Jim's on stage banter.........

[sweatboard]

Allright, this is the thread where we quote things Jim has talked about in between songs.  I think it would be a crime if there was not eventually a book published with all of our favorite stories.  



One of my favorites was at the Roxy in Atlanta in 6-16-04 and they had just finished the most amazing version of "I Will Sing You Songs" it had this really long outro jam and Jim started flicking the toggle switch on his guitar on and off and using some effect at the same time.  So right after the song ends............

Sushi Jam


Jim-

"What a great GANG you all are......... You remember when the Simpsons went to Japan?  Anybody see that episode, where the simpsons went to Japan and they uh worked in that sushi factory, cutting up fish, and then they went to the hotel and they watched that cartoon that made them have seizures and thier eyes got real big?  I figured that if, if  I did enough wha wha wha that might give you......sushi.........

So if your ever at a show in you hear someone yell out a request for the "Simpsons Sushi Jam"  it's probably me, becuase that fucking rocked my world.  

[ChiefOKONO]

wow that rules hard haahahah. i so wish i was there! thanks for sharing!

[Sherpa]

The first show i saw jim was in san diego at the spreckles theater in 2004.... during the entire show, from what i can remember, he kept making up a long story about how speckles theater was named after the guy who invented sprinkles and that it was such a remarkable achievement... and then when i saw them on the Z tour last fall in tempe, az , he told us about how he makes up names for things he sees in the cities he plays at, and how in tempe he refers to the Mill Ave Bridge as "The Rainbow Bridge" and then told us how he saw a garbage can with colors smeared on it looking like some weird monster.... thats all i can remember

[BearCord]

Great show in Atlanta in 2004!

[SiOuxTribe]

If this is for documentary purposes Jim said something like "weve been in D.C. here since last night and we all sat down by the reflecting pool, all 5 of us and just wrote this song.."
They then play "Anytime"

[ratsprayer]

at the june 2005 asheville show, jim was continually fascinated with the new ceiling fan that had been installed.  i guess the band had been there a few times before, and this was their first show with the new fan, and it really did keep things nice and cool.  anyway, he kept going on about it, how after each song the floor would rise a bit more, and eventually we'd become one with the fan, or some shit like that.  it was hard to understand, and the recording of the show doesn't give too many more clues about his exact words.  it was still funny, though.

[primushead]

at the june 2005 asheville show, jim was continually fascinated with the new ceiling fan that had been installed.  i guess the band had been there a few times before, and this was their first show with the new fan, and it really did keep things nice and cool.  anyway, he kept going on about it, how after each song the floor would rise a bit more, and eventually we'd become one with the fan, or some shit like that.  it was hard to understand, and the recording of the show doesn't give too many more clues about his exact words.  it was still funny, though.

Totally.  I was THERE!  And, yeah, I don't really know what he was going at with 'becoming one with the fan'.  

[dragonboy]

Some great stories, thanks for your posts  :)

[sweatboard]

Totally.  I was THERE!  And, yeah, I don't really know what he was going at with 'becoming one with the fan'.  

Shit, I was at that show to.  He said that during the final song we would all be getting our heads chopped off by the gigantic fan blade.

[ratsprayer]

Shit, I was at that show to.  He said that during the final song we would all be getting our heads chopped off by the gigantic fan blade.

i only lost my head to all the newcastle i drank that night, but damn, that was a good, efficient fan.

[sweatboard]

the blades were litterally at least each 12 feet long.  I've come to the conclusion that Jim really isn't just stoned all the time, he's just naturally wierd.  Got to love him.  :-*

[aMD]

Good thread, Brian.

At my third show in 2000 (Louisville Waterfront World Fest) Jim kept referring to Walter, as if someone in the band were named Walter, saying Walter and I wrote this band in 83, I hope you like it.  Then after some the PA started going crazy and producing a little feedback he said that Walter and him wrote this next one in the studio thinking about the feedback, then he dedcated to the song to the feedback.  The song was Tyrone.

The Halloween show from 2000 features some good Jim banter.  He kept doing an Elvis-esque "Thank ya"s after each song.  Before Picture of You Jim says, "this is a sppoky song, for Halloween, this is one we wrote especially for Halloween, very spooky, we'd like to play it for ya".

My tagline used to be "Go ahead and give me a buttload of reverb on this one", which he said before the Bear at Headliners in 02 or 03.

[dragonboy]

Good thread, Brian.

At my third show in 2000 (Louisville Waterfront World Fest) Jim kept referring to Walter, as if someone in the band were named Walter, saying Walter and I wrote this band in 83, I hope you like it.  Then after some the PA started going crazy and producing a little feedback he said that Walter and him wrote this next one in the studio thinking about the feedback, then he dedcated to the song to the feedback.  The song was Tyrone.

The Halloween show from 2000 features some good Jim banter.  He kept doing an Elvis-esque "Thank ya"s after each song.  Before Picture of You Jim says, "this is a sppoky song, for Halloween, this is one we wrote especially for Halloween, very spooky, we'd like to play it for ya".

My tagline used to be "Go ahead and give me a buttload of reverb on this one", which he said before the Bear at Headliners in 02 or 03.

What a great post aMD!
Thankyou,thankyouverymuch  ;)

[marktwain]

Another waterfront show featured costumes.  Jim had a gigantic foam cowboy hat, and kept quoting 'Mr. Show.'

"As mayor of the Altered States of Druggachusetts, I declare this pizza to be...   AWESOME!"

there were a lot of "AWESOME!s"

[marino13]

11-22-05 in St. Louis, My first show:

-Coming out of "The Way That He Sings" Jim introduces Will Johnson and says it's his last night opening and they'll miss him.  He then says "God bless him, God bless him everyone.  If he were figgy pudding I'd eat his ass up."

-Starting the encore after "Run Thru" and before "At Dawn" he comes out singing "Against All Odds" by, and I quote "Phil Mother-fuckin Collins".  He then tells a story about how when he was a kid they were coming back from the mall in his friend's sister's car and listening to the radio singing that song.  He said he sang so hard that the biggest bubble of blood and tissue he's ever seen shot out of his nose.

This show is on archive if you want to listen for yourself.  It's worth it. :D

[tomEisenbraun]

the entire recording of "easy (like sunday morning)" is full of it.

"we got a couple spirituals fer y'all..."

[ycartrob]

-Sloss in Birmingham last year when Jim was launching peeps into the crowd and finally held 2 up to his cheeks and said, "There's more where those came from".  Also declaring they were going to light off the furnace at the end of their show and they'd all go up in flames; it'd be their "ode to iron ore".

[doEVILslittle]

If this is for documentary purposes Jim said something like "weve been in D.C. here since last night and we all sat down by the reflecting pool, all 5 of us and just wrote this song.."
They then play "Anytime"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMR2To8kGE

someone took that story a bit too seriously

[tomEisenbraun]

Hahahahahaha "Reflecting Pool"

[EC]

-Sloss in Birmingham last year when Jim was launching peeps into the crowd and finally held 2 up to his cheeks and said, "There's more where those came from".  Also declaring they were going to light off the furnace at the end of their show and they'd all go up in flames; it'd be their "ode to iron ore".

holy fuck i forgot about that.  that was beautiful.