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Best songs performed live? (1 Viewer)

Doug B said:
Zebra plays a lot of small venues. “Who’s Behind the Door?” is stunning from up close. This 2018 performance gives a good indication of the feel of those intimate shows.
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Randy Jackson has been playing daily acoustic shows on Facebook all throughout the pandemic. A lot of Zebra but also a lot of covers. His voice is shot,  but he still plays a mean guitar.

 
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Stevie Winwood and Traffic trippin' BALLS 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT4-iBuDw0Q , Winwood's pupils are as big as dinner plates LOL.this is dear mr fantasy from the concert. 

Genesis, 1973 live 1 hour show. Watcher of the Skies Dancing with the Moonlit Knight , I Know What I Like, The Musical Box ,Supper's Ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBcz3tBH74

I only just started listening to Genesis' old stuff very recently, most of their 80s music is incredibly insufferable garbage. 

but this concert is incredible. Peter Gabriel is out of his mind with his costumes, but his voice and stage presence are impressive, second to none really. Phil Collins is a damn beast on the drums, and the rest of the band are incredible musicians they're tight as hell.

Stevie Ray soundcheck 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iACbj70DJgw

Stevie Ray with Albert King

Black Sabbath live 1970 Paris. Bill Ward kills it on a 3 pc drum set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rF2OSSDoMU

and of course ANY Joni Mitchell live show for TV or in concert.

 
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johnnycakes said:
Am I the only one here who has seen J. Geils Band live?  Best live show I've seen.    
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funny thing about them. i was an earlyearly fan (high school, '69, maybe '70) because i adored Peter Wolf as graveyard DJ on WBCN ("i feel so gooooood, i wanna like climb the Empire State building and beat my meat right down to da street" is a sample of his radio patter) and they were still -playing dances then but, when i came home from running away in '72, NObody i knew would go see them cuz the "beeries" (an odd colloquy of jocks, preps & Irish skinheads) had taken over as fans and any hippie would immediately lose their cool card if they did. shame, really, cuz Wolf was magnificent - his demonic shuffling and "rock hands" made you feel like he just might snatch a young girl from the audience to bring to Satan's tent - and i never seen a small room 'splode like it would for WhammerJammer

 
Eddie Vedder Solo singing "Arc" of Riot Act. 😳

Have seen him do this 3x including at The Historic Ryman Theater in Nashville, TN.
 

Between the venue, and being about 15' away in the 2nd row... prob the most spine-tingling moment of any of the hundreds (thousands?) of shows I've been to. 

Important context: the song Is a tribute to the 9 fans who were crushed to death at their Roskilde Festival performance. Each layer of the song represents one of the deceased. 
 

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RThLWtwFfPw

It still gets me, even watching on a phone. 

 
zamboni said:
Randy Jackson has been playing daily acoustic shows on Facebook all throughout the pandemic. A lot of Zebra but also a lot of covers. His voice is shot,  but he still plays a mean guitar.
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Loved Zebra back in the day, but you're right about his voice.  Still nice to see them playing.  

 
wikkidpissah said:
cuz Wolf was magnificent - his demonic shuffling and "rock hands" made you feel like he just might snatch a young girl from the audience to bring to Satan's tent - and i never seen a small room 'splode like it would for WhammerJammer
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A few years ago when J. Geils passed away, most of the news clips and websites showed pics of him and not Geils.

It seems like Wolf would be a guy to have a good sense of humor about that. 

 
Godsbrother said:
The best version of Must of Got Lost is this live rendition.
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wikkidpissah said:
funny thing about them. i was an earlyearly fan (high school, '69, maybe '70) because i adored Peter Wolf as graveyard DJ on WBCN
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Hah. He totally sounds like a old school graveyard DJ at the beginning of the live recording of that. I figured I'd listen to two wiser, older fellas ;) and check it out.

Raspuita the beauty. Doesn't he mean Rapunzel, not Rasputin? Ah, but who will quibble that late at night or after a few beers.

Anyway, the song didn't overwhelm me, though it grooved just fine, so don't think I'm too cool or anything.

 
rockaction said:
Raspuita the beauty. Doesn't he mean Rapunzel, not Rasputin? Ah, but who will quibble that late at night or after a few beers.
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He got corrected at the Winterland in '77 and played it off like a champ, according to YouTube's next video in queue. They wouldn't let him do the spiel. Likely a buncha jocks not giving him poetic license, probably.

 
I'll probably be the only one to mention this one.  I can't find a link to the performance I was at, which was surreal.

Evanescence's Taking Over Me

I saw them at an indoor venue in LA with incredible lighting, and Amy Lee (who is a smokeshow) started out on the piano and then it rocked.  I was at a very vulnerable place in life and it just hit me.

 
rockaction said:
Hah. He totally sounds like a old school graveyard DJ at the beginning of the live recording of that. I figured I'd listen to two wiser, older fellas ;) and check it out.

