Best live performance in your opinion

[Taurus]

With all the music related threads, what is the best live performance captured on video in you opinion?

Here's four of my favorites.

https://youtu.be/St6jyEFe5WM?si=a5cSOE4799uOrrPh

https://youtu.be/evN6DIGPIJM?si=zMdLdndNWVEGG_oC

https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs?si=fxw_QA5Xr7mcpzRd

THESE ARE GOOD BUT HERE'S THE BEST BY FAR

https://youtu.be/PLIAp5nr0q0?si=3Cumw1pbZPZUiYF2

[LATB]

In general or a concert we have seen?

[KenHorse]

Good picks and I absolutely agree about Queen at Live Aid. They stole the show and were absolutely spectacular

[Bill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHFRszcRvjs

:fastguy:




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[LATB]

Good picks and I absolutely agree about Queen at Live Aid. Absolutely spectacular

That one will go down in infamy.

[cptlo306]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDMnyQzS88

[Taurus]

In general or a concert we have seen?

Either/or. I enjoy watching old concert footage at night when I'm settling down for the day, that's my context on these.

[LATB]

I saw SRV live with outstanding up front seats. Small outdoor waterfront summer venue Baltimore harbor. Has to be my personal choice. (I shook Stevie’s hand so there’s that)

[LATB]

Either/or. I enjoy watching old concert footage at night when I'm settling down for the day, that's my context on these.

I do the same thing. YouTube is entertainment god nowadays.

[LATB]

Another notable was The Police live in a small venue I think in Georgetown DC. Early years. Only a few thousand people. Sting on the upright bass. Pretty freaking cool.

[Taurus]

I saw SRV live with outstanding up front seats. Small outdoor waterfront summer venue. Has to be my personal choice. (I shook Stevie’s hand so there’s that)

He was one of the greatest. I don't think I've ever met a musician/singer. The closest I've come was here in SLC a few years back. I was at USANA, a local outdoor venue, and they have the dressing trailers over by the handicap parking just inside the chain link fence. I just had some knee work done so I was parked there and walked within a few feet of the trailer door that the Wilson sisters were coming out. Made eye contact with Nancy, mouthed hi and she waved and said hi. I died a little that night.

[Louie Detroit]

In B4 someone ruins the thread with FeMaiden noise pollution.

[dvarapala]

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[PLRX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-v87i1avRo&ab_channel=Metallica

[Anjdog2003]

https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg?si=XT4hYy83IDGsiOc0

[LATB]

He was one of the greatest. I don't think I've ever met a musician/singer. The closest I've come was here in SLC a few years back. I was at USANA, a local outdoor venue, and they have the dressing trailers over by the handicap parking just inside the chain link fence. I just had some knee work done so I was parked there and walked within a few feet of the trailer door that the Wilson sisters were coming out. Made eye contact with Nancy, mouthed hi and she waved and said hi. I died a little that night.

For the record, I didn’t get to meet Stevie. Just had the opportunity to shake his hand at the end of the show. I remember him being a smaller guy and I’m no giant. :Jeff '79:

[Taurus]

One the best concerts that stands out was the Talking heads' Stop Making Sense Tour.

https://youtu.be/Zfr3L0drhS8?si=kOFlsMBD98pdQiWo

https://youtu.be/wIw-nCzF56Y?si=gANsO_nRJG0GR1MK

And of course the big suit.

[Aerovette]

Possibly the best concert I personally saw was Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago touring together.

[KenHorse]

https://youtu.be/wIw-nCzF56Y?si=gANsO_nRJG0GR1MK

And of course the big suit.

Life according to David Byrne

Come join my band! Play music AND get a great workout!

[Anjdog2003]

https://youtu.be/f_-ZglDrE1o?si=FZhjK-y_QCXmG-5M

[KenHorse]

https://youtu.be/f_-ZglDrE1o?si=FZhjK-y_QCXmG-5M

I saw Tull with the Doobie Bros. back in the day

(The Forum in Philly)

[Anjdog2003]

https://youtu.be/TEnzdp71U78?si=CuHsv2TkSOEjgatU

[Taurus]

https://youtu.be/7uAUoz7jimg?si=XT4hYy83IDGsiOc0

My first concert was Chicago at Red Rocks in 1975. Saw Kiss at McNichols arena the next night. Great weekend in Denver.

[Anjdog2003]

I saw Tull with the Doobie Bros. back in the day

(The Forum in Philly)






I saw Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsies in April or May of 1970 at the Great Western forum.


https://youtu.be/Lw2L_vGUMtE?si=z72dthVUBtGQ7VTh

[Taurus]

I saw Tull with the Doobie Bros. back in the day

(The Forum in Philly)

Love JT, he's just a little hard to watch in a Joe Cocker kind of weird way. :D

[Anjdog2003]

I saw Tull with the Doobie Bros. back in the day

(The Forum in Philly)




That's a lot of good music. :yesnod: I'am sure you didn't get loaded. :Entropy:

[KenHorse]

Love JT, he's just a little hard to watch in a Joe Cocker kind of weird way. :D

He? You mean Ian Anderson?

