basically the HI-FI started in a the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, the Fox valley is a giant suburb, no art scene, no any "scene", most people there want to see cover bands... when we would not play up in Green Bay (which had a amazing music scene for a town of 40,000ish) we often played at a place called RYANS ballroom, BIll the owner of Ryans LOVED US and was a general rockin dude, however he had little sense in what bands to book with each other so we somtimes played with really bad nu-metal bands... I think our atitude towards audices were shaped at these show as there was almost always some sort of confrontation, always some jackass in a Lincoln park shirt trying to fuck with us, always some "prog dude" telling us we can't play, and always so fat chick yelling "YOU SUCK" this led me (and other members of the HIFI) to just go at the audince full bore...


"YOU SUCK" random heasher

ME "my band was in a national magazine this month, hows your life going???"

Heash dude "come hear and say that"

ME after noticeing he's like 5'2 and I could kick his ass "you have to go past us to leave, and I have no problem sticking my guitar up your ass as you do"


Heckling us is encouraged... it adds to the WFT factor...

I am usually very against heckling and it really pisses me off....

BUT, one time ever I did it.

It was in '98 or '99 and I heckled Spectrum (Sonic Boom)...
I was super excited to see them, because I loved Spacemen 3 and I had only heard one album by Spectrum and it was decent......but the show was comically bad! Really, my friend and I were laughing....ridiculous vocal effects and no guitars!

I actually walked out.....of all the shitty bands that I have ever seen in my life this is the only show that I have ever walked out on....

Has anyone else here seen this band? Were they good?

I like heckling but no good stories are coming to mind.

I think "SLAYER!" is the new "Freebird", definitely. Either that or, "I can't wait to get on the internet to write about this shit!"

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Servotron were notorious for encouraging heckling. When they played Green Bay, Reggie White had just gotten a ton of shit for for his racist remarks at the Wisconsin State Capital, so as Servotron verbally abused the audience, he responded with

"Reggie White's gonna make the Mexicans turn you guys into televisions!"

Despite the fact that he slightly messed it up (it should have been the Asians), everyone in the crowd and band cracked up.

John W. wrote:

More! More... more...
Effects! Effects... effects...

I thought that was a pretty good one.

This one is very funny to me

The best one I've ever heard is off this Arab on Radar show I found. The singer says "We are Arab on Radar, from deeeeevine Providence, Rhode Island." He says it really slow and drawn out in the high pitched voice. Then someone shouts "I'm Joey Mansfield, from Birmingham, Alabama!" This gets stuck in my head constantly. I like it when bands talk back to heckles. Atom and his Package and Captured by Robots where the best. Atom and his Package heckled us.

One of the best heckles I've ever heard was in Green Bay at the old Concert Cafe/Rock'n'Roll High School. Pop/punk band Mr. T Experience was playing with a Lookout Records tour, and at each tour stop they raffled off some stuff. So MTX was onstage raffling stuff instead of playing songs. There were the usual groans of "less talkin, more rockin'" etc. MTX's drummer, Jym (he does spell it J-Y-M), was drawing a raffle number. He was about to announce the winner when someone in the crowd yelled "YOUR NAME DOESN'T HAVE ANY VOWELS! YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK!".

Also at a MOTO show in Madison, one of the opening bands kept talking about each song before they'd play it. From the back of the crowd Paul of MOTO told them "YOU SOUND LIKE A COLLEGE RADIO DJ!".

There some funny audience quips in between songs from that one live slint show floating around from 89.

Kyle Motor wrote: "YOUR NAME DOESN'T HAVE ANY VOWELS! YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK!".

If that wasn't Tom or N0rb, i'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that was my buddy Jordn.