The Best Live Performance in Rock Music Ever

Vcore89

Talk Tennis Guru
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Floydians like Fed
Zepptards like Laver
I must be the one zepptard who prefers Floyd to Fed
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Rafa is The Scorpions or Nazareth; not even (at least) Black Sabbath?:)
 

kiki

Banned
Rafa is The Scorpions or Nazareth; not even (at least) Black Sabbath?:)

Oh¡¡ shall I make a serious move here to deffend the honour of the glorious fathers of heavy methal? My battle for Zepp left me exhausted after so many enemies around.:(

Nadal doesn´t hold a candle(stick) to Ozzy...although, seeing Nadal´s bottlemania I guess Ozzy would have thought of him when writting P-A-R-A-N-O-I-D
 

Midaso240

Legend
"It is not that we were just the best band.It is that we were miles away from whichever was the second best"
"When we were good, we were untouchable.when we were bad, we still kicked asses"

Oh yeah¡ Oh yeah¡ Led Zeppelin rules¡¡¡
Who was the tool that said that?
 

Midaso240

Legend
The first tool is Robert Plant
The second tool is John Paul Jones

I can provide with further quotes if you want...
Seem pretty up themselves. Live,there are other bands that wipe the floor with them. I guess they never went to those shows
 

MichaelNadal

Bionic Poster
Queen @ Live Aid
RHCP Slane Castle 03

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@Radicalized.... that Radio Gaga performance is legendary!
 
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Radicalized

Professional
That I've seen "live": Queen at Live Aid in 1985. Mercury had total audience control, "Queen Fan" or not. Flawless, powerful flowing set of classics and recently released material ("Hammer to Fall" and "Radio Gaga").

Aside from watching it "live," The Who Live at Leeds, as mentioned previously. It covers Tommy to The Who's version of Summertime Blues. The Who blows any band off the stage. Their Live Aid performance, in comparison, while powerful, was rough, and without Moon the Loon. The Who wasn't quite "The Who."
 
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chrischris

G.O.A.T.
Ok, so this is tough , what a hard question to answer..
Cause one has a few personal favs form experience and then the hearsay and hearlisten from live albums and recordings.

I saw the Ramones once live and to be honest they were so alive and real in their music that it was quite convincing.
At the time i was into bands like The Outfield, Mike and The Mechanics,ELO, Boston and Kansas so the contrast of style and play was HUGE.

Still that concert stands out.

Also Jeff Healey was great back in the days to see + hear.
 

stringertom

Bionic Poster
I had never seen this thread until today and didn't scan the whole thing so excuse any redundacies.

I grew up in the heyday of classic rock and my first job while in college was working on the stage crew for concerts held on FSU campus. This immediately followed attending the 2nd Atlanta International Pop Festival in '70, where I saw Hendrix play "The Star Spangled Banner" at midnight on the 4th of July. That is my ultimate moment but it was in a crowd of half a million and I was very far away. The shows I worked @FSU got me hooked on being up close (Ike & Tina Turner, Allman Bros (6 times), old Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green days), Doobie Bros., Don McLean, Badfinger, The Chambers Bros., Pacific Gas & Electric, Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain, Spirit...I could go on.

I also lived in London for six months and saw a lot of acts @The Rainbow Theatre (Procul Harum with the LPO as backing), Albert Hall and The Roundhouse (Steve Howe solo was awesome)

During the 70's/early 80's I lived in the NYC metro area and would buy scalped tickets at double face value to guarantee center seats ten rows in or better. Top of that list of acts I saw is easily Queen at MSG for the "We Are The Champions" tour in '78. Imagine Freddie in his checkered leotard owning you visually while astounding your ears with that great range! Others I saw from real close were Supertramp, Bob Seger, Tom Petty, Cheap Trick, Bob Weir, Jethro Tull, etc.
Quoted just to remind myself how lucky I was to see and hear all this music.
 
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70sHollywood

Guest
I love the studio version but this blows it out of the water:

 
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