I wish Stevie's brother Jimmie would release the whole thing on DVD/Blu Ray. We're missing Little Wing (that's on here in so-so quality) You'll Be Mine (same as Little Wing) and Rude Mood!
Although I think this concert is amazing. Texas flood definitely elevated the opinion of the rest of that concert. As a whole his Tokyo 1985 show is his best. Michael even said that himself when he reacted to it a year or so ago.
When I was 19, I didn't really listen to blues at all. Was into Pantera, Ozzy, BLS, etc. My brother(whom was also a bit of a metal head) and I smoked a bowl and he said, "You want to see some fucking guitar playing?!".. He put this on, it was a VHS, and I pretty much just sat there awestruck for the entire tape. The rest is history.
@@JaredGammel Agreed that one's a great film not just a great performance. Saw it recently on a full screen showing in London. 2024 and still a full theatre transfixed.
I saw it in the theater when it was still running (usually as the midnight movie) back in 1985 probably about 6 times. We would all run around the theater for Life During Wartime. Last year for the re-release was the first time I'd seen it in the theater since then. It was fucking magical. My wife had never seen it in the theater nor had the younger friends we were there with. I think one had never seen it at all. They were all absolutely blown away - as expected. I decided that I needed to get up and run around the theater this time as well. :) No one else did, but I didn't care.
Led Zeppelin is not my all time favorite band. But that being said, that performance at the Garden is absolutely sensational. A band at their absolute peak. I would also nominate The Who at the Isle of Wight.
U2 Live at Red Rocks will always be one of my favorites, but I’ve got to say, though nobody ever talks about it… Richie Kotzen’s 2015 live in Japan concert is just flat out one of the best rock concerts ever recorded. Just three guys and their instruments playing great rock music. No light shows, special effects or post production. Watch the intro and the first two songs and try to turn it off.
Really enjoyed this. Great picks you’ve chosen for all the right reasons. Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s is fantastic because of his amazing playing, the brilliant band and the intimacy of the venue. Toto Live in Paris. All brilliant, but Lukather is absolutely on fire (guitar and vocals). Nightwish, Showtime, Storytime - Live at Wacken, 2013. One of the best gigs ever recorded. The sound quality, filming, stagecraft, music, sense of crowd interaction, best singer ever - what more could you ask for.
The thing that always got me in Live at Pompeii is part two of Echoes, after the seagulls and the band starts filling back in to finally come back to the chorus. It fills me with some sort of emotion that I can’t explain.
Yes indeed. To see it in person, twice, was magical and awe inspiring. I could watch Tony all day, but Peter and Hamish put together an incredible “show”. Peter’s concerts have always been terrific spectacles.
This is the greatest concert film I've ever seen. I've owned it on VHS, Laser Disc, DVD and BluRay. I've converted many folks to PG with this concert. There's the EXCELLENT performance, based on the show design by Gabriel and Tony LePage. François Girard captures it perfectly. I've seen a lot of concert films, and this one is special.
Your knowledge, passion for the music, and enthusiastic but humble presentation make this an awesome channel. Your description of each concert video had tears coming to my eyes (I even got choked up over the list of runners up!). I am about to start a few youtube searches from this!
Michael - you set yourself apart from lots of other teachers and reaction folks in videos like this. You demonstrate an understanding of the transcendence that occurs in these moments, and do a great job of communicating the importance of that to the rest of us. Keep it up, sir - we'll be here with you :)
OMG OMG OMG Mike..... Can't thank u enuf for this. Luv u and ur videos and channel. I'm a part time rock drummer who is feeling a bit stale with rock and pop. I'll spend the next 2 months watching all ur recommendations over and over.... and already KNOW and FEEL the INSPIRATION that is soon to be injected into my musical brain. You da man. I appreciate you and am always uplifted by your 'passion' for music.... (and Amazon boxes... HA!)
Great video. My top 5 (Not including Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz): 5. Iron Maiden_1985-Live After Death 4. Oingo Boingo_1996-Farewell - Live From The Universal Amphitheatre 3. David Bowie_1973-Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars-The Motion Picture 2. Jeff Beck_2007-Jeff Beck Performing This Week Live at Ronnie Scott's 1. Rush_2016-R40.Live or any other live Rush, especially 1981-...Exit Stage Left Honorable Mentions: Simon and Garfunkel_1982-The Concert in Central Park Elvis Presley_1973-Aloha From Hawaii Frank Zappa_1973-Roxy-The Movie (Released in 2015) Sting_1985-Bring On The Night The Grateful Dead_1977-The Grateful Dead Movie The Rolling Stones_1968-Rock And Roll Circus
Always wished there was video for Waiting for Columbus. Lowell George and Little Feat were amazing. I saw Little Feat live twice, but not until after Lowell's passing.