[Raazor]

IM & Metallica... throw a dart at any concert.

Megadeth also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4dhcELoqc

[Unsuspicious]

Red Hot Chili Peppers was a great show, mostly for watching flea tear it up live. I got to see Howard Levy in a small masterclass performance as well.

[Anjdog2003]

IM & Metallica... throw a dart at any concert.

Megadeth also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4dhcELoqc




Nice Hijack Buzzheim.

[Taurus]

He? You mean Ian Anderson?

Yes, Ian.

[KenHorse]

That's a lot of good music. :yesnod: I'am sure you didn't get loaded. :Entropy:

Nahhhhhhh

[Anjdog2003]

Barry Manilow was the high light in my youth and still is. https://youtu.be/7TGTdW-bBI0?si=U7m8sU69cVGGKRk8








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[Steve_R]

IM & Metallica... throw a dart at any concert.

Megadeth also.



This thread is about music. The unintelligible screaming thread is way over there. ——————>

[Rikki Z-06]

IM & Metallica... throw a dart at any concert.

Megadeth also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy4dhcELoqc



And Motörhead. :yesnod:

https://youtu.be/8wP5WFZmB3A?si=_k_TpDFg_ft7iOlC

[Rikki Z-06]

This thread is about music. The unintelligible screaming thread is way over there. ——————>

Buzz and Stikki knows music. :yesnod:

[Steve_R]

Buzz and Stikki knows music. :yesnod:

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[Anjdog2003]

Buzz and Stikki knows music. :yesnod:







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[LATB]

Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin at Painters Mill Music Theater, Owings Mills MD. In the round, the entire stage was a turntable. Pretty incredible.

[Cool 50th AE]

America!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY&list=RDQxIWDmmqZzY&start_radio=1

[LATB]

America!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY&list=RDQxIWDmmqZzY&start_radio=1

One of my favorite and I missed out. :(

[GrandSportC3]

Watched Rammstein live in Tampa about 11 years ago. They put on an amazing show!

[lrobe22]

Black Stone Cherry is the best I've seen. They opened for Saliva and completely outlclassed them. These guys played 45 minutes straight , head banging, with zero interruptions. They play their heart out.

https://youtu.be/zO1_cpIIzXI?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/ZQ8itDYP6HU?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/bcV6zk-vgM8?feature=shared

[Cool 50th AE]

I guess this counts as a live performance.

Jewel is awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmv1VhrtYRo

[Bill]

I saw Elton John play underneath the St. Louis Arch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-EiBDFliA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNszuzWAFDU

[markids77]

Please, somebody post something from the WHO. Live at Leeds???... I don't have the technology.

[Murray]

INXS and Eagles were amazing.Paul McCartney in strong second place

[Anjdog2003]

Please, somebody post something from the WHO. Live at Leeds???... I don't have the technology.






https://youtu.be/TmfQQC1bsf4?si=1rngz4SUqHj4l3oC

[donuts]

Def Leppard summer if 1988 - The best sounding concert I’ve ever attended was actually outdoors on the state fairground racetrack ….

[Taurus]

Def Leppard summer if 1988 - The best sounding concert I’ve ever attended was actually outdoors on the state fairground racetrack ….

I saw them with Heart, great show. :seasix:

[sublime1996525]

My first concert was Randy Travis with Alan Jackson and Tammy Winette. It was really good from what I remember. I was like 8. I really wish I would’ve made it to the Family Values Tour ‘98 concert. Would’ve been epic.

[04 commemorative]

The Doors at the garden 69 and 70

[Steve_R]

The Doors at the garden 69 and 70


I’ll bet that was great. :seasix:

Best we’ve been to was Tom Petty at Red Rocks two months before he died. Joe Walsh was the unannounced opening act.

[carlton_fritz]

Nightwish: Live in Wacken 2013

[Aerovette]

First concert, but not the best, would have been Waylon Jennings somewhere around 70 or 71. Playing under a revival type tent with folding chairs. As a kid I saw a lot of his shows that took place in store parking lots and under these tents.

[vettemed]

I'm not a huge DMB fan, but I do love a few of their songs, my favorite being #41. It's awesome when performed live, but this one takes the cake because they were with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and it's a half hour of awesomeness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S828_f0-dQI

[Yadkin]

Best I've seen was probably Ray Charles, 1982 at the Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst. Very classy. That man was a very fine gentleman and extremely talented.

