Author Topic: Astonishing live performances on YouTube (Read 35182 times)

studpuppet · « **Reply #60 on:** December 22, 2014, 01:50:29 PM »

Oh, and this (you wouldn't get an audience this close on 'Later'...)

Whole Lotta Shakin' Going' On - Jerry Lee Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_sMIDfb4Q

studpuppet · « **Reply #61 on:** December 22, 2014, 01:55:36 PM »

One more and I'll stop. You have to watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4c3W-XoNXM

...in conjunction with reading this:

http://gawker.com/5981614/dennis-weve-been-crying-too-much-dr-hook-and-the-untold-story-of-the-best-rock-movie-ever-made

DrunkCountry · « **Reply #62 on:** December 22, 2014, 02:07:05 PM »

This has always made me grin like a fucker.

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Old Grey Whistle Test 1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-l0uuQ07LA

studpuppet · « **Reply #63 on:** December 22, 2014, 02:17:36 PM »

Quote from: DrunkCountry on December 22, 2014, 02:07:05 PM

This has always made me grin like a fucker.

Ahh - you reminded me of this off the same DVD:

Stir It Up - The Wailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8GjhXvOjU

All the more astonishing as it was sandwiched in between dates in Peckham and Hatfield...

Blinder Data · « **Reply #64 on:** December 22, 2014, 02:55:11 PM »

Fucking great suggestions in here.

Here's Janelle Monae on Letterman. I sent this clip to Graham Linehan on Twitter whose famous friends subsequently shared it around, so in my view her blossoming popularity in UK was partly down to my good taste. The band are stars themselves and everyone's on top form. I think she fairly deserves the James Brown cloak by the song's end: http://youtu.be/rzZnao2fbRQ

Don_Preston · « **Reply #65 on:** December 22, 2014, 04:09:19 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynKe8BjIxk#t=1741

The name of this song, folks, is Dupree's Paradise.

Levi · « **Reply #66 on:** December 23, 2014, 04:36:27 PM »

The Make Up - Live In The Rhythm Hive

I love the initial bafflement of the French TV audience which swiftly turns into a joyous call and response section. And for the rather odd lyric 'I'm going to put you on the special couch.'

Cool as.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDP4cWwv0Go

soraya · « **Reply #67 on:** December 23, 2014, 04:45:18 PM »

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5pagal-ls

ThickAndCreamy · « **Reply #68 on:** December 23, 2014, 04:48:34 PM »

The Cramps performing live at Napa State Mental Hospital. It's just as inspired and chaotic as you would imagine it to be. Absolutely brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fat2rswNJ1k

Gulftastic · « **Reply #69 on:** December 23, 2014, 08:12:31 PM »

Beasties on Letterman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2ZHkBzmHQ

QDRPHNC · « **Reply #70 on:** December 23, 2014, 09:31:39 PM »

White Stripes, Let's Shake Hands, the first track from their Under Great White Northern Lights film. I liked them before I saw this, loved them after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86tLeodosg

The Boston Crab · « **Reply #71 on:** December 23, 2014, 09:50:55 PM »

Quote from: maett on December 21, 2014, 11:43:55 PM

At least one of these funky men is coming up on acid live in a television studio in 1969, and making a pretty good noise, too. The Parliaments morphing into Funkadelic before your eyes, I love the way it just disintegrates during the last 3 minutes, Eddie Hazel starts playing guitar with his teeth, Clinton rolls around on the floor while the audience members, coaxed out to dance with band, look for a way to extricate themselves. How the greatest clip on youtube has only 172,000 views is a travesty and a condemnation of humanity. I believe the drummer was shipped off to Vietnam within months, strange times.

Skip to 3:03 if your short of time or impatient for magical shit to start happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmmzbVM5BMw

Absolutely unreal. Unreal. Thank God we're alive.

