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Greatest Ever Live Musical Performance...

  • 16-02-2020 2:26am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I ****ing love this original airing of Johnny Cash singing one of his most icon songs and one of the best ever written.




    What are some of yer's?

    The over-35, skinny jean wearin', Converse wearin', "I loved the Kings of Leon before Sex on Fire", gig goin', Arctic Monkey crowd may not apply.


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  • #2
    StringerBell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,203 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    George Michael's unplugged MTV set was pretty phenomenal

    Plenty of iconic Freddie Mercury performances, Donny Hathaway doing Jealous Guy.

    Im just posting here to remind myself to post here tomorrow with some actual clips

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • #3
    Arghus
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    Ever since I posted one of their videos in the disturbing music video thread a few days back I've been on a bit of a Nine Inch Nails reacquaintence.

    Their performance at Woodstock '94 is pretty unreal. Even the intro music gives me chills.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfV7NLCWiiU


  • #4
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc


  • #5
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmR-oKdkGw


  • #6
    J. Marston
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lElCzhjiPX8


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  • #7
    The Princess Bride
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    In my opinion it has to be Riverdance, that first live performance was off the charts amazing.
    Not just the dance, but the hauntingly beautiful music too, especially at the beginning.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0v_pu6miJ8


  • #8
    Ipso
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    MTV had a concert with David Bowie back in the mid to late 90’s, he done a great version of All the Young Dudes.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCZ_qLOepo
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCZ_qLOepo


  • #9
    Ken.
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    No video unfortunately but for me it has to be the prodigy at Feile'94. My first concert. Went cause they were the ones I wanted to see. My first time pissed. I was slightly underage at the time.


  • #10
    anewme
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    Queen at Live Aid.


  • #11
    Blazer
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    Iron Maiden..Long beach arena 1984. An amazing band who are actually even better live.
    Cinderella and Bonjovi at the Moscow peace festival in 89.
    And Queen at Live Aid..they completely stole the show.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKjqOn6oo6I


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  • #12
    dodzy
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    One of the best male vocalists ever and one epic live performance....

    https://youtu.be/sJifw6Kej2s


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    Wasn't there but I love this concert. portishead Roseland New York live

    https://youtu.be/ZFwnlCudeC0

    As for my own:

    B B King at The Royal Albert Hall, in 2011
    https://youtu.be/E5_j91FjsXM


    Other great concerts:
    Eric Clapton at Royal Albert Hall, in 2015 (came back from China just to see it)

    Radiohead, castlebar (i think), in 1996

    U2, Slane, in 2001

    The Waterboys, (can't remember where) in 1997

    Leonard Cohen, Dublin, in 2013


  • #14
    careless sherpa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Pink Floyd at Pompeii has to be one of the most iconic


  • #15
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    It's 'only' a cover, but, Heart's performance of Stairway to Heaven:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    At a Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott concert in Cork Opera House, the sound system was on the blink. While it was being worked on, Paul and Jacqui stood at the front of the stage with the rest of their band and sang Caravan Of Love a capella. Spine tinglingly brilliant.


  • #17
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Wasn't there but I love this concert. portishead Roseland New York live

    https://youtu.be/ZFwnlCudeC0

    As for my own:

    B B King at The Royal Albert Hall, in 2011
    https://youtu.be/E5_j91FjsXM


    Other great concerts:
    Eric Clapton at Royal Albert Hall, in 2015 (came back from China just to see it)

    Radiohead, castlebar (i think), in 1996

    U2, Slane, in 2001

    The Waterboys, (can't remember where) in 1997

    Leonard Cohen, Dublin, in 2013

    Radiohead was actually in the pitch of a local GAA club in Galway - Castlegar. Great gig. Branded as "The Big Day Out"

    And U2 in Slane was amazing. I regularly watch the footage on YouTube of All I Want Is You rolling into Where The Streets Have No Name. Incidentally, I'm of the opinion that WTSHNN is the greatest live song ever.


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    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    Radiohead was actually in the pitch of a local GAA club in Galway - Castlegar. Great gig. Branded as "The Big Day Out"

    Yup. I was at college in Sligo. Bus ride to the concert. Great fun.
    And U2 in Slane was amazing. I regularly watch the footage on YouTube of All I Want Is You rolling into Where The Streets Have No Name. Incidentally, I'm of the opinion that WTSHNN is the greatest live song ever.

    TBH I was off my head for most of the concert, and only vaguely remember the songs themselves. I do remember the energy and positive attitude of everyone there. It's a great memory.


  • #19
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    Melodeon wrote: »
    It's 'only' a cover, but, Heart's performance of Stairway to Heaven:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk

    This was what I was going to post myself.


  • #20
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Queen at Live Aid

    Queen at Wembley

    They're the obvious two.

    For gigs I've been at, Radiohead on the In Rainbows tour in Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester.


  • #21
    arcticmonkeys
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭arcticmonkeys


    Stop Making senses used listened to this for months after first hearing it all those years back and still do on occasion.



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  • #22
    Mad_maxx
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    Nirvana mtv unplugged


  • #23
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    Radiohead was actually in the pitch of a local GAA club in Galway - Castlegar. Great gig. Branded as "The Big Day Out"

    And U2 in Slane was amazing. I regularly watch the footage on YouTube of All I Want Is You rolling into Where The Streets Have No Name. Incidentally, I'm of the opinion that WTSHNN is the greatest live song ever.

    I was at U2 in slane 2001, thought it was just OK, preferred popmart 1997 in landsdowne Road


  • #24
    biko
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    Runrig, excellent live band

    The colours of Scotland leave you young inside!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXInU1lTU64


  • #25
    Conall Cernach
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  • #26
    Zaph
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    arcticmonkeys wrote: »
    Stop Making senses used listened to this for months after first hearing it all those years back and still do on occasion.