Next was Bruce Springsteen, late '75 I don't remember exactly, at the Music Hall in Boston (now the Wang Theater). Fairly small audience, maybe 3000 or so. The next year he was playing arenas. I saw him several times at larger venues and each was very good.

[TheHammer]

Maybe not the best I've seen, but the most memorable. Kansas played in 1977 at the Iowa State Fair. Late afternoon, early evening event. The stage was set up just off the front straight away of the dirt race track.

It was a cloudy and breezy most of the day, and a storm was brewing. By the time they got to sing "Dust in The Wind", I thought the entire stage and speakers were coming down, it was so windy and dusty, you could barely see them, and they kept playing.



Saw the Eagles a few weeks ago, pretty good show.

[Wathen1955]

The best for me was seeing Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Carl Palmer put up an excellent 20 minute drum solo.

[KenHorse]

The best for me was seeing Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Carl Palmer put up an excellent 20 minute drum solo.

I also saw ELP at The Forum in Philly, with the Allman Brothers as I remember

Keith Emerson did the rotating grand piano thing. It was epic for the time

[GTOguy]

All the best live performances I've seen were before the 'captured on video--cell phone' shit.
Buffalo Springfield. Jefferson Airplane. Grateful Dead. ZZ Top. John Fogarty. AC/DC with Bon Scott. JJ Cale. Tony Joe White. Lionel Hampton. John Lee Hooker. Tony Joe White. Paul Butterfield (solo, in a Chinese restaurant!) and on and on. One of the few perks of growing up and living in the SF Bay Area from the '60's through the late '90's.

[6spdC6]

Being a bit older than many on here I have to say the free concert in Central Park NYC by Simon and Garfunkel in 1981 has to rank right up there. They had a big bunch of people there and they would have had as many if you had to pay to be there!

[BayouCountry]

Spirit at the Golden Bear in Huntington beach. Gotta love those small venues.

[KenHorse]

Spirit at the Golden Bear in Huntington beach. Gotta love those small venues.

They got a line on you?

[GTOguy]

Ed Cassady, the drummer for Spirit started out in 1937 as a professional musician for the big band acts at that time. The kit he played in Spirit dated to that time. Also, pushing 50, he was kidded for his advanced age. Mr. Skin. He was a class act in a class act, IMO. Always loved the band, and always knew that Led Zeppelin ripped off their song Taurus for Stairway to Heaven. **** Lead Zeppelin, and FJB.
The band is featured in the 1969 movie "Model Shop" starring Gary Lockwood.
Model Shop was used by Quentin Tarantino as a reference when he made the movie "Once upon a time in Hollywood".

Now, back to Big Bob and Yadkin.

[LATB]

Ed Cassady, the drummer for Spirit started out in 1937 as a professional musician for the big band acts at that time. The kit he played in Spirit dated to that time. Also, pushing 50, he was kidded for his advanced age. Mr. Skin. He was a class act in a class act, IMO. Always loved the band, and always knew that Led Zeppelin ripped off their song Taurus for Stairway to Heaven. **** Lead Zeppelin, and FJB.

I saw Led Zeppelin in ‘77 with Bonham. It was pretty damn good.

[GTOguy]

I saw Led Zeppelin in ‘77 with Bonham. It was pretty damn good.


Yeah, but in '77, you could have stepped on stage and doubled for any of the band members. :seasix:

[LATB]

Yeah, but in '77, you could have stepped on stage and doubled for any of the band members. :seasix:

True, sans musical talent.

[KenHorse]

Fun fact. Randy California (of Spirit) drowned off Molokai trying to save this child

[LATB]

Truth is that every concert I saw was a great experience except for one.

[AUTOHOLIC]

I have seen few live concerts in my long life but here they are:
Late 80s The Four Top in Phx the old Coliseum.
Late 80s TheStray Cats at the old Safari Resort in the lounge/bar on Camelback in Scottsdale
Late 80s Vince Gill at Graham Central Station in Phx.
Early 90s Garth Brooks outdoor concert in Scottsdale
Mid 90s The Eagles Hell Freezes Over tour Desert Sky Phoenix
Late 90s B.B.King outdoor concert Sedona, AZ.

[WydGlydJim]

Probably have to be Heart.......Stairway To Heaven at the Kennedy center...of course I've only seen it on video, but I think it is stupendous!

LFxOaDeJmXk

[KenHorse]

Probably have to be Heart.......Stairway To Heaven at the Kennedy center...of course I've only seen it on video, but I think it is stupendous!

LFxOaDeJmXk


NO STAIRWAY!

[GTOguy]

Fun fact. Randy California (of Spirit) drowned off Molokai trying to save this child

Fun fact: he succeeded. Saved the kid but was himself carried into the riptide.

