The Importance of Stage Banter 

When I saw Cannibal Corpse at summer slaughter a few years ago, someone threw a beer can on up on stage, so the first few minutes of the show was Corpsegrinder ranting about killing the guy who threw it and his family. Good times.

R.I.P Malcolm Young 1953-2017

Steel panther are a perfect example of entertainment

Heard somewhere that Corpsegrider will usually yells "FUCK THE ALLIANCE" (which is a warcraft reference) between songs or something.

I Still Love That you put Ghost in the Thumbnail.

Seeing Lamb of God for the first time was amazing since Randy Blythe was very interactive with the crowd and even told everyone what to expect if it was heir first Slayer show. As well as Ozzys ranting about a guy with a cell phone when I saw Black Sabbath.

I love this video! You make great points!

Mikael Akerfeldt is my favorite stange banterer. Always witty and no fucks given.

"This is not what to do when a bird shits on you" 😂

I never thought about this before, but you're so right! Sometimes i remember the small bands and festivals more than the headliners because of little conversations with the audience!

You are so right, sometimes I see bands who just walk onto the stage, play their setlist and go away, not even a greeting nod to the audience. I mean, I could as well just have stayed home and listened to your albums and get the same experience, do you really think you are so great you can just act like there is nobody else in the club?

dude you should be a music teacher

I was unhappy with the video being removed, as I forgot to like a video that most certainly deserved a like (or a thousand).

Great video as always!

Love this video! So great as always. Amazing content in the video \m/

Just saw Origin and Archspire last night and both killed it, they were very engaging with audience and did it masterfully.

Single greatest DM frontman of all time was David Vincent between 1989-1996. He had a captivating aura that was solemn, sincere and more than a little scary. He didn't use the death growl in between songs to gargle unintelligible drek. Instead, he actually SPOKE to the audience. It came across so much more powerful. Sadly, he kind of became a parody of himself when he re-joined MA, but those classic early tours were something to behold.

Def leppard are my faviourite band to see live. I love how Joe just holds the audience and everyone was so captivated by him. He was amazing. The music was amazing aswell

Hahaha that ending, Bruce is the man. And the album shown before Live After Death... AC/DC at Donington. Possibly my all time fav live record. Great vid dude \m/

What. Dejavu I watched this video yesterday. Not kidding

Nice Bolt Thrower poster

I don't agree with the drummer not being allowed to "open their trap". Its great seeing all the members of a band engaged in the conversation and getting along, makes them seem more human.

This is the problem I have with Tool. I love their music, but godammit they have absolutely no stage presence. Iron Maiden is the best live band I've ever seen, the only day I had more fun at a show is at Metallica, which Metallica has a lot of fun on stage as well. I love Exodus' live show as well as, GWAR, Ghoul, Slayer, Ghost, and U2.

I love the number of the beast poster in the back round

Thanks for fixing that mistake. It just made me uncomfortable when I heard you say Gary Souza the first time. XD gotta say though, I liked Rob Dukes better.

Now I just have to think of things to say. My band’s second show is coming up and we’re gonna be debuting at least three new songs, and plenty more covers

1st love the channel man!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Stage presence you’re looking for? Avatar. Trust me.

You should see Michael Angelo Batio live Nicest dude ever! You won't regret it...he's freaking funny as hell

The part that really busted me up was the photo of Neil Giraldo. I literally have never read, heard or tried in any way to get information about his personality, but I noticed years ago that every Pat Benatar show, the advertisement or information always gave Neil Geraldo top billing along with Pat, even though nobody I know would ever go to see Neil play if he wasn't married to her. I kinda already figured out that Neil is a legend in his own mind...

He drove so god damn fast

I never seen Venom live I went to a brutal death metal concert and I got your meeting vocalist of mortician I got an autograph from the vocalist of mortician

I'm guessing the band where the singer was thinking everyone for the opportunity to play with them was Suffocation?

I saw Venom last year

"Never open with 'How you doing?'", Chuck Schuldiner always opened by playing one song, then asking everyone how theyre doing in that sweet innocent Florida accent.

Whats your opinion on the way Death Grips does live shows where they don't speak at all with the audience, they just do an extremely intense long show with no spaces in between the songs.

5:23 You mean Retrospect and Vehicle of Spirit right?

Blink 182 are the kings of strange banter

What's your opinion on Pantera?

Tony,what about Andi Deris who tells the same dam'ned story

What do you think of the bands S.O.D and DRI

Check out Opeth for stage banter. Part metal show part standup comedy

Every time I see Obituary they never talk.

Phil Anselmo is the KING of stage banter!

Why the re-upload?

So heres a story about a shitty show my dad saw some things to note my dad loves the Mars volta well they were doing a show with a perfect circle tickets were like 30 bucks so my dad and some friends got tickets and drove 3 hours to see tmv and the set list was all of deloused in the comatorium they get their and after the first few songs somebody threw a bottle at them they said stop or were gonna leave so more people thew shit at them so they left an hour and a half later APC comes out and put on a a shitty show one of the things my dad remembers is in part of it was Maynard telling everyone to not be sheep and believe what they want then a bit later he starts going off everyone say Fuck bush so they spent the whole 3 hour trip picking crap shows that would have been better the a perfect circle

Theatrical bands fucking rule \m/

Nah man, come on. The drummer just wanted to stay relevant!