If you had to name one (and only one) favorite live recorded piece...

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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,162
    Comfortably Numb from Pulse. 

    My daughter was on a mission a while back to find the absolute best performance of that song, either by Pink Floyd or David Gilmour solo. Pulse won handily, in our collective opinion.

    It was a great bonding experience for us and that performance is breathtaking. 

    Runners up for me are "Great Gig in the Sky" from that same release and "Sister Heroine" from Beth Hart at Royal Albert Hall.
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • LB260405
    LB260405 Posts: 66
    https://youtu.be/RJv2-_--EY4

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited August 2022
    goldrush said:
    Neil and Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand, live at the Fillmore East 1970
    This one's WAY up on my list!
    LB260405 said:
    https://youtu.be/RJv2-_--EY4

    As is this.  I can watch Keith's drumming here all day long!  So bizarre that the Rolling Stone organization suppressed the Rock and Roll Circus video for 28 years! 

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    PJ - Man of the Hour - Live at Benaroyal Hall. 

    Magic
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    You've done it again Brian another SUPERB musical question. Let's see so many to choose from however the answer has to come from my favorite all-time rock band.

    That said the song I'll choose is not my favorite by the band however I'm choosing this song because of the significance to band and their career in rock music. It came out at time when the record company wanted them to record radio friendly hits and the band said simply NO. We will record what we want to record whether it makes us or breaks us. It was their 4th album and third with Neil Elwood Peart writing the lyrics. They took a chance, huge chance and it paid off over time. Most RUSH fans will revert back to this album as the one that brought prominence to these three twenty four year Olds. A masterpiece in what they came up with that took up one entire side of the album.

    That song is 2112 that is broken up oprapratic pieces and here is one of the earliest performances back in 1976......2112

    https://youtu.be/NJPAjiSX7Rk

    ✌️
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    g under p said:
    You've done it again Brian another SUPERB musical question. Let's see so many to choose from however the answer has to come from my favorite all-time rock band.

    That said the song I'll choose is not my favorite by the band however I'm choosing this song because of the significance to band and their career in rock music. It came out at time when the record company wanted them to record radio friendly hits and the band said simply NO. We will record what we want to record whether it makes us or breaks us. It was their 4th album and third with Neil Elwood Peart writing the lyrics. They took a chance, huge chance and it paid off over time. Most RUSH fans will revert back to this album as the one that brought prominence to these three twenty four year Olds. A masterpiece in what they came up with that took up one entire side of the album.

    That song is 2112 that is broken up oprapratic pieces and here is one of the earliest performances back in 1976......2112

    https://youtu.be/NJPAjiSX7Rk

    ✌️

    Thanks, G!  Yeah, it's been fun.  Lot's of good answers here and nicely eclectic. 
    And a fine selection from you.  I wasn't much of a Rush fan for a number of years until a friend turned me on to this, my favorite album of theirs (weird cover and all, lol):
    Hemispheres Rushcom

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    brianlux said:
    g under p said:
    You've done it again Brian another SUPERB musical question. Let's see so many to choose from however the answer has to come from my favorite all-time rock band.

    That said the song I'll choose is not my favorite by the band however I'm choosing this song because of the significance to band and their career in rock music. It came out at time when the record company wanted them to record radio friendly hits and the band said simply NO. We will record what we want to record whether it makes us or breaks us. It was their 4th album and third with Neil Elwood Peart writing the lyrics. They took a chance, huge chance and it paid off over time. Most RUSH fans will revert back to this album as the one that brought prominence to these three twenty four year Olds. A masterpiece in what they came up with that took up one entire side of the album.

    That song is 2112 that is broken up oprapratic pieces and here is one of the earliest performances back in 1976......2112

    https://youtu.be/NJPAjiSX7Rk

    ✌️

    Thanks, G!  Yeah, it's been fun.  Lot's of good answers here and nicely eclectic. 
    And a fine selection from you.  I wasn't much of a Rush fan for a number of years until a friend turned me on to this, my favorite album of theirs (weird cover and all, lol):
    Hemispheres Rushcom

    Yes in deed that friend turned you unto a great album. In that album is my #1 all time favorite instrumental in the song that came to guitarist Alex Lifeson in a dream 
    La Villa Strangiato. I should start a thread on favorite instrumentals.

    As for that Hemispheres cover I think the inspiration came from where the album was recorded in Wales. Of the 19 albums the band recorded they never graced the cover of any of them including the live albums. I'm sure there's a story behind that revelation. 

    https://youtu.be/gkGFwp05Ais

    Alex's playing was just amazing on this song, a very underrated guitarist.

    ✌️


    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 632

    I pre-ordered this yesterday. Can't wait to hear it.
  • Renfield
    Renfield NYC NY Posts: 1,054
    https://youtu.be/iUD5snx-XOo
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    g under p said:
    brianlux said:
    g under p said:
    You've done it again Brian another SUPERB musical question. Let's see so many to choose from however the answer has to come from my favorite all-time rock band.

