Hmmmm...
It's not music related, but I saw Bea Arthur fall off stage a few years ago.

Erykah badu fell off the stage at one of the Indy shows.....



Back in the 70's my parents told me that Maurice White's (EWF) pants split during the show.....


and well janet....

TheRealFiness said:

i remember hearing stories about this coming up.
that happened in Lewisville Texas at the old Dallas International Speedway

a modern day lynching.

Rhondab said:

she fell? on purpose? accident? LOL that is my girl.

In January 1977, while performing in Florida, Patti Smith fell from the stage and broke two vertebrae in her neck.


Keith Richards still fucks-up song intros and on the current tour even started playing the wrong song while the rest of the band launched into the correct one.


The Replacements were notorious for playing the occasional show completely plastered (especially early in their career). They toured as Tom Petty's opening act a few years before they broke-up and I went to the show specifically to see them. It was the last night of the tour and they were fucking wasted. They even started making-up songs on stage.


Has no one mentioned that chick (the poor man's Gwen Stefani) from the Black-eyed Peas who pissed herself on stage?


Not quite in the same league, I saw a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion show here a few years back and Jon made the mistake of making a positive comment about the Montreal show. Toronto and Montreal have an intense rivalry and this brought a chorus of boos. Jon turned the tide by saying, "Yeah, FUCK Montreal!".


Bruce Springsteen is notorious for being a strict bandleader (in fact, Prince has praised him in this regard), so he was mighty pissed when his drummer, Max Weinberg, missed a cue on the Born to Run tour. The Boss likes to be spontaneous on stage, so the band must watch him at all times. Max got distracted by a hot chick in the audience and got a dressing down from Bruce after the show. It never happened again.

Ace said:

isn't he a given?

CHIC0 said:

Up until recently, I'd assumed he was the consumate professional on stage, but Mick, Ron and Charlie confirm he is notorious for butchering intros.

Not that it's one of my favorites, but remember when CeCe Deville from Poison started playing the wrong song intentionally on the VMAs? The rest of the band had no choice but to stop and go along with what he was doing.

TheRealFiness said:

no the footage shows it

kpowers said:

how's that a favourite ?

Dewrede said:

falls more under the fuck up. I Thought it should be mention since many don't know of the incident.

ok

No one's mentioned Prince spraining his ankle onstage?

Did anyone see that?

I saw him in Concord soon after and it was obvious he was in pain, still trying to get on top of the piano, but moving slow. The show was very short, as well, because Concord has a curfew & Larry & Chaka used up his time.

Not a traditional performance, but Ozzy Osbourne doing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" at Wrigley Field in 2003.

Chip Caray: "All right, Chicago. Here comes Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne."

Ozzy: "All right, Chicago. I want to hear a real crazy crowd start singing.
Are you ready? Are you ready? I can't hear you. Are you ready?

"One. Two. Three.

"Let's go out to the ballgame. Let's go out to the bluhhhhhn.

"Take me a ee-yan eeya (humming) the field.

"I don't care if I ahh-uhn ack.

"Da da da da duh da da da eam. Duh ee, da da da da dahhh.

"For a fee, two, three strikes you're out at the old ballgame. Yeahhhhh."





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Staying with the sport theme, Carl Lewis doing the National Anthem...

http://www.frenchboxing.c...Anthem.mp3

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Perry Farrell busting his ass at woodstock and then getting up and continuing to sing.

Soy Bomb dude was pretty entertaining too. He was working that shit!

MichaelsLight said:

where and when that must have been funny!

theAudience said:

And, of course, Roseanne.

andyman91 said:

Includes the grab 'em and spit move.


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theAudience said:

Personally, I love that moment. I think people overreacted to her gesture and didn't get that she was mimicking baseball behavior, not disrespecting the National Anthem. Either way, she's a terrible singer and she didn't try and hide it lol

kpowers said:

ur talkin about altamont right? is there an official release of this?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Seriously, who thought she'd do a good job? I totally agree, spitting & crotch grabbing is baseball, and therefore, American.

I desperately want to see something I've been told about.

Apparently one time Iggy Pop did a stage-dive and just landed flat on his face when no-one caught him.

MichaelsLight said:

Not half as bad as Amsterdam in 1996 when he walked on stage with a huge erection. Or of course the fall on the Destiny tour when he broke his nose.
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David Bowie and the lollypop in his eye at a festival in Norway during the Reality Tour.

I laughed when I first heard about that but seeing that picture soon took the smile off my face. OUCH!!

Yikes. I bet the fan who threw that felt like an idiot!

I hear that now both of his eyes are blue, at least.

Ellie said:

Good thing it was his "bad" eye

Workin' security and seeing Jimmy Page on stage with a long string of saliva hanging from his mouth.