Yeah, saw them at the Trade Hall Manchester and they were great. However, on their live performances on Electric Lycanthrope and Rampant Syncopatia they played better.
Hands down, Joni Mitchell 'Shadows and Light' live concert from 1979. Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Don Alias, Jaco Pastorius and Michael Brecker. Everybody at the top of their game. Five stars out of five stars.
Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall in 1970. James Brown at Boston Garden in 1968 (the day after MLK was shot, James actually stopped a riot cold from taking place at the concert, its amazing, and its all on youtube.)
Re: James brown; the Mayor of Boston played the concert on public access television so people would stay at home rather than go out into the streets. Imagine being a young black kid in 1968 in Boston and there is an entire free James Brown concert live on tv. James Brown was the most famous American on planet Earth at the time. And the only music you'd normally see live on tv in '68 is country music and one song a week on the heavily censored Ed Sullivan show. Not only did he stop a riot before it started and save the entire city, most people watching at home had never seen live music like this in their lives. It was a pivotal moment in American music history I think that is sorely overlooked. In the wake of MLK, Brown was leaned upon as a black community leader, a role he was ill-equipped for, and it ultimately broke him.
While more of a documentary of their last tour, The Tragically Hip’s Long Time Running is brilliant. Same with Pearl Jam’s Let’s Play Two (which coincidentally occurred during the Hip’s last performance. Ed made reference to it during their show). I’ve always been a PJ fan, but that just made me love them even more.
Always something to discover here... thanks for making me a better human! Would have loved to see Klaus Nomi last performance of the Cold song... it's here on YT... may my little soul burn for him forever...
Great job brother,Love ur passion and love for real music and musicians.Great choices,For me,Prince the undertaker when he does the three piece band of gypsies type jam. Its brilliant.Keep up the great work 😊
I liked SoS, but wish that complete versions of songs were shown rather than parts/highlights of them, which was disappointing considering that the performances were fabulous.
I saw Journey live twice on that 81 Escape tour in Detroit. That video of the entire Houston show is Phenomenal and just as great as both Detroit shows I went to. Absolutely Epic.
Off the top of my head (I'm surely forgetting many): - Concert For George (the tribute concert for George Harrison, with an all-star band) - Stromae - Racine Carée Live à Montreal - Pink Floyd - Pulse - David Gilmour - Remember That Night (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) - Bruce Springsteen - Live In New York City (2000) - Sting - Live in Oslo 1993 - Candy Dulfer - Live in Leverkusen 2009 - Rod Stewart - Unplugged (and seated) - Dire Straits - Alchemy - U2 - Popmart Live From Mexico City
Hey Man! Love your work from down here at Gold Coast Australia. I have a small live DVD collection myself. A couple of my favs are MUSE live in Rome..... insane talent and stadium show, And The White Stripes under Black pool lights..... raw and dirty garage rock !!
Oh yea I just sub. Watching your reaction to Kendrick, I'm 67 & was a rocker till the 90's then came hip hop . Turned hip head too. Kendrick is my new fav. Enjoy watching your reactions, keep it up man. Oh yea I like Jimi's who knows a bit more. Lol 😊
U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle is up there for me... just days after Bono's dad died and he pours his heart and soul into the show.. gives one of his all-time performances at home in Ireland in front of 100,000 fans. Maybe not peak band form in terms of youthful energy and Bono's vocals, but it really was a career crescendo in a lot of ways. The setlist they could put together by 2001 was absolutely insane. A spoil of riches.
Excellent video!! Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at The El Mocambo should be on everyone’s list. One listen to (and viewing of) “Texas Flood” and any person who doesn’t play guitar will instantly go to their pawn shop and buy one. It’s that hair-raising!! And you said it already, AC/DC’s “Live at Donington” is an easy winner, as well!! I won’t even mention the Ozzy and Randy Rhoads “Live at After Hours” video, because that goes without even mentioning how utterly fantastic those performances were… Great post!!
The Led Zeppelin DVD, I think it was called The Song Remains The Same, is my all time favorite. Very weird story line to go along with it ... Super cool.
Great list, Michael, can't wait to see all of these. The band that got me into Live DVD's was Dave Matthews Band. And Listener Supported is the holy grail of their collection. The 13 minute version of Two Step from that DVD is pure perfection.
@@mauritsvanderheld4417 Thats also a GREAT show, no doubt. I just liked the balance between intimacy and grandeur in Listener Supported. Weird to call a full arena intimate, but compared to the Central Park show, it is.
You've covered a song from it before but Rory Gallagher - Live at Montreux 1979. Nothing but pure energy, and the bassist Gerry McAvoy was ON IT! I live down the road from Rory's birthplace, they have a great statue in the town centre of him :)
What up Mike! Big fan! Hope u get to see this… just throwing in a concert I just saw on RU-vid that was pretty amazing. WDR tribute to Curtis Mayfield with Ledisi and Bilal (Roots) running the vocals… got an absolute master on bass and guitar then there’s the WDR big band.. Epic performance… love ya Mike.. keep it up sir!
