I add my ten cents about the origins of the rock and roll encore--and the growing disdain for playing them among cool-kids bands--on Slate's latest Decoder Ring podcast. My segment begins at 48:30.
Thanks! Which got me thinking about how we all deserve applause and calls for an encore after our daily endeavors. I endorse the etiquette observed by Peter Frampton and his band during their triumphant 1976 tour behind the ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ album, as recounted by Frampton himself in his memoir….
“Afterwards, you’d come off stage, go into the dressing room, and there’d be four lines of coke that the road manager had put out, and a shot of brandy. So after ‘Do You Feel,’ we’d come off, do the lines, do the shot, and then go back out and do the encores.”
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that.
Thanks! Which got me thinking about how we all deserve applause and calls for an encore after our daily endeavors. I endorse the etiquette observed by Peter Frampton and his band during their triumphant 1976 tour behind the ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ album, as recounted by Frampton himself in his memoir….
“Afterwards, you’d come off stage, go into the dressing room, and there’d be four lines of coke that the road manager had put out, and a shot of brandy. So after ‘Do You Feel,’ we’d come off, do the lines, do the shot, and then go back out and do the encores.”
We all need a supportive road manager in our daily lives.