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Best Concert Film

I never seem to tire of Talking Heads great concert film, "Stop Making Sense". Never ceases to get the adrenaline pumping, the foot taping, and a smile from ear-to-ear. I used to have a VHS tape of it long ago.

Any other nominations for "Best Concert Film" of all time? I couldn't find any threads in the archives on the subject.

Marco
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reubent
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Humm, I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned James Taylor's "Live at the Beacon Theater". It is a very good performance and I love the excellent video transfer and 5.1 channel mix. It really looks and sounds like being there! Most excellent if you have any interest in James Taylor.

The concert video that I end up watching the most is Pearl Jam's "live at the Garden" recorded at Madison Square Garden on 7/8/03 and featuring the Buzzcocks and Ben Harper. This is simply a video of a live Pearl Jam Concert and they were "on it" that night! I think Pearl Jam must still insist on keeping the prices low on their releases because I think I paid $9.99 for this double DVD set at my local BB. Heck, this thing is worth $9.99 just for the encore of "Yellow Ledbetter". Disk 2 is spectacular! BTW, I'm not a big Pearl Jam fan. I don't own a single Pearl Jam CD, but I do recognize them (if this DVD is any indication) as one of the greatest bands in existence today.

Enjoy,

TIC
reubent
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Folks,

Unfortunately it is not on video, but one of the most enjoyable live recordings of the rock era (IMHO) is the Tubes 1978 effort "What do you want from live!". I had it on 8-track back in the day and received the reissued version on CD this past Christmas. I think I've listened to it about 100 times since then! I don't know what happened to the tubes after this album, but I can say that if they had continued as they were up to 1978, they should have become one of the greatest rock groups of all time.

Enjoy,

TIC
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