Noodle Lizard · « **Reply #72 on:** December 24, 2014, 01:35:52 AM »

There are too many to name and I wouldn't want to clog the thread with my nonsense, so I'll just nominate this recent in-studio performance by Dir en grey of a song off their new album. The vocals in particular are astonishingly competent for some really tricky lines: http://youtu.be/OpcYnVEMZyc
Also this is one of their more emotive live performances I've seen: http://youtu.be/XU0xIuPXu9g

So while we're doing some rock'n'roll ...

This one from Faith No More playing Evidence at a festival, where Mike Patton enters the crowd and tries to get them to sing it in Dutch: http://youtu.be/hHR9FZE2pbc (to be honest, almost any Mike Patton performance is worth watching)

This entire concert from Melvins: http://youtu.be/rFgzPojlwIE

And for a softer one, I suppose this counts as live - Danny Cavanagh & Anneke Van Giersbergen: http://youtu.be/bFKmS_t4qck

thraxx · « **Reply #73 on:** January 01, 2015, 12:05:29 AM »

I love this Journey performance. I always forget what a brilliant frontman Steve Perry was. Also, there's something about Neil Schon and his playing style that a find quite objectionable.

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

ThickAndCreamy · « **Reply #74 on:** February 04, 2015, 02:22:39 PM »

Devo, performing as their Christian fundamentalist alter egos Dove, The Band of Love.

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,45726.0.html

Praise the lord!

DrGreggles · « **Reply #75 on:** February 05, 2015, 09:08:33 AM »

After another lacklustre Superbowl half-time show at the weekend, I was going to post a link to Prince in 2007.
Not on YouTube though, unfortunately.

greenman · « **Reply #76 on:** February 05, 2015, 10:08:54 AM »

Quote from: studpuppet on December 22, 2014, 02:17:36 PM

Ahh - you reminded me of this off the same DVD:

Stir It Up - The Wailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8GjhXvOjU

All the more astonishing as it was sandwiched in between dates in Peckham and Hatfield...

Best performance from that DVD for me is Beefheart...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6fCOGyVJg

great_badir · « **Reply #77 on:** February 05, 2015, 01:13:44 PM »

Quote from: newbridge on December 22, 2014, 01:27:49 AM

Otis Rush wearing a sweater

Best Rush[NB]Otis[/NB] footage ever.

Here's an interesting one - a not-at-all famous American guitar teacher called Peter Green[NB]Not that one, and no relation[/NB] not only doing a masterful cover of Jorma Kaukonen's Embryonic Journey, but also playing it far better than Jorma himself ever did live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlPzwYZBAUU

The Mahavishnu Orchestra (mark 1) at the peak of their powers playing Hope in 1973 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbGxhCoe5c

More Focus on OGWT, a rare in-tune performance of Sylvia (segueing into Hocus Pocus Reprise) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v7LzOeTkfM

Bill Withers at the Zaire festival in 1974 doing Hope She'll Be Happier. Not the full song, and not as good as the definitive version on the Carnegie Hall album, but the man bares his soul nonetheless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYog2KV_yOU

Johnny Winter doing Mean Town Blues at Woodstock, featuring a 12 string slide solo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSEZeNrKNM

Genesis doing The Cinema Show in 1976 (skip to 1.31 to get past the pointless silent film footage) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSEZeNrKNM

Despite being at the shit-end of their career, Gentle Giant doing an amazing On Reflection in 1978 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6WSLG5r-wE

And Fleetwood Mac doing Oh Well live at the Beeb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RhZDGLEXM

Oh, and how dare I forget Little Feat on OGWT in 1975 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QxFWnUMCI

maett · « **Reply #78 on:** February 05, 2015, 02:37:36 PM »

I've been enjoying some live MC5 footage for the last few months, wish there were more of it around.

