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Performances that have blown you away

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    #122
    jiltloop
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    dasdog wrote: »
    It was a theatrical masterpiece - an absolute sensory overload. I was in the flat seating area and the sub bass was too much for some people :pac: As brilliant as it was I would only put it down as the third or forth best show I saw last year as there is a difference between performance and overall concert experience. But she is something else to be still creating at that level.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Oy7WsIBlw

    I'm wondering now what were the 2 or 3 performances that topped that for you last year? :D


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    #123
    biko
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    Out of all the bands I've seen I think Sabaton were probably one the most memorable.

    Great band!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-4jk93FrE


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    #124
    MrCostington
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    Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused, Royal Albert Hall

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WoQDpz7HOM


    Korn Live - Another Brick In The Wall @ Sziget 2012

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zPvfVmL0nE


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    #125
    Duke of Url
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    These give me goose bumps





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    #126
    Spudman_20000
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    2 of my favourites:





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    #127
    Marty Bird
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1n6PgSC6IQ








    Not a performance but always loved this clip.


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    #128
    lemmno
    Registered Users Posts: 418 ✭✭lemmno


    Anyone remember the T mobile Heathrow Welcome Home ad?
    Just an advert but what a performance to pull off all the same!


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    #129
    is_that_so
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    Saw them for the first time at Oxegen in 2004 and was blown away. Pretty much this stage set.



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    #130
    olestoepoke
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdPvpY_aXQ


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    #131
    dasdog
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    jiltloop wrote: »
    I'm wondering now what were the 2 or 3 performances that topped that for you last year? :D

    I actually looked up a post of mine from the gigs forum and I had her down as fifth best of the year and that was posted before seeing Fontaines DC :pac:

    Sleaford Mods, Kamasi Washington, Durand Jones & The Indications, Dry Cleaning, Fontaines.

    She came ahead of ten others though - it was a wonderful show. I don't think a DVD could replicate the sound scape but it would be nice. The phone footage clips of the tour on YT do it no justice.


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    #132
    ILikeBoats
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    Great thread. Getting a lot of goosebumps!

    There are many many great performances from Pearl Jam, love this more recent one.



    This one is random, brilliant and probably a bit subjective because I love the song. Aaron Lewis from Staind filmed on a sh!tty phone. He has one serious set of pipes and this makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzwByz9k-Fs


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    #133
    Gruffalux
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kRZyXcsUZ8


    This was the best play I ever saw. One of the best live shows of anything I have seen. Catalpa. This extract shows Donal O Kelly's power to conjure. It was amazing.


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    #134
    bullpost
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    This is great - love the drumming.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZEo3YyDfQ


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    #135
    10000maniacs
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    Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »
    Have you ever come across Youtube clips that have left you in awe?

    I came across this one by accident and it just looks genius.


    Morricone had to wait till 2015 for the Hateful Eight soundtrack to get his first Academy Award. Totally unjustified and shows the bare faced snobbery in Hollywood. He should have got one 50 years earlier.


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    #136
    RurtBeynolds
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    KaneToad wrote: »
    The vocals.
    The moves.
    The theatrics.
    Unexpected and brilliant.


    Well that was a massive let down.


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    #137
    JasonStatham
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    Paco DeLucia's Rumba, on YouTube. Sounds great in good quality headphones.


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    #138
    ewc78
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    Paul McGrath vs Italy in USA'94..


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    #139
    zico10
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    #140
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,687 ✭✭✭buried


    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    #141
    John_Rambo
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    tusk wrote: »
    First time I saw Disturbed perform Sound of Silence, I had tears.

    I cringed so much my ears met at the back of my head when I heard it.


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    #142
    pummice
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭pummice


    University lipdub #1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRrjxtm9Pk


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    #143
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    RurtBeynolds wrote: »
    Well that was a massive let down.

    It is my Happy Song (TM). Every time I am down that is actually the exact video I watch to cheer up again. And it works every time.

    Perhaps KaneToad overstaded it's brilliance a bit but that video will forever have a place in my heart :)

    It is hard to pick a performance that "blows me away" every time I watch it. Not many do. But the last time I saw a performance that blew me away the _first_ time I saw it is easy to pick. It absolutely has to be this one. Not because it is brilliant or amazing or transcendent. But simply because I did not see it coming.



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    bewareofthedog
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    storker
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    #146
    [Deleted User]
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    The one to one gigs blew me away I think



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    #147
    bewareofthedog
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    Elvis goes into his own little solo, goes ape!



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    #148
    pajosjunkbox
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    ToddDameron wrote:
    There's a version of Man in the Box by Alice in Chains that I always go back to, live in Dallas, it's just audio. Layne Staley's vocals are even better than the recorded version imo. Also the unplugged version of Down in Hole.


    Down in a hole unplugged.....haunting. Still my favourite band of all time after all these years !


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    #149
    ToddDameron
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    pajosjunkbox wrote: »
    Down in a hole unplugged.....haunting. Still my favourite band of all time after all these years !

    Same as! Great going back to listen to all the bootleg stuff on Youtube that wasn't available when growing up. The Dallas show I mentioned is incredible, Layne on top form throughout.


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    #150
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    was at a christmas concert in WIT about three years ago when music students put on a show with all sorts of instruments and musical styles . For one act they all came together and performed that music from braveheart . it was UNBELIEVEABLE you could almost see and smell the highlands . Hair standing on back of the neck time .
    You know that split second in between when a performer stops playing and the applause starts , you could have heard a pin drop for about 3 seconds everybody was mesmerised then the place erupted . Can honestly say i never heard anything like it live or recorded
    I can often be quick enough to say '' youngsters today bla bla bla ... but by f..k there are some great ones


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    #151
    Redderneck
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    RurtBeynolds wrote: »
    Well that was a massive let down.

    I can't help myself. A watch it and all that springs to mind is a young Joe Dolan nursing a leaking colostomy bag.


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