p.a. packs in 3 times before they even get through the opener "Astronomy Domine". Rog has some nice dry comments on that little debacle. Hendrix had to abandon an entire show at Chicago Xavier University in 1968 because the uni's student radio station was amplified via his fuzz box through the Marshall stacks and rendered any music the band was trying to play completely inaudible. He dealt with the security bods' walkie-talkies at the Isle of Wight much better, setting up a dialogue with the occasional bursts of radio interference "security personnel, security personnel", playing brilliant guitar interjections, one of which is replied to with "that's fine, that's fine, thankyou". These days, of course, they just blow them up.

[@coreycleven8414]

I remember some hack cover band at a local bar whose lead guitarist would turn around every time it came to playing a solo that was clearly the original recording and not in any way coming from his amp. I know this doesn't count, but it makes me chuckle.

[@lib556]

I was at the Vancouver Who concert in 1989 just after Townshend speared his hand. Indeed he was sporting a bandage and his guitar antics were more subdued ( he played acoustic guitar). Didn't hurt the show (in my opinion) I loved it.

[@206Vin]

Hey I went to that show too! I don't remember much of it, though.

[@ricknorris1466]

Even worse is the Pink Floyd San Rafael 1970 show. 3 attempts at the beginning trying to get Astronomy Domine going after blowing a fuse twice leaving Nick Mason going solo on his Drums. After 16 minutes of that they start on the second verse as the electric holds up for the rest of the show. An excellent stereo audience recording can be found on KZbin called Rolf’s Pepperland Bomb.

[@christophercharles9645]

"If we wrote better songs we wouldn't have to do this $h!t" is the funniest - and truest - thing an injured rocker has ever said. Presumably he uttered these words after the painkillers kicked in. And you're saying he wore the exploding codpiece again - for the whole tour? That takes some (slightly charred) balls!

[@madjock-ig5bv]

Parting of the Red Sea wasn't in the book of Genesis. That story is in Exodus. If you had been talking about Bob Marley that reference might have worked!

[@BobbyBass-x6i]

Great t-shirt. You’re not a lamb that’s ready to lie down on broadway or anywhere else though my friend. Great video. Anything can and probably will happen live. Peter Gabriel is one of the best onstage performers. I saw him in the early 80s when he still wore full makeup. During the song Lay Your Hands On Me he laid back and let the crown lift him up and pass him around. Unbelievable trust and bond between performer and audience. Those were the days my friend. Rock on!

[@jameswatson5370]

My brother-in-law was at the 1975 Alice Cooper show in Vancouver. My first ever rock concert was The Who in Vancouver, two nights after Pete Townshend impaled his hand on his whammy bar in Tacoma. He performed with a huge bandage on his hand, mostly playing acoustic guitar.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

A little off topic but whoever decided to put Justin Timberlake on a bill with Rush, AC/DC,and the Stones in Toronto wither messed up or did it for a laugh. That poor kid was dodging projectiles his whole set.

[@clivenewman4810]

Whoever put that roster together is a genius 😂😂

[@mordokch]

Genesis Milton Keynes 82 reunion with Peter - they put Talk Talk on as a support. I mean what the actual farque was someone thinking ? Like 'em or not, I felt sorry for them as they got pelted with every possible projectile constantly. If my memory serves, they quit the stage early in an attempt to get out of there alive after one of them was hit in the head with something hard/heavy.

[@andymassingham]

The Who could have their own list. Keith Moon falls off the stage at the beginning of a ‘69 Amsterdam show. Bleeding and wrapped in towels he plays the gig, seemingly oblivious. Keith passes out on opening night of Quadrophenia U.S. tour and amateur drummer Scot Halpin is brought on to finish the show. Roger is almost killed by Gary Glitter who smashes a mike stand into Daltrey’s face rehearsing for a late 90’s gig. Pete face-plants attempting his knee-slide finale in the early 2020’s. Gets up and finishes gig, seemingly oblivious.

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@andymassingham OMG he attempted the knee-slide in 2020??

