Stevie Ray Vaughan live at El Mocambo - what a performance

If Stop Making Sense counts as one, then it'll always be No. 1 to me. Hell it's in my top 10 favorite films.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at the El Mocambo

I totally agree about Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz, they're in a league of their own!

Stevie Ray Vaughan- Live at the El Mocambo Texas Flood is a spiritual experience !!!

Really enjoyed this. Great picks you’ve chosen for all the right reasons. Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s is fantastic because of his amazing playing, the brilliant band and the intimacy of the venue. Toto Live in Paris. All brilliant, but Lukather is absolutely on fire (guitar and vocals). Nightwish, Showtime, Storytime - Live at Wacken, 2013. One of the best gigs ever recorded. The sound quality, filming, stagecraft, music, sense of crowd interaction, best singer ever - what more could you ask for.

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same is absolute rock madness. Incredible.

Joni Mitchell Shadows and Light...Brecker, Metheny, Mays, Alias and Jaco. Neil Young - Heart of Gold at the Ryman

Pink Floyd Pulse concert 1994. The best concert recording I’ve ever seen. Gilmore’s 5 minute solo at the end of Comfortably Numb is epic.

The thing that always got me in Live at Pompeii is part two of Echoes, after the seagulls and the band starts filling back in to finally come back to the chorus. It fills me with some sort of emotion that I can’t explain.

SRV and double trouble at El Mocambo. Every single song they played that night is mind blowing

Two of my favorites are Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and The Concert For Bangladesh. Defining moments in rock and roll.

Exit... Stage Left (Rush) is up there for me. Broon's Bane-The Trees-Xanadu is just a masterpiece in live performance

Great video. My top 5 (Not including Stop Making Sense and The Last Waltz): 5. Iron Maiden_1985-Live After Death 4. Oingo Boingo_1996-Farewell - Live From The Universal Amphitheatre 3. David Bowie_1973-Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars-The Motion Picture 2. Jeff Beck_2007-Jeff Beck Performing This Week Live at Ronnie Scott's 1. Rush_2016-R40.Live or any other live Rush, especially 1981-...Exit Stage Left Honorable Mentions: Simon and Garfunkel_1982-The Concert in Central Park Elvis Presley_1973-Aloha From Hawaii Frank Zappa_1973-Roxy-The Movie (Released in 2015) Sting_1985-Bring On The Night The Grateful Dead_1977-The Grateful Dead Movie The Rolling Stones_1968-Rock And Roll Circus

U2 Live at Red Rocks will always be one of my favorites, but I’ve got to say, though nobody ever talks about it… Richie Kotzen’s 2015 live in Japan concert is just flat out one of the best rock concerts ever recorded. Just three guys and their instruments playing great rock music. No light shows, special effects or post production. Watch the intro and the first two songs and try to turn it off.

Peter Gabriel Secret World Live - Awesome!

jeff beck live at ronnie scotts..interplay between 4 musicians unbeatable11

The Last Waltz .. The Band . Opening track , Up On Cripple Creek , what a band .

Hands down, Joni Mitchell 'Shadows and Light' live concert from 1979. Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Don Alias, Jaco Pastorius and Michael Brecker. Everybody at the top of their game. Five stars out of five stars.

Always wished there was video for Waiting for Columbus. Lowell George and Little Feat were amazing. I saw Little Feat live twice, but not until after Lowell's passing.

Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall in 1970. James Brown at Boston Garden in 1968 (the day after MLK was shot, James actually stopped a riot cold from taking place at the concert, its amazing, and its all on youtube.)

Off the top of my head (I'm surely forgetting many): - Concert For George (the tribute concert for George Harrison, with an all-star band) - Stromae - Racine Carée Live à Montreal - Pink Floyd - Pulse - David Gilmour - Remember That Night (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) - Bruce Springsteen - Live In New York City (2000) - Sting - Live in Oslo 1993 - Candy Dulfer - Live in Leverkusen 2009 - Rod Stewart - Unplugged (and seated) - Dire Straits - Alchemy - U2 - Popmart Live From Mexico City

Honorable mention that this is spinal tap

recently caught Miles Davis Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970-08-29, and holy hell. rippin!

John Mayer, Where the Light Is. Absolute Banger the whole way through. SRV live at El Mocambo is absolutely amazing.

Great video. If you have not seen "Summer of Soul," run -- don't walk -- to see it. Best thing I've seen in a long while.

Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps has always been one of my favorites..

Closing of Winterland

Michael - you set yourself apart from lots of other teachers and reaction folks in videos like this. You demonstrate an understanding of the transcendence that occurs in these moments, and do a great job of communicating the importance of that to the rest of us. Keep it up, sir - we'll be here with you :)

Your knowledge, passion for the music, and enthusiastic but humble presentation make this an awesome channel. Your description of each concert video had tears coming to my eyes (I even got choked up over the list of runners up!). I am about to start a few youtube searches from this!

I came here thinking Stop Making Sense and Last Waltz have to be on there and bam!

Crossroads 2007. Every single performance stuns. Check out EC slow clap TTB after they fire through Anyday. Can bring you to tears.

U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle is up there for me... just days after Bono's dad died and he pours his heart and soul into the show.. gives one of his all-time performances at home in Ireland in front of 100,000 fans. Maybe not peak band form in terms of youthful energy and Bono's vocals, but it really was a career crescendo in a lot of ways. The setlist they could put together by 2001 was absolutely insane. A spoil of riches.

The Led Zeppelin DVD, I think it was called The Song Remains The Same, is my all time favorite. Very weird story line to go along with it ... Super cool.

You are very enthusiastic. Loved it. Subscribed. Black Sabbath live in Paris

You've covered a song from it before but Rory Gallagher - Live at Montreux 1979. Nothing but pure energy, and the bassist Gerry McAvoy was ON IT! I live down the road from Rory's birthplace, they have a great statue in the town centre of him :)

Ray LaMontagne's - Live From Bonnaroo 2005, and the John Butler Trio - Live at Red Rocks, are also pretty amazing.

Thanks for teaching me New pieces of art, really enjoyed it!

Bruce and the E street band live at the Hammersmith odeon, London '75....

The Strat Pack Live - 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster. Gary Moore - Red House Live from Wembley Arena David Gilmour Hank Marvin Ron Wood Albert King And a host of other Greats!

the last waltz i think is by far the best recorded live show ive seen. so many famous people partaked and to this day its one of my favorites to watch. im glad my parents showed it to me at a young age

I saw Journey live twice on that 81 Escape tour in Detroit. That video of the entire Houston show is Phenomenal and just as great as both Detroit shows I went to. Absolutely Epic.

Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Gardens 1973. I cried first time I heard Since I’ve been loving You.

SRV & Double Trouble "Live at the El Mocambo" and Van Halen's "Live Without a Net" are must watch DVD's. Stevie's playing just decimates the crowd, who clearly weren't ready to hear that brand of Texas blues come screaming out of his amplifier. I picked VH because it's mind-boggling to watch EVH run all over the stage and jump up and down for two hours, all the while nailing every tapped harmonic and playing things that I can't play when I'm sitting in my little basement studio, concentrating as hard as I can to try to pull off even some of his amazing licks.

1. Peter Gabriel “Secret World” Live. One of the best staged concerts I’ve ever seen. 2. Jacob Collier Live in Lisbon. Absolute genius in action 3. Snarky Puppy. Any of their album recording sessions (but particularly Family Dinner or with the Metropole Orkest. Next level musicianship. 4. Prince. Lovesexy tour. It’s Prince playing live… What more do you need? 5. Jethro Tull - Rockpop in Concert 1982. Check out “Locomotive Breath” - just fantastic. 6. Foy Vance at Saint Luke’s and the Winged Ox in Glasgow. Hands down, one of the best shows I’ve ever been at in my life. Just Foy with a guitar and piano - and occasional contributions from Bonnie Bishop…

OMG OMG OMG Mike..... Can't thank u enuf for this. Luv u and ur videos and channel. I'm a part time rock drummer who is feeling a bit stale with rock and pop. I'll spend the next 2 months watching all ur recommendations over and over.... and already KNOW and FEEL the INSPIRATION that is soon to be injected into my musical brain. You da man. I appreciate you and am always uplifted by your 'passion' for music.... (and Amazon boxes... HA!)

Gentle Giant - Live in Brussels. Michael, you’ll be blown away at the musicianship, energy and performance as every band member will switch to multiple instruments while delivering insanely complex music. You must check them out.

The Beatles on the rooftop in Let it Be or in Get Back. Everything about the performance is iconic.

Parliament Funkadelic Houston Live! The landing of the MOTHERSHIP🔥

Thanks to KZfaq, I have been able to watch so many great performances.

