OT: 30 years ago yesterday - greatest live rock performance ever?
What was the best live performance you saw?
Last week the Stones were awesome at Comerica (no freaking remarkable considering their age). Hopefully McCartney and Metallica will rock Lollapalooza in two weeks.
But in 1985 at Live Aid Freddie Mercury and Queen set the bar for rocking an audience imho.The Beatles on Ed Sullivan were ground breaking as were Nirvana unplugged, Led Zeppelin in MSG, and Hendrix at Monterey,et al but this one to me just was extra magical. I get goosebumps every time I see Freddie leading 70,000 sing " Radio Ga Ga".
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I was always pretty amazed at how great some of the live Queen performances were, not because they weren't all great musicians, but because the studio recordings had so many overdubs with so many additional vocal tracks and guitar tracks for harmonies (along with other elements inherently unreproduceable in a live setting). I always would have figured that the live performances would comparatively sound empty, but nope; they sounded just as powerful live. Awesome.
U2 was two set before. Sting actually did Money for Nothing with Dire starights just before Queen. So the crowd, which had been listless at times, partly due to some was staring to get some energy, but Mercury had a way of grabbing an audience. I saw them other times and he always had such a great rapport with the fans.
But the crowd response to Radio Ga-Ga was, I'm sturggling for the right word here, scary, in a way. Maybe because I was 15 in a different country and had been having an odd summer as it was, but it still gives me chills. I always attributed it to more of a Euro menatality than an American mentality. At the Big House, or here at the Horshoe or evn at Beaver Stadium, some folks don't stand during the wave, or rerspond to O-H-I-O around the stadium or the back and forth of certain chees, etc. There, evryone that I could see (I was fairly far back) was standing (in some places no choice) and clapping. In sych. It's kind of like the Bejing Olympics and the coordinated events during the opening ceremonies in 2008. It almost doesn't seem human.
And as someone pointed out, it was sort of suprising because Queen had been doing shows in South Africa and most artists had boycottedd performing there due to Apartheid. You look at films from the 80s around that time and a bit after, and you have obvious (Lethal Weapon 2) and less obvious (Scrooged) examples of opposition to the South African Govenment.
once in a lifetime you luck out and hit an experience like this.
Mine was being in the Seattle Kingdome on a lark to see whatever Final 4 took place in 1989...
And to be honest if I could have picked the event to go to before hand, I would have picked the US side, for the most part I think at the time I would have said they have the better lineup.
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Journey
Scorpions
Ted Nugent
Thin Lizzy
the music I expect I'll hear as part of my personal Hell. But, of course, to each is own.
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DEP is one pretty wild show.
see post 29/30. Big fan! My daughter (who learned electric guitar to play Supersonic) and I went to see Noel Gallagher at Royal Oak in June. He played a few classics. He is a cranky SOB but lovehis music. If Oasis ever got back together money is no object to see that gig!
Hail yes! Alvin Lee simply kicks the bejeevers out of that song! When i saw them live at Cobo they did 5 encoures and we still couldn't get enough. But, I'm Coming Home, that song sent everyone to the stage! What a great concert it was. Pure rock and roll at its finest.
Its good to hear all the rockers talk about their experiences with different bands. Everyone has their era and their favorites.
I know, Its only rock n roll, but I like it!
I only wish I could have been there in person.
The best concert I've ever been to?
Pink Floyd, in 1994, at...um....Ohio Stadium.
Loved Nirvana unplugged. Loved Alice in Chains unplugged more.
MC5.
Albums--okay.
Live show--The Best Ever.
Heroin sucks.
Best performance in the 60s was Janis Joplin at Monterey in 1967. 70s went to many concerts and the best live performance imo was Rod stewart. Didn't go to any concerts in the 80s or 90s but the top performer was Madonna in the 80s and Michael Jackson in the 90s. After that got no clue.
1. Lollapalozza 94. Pine knob
Pumpkins
Beasties
L7
I wish I had been at the show with green day.
2. Watch the throne tour jay z and kanye west. Palace couple years ago
Two legends sharing a stage and dominating.
3. Eminem and jay z at comerica
Both killed it
Jay z let jeezy play like 3 songs
Dre and 50 played.
Great time
4. Tori Amos hill auditorium 96
I have never seen anything more intense.
5. Summer of 96? 97? Palace of auburn hills
Pantera
White zombie
Deftones
Untouchable 'heavy' show, pantera on the trend kill tour, zombie before rob dropped the band and a young Deftones who were lightening live.
Other notables for me:
Garth brooks back in 96 and again this year
Pearl jams 2006 show at can Andel
Lollapalozza 93
Alice in chains
Dinosaur jr
Prunus
And the first time I saw tool or rage
Rage against the machine 96 cobo, 98 palace, imagine of the show with the beasties hadn't been cancelled
Local h at the blind pig
Domestic problems every single time I saw them at the pig from 98-001
Kanye and Kendrick a year or two ago. Kendrick was untouchable and kanye was intense
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