Kevin's Watch

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.

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!"

How about whe McCartny plays Yesterday at the Sept 11 concert in NYC?

First Time I saw Jerry Garcia play Rueben & Cherise......

Wow . . . That Sept. 11 one sounds like it could top the first ever performance, seeing the poignancy of the song played then. I need to find a video of it and download it!

It was very moving - he sang it accapella
wasn't a dry eye in the house (including mine)

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

when Mike Watt played his opera, In The Engineroom at Instant karma. his tribute to his dad and to his friend D.Boon. (Watt and Boon had been in the Minutemen together, D died in a car wreck) Mike played with such emotion, it was a catharsis.

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.")

pixies greatest hits tour, the song 'where is my mind'.
its been on MTV a bunch of times and the whole venue seems electric.

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!

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)

I am so jealous! Born in the wrong time.

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.

Ack, bad bug.

Bob Mould acoustic. close enough for him to spit on us when really enunciating. played my favorites. he was loose and I got to meet him before and after the show. awesome show.