Widespread Panic - Light the Fuse and Get Away Live in Athens is definitely in my top 5. P Funk Live in Huston is a jewel also.

Jimi said more with that one note than most guitar players could say all day.Jimis version of Johnny B.Good live at Berkeley is a pure beast.Lets not forget Jimis Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock or his bit of Voodoo Child at the same show.All are on KZfaq

dIRE sTRAITS "Alchemy" recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22-23 July 1983.

I’m a new member to Guitar Gate. Love the videos

Great topic! Thank you! 2 of my faves: Live Baby Live - INXS O.A.R. - Live at Madison Square Garden

Ac/Dc Let there be rock. Top 5 rock concert of ALL time. Amazing 1979 Paris gig. Bon Scott and The band at his best.

So many... Beatles - Rooftop Concert Simon and Garfunkel - Concert in the Park Eagles - When Hell Freezes Over Fleetwood Mac - The Dance (Big Love...seriously) Michael Jackson - either when he invented the robot or the moonwalk James Brown - Live 1981 Elvis - Comeback Special You mentioned Monterey Pop but specifically Otis Redding gadzooks! *Junior Wells with Buddy Guy - Live at Nightstage (Buddy Guy gives a masters class in dynamics and crowd control)

Saw the Eagles 1977 in Norfolk, and hands down "Hotel California". They had just released the album months earlier,and this was their first tour performing this song. BTW,I still have the ticket stub....$8.50 general admission !!

Peter Gabriel Secret World 1994 is amazing one of my all time fav's. Eric Johnson Austin City Limits 1984. And of course, one of the best live DVD's I've ever watched... Live After Death Iron Maiden 1985. And last but not least, SRV Austin City Limits. Any year and any time he was on there. SRV was, and still is, and will always be untouchable on Texas Blues.

Don't leave out, Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's

Always something to discover here... thanks for making me a better human! Would have loved to see Klaus Nomi last performance of the Cold song... it's here on YT... may my little soul burn for him forever...

My input: scorpions, world wide live; mad season, live at the Moore, and Muse live in Rome.

Radiohead- Astoria 94 - back when it was a 4 guitar wall of perfect mayhem ❤ Music never got better for me

Limp Bizkit live at Woodstock 1999. Absolute chaos capturing the raw energy of 90s nu metal.

Rory Gallagher- Irish Tour 74. Outstanding and astounding..

Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light, Peter Gabriel Secret World, Concert for George, Led Zeppelin Live at the O2 Arena. I saw both the Stop Making Sense and Shadows and Light tours live at Red Rocks, Colorado.

Hey Man! Love your work from down here at Gold Coast Australia. I have a small live DVD collection myself. A couple of my favs are MUSE live in Rome..... insane talent and stadium show, And The White Stripes under Black pool lights..... raw and dirty garage rock !!

Excellent video!! Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at The El Mocambo should be on everyone’s list. One listen to (and viewing of) “Texas Flood” and any person who doesn’t play guitar will instantly go to their pawn shop and buy one. It’s that hair-raising!! And you said it already, AC/DC’s “Live at Donington” is an easy winner, as well!! I won’t even mention the Ozzy and Randy Rhoads “Live at After Hours” video, because that goes without even mentioning how utterly fantastic those performances were… Great post!!

GREAT picks, Michael. The Jimi Pink Floyd and Marley would be on my top 5, too. For the sake of being different, other great 5: -SRV at El Mocambo -Allman Brothers @ Filmore East -Led Zeppelin @ MSG -Dave Matthews & Tim Reynold Live at Radio City -John Mayer Where the Light is

Another favorite of mine is Joe Bonamassa at the Albert Hall. Incredible performance. Even Clapton shows up for a guitar showdown.

Great job brother,Love ur passion and love for real music and musicians.Great choices,For me,Prince the undertaker when he does the three piece band of gypsies type jam. Its brilliant.Keep up the great work 😊

I fell in love with festival express. That queen performance was amazing at live aid. Also purple rain rocks. Doors Hollywood bowl. Dead Closing of Winterland , Trucking up to Buffalo and many others. Oh and The Song Remains the Same. I always had live concerts playing in my college room back in the days.