[@charleneinman3625]

Let alone the tragedy in Cincinnati where fans got stampeded and some were killed .My brother in law was there .

[@andymassingham]

@@chrismcgovern1647 Yup. It was on KZbin at one point. There is also at least one from this time that he amazingly kinda nailed, albeit not as spectacularly as in the 70’s. Another clip shows him walking right off the stage and landing on the lap of a fan in the front row. Pete urges him to play a few chords, which the fan does, and then he climbs back up and finishes the song.

[@andymassingham]

@@charleneinman3625 That was beyond tragic. And completely avoidable from what I’ve been able to glean.

[@Doc_Tar]

Some of those stories are a good laugh but a number of them are bordering on horrific.

[@OceanbornAngel]

Ace Frehley wrote Shock Me because of that incident where he was electrocuted.

[@ErikDeMann]

Yeah, and the "Love Gun" album with "Shock Me" wasn't produced until a year after this incident, and yet they were supposedly playing the song when it happened, which they have never done while Ace was up on the stairs, because he was singing it... -So much BS in such a short time.

[@OceanbornAngel]

@@ErikDeMann What the man said was obviously a joke.

[@michaelcantley9843]

I've never heard it said that they were playing Shock Me when that happened, only that the song was inspired by the incident.

[@Bungo-u3k]

Quality content as always. Thanks for a superb channel.

[@classicalbum]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@PatriotDave87]

Silly me, I thought "With clips" meant that they would have video clips

[@NicholasSadlier]

I was expecting Keith Moon passing out on his drum kit to be included, but obviously that was more to do with a pre-show off-stage f**k up. 😉

[@classicalbum]

That's in part one

[@RogGhoullum]

Cow Palace 1973,eh?

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

A pre-show, off-stage, getting fukd up fuk up. How much more Moon could it be? ...None more Moon...

[@KenLieck]

@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Ooh, and of course there's the Smothers Brothers Show performance where his kit was packed with like 3x the TNT he was supposed to use...

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@NicholasSadlier He passed out again in Boston in 1976, much sooner in the set (2nd song in)

[@jimmycburfield5997]

Wow!!!!! This is just brilliant ‘You Tubing’; great work. Thanks.

[@samohtraton]

I'm surprised you didn't mention The Edge falling off the stage in Vancouver in 2015. If anything just for the obvious irony or pun value.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

😂

[@RyanKeogh-b7r]

I thought he did that in part one.

[@samohtraton]

@@RyanKeogh-b7r ahh, perhaps

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@samohtraton The Edge missed the edge

[@terrencereardon6374]

Rush had Geddy Lee stop the show where the crowd was pushing the stage and Geddy and Tour Manager Howard Ungerledier told the crowd to move back or the show was going to end. Brian May's guitar solo spot in New Jersey 1982, his Red Special blew two strings, then switched to the Birch Red Special backup, that blew strings so he took off and threw it and it broke, then put on the Flying V and Roger Taylor guided Brian out of the solo with his drumming. Then Freddie joked about the guitar situation.

[@MrNaKillshots]

Interesting and humorous, as befits your channel habitually.

[@marpsr]

“If we wrote better songs, we wouldn’t have to do this shit” 😂

[@timbaldwin6283]

Saw Stevie Nicks solo, Spectrum Pa. She was gliding gracefully across the stage. Gracefully gliding. Mesmerizing. Until she backed into a lighting fixture and fell back on her butt. She was fine. The crowd was buzzing. She smiled. Great show. Love Stevie Nicks.

[@chrismcgovern1647]

@@timbaldwin6283 Lindsey B probably put it there

[@An2oine]

The Red Sea effect will get a stage diver every time.

[@jimwalshonline9346]

There was the Metallica accident that burned Hetfield, and Axl Rose's disastrous follow-up...

[@milkcarton6654]

Yeah i was gonna mention it. Anyone who lived in Montreal never forgot it...

[@joshuaporterfield6774]

You mean Axl tried to steal the spotlight by causing a riot , which we remember to this day, when a heroic performance to save the day would be forgotten rather quickly.

