What is the greatest musical performance ever captured on film?

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fuck yeah

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 8 March 2010 05:14 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFjzdlDjys

billstevejim, Monday, 8 March 2010 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

I won't say this is actually the greatest ever, but the aural climax that starts building around 4:43 represents a moment that can never be replicated - Bootsy's Rubber Band "I'd Rather Be With You" live in Houston 1976:

thanks so much for describing this so I knew what it was and that it might be worth clicking on

you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Monday, 8 March 2010 05:21 (sixteen years ago)

That Bo Diddley clip completely blew my top btw.

pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 March 2010 05:28 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6proYaAfwtM

For All We Know - Nina Simone

Heartbreaking.

Turangalila, Monday, 8 March 2010 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

Prince "Purple Rain" at the American Music Awards 1985 is not on Youtube. Neither is "Territorial Pissings" on SNL.

billstevejim, Monday, 8 March 2010 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

Neither of those is the greatest musical performance captured on film, so i'm not sure why i bothered mentioning that.. They're both really good though.

billstevejim, Monday, 8 March 2010 05:52 (sixteen years ago)

cankles OTM throughout IMHO

cowabunga makoto (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 8 March 2010 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nTnawq6jk&

Hi de hi de hi de hi

Turangalila, Monday, 8 March 2010 05:58 (sixteen years ago)

Glen Campbell must be going to Kenny Roger's cosmetic surgeon, but man what a joy it is to hear him play guitar.

dan selzer, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:06 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBA4vWQRBA0

billstevejim, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:09 (sixteen years ago)

2 post velvet performances...paranoid Lou with Robert Quine killing it on the guitar solo, and John Cale covering Nico's Frozen Warnings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwqF9crCzgs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkNIQ24QxPI

dan selzer, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:16 (sixteen years ago)

Haha, I never realized until now that that Hendrix Wild Thing quotes Strangers in the Night in the solo

pithfork (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 March 2010 06:26 (sixteen years ago)

Wow to that Bo Diddley track.

Hinklepicker, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:34 (sixteen years ago)

Would pay $$$ for a bootleg, DVD, VHS, whatever of that Bo Diddley show...

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:50 (sixteen years ago)

More to the point... no matter how crappy, depressed, annoyed, upset I am with myself, everyone, existential or otherwise that Bo clip without fail kicks my ass and makes everything cool. I've got a copy of my laptop, but it also really needs to be in something labelled "In case of emergency, watch this"

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

Me = big dork sometimes

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 March 2010 06:53 (sixteen years ago)

Most of Stop Making Sense could work for this thread also.

billstevejim, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:15 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5E27Fp59c

that's not my post, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:28 (sixteen years ago)

I want to travel back in time to this Joe Cocker 1970 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' tour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

Bob Six, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:28 (sixteen years ago)

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

that's not my post, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:33 (sixteen years ago)

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

that's not my post, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:57 (sixteen years ago)

Another life-changer for me - Joy Division doing Transmission.

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

NotEnough, Monday, 8 March 2010 10:41 (sixteen years ago)

That Bo Diddley song/clip/performance is about 20 hours too short.

Fetchboy, Monday, 8 March 2010 11:41 (sixteen years ago)

but my answer to thread topic is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DXgFi32BE

Fetchboy, Monday, 8 March 2010 11:59 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvmofSnA1Y

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Monday, 8 March 2010 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Monday, 8 March 2010 13:16 (sixteen years ago)

that Transmission does it for me as well. When Ian takes the mic off the stand for the final verse I get chills.

dan selzer, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcGJZpfl1c

caek, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

not the greatest obv. but i love it. mainly because i bet it is a really nice day outside.

caek, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

Never saw them live, to my lasting regret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzUzKV_h-Y

You Weaked It! (MaresNest), Monday, 8 March 2010 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

I love that New Order one too.

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLj5_myY0LQ

Alex in NYC, Monday, 8 March 2010 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

Least rewarding thread to click on at work ever! Looking forward to checking later this evening, by which time it'll surely be 300+ posts long.

Ceci n'est pas une display name (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 8 March 2010 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

I wish I could quarantine all the joke responses, except then I couldn't have easy one click access to the incredibly great Muppet homage to Alice Cooper

iago g., Monday, 8 March 2010 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

greatest lip sync ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to0lUkvtHUY

鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 8 March 2010 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

Since someone else already said Sesame Street Stevie Wonder, I'm gonna go with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvcR8fNnSVI

can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Monday, 8 March 2010 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

Nina Simone at Harlem Festival 1969

jaybabcock, Monday, 8 March 2010 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipy58SaIRhs

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 8 March 2010 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxa2lvRDgoY&feature=related

Brio, Monday, 8 March 2010 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

Stevie pwns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoSAIVpb8c

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Monday, 8 March 2010 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

I just turned off the Bo Diddley because i literally don't want it to end...we definitely have a winner so far

iago g., Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:01 (sixteen years ago)

because this thread needs more Stevie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Ux_Ht3IfA

sofatruck, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah, sofa, that's a classic--love when he dances at the end, gives me chills down my spine

iago g., Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

This is classic!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1_brYsHjQ&feature=related

booty claps and harp solos (leavethecapital), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that Tito Puente clip is another one of my favorites. So hot!

pithfork (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:38 (sixteen years ago)

For those of us who have to have images turned off, could someone repost the Bo Diddley or link back to the original post?

Hervé Grillechaise (WmC), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

For those of us who have to have images turned off, could someone repost the Bo Diddley or link back to the original post?

It's at xxxx:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHs6f0mlkaM

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

oh, damn

Hervé Grillechaise (WmC), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:23 (sixteen years ago)


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