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Most fun:
Coolest Mofo:
Most shy but soulful:
Coolest Mofo:
Most shy but soulful:
Peter Frampton - do you feel like we do
Red hot chili peppers - live at slaine castle is a special one. I had this on dvd as a kid and listened to it hundreds of times, recently rediscovered it on YouTube.
That's beautiful. Even Garfunkel knows he's done something extra special at the end there.
Never fails.
There was an REM live special at Slaine Castle on Sky TV almost 20 years ago that sticks in my mind, looked like an epic gig.
There's Sulu, Checkov, and Spock's whispering something to Kirk.
The first few minutes is like a 'guess the song through single sounds'.
Such an awesome setup. A bloody ARP 2500! And when did I last see Memorymoog on a stage?!I should start a synths thread.
Linkin Park w/ Jay-Z
I've listened to this hundreds of times.
Santana Soul Sacrifice Woodstock 1969
Quite different version here, faster, shorter, guitar oriented more. Still great, love Tubular Bells. One and two.
I wish I could find one live version where Mike plays almost everything. Not sure if that's real or just some urban legend I heard.
Playing everything live on his own? I guess it would be possible now through those devices that instantly loop what you're playing, but even then this would be huge work for Tubular Bells Pt 1 and 2...
As I imagined that might work is that during those instruments introductions in the final 8 minutes, he plays first each one then leaves them to others? Dunno, wish it was real, but maybe someone was playing tricks with me.
Also, another awesome version...
The greatest live performance I've ever witnessed in the flesh has to be Emperor at Wacken 2006. Not for everyone, but the excellent Youtube recordings have given it a sort of legendary status among black metal fans. It was the perfect setting, with the concert starting just around dusk and the band playing like men possessed that night. Still gives me goosebumps thinking back to it and knowing my 19 year old self is somewhere among that audience.
Right, so he actually wouldn't play the whole thing himself, just show he can handle all the instruments. Yeah, that'd work.
El Indio Solari from argentina
not only the show, the crowd is excellent,
As I imagined that might work is that during those instruments introductions in the final 8 minutes, he plays first each one then leaves them to others? Dunno, wish it was real, but maybe someone was playing tricks with me.
Also, another awesome version...
Did he not do this before? I remember when my Dad first showed me Tubular Bells, I’d have been around 8 or 9, I seem to remember Oldfield having a go at everything. No idea which performance it might have been, and it’s probably just my mind remembering what it wants to remember.
Elton John and the Pet Shop Boys:
Elton & George:
Prince being Prince (skip to 3:25 for an eargasm):
Elton & George:
Prince being Prince (skip to 3:25 for an eargasm):
Saw Sigur Ros at Roskilde that year, mindblowing. My fave concert with them was a gig a few years earlier at a concert arena for classical music, all seater, it was perfect.
Other faves is Justin Townes Earle (rip), The Dogs and Radiohead.
Nice. The reason I was at MSG is because I saw them at an all-seater theatre in Liverpool in November '05 and enjoyed it so much that when I got home I looked up the remaining concerts in their tour and booked it there and then on a whim. I may have been slightly inebriated. Led to a fecking awesome solo week in NYC though!
The all-seater experience definitely has a different feel, giving them the opportunity to play more of their slower, ambient stuff.
Arcade Fire are remarkably good live!
Huge change of pace but Luther Vandross's live performance of A House is Not A Home at the NAACP awards is probably the best example of a combination of having the crowd in the palm of your hands and complete and total vocal control. It's a flawless performance.
In case you remember: was that him actually playing everything live like @Mrs Smoker said, or more like a Top of the Pops performance, where he's pretending to play a dozen instruments spread all around him? (To be clear: I know he can play every single instrument on Tubular Bells, and indeed did it all himself on the record; I'm just curious what kind of live performance we're talking about.)
If I could only see one more performance before I die, it would be these goofy bastards. It is hard to describe just how fun it is; it restores your faith in humanity for a good few months.
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Nice, we both saw the same tour then, mine was also in 2005. I think they suit the all seater concerts very well with their concept.
This is everything I want from a live performance. The man has an intensity that very few current artists can match.
Beatles in peak live form nailing their stuff over a hurricane of shrieks and screams. Surreal. One of the documents that made me understand that 'Beatlemania' wasn't just a promotional moniker, but an accurate description.
Must be the greatest live performance I know, for the way Hendrix owns the moment, his instrument, and the hymn.
The crowd is totally in her hands. Posted another version in the Aretha thread after she died, but this is my favourite one. What an ace band, too.
And one for the drummers: Dennis Chambers deliciously overplaying it at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert in '89