What's your favorite Live Concert DVD?

[charlie and algernon]

I love The Who's 1989 live performance of Tommy from the LA Colliseum. It has Elton John, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Patti Labelle, and Steve Wynnwood as guest musicians. :D

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Bad Brains Live at CBGB's 1982

[fishwax]

2. I like the Grateful Dead Movie

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. The Freddy Mercury Tribute.

Accept no substitutes.

[Chemical Bill]

8. Freddie tore 'em up at Live Aid. n/t

[bbernardini]

16. Meh. It's missing the whole first part of the show, isn't it? nt

[harmonicon]

20. isn't that specifically about substitutes?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

25. As Freddy was a wee bit dead at the time, that would be a big yes.

Still a lot of great music got sung that night.

[flvegan]

4. Beastie Boys' "Awesome! I Fuckin' Shot That!"

[Forkboy]

5. Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong Of The Right Live

[Chemical Bill]

6. The Cream reunion...

NO, WAIT... The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, with the Jimi Hendrix performance and the outtakes.

Oh no, I mean Sarah McLachlan's Afterglow Live.

No, I mean Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light.

Um, can I change that to James Taylor: Squibnocket?

I really mean The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966.

There's just too many to decide....

Bill

[Chemical Bill]

7. Patti Labelle was great at Live Aid...

and Steve Winwood was great at the 2007 Crossroads concert.

Bill

[Initech]

9. Opeth - Lamentations

The Opeth / PT tour was so fucking awesome... one of the best I've ever been to.

[Forkboy]

14. I got that. It's a good one, indeed.

Outstanding sound, and I like the two sets divided the way they were. My only complaint is that Akerfeldt jibber jabbers too much (he does this all the time, even when I saw them). He's a nice guy and all...but just play the friggin' music already.

The drumming on the song Deliverance is unreal, but he's gone now. The new drummer doesn't seem to be lacking in anything though, if the new Opeth CD is any indication.

[harmonicon]

21. is this some kind of gothic viking pagan folk metal or something?

[Forkboy]

26. LOL...no, that's Enslaved.

Opeth is quite a talented bunch. They're hard to pin down.

They do songs that are very mellow, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaFANthouM

And songs that kick major amounts of ass, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqBDHjzOV8&feature=related

Most songs mix all kinds of styles, from jazz to classic rock to straight out death metal. I guess I'd consider them progressive death metal, but that's not really fair because they sound like no other death metal band, that's for sure. No other DM band does stuff like Opeth does at the 3:20 mark of the second song I linked to. One of their albums, Damnation, is all acoustic. It's partner, Deliverance, is all death metal.

[Initech]

32. Listen to this tune from "Damnation":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Yu8r1T8vs

[Initech]

28. Watershed is absolutely amazing.

I like the direction they're going in with this one - it's a far cry from the Steve Wilson produced albums but it seems like they're stepping forward with each release.

[RoyGBiv]

10. The Band - The Last Waltz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38JpAMG65Dg

[hippywife]

12. Ditto!

The very best! :hi:

[KG]

11. Pulse.

I win.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnapx502uQ

[cboy4]

13. Pink Floyd:

What an awesome show

[OhioChick]

15. Alice in Chains "Unplugged"

Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theatre as part of the MTV Unplugged series of concerts.

:thumbsup:

[BulletproofLandshark]

17. Dream Theater's "Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes From New York"

An amazing performance of one of the best albums I've ever heard, Dream Theater's "Metropolis Pt.2:Scenes From A Memory"

"Fatal Tragedy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmFpPvMlcdw

"Beyond This Life"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObuWL3EdcE

[charlie and algernon]

18. i LOVE that album

That's a brilliant piece of work, I need to catch that DVD.

[bbernardini]

19. I went out and bought the original pressing before they did the new cover after 9/11.

Yes, I'm that big of a dork.

[Initech]

29. I really like their new one "Chaos In Motion".

I splurged for the 3-CD/2-DVD version. The audio on the CDs is really incredible.

[AccessGranted]

22. Nickelback and H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty)

Oh yeah...and Josh Groban. Eclectic musical taste I have.

[harmonicon]

23. I don't think I have a favourite...

I don't own that many. There's a Cure one that I sort of like some of.... though I wish they'd just released the same recordings as a CD - I'd actually listen to it more. There is a fantastic one with the Sugar Cubes, but what makes that one good isn't so much the live concert footage, which is great, but the interviews with the band members between songs.... ok, that one is my favourite.

[mitchum]

24. "Lou Reed's Berlin" directed by Julian Schnabel

it is stunning

[susanna]

27. Cheap Trick Live at Budokan.

Damn, I loved that album (album - not tape or CD), LOL.

[Franzia]

30. "No. 2 Live Dinner " - Robert Earl Keen

[grannylib]

31. The Last Waltz

What's not to love??
The Band, Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Dr. John, Bob...

[susanna]

33. Second favorite...Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash...

Just saw a Johnny Cash thread and had to say something. :-)