The Black Crowes Got Heckled By Metallica Fans | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Chris Robinson discusses the differences between his brother and himself and remembers the intense heckling he and The Black Crowes received from Metallica fans.
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[@rangers11ization]

I drove cross country from new york to los angeles with my friend when I was 21 for the brotherly love tour with them and oasis.Every gig was awesome.Great live band

[@TheNotSure]

I always think of Will Ferrell saying Oasis is the best band skit when someone mentions Oasis. 😅 Great band. All time fav and still kicking ass.

[@HistoricallyRomantic]

Please release the rest of this interview on KZbin. This is incredible 🙏🏻

[@michaelweston2285]

"Greg, why are you bringing your golf bag into this concert?" "i just have a feeling it's going to be useful."

[@keeff8195]

the black crows are truly the only band keeping the blues influenced rock n roll alive!! Thank you!!

[@paulhealy2557]

I saw the Black Crowes once. They didn't seem to act like an audience was there, just jammed as if they were in a rehearsal room.

[@nicoles.6819]

They are very high. They are extremely high. I would not have sex with them.

[@seminiferousbuttnoid]

That's one of the reasons they blow ass.

[@HistoricallyRomantic]

You just didn't know what was going on. My first Crowe's show it was a blur. Then I got into their catalog and they are an amazing band. Certainly different eras have been more "jam-y" than others. They are on fire right now.

[@mmac7314]

I saw them two summer ago…. Holy crap … awesome show…

[@Msteve-nt5bx]

Is that good or bad?

[@tychosis]

As a middle-aged dude from Atlanta, it's good to see Chris is doing well--lots of great bands came out of the city. I honestly didn't know he was such a funny guy.

[@bane1240]

I love the Black Crowes. Always have. Was a fan from 1989/90 when SYMM came out and have remained a fan all these years later. I have seen them more time in the last 35yrs than any other individual music act and am proud for that to be true. Their music is obviously the biggest reason I am a fan but also I share a lifespan with Chris (he’s a month older than me) and his band mates are all around the same age as me. So the evolution of life and life’s experiences in terms of going from a boy to a man to a grown up is similar for those guys over the last 35 yrs as it is for me. Certainly there have been some head scratching moments for the band and the Robinsons overall over the yrs but thats true for everyone. What makes me happy now is seeing the grown up Chris laugh at himself and take whatever happened in his band and life in stride and still have that fire burning that helped create all that great music. IMO he is the last great R&R front man, born of the mold of Mick, Rod and a few others and one day I hope he and the Crowes get their much deserved appreciation for their contributions to the history of R&R with a HOF induction. Keep rockin gents!

[@hotdogflavouredmilkshake]

Conan good to see you around still I always watched your late talk show I am a huge fan. Didn’t know you had a podcast until now 😂 so cool

[@LexingtonB09]

We need more Count Chocula 🧛‍♂️

[@shanustheanus]

Holy! Uploaded 3 minutes ago? Im coming after Conan quicker than Leno.

[@ScottMasson]

Chris Robinson is really intelligent and funny. Great sense of humor. He’d be a great hang, for sure.

[@TheDylls]

My brother and I are exact opposites like this. Always made for an "Odd Couple", worked quite well lol

[@GO-lh3rt]

I listened to this episode, cracked up the whole time, now I'm watching the clips. The Black Crowes rule so hard, and so does this conversation!

[@3tequila]

Chris is hilarious!

[@edjames4376]

Ha - I was at this show -was crazy! I still think it's one of the oddest lineups I've seen (Raven, Slayer and WASP was other one). For Warrant announcer blamed it on the weather - And the Crowes' bass player was spitting at the audience.

[@neilvillegas7976]

Ten minutes is not enough I NEED MORE CONAN TEXAS NEEDS MORE CONAN!!!

[@baronvonsatan]

1) settle tf down 2) literally go look at the other clips 3) consider switching to decaf

[@Bedroomeyezzz]

Just went to Kensington Market. It’s amazing! If anyone likes vintage shopping it’s the place to be.

[@user-io5tu7mm2v]

Oh my gosh! My sister and I always sing that part from Big Shot by Billy Joel! We also call him Jilly Boel.

[@ThatsOnYoutube]

I miss when music was just listing things and I could understand the things listed and the words and could dance to the beat without cough syrup being involved.

[@nicoles.6819]

I’m duh.

[@darrelljohnston8676]

Lmao..love it. might have to watch this again.

