Memorable rock/blues performances?

[samzhere]

Rummaging through my rock concert DVD collection a few days ago, I came across "Woodstock" and popped the disc in to catch some of my fave tracks again.

Was, as always, blown away by Joe Cocker's "A Little Help From My Friends", which you either hate or love. My wife, for example, loved listening to the audio from our LP but hated watching Cocker writhe while singing it.

For me, it's love --- his er, unique, performance is one of the single most powerful and intense rock/blues cuts I've ever seen.

Regardless of how Cocker's Woodstock performance ranks as a hard rock/blues classic, he did "win" the Lifetime Air Guitar Award -- nobody has outdone him on air guitar before or since.

But anyway, that track is I suppose my #1 concert DVD cut for hard rock/blues. Ranking near this is Janet Joplin's "Ball and Chain" from the Monterey Pop concert. Another top rank performance is Muddy Waters' "Man Child" from the Band's Last Waltz concert.

You have any real fine fave rock/blues concert performance video tracks to recommend or "vote" for? Who's tops with you?

This has got to be something available to watch -- we've also got our fave live performance jams, of course. For me, most intense live performance was being about 30 feet from Hendrix when he played Foxy Lady.

[Teach]

Arlo Guthrie- - - - -"Alice's Restaurant" Another Woodstock great! It captures the spirit of the event- - - - -sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll!
Jerry

[bisley]

Was, as always, blown away by Joe Cocker's "A Little Help From My Friends", which you either hate or love. My wife, for example, loved listening to the audio from our LP but hated watching Cocker writhe while singing it.

Probably my all time favorite TV moment was John Belushi's rendition of that, done simultaneously with Joe Cocker, without his knowledge. It was very 'soulful,' and hilarious beyond description. I seem to remember that Joe didn't think it was funny, and I think the footage has disappeared with all the other politically incorrect stuff. I'll never again hear a Joe Cocker song without bringing that image to mind.

EDIT: It hasn't disappeared, and maybe it didn't take place simultaneously: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHaA4RePosY

[Razorbacker]

Muddy Waters in "The last Waltz" I listen to that whole 2 DVD set as part of my New Years eve tradition. If you're a Cocker fan check out his performance in "Across the Universe". I have that DVD as well,I'd post a link but Momma is asleep feet away. But it's easy to find.

[Fat Billy]

Last week there was a special on Public TV. Jeff Beck plays a tribute to Les Paul. Awesome show doing old rock from Elvis forward. The band was good but Beck was incredible. There was a show after it with Steve Martin. I knew Martin played the banjo but he is the Eric Clapton of banjo picking. Unusual programming for Public TV but some awesome music. Love my DVR. Later,

[JLDickmon]

PBS Sun Studio Sessions
Backyard Tire Fire

[samzhere]

Thanks for reminding me and recovering that Belushi sequence, bis. I'd forgotten how funny and spot-on perfect it was. That spin-flip to the floor Belushi made was terrific.

I remember now, seeing it on SNL for the first time -- we watched the old SNL faithfully -- and I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

[samzhere]

Agreed, Razor. The Last Waltz DVD is maybe the best concert video ever. I watched it not long ago, some comments...

Joni Mitchell was soooo sexy in her Coyote song. Of course, being an old hippie, I had generous crushes on most of the female stars of that era. And why not?

Muddy Waters was indeed wonderful.
Others in the show, like Dr. John, were fun, too. Especially good was Neil Young and little Bobby Dylan.

And The Band themselves, awesome. I saw them twice in concert at their peak, and "quality of music" based, the best live rock concerts I ever witnessed. What a strange thing, almost mystical, their song "Night they Drove Old Dixie Down"... how could a modern rock group, professional musicians, young guys really, create something that in some way reached deep into our historic roots and echoed feelings from the Civil War era so perfectly?

[CaliFFL]

I saw Ruth Brown perform at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1990. I was absolutely blown away by her. At the time I was 23 years old and had never heard of her. I went to the festival see Stevie Ray Vaughn, but he was killed earlier that week.

I'd pay good money to have a recording of that show.

[5280 shooter II]

Not really R&B.....but Hedrix's anthem performance at woodstock.....any GI with an electric guitar tries it.....guilty here!

[mkk41]

The Allman Brothers Band at the Philthadelphia Rectum , er I mean Spectrum. Back around '91. Found two tix in the parking lot just in time. Seats right over the second level doorway and about 8 o'clock from the stage. Man , did they play! I think every tune was 20min long. They really found their old groove with Warren Haynes and Allen Woody.

They did a live album from that road trip. Check out, "An Evening with The Allman Brothers , First Set"

It's awesome!

Here's an old song called Blue Sky , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhgf1GgBCg.

Ya want blues? How about Dreams?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sAqCGwbBGw

[Fat Billy]

I was at the Atlanta Pop Festival July 4th 1970. Got to see Hendrix do the Star Bangled Banner as the fire works were going off. That was the last time he played in the USA and was gone in September. Maybe there were no fireworks, could have been the acid. Saw colors anyway. Good ole days. Later,

[Razorbacker]

Agreed, Razor. The Last Waltz DVD is maybe the best concert video ever. I watched it not long ago, some comments...

