I've seen alot of concerts in my day. I got to see Heart, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard, and Michael Jackson live and they were the best performances i've seen. I saw them all during their peak too.

Fun fact: the first performance got moshing prohibited on MTV live due to something like $2000 worth of damage. The second clip was a year later, and the band/fans tore it up regardless.





What a band.

The best show I've ever been to was Yeasayer.

His version of the song makes me think this should be the national anthem.

this! the DVD was was filmed over the two nights he played at Royal Albert during his On an Island tour in 2006. i was there the first. absolutely breathtaking.

it was a night of Davids: Gilmour, Bowie, and Crosby :D

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I've been to one concert in my life, sucks I know.

But I've watched hundreds.

The best I've seen:

Rush
Iron Maiden
Carlos Santana
Eric Clapton
The Doors
Led Zeppelin

Bump.

Thread needs moar vids.

This entire album is near-perfect - Coltrane's wankiest moments here come off as Godsend.

One of my favorite live performances I've watched video of was Queen's Live Aid performance, but specifically when guitarist Brian May and vocalist Freddie Mercury did a stripped down two-song set and performed an acoustic "Is This the World We Created?"


Then I have probably my two favorite concert moments I've seen live. Queen + Paul Rodgers, 9 rows away from the thrust and to the right. While this is my favorite song of the night by any means, this was on youtube, and I am still extremely pleased to have seen it live.


And finally, my favorite live Phish moment I've seen live. I was three rows in front of bassist Mike Gordon for this song live, so this certainly isn't the view I had, but it was mind-blowing.

i saw Matisyahu at a free showing and he was amazing live. The crowd was already excited since it was free but he really made the crowd and show so amazing.

I submit these for now. I'll post more as I come across my favs...

Maybe the best live performance I've ever seen:

AW YEAH PIG PILE



It probably will.

I don't particularly like their music, but I bet they'd be great to see live.

^ Sound quality's a bit on the rubbish side. It's much clearer and better on the audio bootleg of this I've got, believe me.

I just think this stripped-down version, without all those guitar solos and strings in the studio version, serves the song so much better.

Eric Clapton vs. Iron Maiden
 

Saw Iron Maiden and Eric Clapton back to back this year. I'm a much bigger Clapton fan, but he was boring compared to Maiden.

Still one of my favorite live performances...

John Butler - Ocean

at the moment:

Whitney Houston's performances before she dated Bobby was the best.

The Flaming Lips, hands down.