Greatest music stage performance

[Supernova190188]

Before clicking on this I was going to reply with Queen - live at Wembley '86 so glad to see a lot of people have the same idea!
Absolute magic that show and an album I have listened to countless times and never tire of!

[Le TVR]

Wacky Racer said:

Le TVR said:

Earls Court 25 May 1975: Led Zeppelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earls_Court_1975

I was there...Sunday night, last of the Earls Court gigs.....

Night before (24th) Status Quo, Belle Vue, Manchester.....

I know you were there too WR this might interest you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkHNlwmyuWw

I had the feeling it was at least 4 hours long set but this comes out at 3Hr 37 not bad eh?

[daphantom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSxfDJ7eayw

ACDC - Donnington 91. Every song played to perfection


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrf4DK-Sv1E

Fun Lovin Criminals @ Glastonbury 99
Crowd reaction!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDqyrKvytg

Jamiroquai 2006 Electric proms

Amazing musicianship

Edited by daphantom on Sunday 7th August 10:22

[MarshPhantom]

Lou Reed's Rock n Roll Animal - Sweet Jane


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk

[IanUAE]

An Iron Maiden concert must feature in this thread somewhere. Rock in Rio (infront of 250,000 people) or one of the Flight 666 concerts would be my offering.

[GCH]

Can't really compare as different eras, genres and demographics, but two of many that would be up there for me would be:

Daft Punk - Coachella 2006, for so many reasons.
The Prodigy - V97. Best show they ever did.

[marcosgt]

Seems to me no-one can really compare sensibly as even the most frequent gig goers will have only seen a fraction of them.

The best may have been some little known band in Portsmouth Town Hall or some such event.

The best concert as a whole I've seen was Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" movie (on video, sadly I wasn't there), but it's impossible for anyone to judge.

I can't stand Queen, so there's no way I'm going to agree with the suggestion the OP made

Although I didn't actually see Live Aid - I was, err, otherwise occupied

M.

[coppice]

Speaking as somebody who prefers root canal work to Queen , some stand out performances over , Christ , 46 years -

Derek and the Dominoes - Penthouse Club Scarborough 1970; sitting about 10 feet away from the great man at my first live gig . Loathed Layla the album but this was sensational

Pink Floyd - Leeds Town Hall Feb 1972; nearly all of Dark Side of the Moon , but a year before the album.

David Byrne - Sage , Gateshead , 2009. Utterly joyous gig

Eric Burdon - Paard van Troye , Den Haag 2013. Not often an old legend surpasses all expectations but despite looking at least 103 Eric did !

Opera is not my first love by any means but Thomas Ades 'The Tempest' at Covent Garden in 2004 was astonishing . Visually amazing (better than any rock gig I have seen ) and music just sublime .

And finally .....the bonkers but brilliant Sufjan Stevens , also at the Sage in 2011. We may have been three times older than most of the crowd but who cares ?

Edited by coppice on Thursday 11th August 19:00

Edited by coppice on Thursday 11th August 19:01

[6th Gear]

Soundgarden
Beyond the Wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSdWkN6bW5k

[6th Gear]

Short and sweet.

Led Zeppelin
The Ocean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QX7GZJRpE

The Greatest Rock band of All time.

[Camoradi]

My personal favourites.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Brighton Corn Exchange, 1984. Basically a live performance of their album "From Her to Eternity". I was transfixed for the whole gig.

Closely followed by Echo and The Bunnymen, Royal Albert Hall in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6K5S7rko8

[ScudNorth]

Been lurking here for about 5 years, figured now is a good time to start posting and share this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMd9v-mPj7g

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/tragica...

Performing for 3 hours with terminal brain cancer, to say goodbye to a nation has got to be one of the gutsiest performances I"ve ever seen.

[davegreg]

Slade at Reading Festival 1980 - brought in as a last minute replacement for Ozzy Osbourne, they'd been away from the music scene for a good few years at this point, but they delivered the best live performance i've ever witnessed, and the place went NUTS!!! Epic.

[rover 623gsi]

Gary Numan - Wembley 1981

https://youtu.be/kBvy9vtnBwc

[Ozone]

rover 623gsi said:

Gary Numan - Wembley 1981

https://youtu.be/kBvy9vtnBwc

I was absolutely desperate to go and see one of those final shows, never did sadly.

I did see Queen at the MK Bowl in '82 and '86 and they were the best I've seen - I was invited to join the band!! (along with everyone else attending the gig )

[astrsxi77]

Queen at Live Aid is the obvious choice, but I will also suggest Pink Floyd at Knebworth 1990. It is one of the great gigs that I’d love to have been at.

Floyd were show closers for what had been a remarkable day of music: Tears For Fears, Clapton, Dire Straits, Genesis/Phil Collins, Plant/Page, Elton John and McCartney, to name a few.

By the time Rick Wright’s Shine On chords opened their set, it was dark and the stage and crowd were being lashed by the driving rain. This seemed only to energise the band into producing their best live performance, and they stole the show.

It’s Comfortably Numb that does it for me. The rain, now blowing under the stage canopy, has soaked Gilmour’s guitar and hands, yet he grins towards Nick Mason and proceeds to solo to heaven through spray and mist as the lasers pick out the falling raindrops.

Can’t find a decent video rip as they’re all too dark. But anyway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewFVkInDTM

Whole concert with the best audio here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qjf-p1W8p0

[MarshPhantom]

One I was at, New Order Reading 1989.

[WinstonWolf]

The Wall at Potzdam Plaza took some beating.

Helicopters with searchlights doing the "you, yes you Laddie" over the former no man's land really hit the spot. When the wall came down on stage the place erupted

[BlackpoolRock]

For me my personal favourites are very different to each other but were brilliant in different ways.
Guns N' Roses - Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH-TLcpvgdA
Adele - Brit awards 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1RaUCiRwE
Pink Floyd - Earls Court 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZYG5qwHHI

Edited by BlackpoolRock on Wednesday 24th August 12:47

[MikeT66]

MarshPhantom said:

Lou Reed's Rock n Roll Animal - Sweet Jane


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk

Fantastic - and what an album. My brother saw him in the mid 70s in London and said it was an amazing gig. I was deemed too young to go, sadly. Opened with this track, apparently, and played it just like the track here, with Reed wandering on stage midway through the song to tremendous applause. I always remember him saying the crowd was full of Reed and Bowie lookalikes - no doubt an eye-opener for a teenager from what was a still backwards and dilapidated Hull at that time. Would have loved to have seen Bowie back then, too.

For me, though (and a bit unexpectedly) - Faithless in Manchester a few years ago. Mrs.T66 wanted to go, and I grudgingly agreed - but they blew me away and the sight of a full MEN Arena going mental at the opening bars of Insomnia still reverberates.