OT: Best (Rock) Concert Films

[bironi]

Originally Posted by e-RICHIE

This isn't a concert BUT was part of one.
I watch this video at least once a day.
It keeps me grounded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEIMCWob3U

ps

arrange disorder

Perhaps a little Joni Mitchell every other day?

[schwa86]

Lots of good stuff here. In the one song category, similar to the Dylan clip above, this one never ceases to amaze. I love the kind of gobsmacked look that Dhani Harrison gives Tom Petty towards the end

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

[false_Aest]

I don't think I've ever watched a concert on TV but I can say, hands down, that waiting 21 years to see Jawbreaker a second time was well worth it. I would've paid $1000+ for those tickets and would still think it was worth it.

I had a friend once tell me that going to see the Grateful Dead was like going to a concert with 100,000 of your closest friends. I finally understood what he was saying . . . though this was only 2,000.

[Mr. Pink]

Originally Posted by false_Aest

I don't think I've ever watched a concert on TV but I can say, hands down, that waiting 21 years to see Jawbreaker a second time was well worth it. I would've paid $1000+ for those tickets and would still think it was worth it.

I had a friend once tell me that going to see the Grateful Dead was like going to a concert with 100,000 of your closest friends. I finally understood what he was saying . . . though this was only 2,000.

Heavy drug use can do that.

[GOTHBROOKS]

a heavy drug user might compare blake schwarzenbach to any version of “the dead”.

[carpediemracing]

I didn't read through this thread but this song always gets me. My best friend grew up in Rio, he is a huge Rush fan, and as he lived in the US as well he understood some cross-cultural stuff.

When Rush came to Rio he was psyched to see them in concert. The thing was that there was a razor (I think?) ad playing non-stop that used Rush's "Tom Sawyer" as the backdrop so everyone, and I mean everyone, knew that song. Rush never got word, maybe other than knowing that "Tom Sawyer" was the most played Rush song in the area.

Come concert night... Their opening song? "Tom Sawyer".

The place erupted. The crowd sang the whole song. Getty Lee must have thought that Rio was some hidden Rush superfan base.

Then they played their other songs. As good as Rush is, few people knew any of the other songs. It was pretty quiet and low energy. My friend felt really bad for the band. If they'd closed with "Tom Sawyer" it would have been insane.

Here's the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7reXTabVlQ

Love the way the bass sounds in this one.

[choke]

Originally Posted by carpediemracing

Then they played their other songs. As good as Rush is, few people knew any of the other songs. It was pretty quiet and low energy. My friend felt really bad for the band. If they'd closed with "Tom Sawyer" it would have been insane.

Hmm....what I've seen of the Rio concert the crowd was really in to it.

They certainly were on YYZ, an instrumental....they even 'sang' to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSlvoO3Vw8

[rustychisel]

As a former band manager, music writer, editor and consultant, I have a pretty firm opinion on this... there may be others as good but none better than Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 'Pack Up Your Plantation'. Astoundingly good.

[fa63]

Not a whole concert, but the song is 25 minutes long, and it is like several songs rolled into one

A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater (starts about 20 seconds into the clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QlWpv958Uk

[astroturf]

+1 for Stop Making Sense. Most of the songs on the album beat the studio versions. Not sure if it has already been mentioned in this thread but Pink Floyd at Pompei is pretty good.

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by rustychisel

As a former band manager, music writer, editor and consultant, I have a pretty firm opinion on this... there may be others as good but none better than Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 'Pack Up Your Plantation'. Astoundingly good.

It's that the film that will finally make me a Tom Petty fan? I mean I like some tunes....

[Tony T]

Another vote for Stop Making Sense

[bironi]

Originally Posted by rustychisel

As a former band manager, music writer, editor and consultant, I have a pretty firm opinion on this... there may be others as good but none better than Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 'Pack Up Your Plantation'. Astoundingly good.

Many of the favorites listed in this thread are ones by very good film directors,
Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme both Academy Award winners.
Was the concert filmed as well? or just a very good concert captured on film?
Thanks.

[chuckred]

I wouldn’t try to say that these are the “best” , but good historical documentation of two different but important music trends many of us grew up with, and that shaped much of the music the rest of us enjoy today.

By the way, Punk is am HBO documentary.

[William]

Originally Posted by astroturf

+1 for Stop Making Sense. Most of the songs on the album beat the studio versions. Not sure if it has already been mentioned in this thread but Pink Floyd at Pompei is pretty good.

Agree, and the tempo is faster so when I hear the studio versions they sound slow/wrong to me...Especially Burning Down The House.







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