[LATB]

Probably have to be Heart.......Stairway To Heaven at the Kennedy center...of course I've only seen it on video, but I think it is stupendous!

LFxOaDeJmXk

I have watched that video several times. Shame that they had to include the magic negro and his monkey face wife. :ack:

[Anjdog2003]

Spirit at the Golden Bear in Huntington beach. Gotta love those small venues.




My stomping grounds :yesnod:

[BayouCountry]

They got a line on you?

It’s natures way!

[GTOguy]

Best live performance? Yadkin, starring in The Little Engine That Could.

95987

[KenHorse]

It’s natures way!

Another great one by them and oh so typical of the time (studio version is better of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPEUIR5J3k

[Bill]

Probably have to be Heart.......Stairway To Heaven at the Kennedy center...of course I've only seen it on video, but I think it is stupendous!

LFxOaDeJmXk

NO STAIRWAY!

DENIED!

[StudleyJames]

You cannot forget Garth Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQs7iwpebfU

[GrandSportC3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyUNmmj19-A

Not the concert I attended but a concert from the same year.

[LATB]

You cannot forget Garth Brooks

Yes we can.

[Louie Detroit]

You cannot forget Garth Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQs7iwpebfU

Who?

[Unsuspicious]

Aren't all performances live performances?

[69camfrk]

Van Halen in 1982 and 1984. Off the charts.

[Steve_R]

You cannot forget Garth Brooks


I can. :ack:

[Taurus]

You cannot forget Garth Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQs7iwpebfU

The male equivalent of Taylor Swift.

[GrandSportC3]

Guns n Roses was great in the 90's but now, Axl's voice has deteriorated horribly..
I watched them live in 1992 and 1993. It was fantastic!

[StudleyJames]

The male equivalent of Taylor Swift.

You think he's cute?

[Taurus]

You think he's cute?

No, just boring and playing to the masses. No thanks.

[StudleyJames]

No, just boring and playing to the masses. No thanks.

I am guessing you have never seen him live in concert

I used to think the same thing, then my wife dragged me to one (kicking and screaming) of his concerts and the amount of energy he does on staged was unbelievable, now it been 15 years since I saw him last live, I can't tell you if it is still as good, but back then he was one of the best IMHO

I also have to believe he has 1 or 2 songs you like too :D

[Taurus]

I am guessing you have never seen him live in concert

I used to think the same thing, then my wife dragged me to one (kicking and screaming) of his concerts and the amount of energy he does on staged was unbelievable, now it been 15 years since I saw him last live, I can't tell you if it is still as good, but back then he was one of the best IMHO

I also have to believe he has 1 or 2 songs you like too :D

I have seen him in concert on video but not in person, wasn't overly impressed but I'm also not a country music fan. Even after living in Nashville for a while. I stood behind Alan Jackson in line once and had no idea who he was until my son said something. Just never got the country thing.

[DJ_Critterus]

In general or a concert we have seen?

I'm going to have to give the award to TSO (Trans Siberian Orchestra) for this one. awesome show several years back and a whole lot of pyro!

[Taurus]

I'm going to have to give the award to TSO (Trans Siberian Orchestra) for this one. awesome show several years back and a whole lot of pyro!

I’ve heard they are a great show.

[StudleyJames]

I'm going to have to give the award to TSO (Trans Siberian Orchestra) for this one. awesome show several years back and a whole lot of pyro!
They are really good too (seen them 3 times), but hard to want to listen to Christmas music other than during the month of December

[DJ_Critterus]

I’ve heard they are a great show.It's worth the money :yesnod:

They are really good too (seen them 3 times), but hard to want to listen to Christmas music other than during the month of December
That's the only time to go see them.....

Kinda interesting how the show works as there are two bands playing identical shows on the east and west coasts simultaneously.
https://news.pollstar.com/2006/11/20/the-technicalities-of-tso/

[Frankie the Fink]

Nothing, NOTHING, comes close, a "knock it outta the park" stand up and belt out a song live rendition AND his parents were in the live audience !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0uUtdzy32s

[WydGlydJim]

Nothing, NOTHING, comes close, a "knock it outta the park" stand up and belt out a song live rendition AND his parents were in the live audience !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0uUtdzy32s


Quality stuff right there!
:seasix:

[LATB]

Van Halen in 1982 and 1984. Off the charts.

I saw them early on in the late 70’s they opened for Black Sabbath and stole the show.

[Aerovette]

Another great show. Tons of talent.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

[theandies]

Any and all Rush concerts I've been to and I've been to a lot of Rush concerts. They never failed to WOW!

[Unsuspicious]

https://youtu.be/UvPXmkYMHFg

[StudleyJames]

https://youtu.be/UvPXmkYMHFg

https://i.imgflip.com/g3ib1.jpg

[ZipZap]

Another great show. Tons of talent.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Which one?