10 Fans Performing With Bands
Have you ever been to a concert, looked up in the middle of your favorite song and thought "it would be awesome if I could be up there?"
As a musician myself I've had those fantasy moments, looking back into the crowd of people and awing at the sheer mass of people all singing in unison to their favorite band.
Well, for a few lucky fans out there, the musicians of some of these bands have been awesome enough to let them participate. Weather it's singing, or bringing out a guitar and going "Who here can play the whole thing note for note?"
While some of these bands aren't necessarily in the punk genre, it's still "punk" as fuck for these larger than life superstars to exchange these awesome moments with their fans.
10.) Coldplay
Right out of the gate Coldplay can be described as many things, but punk isn't one of them. However Chris Martin of Coldplay has of late had this really cool "laid back moment" with the audience where it's just him and the piano playing one of their more well known songs "Everglow."
One lucky audience member during this moment that knows how to play piano gets chosen to come up and play the song while Chris sings.
This really cool moment was caught on June 6th, 2017 in Munich.
9.) Keith Urban
Drifting even more far south away from punk is Keith Urban. Now I can't say much bad about the guy, he writes some of his own songs, he plays his own music, he's one hell of a guitarist and he's married to Nicole Kidman. Other than that, once upon a time I used to play in a cover band and actually banged out some Keith Urban songs. (You Look Good In My Shirt.)
For one lucky fan named Rob Joyce he got to be Keith's back up guitarist for this song "Good Thing".
This awesome moment was caught on July 2nd, 2016 in Gilford NH
8.) Bowling For Soup
Hey a punk band! Now this one isn't exactly "fan oriented." However, imagine you're the opening band for one of your favorite bands. They're playing one of their most iconic songs, and then the lights go out, and you're on stage in front of a ton of screaming fans finishing the song?
Well that's BFS's thing with their iconic song "Ohio, Come back to Texas." My favorite video of this HAS TO BE of my good buds from the band Punchline performing this on the Get Happy Tour circa 2006.
The sound is a little shit on this one, for another angle CLICK HERE.
7.) Foo Fighters
I could go on forever about how awesome, humble and all around good Nirvana drummer "Uncle" Dave Grohl is. Shit I could write a blog just about his awesomeness. The guy has been so great to his fans since his Nirvana days especially since the inception of Foo Fighters. He's been known to do awesome things throughout the years like pull people on stage and let them sing, play countless charity events, and as of late has been spotted in the crowd during a Metallica show, and let's not forget finishing an entire set with a broken fucking leg.
Here's an awesome moment of a dude playing drums captured on Sept. 7th, 2015.
6.) Paramore
Ever thought, "yeah, I'm a dude, but I got Haley's range." Well that's what fans got an opportunity to do when Paramore made it apart of their repertoire to let one lucky fan come up and finish out the end of their hit from 2007's Riot album "Misery Business."
Now while this doesn't always turn out so well since Haley is such a phenomenal singer, I've skimmed the web for a clip someone killing the song. Killing as in a good thing, not killing as in murdering it.
Captured in Tilburg Netherlands on June 26, 2017
5.) Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi has been known for a lot of things since the Jersey boys exploded in the 80's with songs like "Wanted Dead or Alive" "You Give Love A Bad Name and "It's My Life."
Before I dive into this next clip, I must talk about an awesome prank Jon did for his fans. Where he dressed up like cowboy bartender at a karaoke bar where fans sang Bon Jovi tunes. He revealed himself at the end leaving all shocked as hell. Hats off to him on this one.
This next clip though was of one that happened in my hometown of Pittsburgh PA, of a fan that sang "Born To Be My Baby." He also killed it.
Captured Pittsburgh PA, April 7th, 2017.
4.) Avenged Sevenfold
To say that A7X has a loyal fan base is an understatement. There are diehard fans out there that do crazy things like tattoo the band's logo on their skin, I would never do something that crazy. (I have blink-182 bunny, MxPx Pokinatcha Punk, Milo of Descendents)
Avenged Sevenfold has been nothing but humble to their fans, even pulling them on stage to play some of their awesome songs. Some fans got to play guitar, sing, play drums but this one lucky fan apparently ate a nice bowl of "shreddy wheats" before he ripped it on Syn. Gate's ax.
Captured in Hershey, PA on May 8th, 2014
3.) MxPx
People that know me know that I wouldn't be able to have this countdown without talking about this awesome band. Back in 2008 MxPx had a Karaoke Nights on their U.S. tour.
They had a contest where lucky fans entered singing one of their favorite MxPx songs, then the band picked a winner to sing on stage with them.
For yours truly things lucked out and Katie (the winner) never showed up, so I waved my hand, and asked if I could take her place. It was such an awesome moment which sparked the moment where I became buds with lead singer Mike Herrera.