When you can make guitar strings sings as he did, there is no need to use one's vocal chords. (Duane doesn't seem to be paying any attention to the mike, and he was the bandleader, he made stage anouncements such as, my favorite, on the box set of Live at Filmore East, 'Hey, it's 3am, y'all have to go home. Look, we're makin' a record tonight. You're all are gonna be on it.

Goodnight!"

I like the way he talks on Fillmore East..
mm mmm..

Happy Thanksgiving Donnah !!

you too Paco..cool shirt Duane had on don't you think ?

I hope all had a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Another shirt from the paisley period. Yes csason, very cool! I don't know how he kept from setting his hair on fire, smoking and playing like he did, most of the time with his eyes closed.

Paco my favorite "announcement" was when he told the crowd while they were shouting out requests to "shut up, this ain't no jukebox" and then informed them they would play what they wanted to play (of course not that kindly)....my kind of guy.

Thank you Donnah....very good holiday gift for us and we do appreciate it!

As always, Wail on, Skydog!

Oooh, cute shirt! I like paisley!
Mmmmm mmmm is right, Owen. *rolsl on back, purring, stretching and running claws in and out*
Anyway, this pic has cheered me up immensely after a rather unpleasant holiday visit. All I'll say about that is, sometimes that "family togetherness" stuff is way overrated.

I love the shirt. My fav Duane comment is when they played 02.11.70.."Ok, we're gonna bring our sex symbol to the stage. Come on up you know who you are. Now were are gonna play an old Muddy waters song for you, you probably heard it a million times, but we're gonna play it again its a good song."

The sex symbol was already on stage, right at the mike, if anybody was to ask me. :)

Starla...stop drooling, dinner is over...

*slurp slurp*

I am so glad we got a "stage announcement" riff going -- I can't remember doing that since we've been here. Duane was the man in charge of the room when Bill Graham was not out front.

I'm only guessing of course, but I'm guessing that one kind of "stage announcement" Duane never had to make was the one that goes, generically, "Get that blankety blank laser pointer off me, you blankety blank yada-yada-yada blah-blah-blah!"
I'm thinking here of a video a friend showed me recently of Kiss's Paul Stanley losing his cool and chewing out some kid with a laser pointer. In his weird high-pitched "star child" voice. Basically having a hissy fit. Most unbecoming behavior for a man.

Duane kinda cracks me up at the beginning of "Dreams" on the Live at Sunybrook cd. He starts to talk & apparently somethings wrong so he says something like "Turn the goddam microphones.. who's doin' this?" Then after they do a short sound check he says "We'd like to do an old song if we can get a little MIC!" Of course emphasising the word "MIC" all smart-ass like. :)

Another favorite announcement....."we don't do this song very much, but I feel like singin'" then they launch into Dimples......Ludlow's Garage

Then from Atlanta...." this is our hometown, you don't have to ask us but once....this might seem outta charater but we think it's appropriate...." the beginning strains of "Hotlanta" goosebumps!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, Lisa, lol! What you posted reminds me (lots of things remind me of other things; isn't stream of consciousness fun?) of a tape of old-time radio bloopers. At one point, a sportscaster is running through a list of baseball scores and suddenly he gets the idea he's no longer on the air:
"Hey... hey! You pulled out my AC power! YOU! We're on the air!" He continues to ream out his poor soundman, getting louder and shriller till he's screaming:
"YOU PULLED OUT MY AC YOU DAMN FOOL!!!" And all the while they're trying to tell him he is still on the air.
I'm laughing so hard right now at something I haven't even thought of in years. Thanks Lisa (and Duane too) for the fun. Now I need to go hunt up that old tape. There were some good ones on it.

That's so funny Starla! How embarassing would THAT be?!

Puts me in mind of the guy announcing the football game (I have no idea which game it was but it was back in the day) & he's all caught up in the play cuz the guy is running like crazy with the ball - "...he's at the 40, the 30, the 20 - look at that SON-OF-A-BITCH GO!" And of course this whole spew was heard on the air. Whoops!

Or, I read this, never found a youtube clip of it: in the beginning of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell is freezing in the broadcast booth, and the home team's owner/manager/whatever sends up a pitcher of martinis, and Howard is pouring them down trying to stay warm. He starts slurring, and about like the third quarter he pitches forward and vomits all over the booth. On camera. Man, I'd love to see that. (Well, sort of. Sounds pretty disgusting.)
Or Frank Gifford saying to his audience "Hello, Frank Gifford! I'm Everybody!"
Or just today, on the news they were talking about the Georgia senate runoff, how it was "filibuster-proof" and the winner would need sixty votes. The announcer said "a sixty-proof filibuster." Great name for an album, no?