For me Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio, Pink Floyd The Wall, Guns N' Roses Live in Tokyo 1992, Bruce Springsteen Live in Barcelona, Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder and Pulse, and Queen Live at Wembley 1986 are great live concerts that I put high on my list as favorites. And Paul McCartney is also a great treat too. But there are of course no one who is forgotten in my book.

You have great taste in music Michael. If your talking Unplugged, Queensryche did quite probably the best of all those shows. The Eagles live at the Capital Centre 1977, Judas Priest US Fest 1983, The Who at the Isle of Wight, Led Zeppelin in Australia in 1972, so many amazing performances, at Red Rocks, particularly U2. The old Midnight Special tv series, again, particularly Blondie and the Cars. The English equivalent was The Old Grey Whistle Test. A myriad of incredible artists appeared on both those shows, a veritable smorgasbord of 70's brilliance.

Oh yea I just sub. Watching your reaction to Kendrick, I'm 67 & was a rocker till the 90's then came hip hop . Turned hip head too. Kendrick is my new fav. Enjoy watching your reactions, keep it up man. Oh yea I like Jimi's who knows a bit more. Lol 😊

Thank U. Thank U. Thank U.

1) David Gilmour- Remember That Night 2) Eric Clapton and friends -The Concert for George 3) U2 Concert at Slane Castle 2001 4) Traffic - Woodstock 94 5) Simon and Garfunkel - Old Friends Live at Madison Square Garden

1- Rush - Exit Stage Left 2- Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live 3- Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light 4- Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same 5- Eagles - Hell Freezes Over Close: Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

I have to add another vote for Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live” concert. I wore the double album out on cassette, CD, Laserdisc and DVD. Peter’s lineup is killer; Tony Levin on all things bass, David Rhodes on lead guitar, Manut Katche killing it on drums, Jean Claude Naimo on keys, Papa Wembas and his singers on backing vocals and Paula Cole for supporting vocals and all things duet… oh yeah and the whole thing was directed by Robert Lepage. Dammit I now need to go watch it again.

Rush R30, Portishead at Rosalind NYC, U2 Under a blood red sky, All Them Witches in Belgium, Janes Addiction at the Hammersmith, Lord Huron at Outside Lands

My top 5 in no particular order: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Weld. Best sounding VHS ever made. My dad's still sounds PERFECT. Nirvana Live at The Paramount. Best live document of the band IMO. The White Stripes - Under Blackpool Lights. All the energy. Exemplifies why I love them. Drive-by Truckers - The Dirty South Live at The 40 Watt. The best lineup of the band playing their best material. Rush - Exit Stage Left. Just watch it

1979 or 78 Dire Straits Sultans of swing Live Alchemy. Got to say Last Waltz is my #1. Floyd is my favorite live, seen them 8 times. SRV forever double trouble. Thanks for the post. ❤

Always love your videos, esp the passion you have for everything you do. I want to go back to the earlier days of rock and roll, 1964 with the TAMI show. Just some of the performers were James Brown, Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Beach Boys, Chuck Berry. All live, no lip synch. Sure, it’s a 1964 production but this was a forerunner to all that came later. Check it out. James Brown is really spectacular.

I'd love to hear why The Song Remains the Same didn't get a mention. The way they took their album material in so many different creative and mutually inspred and spontaneous directions....listening to that in the late 70's rocketed ME to a level of love for the possibilities of live music very similar to the love you clearly express in your video. Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall shows them in a very young and pre-glam and utterly powerful state. And their Knebworth show, while not universally flawless, does contain an incredibly powerful Achilles Last Stand (I defy anyone to find the tiniest trace that Bonham is within a few months of dying from alcohol...he is a TACK DRIVER), and possibly the greatest live recording of a song of all time: Kashmir. It shows a band who's survived the 70's and are still deeply, passionately in love with their music. If they had played for a month at Knebworth, had played every song they ever wrote 5 different ways (as they were perfectly capable of), and all the recording of it were lost except Kashmir, I'd still call it worth it. I feel like with the album version they told us about a mythical place called Kashmir...with this live performance they take us through the gates!!

Love your enthusiasm and passion, Michael. I wish Space Trucking from Deep Purple's Made In Japan album had been videoed. At the time, Purple were at the top of their game, and the performance was absolutely wild. The energy, the dynamics, the improvisation. Killer. Or (and this is a live video) Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light show. Joni, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker and Don Alias. The whole sequence from In France They Kiss on Main Street to Hejira is stunning, magical, heartbreaking.