    That said the song I'll choose is not my favorite by the band however I'm choosing this song because of the significance to band and their career in rock music. It came out at time when the record company wanted them to record radio friendly hits and the band said simply NO. We will record what we want to record whether it makes us or breaks us. It was their 4th album and third with Neil Elwood Peart writing the lyrics. They took a chance, huge chance and it paid off over time. Most RUSH fans will revert back to this album as the one that brought prominence to these three twenty four year Olds. A masterpiece in what they came up with that took up one entire side of the album.

    That song is 2112 that is broken up oprapratic pieces and here is one of the earliest performances back in 1976......2112

    https://youtu.be/NJPAjiSX7Rk

    ✌️

    Thanks, G!  Yeah, it's been fun.  Lot's of good answers here and nicely eclectic. 
    And a fine selection from you.  I wasn't much of a Rush fan for a number of years until a friend turned me on to this, my favorite album of theirs (weird cover and all, lol):
    Hemispheres Rushcom

    Yes in deed that friend turned you unto a great album. In that album is my #1 all time favorite instrumental in the song that came to guitarist Alex Lifeson in a dream 
    La Villa Strangiato. I should start a thread on favorite instrumentals.

    As for that Hemispheres cover I think the inspiration came from where the album was recorded in Wales. Of the 19 albums the band recorded they never graced the cover of any of them including the live albums. I'm sure there's a story behind that revelation. 

    https://youtu.be/gkGFwp05Ais

    Alex's playing was just amazing on this song, a very underrated guitarist.

    ✌️



    For sure! La Villa Strangiato is amazing!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Renfield said:
    https://youtu.be/iUD5snx-XOo

    So good!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Renfield
    Renfield NYC NY Posts: 1,054
    brianlux said:


    So good!
    I wanted to pick “Every Grain of Sand” 1980 Demo, where you can hear the dogs barking toward the end, but I don’t believe it fit the parameters. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Renfield said:
    brianlux said:


    So good!
    I wanted to pick “Every Grain of Sand” 1980 Demo, where you can hear the dogs barking toward the end, but I don’t believe it fit the parameters. 

    Demos are often basically  live-in-the-studio.  Besides, if you love it, it fits!
    And hey, let's do a favorite demo thread!.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Renfield
    Renfield NYC NY Posts: 1,054
    brianlux said:
    Renfield said:
    brianlux said:


    So good!
    I wanted to pick “Every Grain of Sand” 1980 Demo, where you can hear the dogs barking toward the end, but I don’t believe it fit the parameters. 

    Demos are often basically  live-in-the-studio.  Besides, if you love it, it fits!
    And hey, let's do a favorite demo thread!.
    Well then, you already have my answer if you do a demo thread =)
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    A close second for me would be Helpless by NY on Live at Massey Hall - 1971.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    A close second for me would be Helpless by NY on Live at Massey Hall - 1971.

    Excellent choice! 
    I wish I could have a version of that album on vinyl with the music only and no in between chatter. 
    I know... I'm weird that way!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Renfield said:
    brianlux said:
    Renfield said:
    brianlux said:


    So good!
    I wanted to pick “Every Grain of Sand” 1980 Demo, where you can hear the dogs barking toward the end, but I don’t believe it fit the parameters. 

    Demos are often basically  live-in-the-studio.  Besides, if you love it, it fits!
    And hey, let's do a favorite demo thread!.
    Well then, you already have my answer if you do a demo thread =)

    :plus_one:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Kearn5y
    Kearn5y Ireland Posts: 3,035
    Leonard Cohen, Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye. My favorite Cohen song and probably one of my top 5 favorite songs. Finally got to hear the version with a Violin in Dublin back in 2012. Cant find a clip but this is the best clip that I can find from 2013 in Rotterdam 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyLKfVpzqdg
    Kearnsy
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Kearn5y said:
    Leonard Cohen, Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye. My favorite Cohen song and probably one of my top 5 favorite songs. Finally got to hear the version with a Violin in Dublin back in 2012. Cant find a clip but this is the best clip that I can find from 2013 in Rotterdam 

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

    Nice choice!
    Here's another one by Mr. Cohen you may have seen, likely will enjoy. High on my list of live performances, for sure!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCaD6GAQmjA

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,134
    edited September 2022
    Tough choice.

    This one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhCPt6PZIU
    Does anybody remember laughter?

    Or this one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAv71VbdkBc
    One of the few live records I still play regularly.

    Honorable mention to:
    Genesis Seconds Out
    Rush Exit Stage Left
    Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

    EDIT: I think Zep takes it. So good. Jimmy's playing...probably my favorite guitar performance of all time.  

    Post edited by Get_Right on

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