Raspuita the beauty. Doesn't he mean Rapunzel, not Rasputin? Ah, but who will quibble that late at night or after a few beers.

Anyway, the song didn't overwhelm me, though it grooved just fine, so don't think I'm too cool or anything.
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You seriously trying to say you've never heard that before?

 
shuke said:
You seriously trying to say you've never heard that before?
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J. Geils Band's older stuff? Nope. Not something I even really knew about. I'm not very blues-centered or jammy. Just missed it. I was born in '73, so that's before my time, I guess, though you'd think one would have come across it hanging out in Boston enough like I did. Then again, I wasn't as curious in my youth as I am now, and I didn't really have any connections to ask people about Boston's history with music like that. I always thought Boston was a Jonathan Richman/Mission of Burma/Cars town, or a violent hardcore town, believe it or not, so I didn't seek out the blues-based stuff, likely because I didn't care for it as a youth.

Now wikkid has told me in close-to-successive months about the Cambridge blues scene and the revival there, but I'd never heard of it. 

 
rockaction said:
J. Geils Band's older stuff? Nope. Not something I even really knew about. I'm not very blues-centered or jammy. Just missed it. I was born in '73, so that's before my time, I guess, though you'd think one would have come across it hanging out in Boston enough like I did. Then again, I wasn't as curious in my youth as I am now, and I didn't really have any connections to ask people about Boston's history with music like that. I always thought Boston was a Jonathan Richman/Mission of Burma/Cars town, or a violent hardcore town, believe it or not, so I didn't seek out the blues-based stuff, likely because I didn't care for it as a youth.

Now wikkid has told me in close-to-successive months about the Cambridge blues scene and the revival there, but I'd never heard of it. 
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Did you ever listen to any rock radio in the 80's?  Heard this often.

 
shuke said:
Did you ever listen to any rock radio in the 80's?  Heard this often.
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The pop stations we had were mainly dance and rhythm and blues with some new wave stuff thrown in. The other, more adult, radio stations in my area already were on a staple diet of classic rock, and J. Geils was not really included. Plus, by the time I was of any reasonable age, we had Walkmen and I chose my own music. My exposure to J. Geils starts and ends with the song "Cetnerfold," really. That's what I remember about them. I really just missed them. I've definitely got a '70s blind spot when it comes to heavy, blues-oriented rock. Honestly, I think most people that draft with me on these boards and know my musical tastes wouldn't be afraid to say, "Yeah, dude loves Motown. Not so much an aficionado of seventies jam or blues." There are times I think Dicky Betts is the lead singer of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, let's say. 

 
zamboni said:
True, although Radio Ga Ga is often cited as the biggest standout performance when Freddie had the crowd eating out of his hand.
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I've posted this before, but at the Freddie tribute concert in 1992 (a few months after he passed), there was an excellent 20-minute Queen medley performed by Extreme (yes, Extreme). They did a good job of capturing Queen's Live Aid performance (Radio Ga Ga is at the 10 minute mark) - worth the watch if you have the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l26ARroNhS4

 
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[icon] said:
Eddie Vedder Solo singing "Arc" of Riot Act. 😳

Have seen him do this 3x including at The Historic Ryman Theater in Nashville, TN.
 

Between the venue, and being about 15' away in the 2nd row... prob the most spine-tingling moment of any of the hundreds (thousands?) of shows I've been to. 

Important context: the song Is a tribute to the 9 fans who were crushed to death at their Roskilde Festival performance. Each layer of the song represents one of the deceased. 
 

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RThLWtwFfPw

It still gets me, even watching on a phone. 
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Eddie Vedder is simply exceptional. And in regards to this thread: https://youtu.be/5ZH2it92ZmA

Black is such an iconic song with one of the most soul destroying lines („I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why can’t it be mine“) and this performance on MTV Unplugged just has it all.

 
rockaction said:
Now wikkid has told me in close-to-successive months about the Cambridge blues scene and the revival there, but I'd never heard of it. 
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Probably the greatest blues song (perhaps the best blues tune composed by a white man) from this incredible era when blues went to Hahvid came from my pal Marty when he was apprenticed to Boston's Museum of Fine Art. Intro   Ukulele Blues

*tho not featured here, the keyboard player from The Cars was in this band*

 
wikkidpissah said:
Probably the greatest blues song (perhaps the best blues tune composed by a white man) from this incredible era when blues went to Hahvid came from my pal Marty when he was apprenticed to Boston's Museum of Fine Art. Intro   Ukulele Blues

*tho not featured here, the keyboard player from The Cars was in this band*
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Ah, that's the guy from Roseanne, idn't he?