[@maximusindicusoblivious180]

Wow! I flubed a few lyrics and chords at an open mic yesterday. This oddly cheered me up. Thanks.

[@RB-bd5tz]

Ashlee Simpson, SNL. Okay, someone screwed up. But the dancing was surreal.

[@shuroom57]

Yehhh, she explained at the end of the show that her band was at fault, so she did a "hoedown". Smmfh

[@MichaelDooleyProject]

I really dig your videos. Like hanging out with a pal talking music. Except you can’t hear me. Lucky you! 😆🤘🏽

[@Devoid_Freud]

I saw The Who in Vancouver a night or two after Townshend's accident. He had the bandage on. We were on edge every time he did the windmill, which he did more than one might expect.

[@rickmilam413]

I have a very minor one for your list - Peter Gabriel recorded a live album that included the material from his 4th album, Security, in Kansas City. During one song he vanished behind stage on stage right and didn't reappear. Tony Levin and the band were obviously expecting him to appear from backstage on the other side but he didn't, They played through again and finally Gabriel appeared. It was a mystery, but not to me: My little brother was a fine fusion guitarist, later befriend by Allan Holdsworth, and was backstage to meet Gabriel. He was swing his hands back and forth in the semi-darkness backstage, didn't know Peter was coming and caught him in the balls on his outswing. Gabriel was bent over getting his breath during the delay. He finally looked up at Brian and say "Who are you?" and then went back onstage. Brian decided he had already met Gabriel and left :-) Both sadly gone now.

[@frankiehoskyn3948]

Although he wasn't in front of a live audience, John Otway's misplaced jump on top of an amplifier during a live performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test (which resulted in his voice singing falsetto) and continuing to the end is the stuff of legend. What a trooper 😂

[@musicken33]

I've always thought of prog rock, my favorite genre, as music for short attention spans. Yeah, the pieces can be long, but something's changing every 30 seconds! :)

[@Sp33gan]

13 year old me was at that Cooper show. One second he was there .... and then he wasn't.

[@ubetucan2747]

There are two more "On-Stage F**k Ups" perhaps worthy of further research, Billy Idol's 2002 NRL Grand Final and Meatloaf's 2011 AFL Grand Final performances, both in Australia.

[@fishypaw]

Meatloaf, fell off two stages, once in 1979 in the US, and in once in Australia in 1985. In both cases, he badly injured one of his legs, and then had to do subsequent gigs wearing a cast. I saw him in 1985 at the Knebworth Deep Purple reunion. He had a full leg cast, and used the mic stand as a crutch. I was also at the Prince's trust gig at Knebworth in 1990, where Pink Floyd's large round projection screen was torn by the wind, and couldn't be used during their show, which was a little disappointing, but they still did a good set.

[@KenLieck]

Reminds me of the Damned tour a few years ago where Captain Sensible had a bad fall and played the next few weeks or months of dates perched atop a huge custom toilet "throne"...

[@lamecasuelas2]

If i'm not mistaken Ace Frehley was i spired by his electrocution to write Shock which is just perfect ⚡⚡

[@bosmosis]

Re: KISS, it's true that KISS did not play "Shock Me" the night that Ace was zapped as he walked onstage. Frehely has said however that that experience was in fact the inspiration for the song.

[@darrenwells2277]

You mention that Kiss should have been playing Shock Me when Ace got electrocuted? It was that incident that influenced him writing the song

[@peterdixon7734]

Rammstein often make good use of flame throwers. There is a clip of one of said flame throwers running out of gas during "Mein Herz Brennt", and Till Lindemann left effectively clutching a bunsen burner.

[@JackSteele-om9df]

Someone threw a kojak type lollipop that ended up under Davd Bowies eyelid 😞

[@will5150]

Milli Vanilli when the backing track got stuck on stage. It was a global news story exposing the lip syncing which one member never recovered from.