[@kieranm272]

I could listen to Chris all day. 🤘

[@Aleongray]

I've seen the black crowes give times back in the 90s every time they came to Providence and my friends and I would go to the radio station 94 HJY when band used to do interviews and we met Chris outside on his way out he was very cool he signed everyones autographs very cool dude .

[@ItsReallyJackBlack]

The band's name is "The Black Crowes"

[@greybrother01]

It's so weird looking back, the way promoters always lumped hard rock and metal bands together as if it was all the same. I know a lot of metalheads really resented that back in the day, and resented some of the "hair metal" stereotypes being generalized onto them too. Plus, Metallica was absolutely gigantic in the early 90s, so that probably didn't help in this instance. Sorry, Black Crowes.

[@colonialstraits1069]

Metal heads are the most close minded fans on the planet. Thats why they all become conservatives.

[@OpheliaDarkling]

@@colonialstraits1069 Sweeping Generalizations much? With a statement like that, you fit the bill of the ignorant promoters the OP is describing. Scott Ian from Anthrax, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Rob Halford from Judas Priest and the late great Lemmy Kilmister are just 4 examples of how wrong you are. And you can't make good music unless you listen to all types of music which metal musicians do. Unfortunately, beer guzzling toxic male masculinity had a platform in the 80's and 90's and it was a portion of the audience. James Hetfield led the charge in that mindset but he learned his lesson and grew tf up. Sobriety and family helped him humble himself and wise up. Sounds like you need to as well. There are boneheads in every genre but saying one is "the most (enter negative comment)" is a logical fallacy.

[@greybrother01]

​@@colonialstraits1069 I find that people who don't like metal often don't know much about it and resort to stereotyping. Metal has become one of the most diverse musical forms, crossing over with everything from punk to classical, folk to jazz, and there's currently an explicitly anti fascist/bigotry movement going on in metal to counter this obnoxiously visible "conservative drift" that actually seems to be going on everywhere. Metal is more culturally diverse now than it's ever been as well with the gatekeeping influence of the mainstream music industry out of the way. (Same influence that gradually crowded black folks out of rock music through the 60s even though they Invented it.) Sadly, that also means since metal's been abandoned by the mainstream, a lot of people's impression of it is trapped in the 80/90s era.

[@CorbCorbin]

That was Metallica’s management, when they were becoming mainstream. They had just become a big band, though likely opening for Aerosmith in 1990. Black Crowes and Aerosmith, aren’t even Hard Rock. Aerosmith had some songs that are arguably, but the Crowes were a straight R&B type rock band, with influences from all over the 70’s. They would’ve been seen as hippies. Whose idea was it to put the GnR and Metallica co headliner shows together? _That_ was a true idiotic decision.

[@CorbCorbin]

Metallica was giant, until after The Black Album. The Black Crowes were headlining festivals in 1991, and headlining their own tour. I’d bet it was a three band show, Black Crowes, Metallica and then Aerosmith heading. They were much bigger than Metallica, even after Metallica had the Black Album. They were competing tours, after that, but Aerosmith had their comeback, in the late 80’s, through the 90’s.

[@williamgregory1848]

Music nerd Conan is my favorite Conan

[@alanbainbridge_tville_ut]

Chris is soooo funny! Bring him back!

[@LeGrandMort]

Sounds like Warrant was dismissed.

[@briarrose29]

His face when he speaks about being booed broke my heart a little. You can tell it still hurts.

[@dr6849]

I love Warrant. RIP Jani!

[@petesashlyn]

My uncle said one of the loudest bands he saw was The Black Crows. Ears rang for a week.

[@christophercampbell1677]

Saw the tour with Aerosmith in Cleveland crowes rocked left during Aerosmith lol. Thanks Chris. Ps loved cbr at the beachland ballroom a few years ago

[@andyb1653]

I love Metallica, but the fanbase can be such pricks at times. I feel the same way about Star Wars.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

My Metallica fan moment was when Fred Durst decided it was a good idea to question the crowd's sexuality with zero provocation. He was pelted with trash for two songs before storming off the stage. James Hetfield was thanking the opening acts later in the show (it was an all day outdoor show) and still included Limp Bizkit. You can imagine the response.

[@TheNotSure]

Mad props for holding ground and throwing it their faces lol. That's metal AF.🤘

[@jeffb407]

Saw Queensrÿche catch hell opening for Metallica in '89.That crowd was insane.

[@dustinbrummett3774]

Hell yeah. Sounds good is good, and that doesn’t happen without talent and hard work to be great

[@MICKIEG]

Im 70 . I dont go to Concerts any more because of my ears. My last 2 concerts were front row Floor Black Crowes and Tom Petty. Love Black Browes. If I still went to concerts Billie Eilish, Doja Cat and Foo Fighters would head the list.