Always love your videos, esp the passion you have for everything you do. I want to go back to the earlier days of rock and roll, 1964 with the TAMI show. Just some of the performers were James Brown, Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Beach Boys, Chuck Berry. All live, no lip synch. Sure, it’s a 1964 production but this was a forerunner to all that came later. Check it out. James Brown is really spectacular.
Love your enthusiasm and passion, Michael. I wish Space Trucking from Deep Purple's Made In Japan album had been videoed. At the time, Purple were at the top of their game, and the performance was absolutely wild. The energy, the dynamics, the improvisation. Killer. Or (and this is a live video) Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light show. Joni, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias. The whole sequence from In France They Kiss on Main Street to Hejira is stunning, magical, heartbreaking.
I 100% agree about Made In Japan. I still often listen to the CD REAL loud while driving. Talk about a band at their peak. I still feel Deep Purple circa 1972 is the best of the best in all of rock history.
I fell in love with festival express. That queen performance was amazing at live aid. Also purple rain rocks. Doors Hollywood bowl. Dead Closing of Winterland , Trucking up to Buffalo and many others. Oh and The Song Remains the Same. I always had live concerts playing in my college room back in the days.
Summer of Soul, ( which I see has been mentioned in the comments) is amazing! Also the Polyphonic Spree performing Lithium ( it might not be from a full concert film, but I can't stop watching it!
Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light, Peter Gabriel Secret World, Concert for George, Led Zeppelin Live at the O2 Arena. I saw both the Stop Making Sense and Shadows and Light tours live at Red Rocks, Colorado.
hey Mike. I've got a collection of videos going back to the VHS tapes in the late 70's. Up to DVD shows, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, and many of the Jazz Greats too. I don't have any Mozart Live, or Bach... Wish I did... I am a Classical Music Freak too. My Dad had everything classical back to the 1920's 78 RPM. Now I have them all. As a guitar player, and owner of my own recording studio in the mountains of The Poconos, PA. I find stuff and re-record it to 1/2 inch tape, analog, on my two TASCAM 38 and 30-8 R2R decks. Live music is what it is all about. Back in the late 60's, I was 14 going on 15 when I would go into NYC and see everyone from Hendrix and Humble Pie, to Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa, of which, Frank was my favorite live show, hands down. Most of his band back then was reading charts and tossing paper off their music stands. That along blew me away. Robin Trower was also one who around 1971 came out on his own with the best 3 man live band since Cream!! Great video Michael. Keep up the good work dude... Hope to catch you live one day soon.
Right on! I have numerous concert DVDs and watch at least one a week. I also listen to two to three complete albums a week; no distractions, no phone, no computer, just sitting and listening the same way I did when I was a teenager in my room. You have to make time to listen to music, but it is well worth it. My top 5 (in no particular order): The Last Waltz, Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas (78), Hendrix Live at Monterey, Springsteen Live in Barcelona (2003), Tom Petty Live at the Fillmore.
I know you've been getting into Grateful Dead. Some of my favorites of them are "Truckin up to Buffalo," "Crimson, White and Indigo" And "Downhill from Here." They are all from a great run in July 1989. "View from the Vault IV" from 1989 has 2 excellent shows from 1987. Love your channel!
I totally agree. I love those concerts. I listen with my airpods so I don't miss anything. Music is magic. Where does it come from? I grew up with these bands. It helped me through the worst of times. Healing my soul. My nr. 1- The Allman Brothers. Fillmore East.
Just a couple of my favorites.The Allman Brothers Band 40 th Anniversary at the Beacon Theatre , David Bowie The Reality tour , Warren Haynes Band live at the Moody Theater,Jeff Beck live at the Ronnie Scott's, The Derek Trucks Band songlines live.
GREAT picks, Michael. The Jimi Pink Floyd and Marley would be on my top 5, too. For the sake of being different, other great 5: -SRV at El Mocambo -Allman Brothers @ Filmore East -Led Zeppelin @ MSG -Dave Matthews & Tim Reynold Live at Radio City -John Mayer Where the Light is
SRV & Double Trouble "Live at the El Mocambo" and Van Halen's "Live Without a Net" are must watch DVD's. Stevie's playing just decimates the crowd, who clearly weren't ready to hear that brand of Texas blues come screaming out of his amplifier. I picked VH because it's mind-boggling to watch EVH run all over the stage and jump up and down for two hours, all the while nailing every tapped harmonic and playing things that I can't play when I'm sitting in my little basement studio, concentrating as hard as I can to try to pull off even some of his amazing licks.
