Icon Re: Ten (Okay... Eleven) Best Live Recorded Performances
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stark raving brad (view)

plenty of good suggestions here, so how about some of my bad ones ~

 

Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya's Out. Duh. You're all a buncha cross-eyed flatulent assklowns for leaving out this one and Cash at Folsom. grr!

Hiatt - Comes Alive at Budakon. hyuk hyuk, nice combo of classic live titles, sure, but great versions of his best songs. Mike Ward's gritty Marshall tone will tear nice holes in your ears.

Pete Townshend - Live at the Deep End. the 1985 show from two nights in London. they released a CD with only half the show but the (VHS only) video has the whole enchilada; Pete's amusing comments including some bits about the songs, a wide ranging & excellent tune selection, with the crack-unit Kick Horns, Simon Phillips just destroying the kit and Gilmore on lead. phew.

Maceo Parker - Live on Planet Groove. kee-rist, this is The Funk. get this for the 11 minute opening track Shake Everything You Got alone.

 

 

honorable-ish mentions:

 

Sting's Bring On the Night had one hell of a band behind His Royal Fucking Stingness, i'll give it that. cool cover art, too.

Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live has a darn good song selection and man, that band - Levin, Rhodes and Manu Katche swooping and soaring on his drumkit. it falls off when you learn that he fixed - redid - a lot of vocals post-production. foul!, i cry.

Primus's Suck On This, from the early days, has a certain charm, but Claypool is too ironic/hidden/emotionally cold as a (non)songwriter to be of any real consequence. although he has a movie and book coming out, as well as another go-around with Copeland and Anastasio in Oysterhead coming up, he's really only a nimble bass player. but he does rip.

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