[@joshuaduitsman9553]

can peak design adapt to an acid trip or is that what the mac n me dvd is for?

[@erikcox8749]

In Warrants defense, Black Crowes makes sense a little bcuz they're not known yet on the bill with Aerosmith but it's tough to even be on the same bill as Metallica but Warrant should've not been booked on that show.

[@generaljellyroll8737]

My brain puts the “Black Crowes and the Black Keys” in the same category even though they are around 10 years apart. I want them to play together and we can call it the Black Crowe Keys

[@jgrey8959]

Black Key Sabbath Crowes. With their hit "Lonely Boy Talks to Paranoid Angels".

[@generaljellyroll8737]

@@jgrey8959 they talk about how god might burst in and find her dust and he’s just happy to be part of any conversation but it’s really more her talking at him

[@thecoolblacknerd]

Thought this was Tom Green 😮‍💨😭

[@jgrey8959]

Well, when I saw Ozzy in '86, Bark at the Moon tour, Metallica was opening and the whole crowd spent half their set chanting "Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy". I guess they all go through it. I had no idea who Metallica even was and didn't care.

[@cunningstunt69]

Metallica blew ozzy out of the water on that tour in 1986! I love ozzy though. Booing during a concert is just when you wanna see the headliner or you don’t know the artist or just trolling, it’s just ignorant in most cases

[@JoshWatsonandtheOolaMallaBand]

Billy Joel actually wrote "Big Shot" with Mick Jagger's swagger in mind, so that's who he was imitating.

[@alfiend331]

I listened to this podcast earlier today in my car. Don't know how, but I accidentally slowed the playback to 0.75. From that point on, I kept thinking, "What's up with Conan??? Did the Xanax just kick in???" Somehow Chris still sounded kinda normal, but Conan sounded like he was about to take a nap.

[@NigelBottlebottom]

This vampire imrpov reminds me of Gilbert Gottfried

[@lateramae]

Chris and Rich having completely different personalities worked out great for them because both brought their own fresh ideas to the table. Plus, if both of them were exactly the same, the music wouldn't have been as effective. That's just my opinion.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Sad thing is Cliff Burton likely would've dug The Black Crowes. 😂

[@RockNRollJeezus]

I'd love to climb Sona Mountains in some new Peak Design gear ❤

[@DeadDogInc]

Fun conversation. But if you're looking for the Metallica story, skip to 6:24

[@lachauntiswashington231]

This is great 👍 😂

[@junemoonchild69]

You have to wonder how a collection of bands (or just an opening band) are chosen to play together? What are they thinking about when the fans of one band are going to obviously dislike the music of another during a performance? I am truly asking, it doesn't make sense to me. I suppose too that a music artist or group that's big enough requires no opening act at all, so in the case of Metallica here say, they just weren't big enough to be able to play their own show?

[@tjm6983]

In the type of case they described, back then it may have been arranged by their record company or whomever else on the business side. But bands/artists are often able to choose their own opening acts. Usually its ones the headliner(s) like(s). Sometimes they do 'co-headline' tours and I'm certain the bands must agree to them first. Being able to perform without an opening act doesn't just apply to the most lucrative and successful acts, but it's more a sign of bands with somewhat smaller but very devoted, cult like fan bases. Most of the biggest acts and most acts in general do use opening acts. Some do most of the time but play alone on occasion. Very few perform that way all the time, and it's not the biggest acts in the world that do, but still very successful professional musicians/artists though

[@anthonyaughtman2048]

I was at that Rochester show. Crowes were great. Didnt care about Metallica but Aerosmith was on fire due to following Metallica. I remember Warrants gear being set up and every one booing ...

[@DstrtdMnd]

You can't convince me that isn't Tom Green.

[@user-wt7rh2rw8g]

Warrant is Lucy too leave alive!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@actionscott8033]

Hell yeah!!!!

[@sethwilliams720]

If you told me his brother was Tom Green I would believe you.

[@charlesmarlowstanfield]

Still waiting for those fan made inspirational posters that Gourley promised would be here several days ago. Get your ass out of Pasadena and get on it, Mr. Producer Man.

[@jollyjakelovell6822]

If your street you don't yell for security.

[@EightPieceBox]

I guess Conan doesn't want Billy Joel to be his friend :( Maybe Matt needs to start his own podcast.

[@floki-man]

Early Conan needs a friend: “we’ll never run out of guests, there’s so many comics!” I’m about to listen to Jon mulalyey returns again, 3rd visit in 3 years? hope it sounds brand new!

