What is the greatest musical performance ever captured on film?

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

that who rock n roll circus clip is the first thing I thought of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1E6ApDTTro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDeROnTq64

http://noolmusic.com/myspace_videos/riverbottom_nightmare_band.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=1woMEExMZXg

Monks on German TV gets my vote. They invented about 40 genres that night.

http://noolmusic.com/myspace_videos/riverbottom_nightmare_band.php

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, March 7, 2010 10:06 PM (18 minutes ago)

That was awesome, Ed III...loved it

Glen Campbell kind of rips the solo in that Wichita Lineman. Neat.

Wow, that Neil video is from 2008! Knew I shouldn't missed him on that tour.

Oh man that Otis Redding clip upthread is great. It's one of my favorite youtube clips ever.

More Otis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvMxaDZfA9Y

I think this early TV performance by Jerry Lee Lewis probably helped sell rock and roll. The energy is definitely there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM

I like this one better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThS_IZcApus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhGyD4ZZzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHvkQUcE7xE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmwj5IfmNII

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

(I realize none of mine really qualify as "the greatest" but they certainly qualify as awesome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-SQH94Pifc

(I realize none of mine really qualify as "the greatest" but they certainly qualify as awesome)

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, March 7, 2010 11:35 PM (Yesterday)

those are all indeed great, but i am looking for each posters one choice of the single most transcendent moment in music caught on film...amazing, amazing things so far in this thread, really enjoying it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sxMWbjAPLs

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