Van Halen Live Right Here Right Now, especially 'Black and Blue', US Festival Day 4 1984, Monsters of Rock Tour, Kansas Live, 'Carry On My Wayward Son'. Deep Purple Live! The Who! Oh yeah, Pink Floyd were Sonic Masters! Love your video! Awesome to bring up old vintage performances!
The first concert DVD I ever saw was Joe Satriani live in San Francisco. When you're a young, impressionable guitarist and see that... how do you not fall in love with the guitar. You have also showcased a song from another concert already, not sure if you have watched the entire thing yet, but, Bonamassa live at the Greek Theater. Fantastic.
Gentle Giant - Live in Brussels. Michael, you’ll be blown away at the musicianship, energy and performance as every band member will switch to multiple instruments while delivering insanely complex music. You must check them out.
Only discovered concerts and live music in my thirties, but I'm catching up. Some of my favorites: I saw Brandi Carlile and Friends at the Hollywood Bowl last October 2023, with Joni Mitchell. One of my all time favorites! Friday Night in San Francisco, Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola. Saw them on tv, been looking for a dvd, but nowhere to be found. John Mayer, Where the Light is, Live in LA. Wish I was there.
The Strat Pack Live - 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster. Gary Moore - Red House Live from Wembley Arena David Gilmour Hank Marvin Ron Wood Albert King And a host of other Greats!
Great job, so hard to choose a top 5. So good to Floyd, the Wall tour was amazing live too. I'd also need Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Yes at Hollywood Bowl, Led Zeppelin at Knebworth, AC/DC as you mentioned too and many more tbh. Like I said, so hard this...
Wow! Lots of hair standing up here. The responses to this top 5 list are as awesome as your review. There are so many great live films to love. Thanks, everyone.
Your list is not something I’d normally listen to but will now go and look - thank you! My list would definitely include: - Dire Straits:On The Night - guitar solo in Brothers in Arms is up there with my favourites of all time on any song. - Sigur Rós:Heima - a series of free, unannounced concerts dotted around Iceland. Prehistoric fossilised rhubarb is played, they sing in an abandoned herring oil tank - what else do I need to say? Although it’s technically a documentary it’s a series of concerns in different venues. Jacob Collier:Live in Lisbon - It’s Jacob at some of his most Jacobist. - u2:elevation tour. Just classic and great.
Great call on Hendrix's "Machine Gun". Goes on a bit, but it is truly otherworldly. And Floyd at Pompei? What can you say? That video is totally iconic. And "One of These Days" - so primal! A super-nasty bass sound from Waters. Love it. Enjoyed your video.
That Pompei video is heavily edited (overdubs) in the studio. Very enjoyable nonetheless, but it’s hard for me to get behind this pick as a “magical” performance. In reality, it’s actually more like the predecessor to an MTV video. I do love it though, and I’m not knocking it.
I always love live albums and going to concerts. I have seen all of my favorite bands in concert. Three Dog Night is The band I love hearing live in concert more than any other band. I'm 65 and Three Dog Night eluded me until 5 years ago. Our veterinarian had a customer appreciation night. Good food and concert tickets to Three Dog Night. That was the best concert, I walked out, knowing that my life had just been fulfilled. The J. Giels Band Full House. Lynerd Skynerd Live from the '70s. Yes live albums. Tobey Keith live.
Saw the Eagles 1977 in Norfolk, and hands down "Hotel California". They had just released the album months earlier,and this was their first tour performing this song. BTW,I still have the ticket stub....$8.50 general admission !!
I really appreciate your list. Great performances! Most of all, it made me think of what my top 5 is. I don't know what the top 5 would be for me all time but I have an idea of the ones that really just blew me away. #5 for me would probably be Metallica at Tunisha airfield in 91' #4 Dispatch at Radio City...I went in blindly and didn't know who they were on even 1 song and I left a forever fan. #3 Prince at the Super Bowl! After I watched it live that night, I just couldn't wait to see it again. It made my hair stand up on my neck! #2 is a Tie between DMB central park show with Warren Hayes in 2003 and Mayers Where the Light is show at the Nokia in LA. Again, I'm not saying these are the best shows ever but the most meaningful for me. #1 for me is Dead and Co live at the Gorge 23 I was blessed to be able to be there for the 2nd night. I'm sure this list will change in my mind 10 minutes after I post my comment but this was fun non the less
I just watched The Last Waltz..Man have I been missing out! I ended up going down a youtube rabbit hole after that and I just watched The Jerry Garcia band with Bruce Hornsby do a killer cut of The Night They Drove Old Dicksie Down. I was blown away!! The video quality is not the best but don't let that keep anyone from giving it a listen.
Jimi said more with that one note than most guitar players could say all day.Jimis version of Johnny B.Good live at Berkeley is a pure beast.Lets not forget Jimis Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock or his bit of Voodoo Child at the same show.All are on RU-vid
