What is the greatest musical performance ever captured on film?

That Monks clip is great.

Bowie doing 'Young Americans' on Dick Cavett in 1974 for me please. (can't see the embeds, apologies if already posted)

> Everything I want in music, condensed to 2 minutes

+ sexy uschi nerke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XzGOZHYdA

the answer is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfr2QMk3Fc

serious answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vyySL_zUQ

^^^ considered posting the 'judas' one but thought it was too obvious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE

Gotta have this in any serious conversation....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdSHr1i2Yo

(xpost) this is at the end of the film "The Kids Are Alright", and whenever I watched the video I'd turn the sound all the way up on the TV for the last couple of minutes.

Definitely second The Monks and Dylan. And Elvis Unchained Melody slays me every time -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Dpm5ZoCbE

Some classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz0V6bIwXpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25E0ACkA6uo

Planxty on "The late late show", dunno when its from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3A5Tgy47M

The Boswell sisters from 1932:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Afn3Z-BWI

Nick Lucas performs "tiptoe thru the tulips" with a bunch of chorines dressed as giant flowers, from 1929:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMHJX4b9bU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twh45yX2Kj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76CeJBbJs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_TDoOPnIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93v6eoTjpig

can't say it's "the greatest musical performance ever on tv," but this is one keep replaying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5VFWA2YKdo

(sorry, this is one i keep replaying. . .)

not gonna front, I'm gonna take the Who here, but this performance deserves consideration (plus in context it was kinda life-changing for me):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oZyWt7pGg

xp werewolf: Wow @ Can.

The R+R Circus Who Quick One While He's Away is my favorite but these two are my current faves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzIdZpln6k

That John Fahey clip is excellent, WF, thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6C_WSp3Lks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewgAy7hghg

;-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGKzWDakK8

>+ sexy uschi nerke

Thanks, I've also long wondered who that babe is.

Unfortunately it's no longer on YouTube but I found it here..

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/USMENud-Neil-Young-Rockin-In-The-Free-World-Live-SNL-1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH6D4LvYZwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irc7ZntLEZw

I don't know about "the greatest ever" etc but this completely wrecked me way back when and still seems incredibly powerful to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRxYty2ie0&feature=PlayList&p=E9E8B4DEAC36258E

dude that arsenio thing is sick

man, I forgot hop hop used to be like that

Are the monks playing for real in that video upthread? There are parts where it seems like it was playback. If it's real then I'd have to agree it was a mindblowing performance.

I won't say this is actually the greatest ever, but the aural climax that starts building around 4:43 represents a moment that can never be replicated - Bootsy's Rubber Band "I'd Rather Be With You" live in Houston 1976:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62XibPMlXw

I'm also a big fan of that Talking Heads live in Rome film posted upthread but given my predilections I'm more partial to the hard funk of "Crosseyed & Painless".

Here are a few that I play from time to time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98y0Q7nLGWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vLewIZEsOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ4QLFl01g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cHkMwzOiM

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

This is the same performance that opens the fucking life-changing live album Love Power Peace: Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fn-xyaGHE

Actually this for the thread winner...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHs6f0mlkaM

The sound quality on the James Brown clip isn't the greatest, so I'm not sure you can hear it, but there are points on this where the two drummers(!) start throwing down what I swear are blast beats. In 1971.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2G4-0xLX-o

diggin' that hip-hop violin clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdMZ1qrn6k

this is the performance I was thinking of when I started this thread...thanks for all the great clips, everybody

Neil young tearing apart time and space:

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Ah crap, I knew that would happen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd4DmPA6hrw

saw JB on TAMI again early this morning; an all-timer.

yeah that, the Who, and Stevie w/Muppets are really up there for me. Monks too.

This thread made my Sunday morning very unproductive. The Stevie Wonder Sesame Street thing is amazing. Here's one of my favorites. . .

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdJwcKFDo3o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5c3Qtcr_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74mvDSUzQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM

i know it's not a "classic" performance but damn i can't stop watching this performance of "it's you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yP1TOzwPA

Ah. Finally recognize that synth bit at 1:56 - 02:06 = Such A Shame, innit?

I've avoided posting this video here so far cuz I thought it might be kinda tacky or premature w/e, but seriously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8

that's almost as beautiful as BU$H playing glycerine in the rain spring break 96

Awesome little Brazilian dudes and dudettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6PwP5glyvg&feature=related

More Brazilian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4qK8RQcBYE&feature=related

watched my Cliff 'Em All tape last night. RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wGFfrJv4Y

The Temtations - (i know) i'm losing you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbzHIVtRj0

*p*

My current favorite for the 2000's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Q2wS6sGQI

I don't necessarily think this is the greatest musical performance captured on film, but I do think this is the greatest film of a musical performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v_Y3Pbiims

makes me want to drink whisky

+1

pretty sure it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60H9X0mYH70

or maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeplSvy9MvQ

I've been on a HUGE Bill Carlisle kick the last couple of years, and I so wish there were older youtube vids of him in his prime in the 1950s. That one is awesome, but y'know...

there's one other clip of him on youtube where looks to be about 85. it's funny to see him flapping his gums and doing a little hop for old time's sake, but yeah, I wish there was more footage of him from any era. I have a feeling that his studio records, as punchy as they are, don't capture all the excitement of his live sets.

oh cool, this one's from 1953:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsnf3WCDQLQ

1953: 1965

quite fond of this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvQOACorAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcq93txBdtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZEpP_zzaw&feature=BFa&list=PL73A3CC7F297BA0D5&lf=BFa

Liza with a Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4aGXTHo7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqwe3O2Mjf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtgUbJN8oPE

^billie listening to lester's solo fuckin eh

oh yeah, i love that clip of billie listening to prez solo

All 4 clips are amazing. This one has probably my favorite heights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0I60Zb9Qk&feature=share

45 years ago today.

Irish fans, gdansk, 2012

did you join in or just stand with your arms folded, darragh?

i love this thread (pats himself on the back)

otm iago

michael, im a crank and im no patriot but at the same time if theres a wee shuteyed one goin i'll be not least nor last to pipe up