From The New York Times:

Laughter and the rock generation have not rubbed elbows very frequently. The heavy social concerns of the mid sixties did not encourage much humor, while the counter‐culture blossoming of the late sixties took itself far too seriously to allow laughter to jar the sacred trinity of peace‐love‐drugs. The music and the vibes were so heavy, man, that the rock crowd forgot how to turn their lips up into a smile unless it was of the vacant, drug‐glazed variety

{ahem}

Now, however, a sizable portion of that rock audience has reached the 25–35 age range. While they're not about to give up rock and roll in favor of Tony Bennett or Peter Nero, this audience's sense of humor has returned. Artists like Bette Midler, Randy Newman and Loudon Wainwright III are all spiking their music with wit. Even so, there's an acute shortage of contemporary Grouchos who can communicate with an audience under middle age.

 
rockaction said:
Ah, that's the guy from Roseanne, idn't he?
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RISD grad, interned in Boston @ MoFA - got fired when he snuck his pictures into the museum rest room and hung a sign out front advertising his exhibition "Flush the Walls" .

When former roomie Greg Hawkes got out of Berklee School of Music, he invited me to a gig he got as multi-instrumentalist for a "folk singer". i knew i was in for sumn diff when this totes uncool looking cat came up to an 8x4 Cambridge coffeehouse stage, plunked down into a gigantic armchair, said "Jeez, i always wanted to play a bookstore" and started strumming a guitar and sniping everything hippies held dear. We became acquaintances, but my gf and his wife are still deep friends, so i got to know him pretty good. When he got his big showbiz break, MCing an evening of summer-replacement shows for CBS, we watched it on TV with her. liquid-mercury funny - now most famous as Fred Willard's comedy "partner" and Charlie Harper's pharmacist.

here's the rest of that album, recorded the year you were born.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
RISD grad, interned in Boston @ MoFA - got fired when he snuck his pictures into the museum rest room and hung a sign out front advertising his exhibition "Flush the Walls" .

here's the rest of that album, recorded the year you were born.
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Cool.

Here's something you might like. Just saw it on my Twitter feed for some reason. It's the archives of the Boston Phoenix from '73-'13. You might have been out of there by then (I'm not sure about your time/place chronology) so I'm just throwing it out there if you're interested.

https://archive.org/details/pub_boston-phoenix?tab=collection

 
Dickies said:
Just seeing this thread now, but for the past week I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of watching Iron Maiden live shows. Bruce Dickinson is absolutely incredible. 
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1986 television performance of "Wasted Years". Probably playing for 30 people in a studio. No real crowd energy comes through, but Dickinson is still slaying it.

Another live rendition from 1999 -- audio only, though. From someone's bootleg, no doubt. They have to be playing AC Milan's stadium -- even without the video, you can tell that's a huge sea of fans. EDIT: I shoulda read the notes -- not a bootleg, but the B-side of a single (they still were releasing singles with B-sides in 1999-2000? I guess so).

 
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Might not be the older guys cup of tea, not a "classic" or of that era or genre, but have always been in love with Jason Mraz playing The Dynamo of Volition in Chicago from like 10 years ago.

The arrangement they did for this live is a billion times better than the studio recording.

I'm a pretty anti-live person unless I'm at a concert. I generally hate the sound of a "live" recording, but this is the only live song I'll listen to when just listening and chilling to some music.

 
ShamrockPride said:
Might not be the older guys cup of tea, not a "classic" or of that era or genre, but have always been in love with Jason Mraz playing The Dynamo of Volition in Chicago from like 10 years ago.

The arrangement they did for this live is a billion times better than the studio recording.
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Thanks for this. Not something I would have sought out on my own, but this was pretty cool. I know he had an electric player back in the shadows, but Mraz did a great job filling an arena with that picked acoustic sound when he was playing lead early in the song.

Never thought of Jason Mraz as a chops guy, but that was nice.

 
ShamrockPride said:
Might not be the older guys cup of tea, not a "classic" or of that era or genre, but have always been in love with Jason Mraz playing The Dynamo of Volition in Chicago from like 10 years ago.

The arrangement they did for this live is a billion times better than the studio recording.

I'm a pretty anti-live person unless I'm at a concert. I generally hate the sound of a "live" recording, but this is the only live song I'll listen to when just listening and chilling to some music.
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Mraz is my favorite of that Mraz/Mayer/DeGraw cluster of a few years ago but he talks too much like Mitch Hedberg for me to take him seriously

 
Aretha- Amazing Grace at an LA Baptist Church, in her element where she grew up and learned her craft, she takes the roof off the place

Love Hangover by Diana Ross, love this absolutely coked out jam from disco era Diana

Jackie Wislon- Baby Workout, guy set the standard for James Brown, Prince, Mick and The Boss on how to put on a show. It's a damn shame the live shows artists like Jackie played at the all Black venues weren't captured on video because those would have been a whole nother level. Sad that he was buried in an unmarked grave outside of Detroit. 

Van Morrison- Cyrpus Avenue his famous show closer from this time period and a total clinic in build up and controlling tempo, tension 

 
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