Favorite Live Performance
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Favorite Live Performance
What live performance gives you "the chills" when you play/see it on tape/hear it? I dunno what exactly gets me about it, but the first time Paul McCartney ever performed Yesterday always does it to me. And to hear these Beatlemaniac girls, who are hearing Yesterday for the first time anywhere ever, and then hearing them in a near-dead silence instead of the usual flipping out is quite amazing.
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I really dig the live performance tape I have of Bare Naked Ladies. They have alot of energy and passion. I have some of there other stuff but that one is my favorite.
Jane' Addiction does a great job of playing "Summertime Rolls" on this one song I downloaded. There is this speech Perry makes about the story of Jesus Christ being told seven times in seven different religions all predating Christianity. And he babbles on about some other stuff too. I think he is going around and picking up things that people threw on stage. He tells them to throw money and they do and then he's all like "all right I'm a rich man now quit with the money!"
Jane' Addiction does a great job of playing "Summertime Rolls" on this one song I downloaded. There is this speech Perry makes about the story of Jesus Christ being told seven times in seven different religions all predating Christianity. And he babbles on about some other stuff too. I think he is going around and picking up things that people threw on stage. He tells them to throw money and they do and then he's all like "all right I'm a rich man now quit with the money!"
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Died Pretty have always been my favourite live act, but, for big names, the best concert I'd been to was John Cougar-Mellencamp in 1990.
AC/DC was also pretty good.
Oh but hang on I missed the point of the post.
OK, many live ACDC songs, but overall, there's a few :
George Michael/Elton John "Don't Let The Sun etc etc"
Rose Tattoo - "We Can't Be Beaten"
Slim Dusty at the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony
AC/DC was also pretty good.
Oh but hang on I missed the point of the post.
OK, many live ACDC songs, but overall, there's a few :
George Michael/Elton John "Don't Let The Sun etc etc"
Rose Tattoo - "We Can't Be Beaten"
Slim Dusty at the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony
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without a doubt, hands down, bar none...the performance that NOBODY could have predicted...
when Aretha Franklin stepped in for Pavarotti at the 1999 Grammies to sing Puccini's stirring aria "Nessun Dorma" !!!
i'm tempted to buy the dvd of that stupid Grammies show just to have this clip! unbelievable!!!
(can't you just picture it backstage at the Grammies that night...Pavarotti calls in sick, stage managers running around like crazy asking all the rockers and rappers and pop tarts, "does anybody know the words to Nessun Dorma?" and Aretha raises her shy little hand and says in that quiet calm voice of hers "I do.")
when Aretha Franklin stepped in for Pavarotti at the 1999 Grammies to sing Puccini's stirring aria "Nessun Dorma" !!!
i'm tempted to buy the dvd of that stupid Grammies show just to have this clip! unbelievable!!!
(can't you just picture it backstage at the Grammies that night...Pavarotti calls in sick, stage managers running around like crazy asking all the rockers and rappers and pop tarts, "does anybody know the words to Nessun Dorma?" and Aretha raises her shy little hand and says in that quiet calm voice of hers "I do.")
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
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Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
My two personal favorites are when I seen
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (outstanding stage performance)
and Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse Of Reason (Unbeatable sight/sound show)
I've seen a few good shows on the telly: Knebworth '90, A few Live-aids,
Paul McCartney, California Jam (was televised for the 3-days)...
but there ain't nothing like being there in person!
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (outstanding stage performance)
and Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse Of Reason (Unbeatable sight/sound show)
I've seen a few good shows on the telly: Knebworth '90, A few Live-aids,
Paul McCartney, California Jam (was televised for the 3-days)...
but there ain't nothing like being there in person!
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I am so jealous! Born in the wrong time.cheval wrote:My two personal favorites are when I seen
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (outstanding stage performance)
and Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse Of Reason (Unbeatable sight/sound show)
My top three are probably Rush; Vapor Trails tour was awesome even though I had a lousy seat.
Dio, Killing the Dragon & Master of the Moon tours, in a very small venue, got to stand right up front and was deaf for about a week afterwards, but it was worth it.
And because I do actually listen to stuff that isn't metal, (yes, really), seeing Edgar Winter at the Mystic Theater was pretty awesome too.
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?