    The greatest live album of all time imo. Going to see the film in the cinema is great fun too. I saw it years ago when it was on in the Ambassador at the top of O'Connell Street. These days The Lighthouse have it on occasionally.

    And in a similar vein, David Byrne's American Utopia show is the most incredible musical spectacle I've ever witnessed. It's him on stage with a large band, but nothing else, no mics, amps, drum risers, etc., just a bare stage that the band leave and enter at various times. The choreography is incredible, it's like nothing I've ever seen at a gig before. This is a sample, the sound is only OK, but the video is better than most others I've seen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMJFyaKSt8Q


  • #27
    EmmetSpiceland
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    B.B. King ‘Live at the Regal’.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #28
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    my karaoke Careless Whisper


  • #29
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    I was at U2 in slane 2001, thought it was just OK, preferred popmart 1997 in landsdowne Road

    I was there too. Have to confess as a show Popmart was amazing but as a memorable occasion Slane was pretty special.


    Also, I hope that at some stage in the future Oasis live at Knebworth will be released on DVD/download.


  • #30
    Mad_maxx
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    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    I was there too. Have to confess as a show Popmart was amazing but as a memorable occasion Slane was pretty special.


    Also, I hope that at some stage in the future Oasis live at Knebworth will be released on DVD/download.

    Been told by severals that Zoo Tv ( early nineties) was even better than either?


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  • #31
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Been told by severals that Zoo Tv ( early nineties) was even better than either?

    Ye, I heard the same. I was too young for Zoo TV though, only 11 or 12.


  • #32
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Who remembers when beck brought the midnite vultures tour to the fairyhouse racecourse. Big fun, was like a white jewish james brown busting out all over the set

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZ_ldONIj4


  • #33
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,018 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    Who remembers when beck brought the midnite vultures tour to the fairyhouse racecourse. Big fun, was like a white jewish james brown busting out all over the set

    Thought he was a Scientologist?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #34
    Bobblehats
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Thought he was a Scientologist?

    Don’t know what he is. And man thing on the keyboards


  • #35
    The Tetrarch
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKgQATdB6I


  • #36
    Church on Tuesday
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    This. Everyday this.

    If you're not familiar with STP and the late Scott Weiland do yourself a favour.



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  • #37
    bodhrandude
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    I said it before and I'll say it again, Iggy Pop & the Stooges at Electric Picnic 2007. There is no clips from this gig but the next best thing is their performance from Glastonbury from the same year.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #38
    Poor_old_gill
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    Please give me your opinion on something.
    However if your opinion is not similar to mine then don’t bother posting as I just want my own opinion reaffirmed


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    https://youtu.be/In4fw0-4Zrs


    im no huge folk fan

    and andy irvines voice isnt for everyone

    but what these four men make happen on the late late (in black and white!) is absolutely sensational


  • #40
    Schwiiing
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  • #41
    [Deleted User]
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    Gallagher was amazing.


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  • #42
    the.red.baron
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y



    Prince George Harrison tribute


    Where'd the guitar go


    Close thread


  • #43
    MonkieSocks
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    Ipso wrote: »
    MTV had a concert with David Bowie back in the mid to late 90’s, he done a great version of All the Young Dudes.



    He wrote that song himself....but it was a hit for "Mott The Hoople in 1972

    Great song...great performance by Bowie

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #44
    Reberetta
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    I once saw an all-female Japanese band called The ZZZs in concert who were excellent. Sadly, they seem to have disappeared.

    For everybody interested in music, check out this thing I'm running. I need contributions to make it happen.

    Boardsies decide greatest music album of all-time


  • #45
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  • #46
    druss
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    My first answer would have been the Prince half time Superbowl show as well, but that's been said. So...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7TU1Hh_3U


    I found Pink Floyd Live8 set (above) in 2005 to be really moving at the time and on any rewatch. Whenever those Gilmour solo's reach their peak, I get just a bit choked up. It just seems such a waste that these guys have spent decades not talking, when that band was clearly meant to be!

    Also, given the limited time to agree a reunion set and practice it..it's a really good performance. See Led Zep in Live Aid as an example of how this can go badly wrong.


  • #47
    Ninthlife
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    Guns n Roses Live at the Ritz 1988


  • #48
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,933 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Van Morrison's double live album Too Late To Stop Now. Never surpassed.



  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    druss wrote: »
    My first answer would have been the Prince half time Superbowl show as well, but that's been said. So...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K7TU1Hh_3U


    I found Pink Floyd Live8 set (above) in 2005 to be really moving at the time and on any rewatch. Whenever those Gilmour solo's reach their peak, I get just a bit choked up. It just seems such a waste that these guys have spent decades not talking, when that band was clearly meant to be!

    Also, given the limited time to agree a reunion set and practice it..it's a really good performance. See Led Zep in Live Aid as an example of how this can go badly wrong.

    Was only watching some of that again last night. I always hated Money but they do some job on Comfortably Numb at the end. Was class seeing them together at the time and sounding so good.


  • #50
    druss
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Was only watching some of that again last night. I always hated Money but they do some job on Comfortably Numb at the end. Was class seeing them together at the time and sounding so good.

    Not a huge fan of "Money" either, but I can see the logic of playing it at that show. And it is redeemed by the solo. :)

    I also agree with Gilmour refusing to play "Another Brick in the Wall" at Live8. Wrong message for sure!


  • #51
    Wayne Jarvis
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    This Rage Against The Machine gig looks like it was an amazing experience judging by this song.





    And this song in Vicar Street from a great funk band called Vulfpeck. The crowd make it and I would have loved to have been there.




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