[@bryankburrows]

Rich Robinson , shreds on guitar …period … and Chris , is one of the greatest singers in a rock band … hit after hit … c’mon …

[@aaronarchermonster8539]

GIVE THIS GUY A POD... His stories are great and funny....

[@gregdahlen4375]

looks a little like duane allman

[@clarkkenttheman]

I remember that song ..i doubt he sounds like vampire...they justvreading into it

[@JMPT]

Nice 🥥

[@metjammer4403]

I mean, playing in front of a Metallica fan wall is always a poor idea - especially right before Metallica themselves...

[@hotdogflavouredmilkshake]

I am a Metallica fan but I would never heckle the black crowes 😂😂

[@CasualSpud]

Too be fair... Billy Joel isn't a fan of We Didn't Start The Fire.. throwaway song that got out of hand 🤡

[@mariarahelvarnhagen2729]

Simply Use Malarkey In A Sentence

[@treborretsnom6186]

😅

[@dennynutt]

😂

[@Rockpodoboo]

that's a shame, Warrant is a great band

[@WalexG]

Jani Lane (Warrant singer) is dead, so…

[@OpheliaDarkling]

the cherry pie guy died

[@dadventure-tales]

6th

[@hotdogflavouredmilkshake]

Haha what a great story

[@ZVvereVvolf]

Chris D’Elia aged hard after his cancellation.

[@DjDMA]

"You suck" is the most childish insult ever.

[@junemoonchild69]

Loser! 😂

[@user-kz8dq1gk1u]

Big boooooosy 🎉😂

[@TonyP-te7ye]

Don't miss coco at all. & the Crows w/o Marc Ford is like the Stones w/o Kieff

[@brendabertsch9352]

Oh It was me I had the golf ball but I was in Illinois

[@ThisGuyRides]

Wow, you threw it that far??!!

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

@@ThisGuyRides Don't be silly, he obviously drove it there with a metal 1-wood.

[@ThisGuyRides]

@@palaceofwisdom9448 Silly me, of course he drove it there.... But I'm not familiar with that car model.

[@brendabertsch9352]

This Guy...yes I did. I was a hard core swinger at the time... Only on the golf ball scene. I forgot to mention that I would paint wings on every ball I seen so that + the wind?

[@brendabertsch9352]

Ima Woman with big ball talent!

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[@egret203]

My sister went to a Black Crowes concert, and Chris was going through a divorce or something at the time. She said it was the most half-assed, unenthusiastic concert she had ever seen. Don't get me wrong, we love them, but that was just unfortunate timing, I guess.

[@OpheliaDarkling]

plenty of bands have their alimony tours and relapse tours and 'we gotta pay off lawyers' tours. Spinal Tap foretold it all. Empty grandstands at county fairs. quite unfortunate indeed.

[@MBrowser-yh1qp]

I went to one too in the early 2000s. I only knew 3 of their songs, but I very much thought they phoned it in.

[@CaptainTedStryker]

Warrant Sucks!

[@OpheliaDarkling]

1985 has entered the chat

[@dr6849]

I dont think so. But your mom does!

[@clarkkenttheman]

Why was Metallica in that lineup...i love them...but they stick out more hardcore than others

[@Epka333]

Let's be honest, warrant sucks

[@marvinweisenbach7516]

I saw them live once. They didn't suck. Even got to party with them after the show.

[@betsyduane3461]

Warrant did suck big time.

[@OpheliaDarkling]

"if I'm lyin' I'm dyin'"...and then he did.

[@jwmilstead]

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a killer jam

[@kikiki4592]

As a teen age Metallica fan back then, and with the love we had for hair bands. I could easily see one of my friends or even myself bringing golf balls to throw at Warrant. Crowes were just collateral damage, lol.

[@elarmando7363]

aw man.. I feel that Metallica fans are kinda douchey, they did something like that to Avenged Sevenfold once

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[@Jupiterbotz]

The Black Crowes were the LAST rock and roll band.

[@chalklounge]

Well Jani Lane killed himself so…

[@zman3238]

Seen them during the Brotherly Love Tour and Chris was high off his ass, stumbled around, spoke incoherently and they sucked. Worst live band I’ve ever seen.

[@upinarms79]

Being made fun of by Metallica fans should be a badge of honor. If they had good taste in music, they wouldn't be Metallica fans in the first place.

[@Gueli]

Great logic except that Chris is himself a Metallica fan 😂

[@gavinmacmillan6061]

Such an elitist statement

[@doddeddo]

Everyone has bad taste except you 😂

[@CaptainBlood2010]

Metallica are 💩

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