Magic Bus-The Who from Live at Leeds
What is, in your humble opinion, the greatest live performance of a rock song? For mine, I give you Queen.
Somebody To Love, Montreal, 1981.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA2IRoPFIn0
Magic Bus-The Who from Live at Leeds
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, September 20, 1978
https://youtu.be/DIFpapdaMvw
This is a great thread without a correct answer, so let's throw out a lot of nominees...with YouTube links...please!!!
Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads and, a result, became a blues genius. When he passed in 1938, the blues soul wandered for a few years until it was inserted in the body of James Marshall Hendrix who took that energy into an expanded direction. When he passed in 1970, a prodigy was already blooming in Texas but that soul jumped into his body and he took the lessons of his fore-bearers and paid homage to Jimi with this rendition of one of his great songs in 1983 at the El Mocombo club in Toronto. Oh, to have been there...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - "Voodoo Cild (Slight Return) - Live at the El Mocombo - July 20, 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoB_YBXXEOU
Barbara Streisand "Memories" Carnegie Hall, 2004 I think.
Last edited by CameronBlue; 03-11-2019 at 12:05 PM. Reason: "Daydream Believer", Monkees Reunion Tour, 1981 maybe, DES Nose Dome, close second.
I know I have started out here with guitar shredding, but there are too many people who don't understand that Prince is one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - an all star cast including Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Steve Winwood, but Prince steps onto the stage to take the solo at 3:28 and completely burns the stage to the ground. To this day, no one knows if his guitar ever came down after he threw it in the air:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
Great thread. I know there are others on here who are much more knowledgable about the Grateful Dead than I am, but I have always loved the live version of Eyes of the World on Without a Net - Branford Marsalis is an incredible addition to an already great song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7odWtx1c8
Also, it is not a rock song, and I actually don't love her cadence to it, but for pure meaning, I have to mention Whitney Houston's national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_lCmBvYMRs
Unfortunately, there is no recording, but I witnessed one of the most incredible jam sessions years ago at one of the first Jimmy V weekends. I won tickets to a concert with Hootie and the Blowfish, Mike Mills from REM, Edwin McCain, Doug Jones from Cravin Melon (he's a real jerk, BTW), and maybe another person or two. Near the end of the show, everyone was on stage, and some idle goofing off with the guitars ended up in a long jam of REM's Superman. A-MAZING!!! Too bad it was before cell phones could record. I know of no recording of it, and it is a damn shame.
Oh, that's air guitar. Joe Cocker, Woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLyK2DVVUU
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!
This *might* be better than Magic Bus:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...4ECE&FORM=VIRE
I tried 2 different links for this but couldn't embed the video. Sorry.
Showing some bias here.
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Great thread,
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal. 1973, not sure where it was from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSLid-0cUcI
I have always liked the version of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls that did in their home town of Buffalo for a 2004 fourth of July concert.
That's what I call atmosphere.
Great list.
This one has to be up there somewhere...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tMZ50s2Oo