[@Rextum]

Kiss was not playing Shock Me because Ace had not written it yet. But he did on their next album (Love Gun) BECAUSE of the very incident you described. So there IS a connection👍🏻 Also, after that incident they quickly changed to their equipment to cordless to avoid such shocks in the future😎

[@fus149hammer5]

UFO Hammersmith Odeon January 1981 on the Wild Willing And The Innocent tour. A rambling Phil Mogg was out of his box and forgot the lyrics to Doctor Doctor resulting in a slow hand clap and booing from the audience. He way of rescuing the situation was to invite the ticket paying crowd to 'Go f**k themselves' then exited stage left leaving the bemused band sitting on the drum riser until he was pushed back on stage. The sort of night out you can never forget no matter how much you try.

[@petershallis2294]

Einstürzende Neubauten played the 100 Club in the early 80’s and used an actual pneumatic road drill on stage…management-none too pleased- turned the power off and stopped the show.

[@joshuaporterfield6774]

No accidents there.

[@dickpawlak354]

Regarding the Alice Cooper incident...Ozzy did the same thing on the No More Tears theater tour. He walked off the stage (I believe in Ohio) into the orchestra pit and broke his leg. He played Buffalo a couple days later with a cast on. Pink Floyd could make the list a second time for the shortest show ever. The lights went down, the opening organ chord for Shine on You Crazy Diamond began...and a section of the seating collapsed. The show was stopped, then cancelled. All in all Floyd was on stage for about 30 seconds

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

Dave Grohl famously broke his leg on stage and had a paramedic stabilising it whilst he sat and completed the gig.

[@mordokch]

Ok you get a thumbs up for the teeshirt alone :)

[@tpbrcombo]

“Setting fire to his hair and cloak…” This made my day, thank you Barry

[@diggr13]

I saw Triumph for a few minutes in the late seventies. I was pretty close to the stage. Three songs in, lead singer Rik Emmett timed a flashbomb wrong that was in front of him on stage. Burned his face pretty bad and the band was done for the night. Opening act Teaze came back and did another set.

[@davidrobinson2776]

Maybe slightly bad taste but Leslie Harvey of Stone the Crows getting electrocuted must be right up there. I do love Maggie Bell's voice though. Very underrated front woman. Oh, that's an idea, sir! Why not give us a top 10 of your favourite "front women" in rock? You'll then have enough comments calling you sexist, racist and gayist to do another "Trolls" episode!

[@Pws-m8x]

Having worked in theatres going back to the 80;side seen all kinds of cockups on stage one incident come to mind when big country supporting page and plant in Dublin, big country took to the stage started playing after a few bars the drummer threw up over his kit, and had to leave the rest of the band to play to a stunned crowd, i loved it

[@Ezzie0304]

I seem to remember being at an AC/DC gig in Norway in 1986 or so, when they had these catwalks in three levels on stage, the outer corners of which held a cannon each, and the big bell at the back, centre. However Angus jumped from level 2 onto the stage mid solo with a loud umph, continued on through the song, and then left the stage. He’d evidently managed to get his guitar in between thighs and chest on landing and broke a few ribs. 20min or so later he was back on stage, shirtless, but bandaged from navel to armpit. We the crowd were ecstatic of course.

[@adammassacre4715]

Manson was always kicking the shit out of his band members, especially Ginger Fish.

[@starmersbarber]

Excellent- very entertaining. Cheers.

[@austake]

It loses it a bit when you don't have the actual footage

[@tpbrcombo]

Uh huh, make no video rather than a video with whatever you’ve been able to source. Great call champ.

[@Lynchsnightmare]

Hi classic album review!! Sorry to bother, but what’s your opinion on Gentle Giant?

[@willyupshaw]

This should have more likes.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@willyupshaw I just happened to peruse my archive and dialed up The Power And The Glory a few minutes before I viewed this video and your comment. But one of my all time favorite songs is "Nothing At All". Hehehe... for the non-GG familiar folk, sounds like I said I do not have a favorite, but this is not the case, as that is a song title. Another fav song is "Funny Ways". Gentle Giant is a great group! Their musical depth was better than almost all of the others. The bubble gum crowd didn't get it. And it did not get a lot of US exposure, but with this guy's accent, I'm gonna say he is familiar with this group.

