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** The French rock band Les Wampas was invited into the national official TV news. At the end of it, they proceed to sing one of their tunes... and then changed to a new one, "Chirac en prison" (Chirac in jail), in order to protest against the lacking of judicial actions against the then actual president, Jacques Chirac, which was into many financial scandals. The commercials quickly came to shut them...

* This troper is most definitely not a [[Limp Bizkit]] fan, but he has to give them major props for one thing: in the year 2000, when everybody and their dog was suing Napster for contributory copyright infringement, they instead embarked on a summer tour of free shows sponsored by the makers of the eponymous file-sharing software. Fred Durst, the band's frontman, even issued a scathing [[Take That]] to ''the entire rest of the industry'':

* Outside the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, [[Nirvana|Kurt]] and his wife Courtney Love meet Axl Rose. Courtney asks [[Rant-Inducing Slight|"Axl, will you be the godfather of our child?"]] Axl, infuriated, screams to Kurt "You better tell your bitch to shut up or I'll take you to the pavement!" Kurt humiliated the macho Axl by simply turning to his wife and saying, in a sarcastic monotone, "Shut up, bitch." News of this confrontation helped ruin Axl Rose's career.

** That same night where he told the producers he wanted to play "Rape Me" on stage, getting a nervous reaction, to say the least (everyone just assumed they'd play ''Smells Like Teen Spirit''. When it's his time to perform, and after being told not to, he played the first line of "Rape Me" and then immediately cut into "Lithium", knowing that about fifty suits hit the floor as soon as he started.

* Say what you will about Rap/Hip-Hop, you will be hard pressed to find a more electrifying live performance than LL Cool J doing ''an acoustic version'' of "Mama Said Knock You Out" on MTV. A performance made that much more legendary by MTV/Viacom's inexplicable decision to not to re-air LL's MTV Unplugged episode or include any of his stuff on any of the Unplugged compilations. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjRWcqxOO6s Judge for yourself].

* The 1963 Royal Variety Performance. [[The Beatles]] take to the stage to perform 'Twist and Shout'. Before they play, John Lennon addresses the primarily upper-class audience and informs them that this is an audience participation number:

** Their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqiAl84ipIk rooftop concert] too.

* The [[Sex Pistols]] renting a barge and following Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee parade while blasting "God Save the Queen" deified them in the minds of the [[Useful Notes On Punk|Punk]] community. Even after the group utterly failed in the U.S. and fell apart, they are still remembered for having the cast-iron balls to actually do it.

* The year: 2002. The event: The 75th Academy Awards. The favorite to win the award for Best Original Song was [[U2]] for the song "The Hands That Built America" from the ''Gangs of New York'' soundtrack. Everyone was so sure of their victory, one of the nominees didn't even bother attending. And the Oscar goes to... [[Eminem]] for his song "Lose Yourself" from the semi-autobiographical ''8 Mile''. He was the first rap artist to win an Oscar in that category and he spent the monumental night sleeping.

* [[Tori Amos]] had always proved that she could rock like the men, but this performance of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqH2YBdL738 Cruel] is definitely her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. This is what some [[YouTube]] users had to say about the video:

peacebiotch: ''I love Demon Tori. So much.'' }}

** In the middle of a performance of "Code Red", Tori [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H13XmvstA stopped to kick out two girls that were being disruptive]! Skip to 2:27 to see Tori being badass.

* Melissa Etheridge, at the 2005 Grammys, managing to rock the HELL out of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_j3TDhc8vY even though she was on chemo.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZNrCDppGU Primus and Buckethead at Ozzfest]. Les Claypool, one of the most talented (and insane) bassists in the business, with Buckethead, one of the most talented (and likely THE most insane) guitarists. Not to mention the latter's epic intro.

* DJ Scratch Bastard became a legend at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht85OEOEcdY this] battle for scratching the Imperial Theme out of a completely different song.

* The fact that Renard Queenston has fucktons of aliases likely counts.