The "real" best live performance ever thread!

[ProfJohn]

Post your nominee for the 'best live performance ever'

U2 Zoo TV tour. "End of the World"
Filmed by some guy in the stands, but still a damn good performance.
The audio is excellent, especially for something filmed in a seat. I have clips from a bootleg CD made at the mixing desk and it sounds even better than the video.

Easily the greatest live group performing today and this was their peak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgAewf3g0c&feature=related

 

[Farmer]

Definitely this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITzjxZpun4

 

[Ns1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpMgNWgqEOE

NIN performing WISH one last time with DEP

udder CHAOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy8K5Tq1spk

NIN performing the Big Come Down; visually one of the most impressive things I've ever seen, along with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAVdsgH9Rpk

ONLY, from the same tour.

 

[Wyndru]

Maiden - Fear of the dark tour '92

 

[dank69]

So many choices, how do you even rank it? Staging/special effects? Sound quality? Performance/showmanship? Best mix of chems in your system at the time? I could never make a decision like this.

 

[CPA]

Maiden - Fear of the dark tour '92

Maiden - Somewhere Back in Time tour '08

 

[jalaram]

Queen - Live Aid for my nominee.

 

[Joseph F]

You all should check out Rammstein's live performances. They're notorious for going over the top with crazy shit and pyrotechnics.

 

[Ns1]

You all should check out Rammstein's live performances. They're notorious for going over the top with crazy shit and pyrotechnics.

and lipsyncing.

 

[destrekor]

Coheed and Cambria puts on such a live show, I can't listen to their earlier studio albums. They have matured as a band, and gotten a whole lot better (and the man behind the drums in the current line-up is amazing, Chris Pennie). Their current tour is a full performance of the second album, with an acoustic set before the show and a third set of a couple different songs at the end of the night. A good two hours of only their material that night, and jesus they are amazing. Second time I've been at that venue north of Detroit (Royal Oak Music Theater), both times for Co&Ca, and I have concluded that venue has an amazing soundstage and terrific equipment. That, or the equipment Coheed brings is simply amazing.

Probably one of my favorite bands to see perform. Note, a few bands I'd love to see perform I've never gotten the chance. Tool, NIN, Led Zeppelin (for obvious reasons), Pink Floyd (again), and a few other bands that either never come close or prices too insane.
Great thing about Co&Ca is they still go to smaller venues, giving a closer more "intimate" show. And they are quite in your face thanks to that.

 

[Joseph F]

and lipsyncing.

Really? :/

 

[smitbret]

U2 Popmart tour. Stadium concerts are awesome!!!! Just you and 55,000 of your closest friends.

 

[TechAZ]

Post your nominee for the 'best live performance ever'

U2 Zoo TV tour. "End of the World"
Filmed by some guy in the stands, but still a damn good performance.
The audio is excellent, especially for something filmed in a seat. I have clips from a bootleg CD made at the mixing desk and it sounds even better than the video.

Easily the greatest live group performing today and this was their peak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgAewf3g0c&feature=related

I agree about the ZOO TV tour. I really wish I could have seen it live.

 

[Ns1]

Really? :/

they played w/ TOOL in AU (BDO?) and there's a clear video of them doing some crazy shit and not moving their lips while the song keeps on chugging along

U2 Popmart tour. Stadium concerts are awesome!!!! Just you and 55,000 of your closest friends.

can't stand the terrible sound quality

 

[TechAZ]

U2 - The Fly - ZOO TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a9lah_mgig

I've probably watched this a couple hundred times.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Queen - Live Aid for my nominee.

This.

Maiden comes in 2nd.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I really can't choose at all, but I've always been partial to "Rainbow in the Dark" - Dio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmSt1oEIshE

Just a freaking amazing voice. He sounds better live than he does on his albums.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Best concert by far I've been to was the Allman Brothers wayyyy back in Philly.

 

[Elganja]

1. Rage Against the Machine at 9:30 club
2. Smashing Pumpkins at 9:30 club
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?. Killers at Patriot Center,
?. Tool at Patriot Center,
?. Weezer at Patriot Center,
?. NIN at Verizon Center (MCI Center back when I saw them)

that's how my list goes pretty much ... they all were awesome though...

 

[Scotteq]

1984 - Motorhead @ the Beacon Theatre in NYC


I don't remember it.... But it was Facking AWESOME!

 

[silverpig]

Supertramp puts on a great show. Not for theatrics, but for musical ability and sound quality. I saw them here in a hockey arena and the sound quality was better than the best recording and HT setup I've ever heard. It was perfect.

Prince has some pretty cool stuff too. Queen...

 

[manimal]

Renee Fleming in Susannah in 94 chicago or XTC 1980 berlin

 

[surfsatwerk]

1984 - Motorhead @ the Beacon Theatre in NYC


I don't remember it.... But it was Facking AWESOME!

I vaguely remember being sent flying by a couple meatheads at a Motorhead concert and Lemmy was clean shaven at the time. Best show ever.

 

[drebo]

Rufus Wainwright...anytime he's ever sung Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk live.

 

[KGB]

Best concert by far I've been to was the Allman Brothers wayyyy back in Philly.

Electric Factory???