[@dilltdog1158]

Always interesting, great band GG.

[@Lynchsnightmare]

@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight I absolutely love “Nothing At All” and “Funny Ways” but Pantagruel’s Nativity has a special place in my heart since it was the first song I’ve heard of them. Amazing band.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@Lynchsnightmare Nothing At All is one of my top ten, and another (from other bands) is the only proper rendition of "Ashes The Rain And I" during the top live rock album ever "James Gang Live In Concert"

[@jeff_725]

I saw Van Halen in Omaha in 2004. Eddie accidently unplugged himself right at the "Panama" solo.

[@bluntforcetrauma2141]

Saw many shows between 2001and 2002 at the Ranch Bowl when I lived in La Vista. Heard they tore it down just recently.

[@peterdixon7734]

During the Bootleg Wars, I recall an error as Peter Gabriel was doing Moribund the Burgermeister in Central Park (1980) and saying to the band: "Go round again" - and, to the audience, "We will be turning professional next week".

[@LANCSKID]

My mate, Nozza of ‘Nozza and the Knobheads’ broke one of his guitar strings once but kept on playing, if that helps …

[@bjornlangoren3002]

The second woodstock was a long fckup. Criminally bad.

[@Mundusvultdecipiergodecipiatur]

I saw U2 (UGH!) on their Pop Mart Tour in Oslo in August 1997. The band was supposed to emerge from a giant lenom on stage, but the lemon never opened. Pure Spinal Tap!

[@majwilsonlion]

Wasn't "Shock Me" written in response to that event? Released on Love Gun, their following album.

[@strikedn]

Yes, it was

[@lennon1482]

"if we wrote better songs we wouldn't have to do this shit"....sir I salute you😆

[@ericbgordon1575]

I learned about the incident with Pete Townsend from the first electric bass player I worked with long-term. John Entwistle being his hero, it made sense that the part about Pete injuring his hand would come my way through him.

[@daytripper9222]

Great video. Say listen, there's something I've always wanted to tell you and it goes like this. It was a while back and I think you did a video about The Beatles or about the one of the solo beatles that was negative I think that's correct and I just got all pissed off and said I can't stand this guy. Just recently I started watching your videos again and started looking at old videos and I'm thinking what the f*** is wrong with me. I took watching a video too personal. I just watched your videos about f*** ups on stage and I looked at the other one also and I'm thinking this guy is great. Maybe I was having an off day who the hell knows but I really respect your videos and like your videos. Maybe I had too many brandies that day you know what the f***. Anyway I had to get that off my chest cuz I'm an honest guy most of the time. Kregg from Arizona

[@classicalbum]

I think you might be alluding to my 'Lennon & Judy Garland video'.. But in that video I was just quoting incidents from Lennon biographies. I love The Beatles, collectively and solo. ... Thank for the lovely comment

[@tpbrcombo]

I like that you’re passionate enough to be annoyed by music commentary, and honest enough to say you overreacted. Respect. ✊

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Now just vote blue all the way down the ticket and you will be able to retain your honor and character as well.

[@daytripper9222]

@@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Are you kidding, I'm not an idiot. I will be voting RED all the way with Honor intact. This is really not the place to be discussing politics.

[@bluntforcetrauma2141]

Agreed on all fronts. Holy crap! ​@@daytripper9222

[@scottross2762]

Love the shirt.

[@alexshkoditch4593]

Not a fan of WASP, so I never heard that story. However, I have a new favorite rock n' roll quote from the singer, "If you wrote better songs, we wouldn't have to do all this shit". Priceless.

[@SeriouslyLarry]

LOVE the Seconds Out shirt!! Wish I could find one.

[@44BluesFan]

I have the one he's wearing. I'm scouring my email trying to find where I got it. If I find it, I'll post it for you.

