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[SleeperCylon]

Often when I go to see bands who've released great albums but whose new album sucks, I want to yell "PLAY SOME FUCKING OLD STUFF!!!"

[Thrillho]

Isn't that just a way of making a band you like hate your guts?

[Jackie Blue]

Often when I go to see bands who've released great albums but whose new album sucks, I want to yell "PLAY SOME FUCKING OLD STUFF!!!"

People like you are the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore.

[rynne]

My favourite thing to do is freak the hell out of my local bands by yelling out names of songs they wrote when they started out or have only just written and haven't performed for anyone else yet.

I saw someone try to do that at a Dismemberment Plan show.  Travis turned to his mic and went something like, "I was talking to that guy earlier and I said, 'Hey, do you remember that song from our first EP that no one knows and that wasn't very good? I'd really love it if you could yell for that in the middle of the set.'"

[GenericName]

I once had a habit of yelling "Freebird" after my little sister finished practicing violin.

[Lyrics]

I saw a horrible band once, they had a guitar solo that consisted of one note, they even fucked that up.
I shouted "freebird" from the audience.  The guitar player looked pissed.

[Spluff]

I saw a horrible band once, they had a guitar solo that consisted of one note, they even fucked that up.
I shouted "freebird" from the audience.  The guitar player looked pissed.

Are you sure that wasn't just them, y'know, playing a note?

[ViolentDove]

The One Note Solo is a characteristic technique of those trained in zen guitar.

[De_El]

Isn't there a one note solo in "I Wanna Be Sedated"?

[Inlander]

On "Juicy Fruit", the second track of the excellent Coleman Hawkins album the Hawk Flies High, the little-known jazz trumpeter Idrees Sulieman begins his solo with a single sustained note that lasts for, by my count, 70 bars.

It's quite incredible.

[ViolentDove]

He must've been using circular breathing to get a note that long... either that or he had freakishly giant lungs. 

[Spluff]

circular breathing

I don't know what that is, but it conjures some really fucking hilarious mental images.

[Jackie Blue]

Neil Young is the undisputed king of the one note solo.

[Durin]

When I went to see Radiohead live the people I was with was discussing yelling out, "Play Creep!" or "Play Weirdo!" or "Play that song from Rock Band!" but we only occasionally said it amongst ourselves.

[pinkpiche]

At the Slayer show at roskilde, I yelled "PLAY SOME SLAYAAAAA" and I think Tom heard me! It was magic.

[Thrillho]

circular breathing

I don't know what that is.

You lose.

[Kai]

The One Note Solo is a characteristic technique of those trained in zen guitar Neil Young.

[tommydski]

Neil Young is the undisputed king of the one note solo.

I was thinking of that one note anti-solo in 'Vampire Blues'.

[Chad K.]

Where I come from people mostly go ''SLAYERRRR".

Correct pronunciation; "FUKKEN SLAYERRRR"

Actually, try calling out "SLIPKNOT!!!" at an extreme metal gig. But only if you're big - I can't vouch for anyone's safety.

Lol, I'd have serious respect for anyone who dares that, regardless how big they are. The ensuing pit would be murder.

My band is sort of a jazz rock thing with a female vocalist, and we tend to book eclectic gigs.  Our last show was with a punk band closing, who proceeded to get WAY drunk and wanted to play before us, to which I said no as the crowd (who were only about 25 people) was starting to get really drunk and a little violent and I just wanted to go home.  People were pretty much just yelling at us while were setting up, and then we got a "PLAY SOME SLAYER!!!!!" right before our set, so I busted out the guitar line to "South of Heaven" on bass, and people clapped, got quiet and moved toward the stage.  It was like someone flipped a switch.  No problems the rest of the show, and we even stuck around to watch the punk band, who were good.  Possibly the only time Slayer ever calmed an audience down.  Thank you, Slayer, thank you.

[pilsner]

On "Juicy Fruit", the second track of the excellent Coleman Hawkins album the Hawk Flies High, the little-known jazz trumpeter Idrees Sulieman begins his solo with a single sustained note that lasts for, by my count, 70 bars.

It's quite incredible.

    Wednesday, 5 February, 2003, 13:00 GMT
First notes for 639-year composition
John Cage
The piece by John Cage is called As Slow As Possible
The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.

The three notes, which will last for a year-and-a-half, are just the start of the piece, called As Slow As Possible.

Composed by late avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992, the performance has already been going for 17 months - although all that has been heard so far is the sound of the organ's bellows being inflated.

We started discussing - what is as slow as possible for the organ?

Hans-Ola Ericsson
Composer
The music will be played in Halberstadt, a small town renowned for its ancient organs in central Germany.

It was originally a 20-minute piece for piano, but a group of musicians and philosophers decided to take the title literally and work out how long the longest possible piece of music could last.

They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.

"We started discussing - what is as slow as possible for the organ?" Swedish composer and organist Hans-Ola Ericsson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We, a group of theologians, musicologists, philosophers, composers and organists, met during a couple of years solely to discuss this question. It was rather wonderful to have one topic to discuss at length."

Hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive

Hans-Ola Ericsson
"We came up with the answer that the piece could last for the duration of the organ - that is the lifetime of an organ."

Mr Ericsson said John Cage would have liked what they had done with it.

"It's a sound that we give to the future to take care of, and hopefully the aesthetics and the ideas of John Cage will manage to survive."

The first note is due to be struck at 1800 local time (1700 GMT) on Wednesday.

The performance follows a legal case in which composer Mike Batt was forced to pay a six-figure sum to Cage's publishers, who accused him of plagiarising a silent piece of music.