I saw The Jesus Lizard once. David Yow crowdsurfs and sings at the same time. Not just during a few songs, during all of them. He basically has this cycle of stagediving at the start of a song, getting passed around for a few minutes, then making his way back onstage by the end.
edited 19th Oct '11 11:10:08 PM by MikeK
Rhythm battles with tap dancers.
edited 19th Oct '11 11:19:45 PM by Solstace
Ecstasy is Sustained IntensityWell, Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth drinks from a drinking horn, which is cool and fits the Viking theme of the band. And Emilie Autumn's show is all kinds of awesome - Contessa's aerial acrobatics, Veronica's fan dance (which was ten different kinds of hot), Captain Maggots' fiery hula hoop dance... Good times.
Matt Bellamy of Muse (the lead singer/guitarist) broke Dom Howard's (the drummer) nose after launching himself off an amp and into the drum kit. The two proceeded to brawl in the drum kit, destroy both drums and guitar, and exited the stage. Chris (the bassist) was not amused. It was AWESOME.
Yes, I really am that silly all the time.On the sheer "I WANT THAT" front, there are videos of Radiohead performing various songs from Kid A that feature, among other things, several Korg KAOS Pads and multiple Ondes martinot.
Speaking more to performance behaviour, there are a few, some more... difficult to explain than others. Take Coil, for example.
(This probably does not qualify as "work-safe," if only for the odd looks you'll get.)
edited 25th Oct '11 2:54:07 PM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Maynard James Keenan of Tool once dealt with a rowdy fan who had found his way onstage...by using Brazilian jiu-jitsu on him!
edited 11th Nov '11 11:23:26 AM by mcb01932
Lately, when Deftones play the song 7 Words they drop into a Katy Perry song near the end.
I saw Alice Cooper earlier this year. He does all manner of entertaining things when he performs; he waltzes with a dummy (and then tosses it around the stage), he wanders about popping balloons with a sword, he even chops off his own head with a guillotine.
One thing I enjoyed was when he incorporated bits of "Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2" into "School's Out" and got everybody singing along with it.
Def Leppard were headlining that concert. They were fantastic as well, but they couldn't match his spectacle.
Instrument Destruction in the electronica era
edited 19th Nov '11 7:29:12 AM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat![usual dadrock faggotry about burned guitars and exploding drums goes here]
but really, I normally like stuff like banter and, i don't know, dancing when it come to a performance far more than all that overwrought shit. Although there's still something rather compelling about seeing Hendrix burn up a guitar, of course.
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.Buckethead does some odd, but entertaining things live. Not surprising since he's rather eccentric (or outright crazy, take your pick). In videos so far, I've seen him do robot dancing, use nunchaku, play with toys, trade toys with the audience, sometimes do a martial arts style kick on something on the stage, while playing the guitar... The list goes on.
Please don't feed the trolls!Watch this video, wherein the not entirely serious deathgrind band Cephalic Carnage react to a fight in the pit in the most out of the blue way possible and manage to break it up due to the sheer ridiculousness of the situation they've created:
Surprisingly, this video is also quite popular despite being metal related.
edited 27th Dec '11 3:11:14 PM by Litis

What exactly makes your favorite artists' live shows ~unique~?
Anything funny? Epic?