[@sebastienlavoie9334]

I was there at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal when James Hetfield accident happened, we were in a close section on the floor, we were in shock at the very moment. And later the riot happened for Guns 'N' Roses, we had been waiting over 2 hours for the band, they played 9 songs, Axl said it was over, you'll get a refund and he left, we went crazy. That was a epic night, too bad the night started really well with Faith No More opening.

[@TooTallForPony]

I saw The Who in Vancouver 2 days after Pete impaled his hand on the whammy bar. His hand was bandaged like a mummy, but he could definitely still play and didn't seem to be off his game. He even did windmills!

[@dreamscuba]

I can’t stop laughing about the flame throwing codpiece. I wander if it was styled on the Black Russian sported by Blackadder.

[@MikeGervasi]

There's a bootleg of that Kiss show called "Fried Alive"

[@charleneinman3625]

Anything Marilyn Manson does on stage is a big “ f-up”!

[@andrewt4042]

Went to see Fleetwood Mac pre-Lindsey/Stevie in San Jose. Not one musician on stage was Fleetwood Mac. Everyone walked out but the ticket booth was already closed.

[@peterdixon7734]

A very puzzling story. I hope that you did not do the same with Pink Floyd during the 1980 Wall tour? They had a fake band start off the very first song, then sauntered on to stage and took over

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

I was just watching a documentary and saw the story of that debacle. That was crazy! 🤪

[@neilcameron7705]

I'm surprised that the Brian Jonestown Massacre didn't end up on this list twice. In the mid 1990s, and also just recently, Anton Newcombe got into a fist fight with other members of the band.

[@johnnypairoux4356]

About the incident with Ace Frehley..that was the inspiration for him to write "Shock me"

[@needham831]

How about the magnificent entrance of Ozzy on the Bark At The Moon tour when the catapult that was used to launch an enormous pile of blood and offal into the crowd, had it's elastic unwound and dropped several hundred pounds of cattle guts, road kill and other shit right on top of him. 😂🤘

[@slowmarchingband1]

'Genesis fans are nice bunch believe it or not..' Talk Talk would no doubt disagree..

[@turnerthemanc]

love the T-Shirt. It takes me back. I had that very one when I was 18. I'm 61

[@daveski4496]

"If we wrote better songs we wouldnt have to do this shit." Do ya think?

[@peterdixon7734]

Also: Gabriel at Hammersmith 1980 doing And Through the Wire - and forgetting the line: "And through the wire I touch the power", having to improvise with a line which ended in "choice", something he probably wanted to avoid when writing the thing in the first place. Little did he know there was some bugger in the third row taking notes. A minor slip, whereas Blind Guardian deliberately rhymed "voice" with "choice" in the epic And Then There Was Silence.

[@UFOfanAZ1967]

I believe the incident for Ace Frehley, caused him to write Shock Me

[@raythackston1960]

Ace wrote Shock me because of that very moment when he got lit up by the electricity.

[@gregorylapointe4157]

The Great White incident was the worst

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Agreed. I mean using egg flats for sound-proofing!? They're cardboard ffs. What chucklehead thought that was a good idea? 🙄

[@VirginiaBeach742]

Two words: Rhode Island.

[@DavidMorgan-e1s]

Saw Suzy Quatro drop her bass at Reading festival in 1978 ,and it carried on playing by itself !!!

[@terrencereardon6374]

The spitting incident of Roger was caught on film.

[@BoboMcBooboy]

Manson making his drummer do the whole "abused spouse routine/I fell into the doorknob myself" routine is actually pretty wild... You can guess there was some shit thrown at him about losing his livelihood and fame if he didn't change the story to hitting himself...

[@Mistressofthegroove]

I once interviewed Arthur Brown, one of the wisest and most fascinating people I have ever had the good fortune to speak to.

[@MrMrh1958]

AC wouldn’t have felt anything back then as he was always pissed!

[@rushbravado1972]

I could definitely see Blackie getting injured. WASP always had a lethal stage show.