YouTube has to have a lot of great live performances. Post some of your favorite ones.


D'Angelo & Eric Clapton covering Bill Withers' "Use Me"


My Brightest Diamond covering Roy Orbison's "It's Over"
(her voice is awesome, very Buckley-esque)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Madison Square Garden - 1978

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It takes some serious performing chops to burn the house down when you've got 3 minutes on Letterman...:

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Paul Weller pissing (well, not literally) on a Swedish TV show (also features Bruce Foxton's sweet mullet):

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It turns out they were pretty damned good live as well..:

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I pretty much watch this clip once every week. Mastodon - Mother Puncher.

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Andy McKee's version of Tight Trite Night, great stuff.

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More acoustic goodness, this time from Antoine Dufour playing Development.

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And my favorite performance of Voodoo Chile by Stevie Ray.

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I think I've posted this before - Neon Bible in an elevator.

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Bjork- "Pluto" This is an awesome song already, but when you see it live it jumps to a whooole 'nother level. When I saw her do it few years back the crowd was out of its mind and on their feat.

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the greatest "live" performance in the history of man, enjoy

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this performance of 'won't get fooled again' got me hooked on the who.

Some P-FUNK!!!

Cosmic Slop (Tremendous lil' guitar battle going on with Mike & Garry near the end!)
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Mothership Connection/Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
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Maggot Brain (Hampton rippin' it up)
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Ok, im sorry but I are stupid and cant figure out how to add youtube vids. Tried looking through the help topics and found nothing. Any help appreciated

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on the right side on the youtube site, there's an 'embedd' link, copy and paste the link here and it should work.

Not a single Springsteen video? For shame

Quarter to Three- Pt. 1

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Pt 2

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Could be the best cover of War Pigs ever, and in my opinion rivals the original

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Just seems to perfectly capture what the band stood for

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This video doesnt contain how truly amazing these guys are

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and thanks for the help

This isn't one of my favorite Doors songs, but I love the theatrics of this performance...

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Micah P. Hinson is one of my favorite artists. Is anyone else into him? This is one of my favorite performances of his...

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Nobody will really care about this one, but I can't not post it given the topic... This is Junkbutton, a local (Buffalo) band that will never be as big as I think they should be. But that's ok, I'll keep them to myself... This is a shitty video of a less than great performance, but it's the best that youtube has to offer...

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I see someone else has already posted an Arcade Fire performance, but this performance on SNL was my introduction to them and blew me away.

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I'm sure I'll come across more to post.... Great topic.

Your kidding right??

this is the definitive cover of War Pigs
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This is the performance that got me interested in Arcade Fire: (Coachella 2005)

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bravo....

And now for something a little bit different,

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Isaac Stern; Saint-Saëns: "Introduction and Rondo capriccioso"

Watch how authoritatively Stern ends this piece. Wow.

Thom Yorke playing "Cymbal Rush" on Henry Rollins' Show
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A great version of "Whiskey Before Breakfast," an old irish fiddle tune that Norman Blake played a lot.

Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins
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Danny Gatton (They didn't call him the Telemaster for nuthin')
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Joe Brown at The Concert for George. Haunting.
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one more from The Concert for George w/ The "Fifth Beatle"
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Stevie Ray Vaughan did an excellent job covering this song, but his versions still could not touch Jimi Hendrix's original versions. The best live version (IMO) is Hendrix playing "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" at Woodstock:

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(...but try your best to visually tune out the bongo-player behind Hendrix)