Great list, Michael, can't wait to see all of these. The band that got me into Live DVD's was Dave Matthews Band. And Listener Supported is the holy grail of their collection. The 13 minute version of Two Step from that DVD is pure perfection.

The cure - in Orange. Amazing show, one of the best versions of A Forrest.

Rush in Rio 2003

Van Halen Live Right Here Right Now, especially 'Black and Blue', US Festival Day 4 1984, Monsters of Rock Tour, Kansas Live, 'Carry On My Wayward Son'. Deep Purple Live! The Who! Oh yeah, Pink Floyd were Sonic Masters! Love your video! Awesome to bring up old vintage performances!

I had the great fortune to have my elbows on the stage at the Waikiki Shell in 1979. I was 19 year old kid from N.E. Ohio. I hadbeen to 50 concerts. Bob Marley

The last waltz, is the only concert movie I've ever seen. That made me feel like I was in the audience. My 2nd favorite, is live in pompei. You get to see the caterpillar transforming into the sonic, idea driven butterfly that took to the air with darkside of the moon.

Sting- Bring On The Night, Santana- Viva Santana, Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains The Same, Frank Zappa- Live at the Roxy, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention- Live on Swedish tv 1973, Alicia Keys sings If I Ain’t Got You at the 2005 Grammys, SRV at the Elmo, Genesis- Live at Shepperton Studios 1973, The Grateful Dead -Truckin’ up to Buffalo (sentimental as it was my first Dead show, but also a ripping good concert)

Great job, so hard to choose a top 5. So good to Floyd, the Wall tour was amazing live too. I'd also need Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Yes at Hollywood Bowl, Led Zeppelin at Knebworth, AC/DC as you mentioned too and many more tbh. Like I said, so hard this...

Not included and worthy: U2 Under a Blood Red Sky; Iron Maiden Live at the Rainbow 1981; Pat Metheny Group More Travels; Police The Synchronicity Concert Live in Atlanta; King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair Japan 1984; Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park; Fleetwood Mac The Dance; Elvis 68 Comeback Special; Genesis Three Sides Live; David Gilmour Live 1984 About Face Tour (hard to find) The Firm live at Hammersmith 1984 (hard to find); Olivia Newton John Live in Concert (physical tour); Eagles Live 1977; Bee Gees One Night Only; Anthrax Alive 2 The DVD; Yes 9012Live or Yes Acoustic; Styx Return to Paradise; SRV and Double Trouble Live at the el Mocambo.

I know you've been getting into Grateful Dead. Some of my favorites of them are "Truckin up to Buffalo," "Crimson, White and Indigo" And "Downhill from Here." They are all from a great run in July 1989. "View from the Vault IV" from 1989 has 2 excellent shows from 1987. Love your channel!

I totally agree. I love those concerts. I listen with my airpods so I don't miss anything. Music is magic. Where does it come from? I grew up with these bands. It helped me through the worst of times. Healing my soul. My nr. 1- The Allman Brothers. Fillmore East.

hey Mike. I've got a collection of videos going back to the VHS tapes in the late 70's. Up to DVD shows, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, and many of the Jazz Greats too. I don't have any Mozart Live, or Bach... Wish I did... I am a Classical Music Freak too. My Dad had everything classical back to the 1920's 78 RPM. Now I have them all. As a guitar player, and owner of my own recording studio in the mountains of The Poconos, PA. I find stuff and re-record it to 1/2 inch tape, analog, on my two TASCAM 38 and 30-8 R2R decks. Live music is what it is all about. Back in the late 60's, I was 14 going on 15 when I would go into NYC and see everyone from Hendrix and Humble Pie, to Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa, of which, Frank was my favorite live show, hands down. Most of his band back then was reading charts and tossing paper off their music stands. That along blew me away. Robin Trower was also one who around 1971 came out on his own with the best 3 man live band since Cream!! Great video Michael. Keep up the good work dude... Hope to catch you live one day soon.

If you want a performance that lights up a stadium of fans: Rush in RIO - YYZ.

Just a couple of my favorites.The Allman Brothers Band 40 th Anniversary at the Beacon Theatre , David Bowie The Reality tour , Warren Haynes Band live at the Moody Theater,Jeff Beck live at the Ronnie Scott's, The Derek Trucks Band songlines live.

Hello from Springfield Tennessee! My favorite concert of all time (in person) is STYX Pieces of 8!!! ✌️