My Favorite Live Performance

Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. Recorded in MSG for The Song Remains the Same. makes my nipples hard enough to cut glass.

how bout your fave?

Steve Ray Voughn at the Peladium in LA , in the early 80's ,
Fucking AWSOME !!!

Genesis, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 1975, Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, fifth row in front of Steve Hackett. I was stoned, it was incredible, I think I came. If not at the show, than shortly thereafter, as my girlfriend was quite hot and energetic at that time.

That I've seen or that I've heard?

YES

Chris Isaak, twice, in a small 300-person club. The man deserves every ounce of fame granted to him. A true performer, funny as a standup comic, personable and friendly as your best mate, an overwhelming stage presence and rockin' sets that blew the room away.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones State Theatre Ithaca Little Worlds Tour. Bela and Vic Wooten just ripped. There are about three other concerts that I sometimes call the best based on mood, so maybe I'm waiting for the next big thing... Jerry Douglas is on the horizon.


Best I didn't see, Soul Sacrifice - Santana at Woodstock that had to be the scene in a thunderstorm!

Devo - on treadmills
Gentle Giant - They rotated instruments like a volleyball team rotates. It seemed like every one of them played 3-4 different ones.
Yes - In the round

The Scorpions, Cleveland Colliseum, Early 80's, Good Sensi, No one like you:rolleyes:

Spexxvet wrote:

Gentle Giant - They rotated instruments like a volleyball team rotates. It seemed like every one of them played 3-4 different ones.
Yes - In the round

Dude...right fucking on! I saw two Yes tours in the round, and I saw GG in a 1500 seat hall as warm up for King Crimson.

Gentle Giant was a stunningly original, capable group of musicians. I *still* listen to their stuff on a regular basis. My fave album of theirs is "Octopus". I've got a couple of decent live videos of theirs, FWIW.

Elspode wrote:

Genesis, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 1975, Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, fifth row in front of Steve Hackett. I was stoned, it was incredible, I think I came. If not at the show, than shortly thereafter, as my girlfriend was quite hot and energetic at that time.

I saw that Lamb show too, in New York, "off broadway", ha. That was a great show.

But it was much later that I thought I came at a show. I took three of my girlfriends to the Gwen Stefani concert in December in Oakland. 10,000 thirty-yo girls, what an estrogen fest. During one song, I got this....sensation...through my body, twice. The show was orgasmic.

Pink Floyd at the Birmigham Hippodrome circa 1974

First set was 'Dark Side', followed but the 'forthcoming album' Wish you were here.

we sat rght behind the mixing desk in the circle.

The Moody Blues. A surprising answer considering as many concerts as I have been to.

Sanchez and the Libido sisters.

I'm going to be the odd-one-out...but my absolute favorite live performance was seeing the Spanish Riding School of Vienna's Lipizzan stallions in Atlanta last December. The last time the SRS and its' Lipizzan Stallions were in America was around 20 years ago.

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of their rescue by Gen. Patton during WWII. Celebrity that night, was Gen. Patton's grandson...and I was able to meet him during intermission. I sat next to his Celebrity Box and was seated 3 rows away from the arena.

The horses were beautiful, the riders were fabulous and they treated the horses VERY well. I saw happy ears, quiet tails and calm horses doing what they loved doing. In between performances there was a great amount of history and information shared about the horses, their time during the war and up to modern times.

My hubby, who thinks of my horse as just another pet who likes his beer and cookies, was impressed with the skilled riding he saw.
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Never seen live porn.

Live performance? Torn!

1) Henry Mancini
2) A wonderful production in Elvira, NY about Mark Twain
3) Baryshnikov
4) Tom Scott
5) Najee
6) Road production of the Lion King
7) The Foreigner, put on by my college theatre (I ran props)

Elspode wrote:

Dude...right fucking on! I saw two Yes tours in the round, and I saw GG in a 1500 seat hall as warm up for King Crimson.

Gentle Giant was a stunningly original, capable group of musicians. I *still* listen to their stuff on a regular basis. My fave album of theirs is "Octopus". I've got a couple of decent live videos of theirs, FWIW.

In 1978, at college, I saw GG in the field house, sitting on the floor. I was so sure that it would be difficult to get a ticket that at the first opportunity I had to get the tickets, I rushed to get them - it was a whole hour after they went on sale, and I was sure they'd be sold out. I got ticket numbers 00001-00005. :lol2: Opening for GG was a group called Baby Grand, featuring Eric Bazilian and Eric Hyman, who later formed The Hooters. They were a popular local Philly band who got alot of airplay with "all you zombies" and Robby wrote "time after time" for Cindy Lauper" IIRC.

Hoof Hearted wrote:

I'm going to be the odd-one-out...but my absolute favorite live performance was seeing the Spanish Riding School of Vienna's Lipizzan stallions in Atlanta last December. The last time the SRS and its' Lipizzan Stallions were in America was around 20 years ago.

Oooh me too. I probably saw that tour 20 years ago that you mention. They came to the Spectrum in Philadelphia.

My other big favorites are Arlo Guthrie, Chuck Mangione, and Benny Goodman. I also loved seeing Harry Chapin, probably the year before he died.

wolf wrote:

I also loved seeing Harry Chapin, probably the year before he died.

At the Yeadon or Lansdowne theater?

Paul Simon-Graceland tour, Nutter Center, Dayton circa 1990-91

Les Miserables-Aronoff Center, Cincy, circa 2002? I love the Black/Red song!

Spexxvet wrote:

At the Yeadon or Lansdowne theater?

Neither. Temple University Music Festival, which is also where I saw Arlo Guthrie, Chuck Mangione and Benny Goodman. It was a great venue, with fantastic acts.

My bleacher ticket for Harry Chapin was around $6. Mostly I'd pay $2 for parking and watch from outside the tent. Special acts, I paid for.

Fave: Phish- Sugarbush '94
closely followed by any of the other 6 Phish shows I saw.

Then: Santana- Stowe, VT '92
Jethro Tull- Theatre St. Denis, Montreal- 95? 94? Shrooms contributed to a crazy stageshow
Pink Floyd - Montreal '95
Tea Party- Montreal '94- awesome, very intense

wolf - you saw Arlo?!

I hate you.

I see many empty seats...what a shame.:(
Not because the performers didn't have a full house, but for the people who could have had those seats and missed this fantastic exhibition.

Saw a good one last night in Frank Marino. Its his 35th anniversary tour and the first show was at a club not too far from where I live.

An amazing guitar player who recorded 3 albums/CDs before he was 19 and played alongside the giants of Rock (Sabbath, Aerosmith, Santana, ELP, the Eagles, etc.) at the 1974 Cal Jam festival at the ripe old age of 20 (under his band's name of Mahogany Rush). His 1976 live album is one of the best live albums from the decade. Imagine Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter having a kid just as technically proficient but more intense than either of them and you'll get a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Last night, 32 years later, he played for 3 straight hours everything from Hendrix (lots) to Clapton, to the blues to Chuck Berry to jazz to acid rock solos that went on forever. Marino's versions of Johnny B. Goode, Voodoo Chile, I'm a King Bee and Purple Haze are just unbelievable. He finished the show with one of the most amazing renditions of Amazing Grace I've ever heard.

There are a few good samples on his site and a few on youTube. Curiously, I saw about 5 different people with Dream Theatre t-shirts at the show so they may have something in common (I don't know much about DT).

Beestie wrote:

(I don't know much about DT).

Dream Theatre fans would salivate over the phrase: "...technically proficient but more intense..."

Bette Midler - 3x and great each time.

Also Liberace.