1970 Looking at You nice shapes by Wayne Kramer at 3:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg

from the same affair Kick out the Jams though they do tend to speed through it for some reason I couldn't possibly fathom. Still kicks some fucking arse though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35O1AJOfg

There's a bloke watching on stage possibly performing some of the first air guitar every filmed, but I think Joe Cocker may have the nod.

greenman · « **Reply #79 on:** February 05, 2015, 02:46:51 PM »

Probably a love or hate performance for most but this version of NO Quarter by Led Zeppelin from 1975 is definitely the former for me..

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

Fairly standard for the first few mins but the Jazz/classic fusion stuff from 4:30 is pretty great IMHO, John Paul Jones sounds like he'd been listening to some Keith Jarrett.

Heid The Baw · « **Reply #80 on:** February 05, 2015, 03:49:55 PM »

Quote from: thraxx on December 20, 2014, 12:55:16 AM

I must have watched this a hundred times and still never tire of it. It's magical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGvzjmUs8Y

Thanks for this. I'd forgotten how lovely this tune is.

Nice Relaxing Poo · « **Reply #81 on:** February 05, 2015, 04:24:09 PM »

Nick Cave's amazing performance of Stagger Lee on The White Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqePmf2TkE

Special K · « **Reply #82 on:** February 05, 2015, 05:39:24 PM »

Quote from: ThickAndCreamy on February 04, 2015, 02:22:39 PM

Devo, performing as their Christian fundamentalist alter egos Dove, The Band of Love.

http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,45726.0.html

Praise the lord!

The link is a link to this thread?

popcorn · « **Reply #83 on:** February 05, 2015, 06:12:08 PM »

A live performance in a warehouse with cool lighting, ending with a surprise dance that I think is so spectacular I regularly open up the video just to watch it over and over again (sorry for spoiling the surprise dance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcUV8ygIjo

I don't know why these guys aren't huge, I really don't.

great_badir · « **Reply #84 on:** February 06, 2015, 12:02:01 AM »

Wrong link to Genesis in my post above.

Here's the proper one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhvq0XZGOSE

Don_Preston · « **Reply #85 on:** February 06, 2015, 11:25:27 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5iIIXJ4EYQ

Fat Worm Of Error. Features masks and things.

greenman · « **Reply #86 on:** February 06, 2015, 12:25:23 PM »

Can doing Dizzy Dizzy in 1977....

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

I actually find there late live stuff more interesting just because it captures something that was never really there on record in that era when they switched to using multitracking. It achieved the impossible as well and got a mid 70's west german student tapping his foot slightly.

Wiggy · « **Reply #87 on:** February 06, 2015, 02:56:36 PM »

Seems appropriate to post this on what would have been his 70th birthday.

Bob Marley bringing together Michael Manley and Edward Seaga, leaders of the opposing political parties in Jamaica, on stage at the One Love Peace concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJHD0dYX5pw

the science eel · « **Reply #88 on:** February 08, 2015, 10:26:58 AM »

A later incarnation of The Fall, tight as fuck, with MES atypically working WITH the band, rather than just shouting out random shit:

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

14 minutes of a chubby-looking Beefheart weaving his magic on German TV in 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHgG4jILa0

Marva Whitney (with JB bobbing around in the shadows) slaying them with 'Things Got To Get Better':

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

The fucking glorious Kinks pulling out all the stops for a wonderful version of 'Village Green Preservation Society':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nvJ2hmaUI

Magazine in 2009 sounding meatier and riffier than ever with a killer 'Shot By Both Sides':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDWOegU5rps

NY Dolls - really LIVE! - making you want to stand up and salute 'em:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL6zaPy6kdI

and Ferry giving it his all on a beautiful 'Mother of Pearl' with Roxy in 1974:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwT_SbBtX8U

Quote · « **Reply #89 on:** February 08, 2015, 09:39:12 PM »

Talking Heads New York gig from the 1980 'Remain in Light' tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_PC6TlIhs

I know they've been mentioned before in this thread, apologies if this has been posted already (haven't checked every link yet).

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Author Topic: Astonishing live performances on YouTube (Read 35182 times)