Joni Mitchell was soooo sexy in her Coyote song. Of course, being an old hippie, I had generous crushes on most of the female stars of that era. And why not?

Muddy Waters was indeed wonderful.
Others in the show, like Dr. John, were fun, too. Especially good was Neil Young and little Bobby Dylan.

And The Band themselves, awesome. I saw them twice in concert at their peak, and "quality of music" based, the best live rock concerts I ever witnessed. What a strange thing, almost mystical, their song "Night they Drove Old Dixie Down"... how could a modern rock group, professional musicians, young guys really, create something that in some way reached deep into our historic roots and echoed feelings from the Civil War era so perfectly?

Remember at the beginning the caption says, "This should be played loud". I had a few beers back in the day with Ronnie Hawkins. My fellow Arkansan Levon Helm (RIP) was a very interesting and right good fellow.
Regarding your question, I don't know but right now I don't see how it could be duplicated. The arrangement alone is worthy of an Emmy, Grammy, whatever. And the interviews alone were worth the price of the CD

[Six-Gun]

Any number of Tina Turner performances of Proud Mary while with the Ike & Tine Turner Review. That girl has a gift for live performance. However, Joe Cocker's Woodstock performance is way, way up there. He's another one with a brilliant live feel, despite the fact that his arms are not exactly attached to his body.

[Big Chief]

This describes it better than I can remember. I do remember the fireworks and Jimi Hendrix and the Chambers Brothers doing a great job with "Time". 10 Years After and BB King.

Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970)
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"The second Atlanta International Pop Festival was a music festival held in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Originally scheduled for July 3 to July 5, 1970, it did not finish until near dawn on the 6th.[1] It was the only successor to the first Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969. The event was promoted by Alex Cooley, who had organised the same event the previous year, as well as the Texas International Pop Festival

Like the Woodstock festival the previous summer, the event was promoted as "three days of peace, love and music." Tickets for the festival were priced at $14. Also like Woodstock, it became an "open event" when the promoter threw open the gates after crowds outside began to tear down the plywood fence that had been erected around the site.[1] An estimated 350,000 to 500,000,[2] and possibly 600,000[1] people attended.

Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, Jethro Tull (scheduled but did not perform, citing laryngitis), Terry Reid, B.B. King, Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, Chambers Brothers, Poco, Grand Funk Railroad, Captain Beefheart(scheduled but canceled), Ravi Shankar, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, John Sebastian, Mountain, Bloodrock, and Spirit.[1][2][3] Jimi Hendrix played to the largest American audience of his career,[4] presenting his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner for the fireworks around midnight on the Fourth of July.[1] Local Atlanta bands Radar and the Hampton Grease Band also performed.

The Anunga Runga Tribe of the Musical HAIR, which had performed for two weeks in April 1970 on the campus of Memphis State University, were the last act to perform, following Richie Havens, who opened his set at dawn on Monday morning (July 6) with his version of "Here Comes the Sun."

In 2003, The Allman Brothers Band released a recording of their festival opening and closing performances, Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970."

[samzhere]

Incidentally, I just saw that Ravi Shankar had died, age 91-92, Dec 12.

[mkk41]

In 2003, The Allman Brothers Band released a recording of their festival opening and closing performances, Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970."

Yep , I've got it!

[LMLarsen]

If you remember Joe Cocker's performance, here is a Youtube link with lyrics to what he actually sang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c

[JLDickmon]

best band you've never heard of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIlrMSK0Ow

[Big Chief]

One Saturday afternoon in Neu-Ulm Germany in the 80s, I heard what i thought was someones stereo playing Joe Cocker loud, but the clarity was very good. So I opened the 2-way windows in our second story government housing building all the way and enjoyed the tunes. I found out later he was doing a concert in a park on the nearby Donau/Danube River which separates Ulm and Neu-Ulm just a few hundred yards away.

BTW, if you have ever handled a Walther pistol made in Germany the Ulm/Do. stamped on the slide means it was made in the city of Ulm on the Donau River (Blue Danube).

[bobbyrlf3]

Unfortunately, I wasn't alive when everything really cool happened, so I only have more recent performances to reference. The best live performance I've seen was The Black Crowes doing "Oh Sweet Nuthin'". I believe you can only find that on YouTube, but it is an awesome rock performance.

Edited to add: #2 on my list is Big & Rich doing a live version of "Seven Spanish Angels" at a CMT Outlaws concert that featured Hank Jr. and Kid Rock. It still blows me away, but I can't find a copy of it anywhere; it's only on my DVR.

[BlkHawk73]

My most memorable musical performances...hmmm... Seen a LOT of concerts, but those that really stand out would be seeing BB King for the first time. Was 7 8 or 9 years ago maybe. Simply amazing. Have seen him 4 other times since and never a disappointment. 80+ years old and still brings it all every show. the other would be from my favorite band. While I've seen them nearly 20 times it was one show in their hometown of New York City at the holy ground known as Madison Square Garden that tops all the others. Kiss, the original 4, at MSG, NYC...nothing tops that energy.