What is your favorite live DVD and why?

Im pretty sure this was discussed like a week or two ago, but im still gonna vote for Stevie Ray live at Montreux in '85 i think it was.

I really like the Coachella Festival DVD from 2006. Tons of great bands (Mars Volta, Bjork, White Stripes, Crystal Method, Oasis, Polyphonic Spree, Morrissey, etc) and I really like the way the film is put together. It makes me really want to go to Coachella, but alas I am on the east coast. Maybe I can make it to Bonaroo one year.

Talking Heads

Stop Making Sense

David Byrne is the goofiest character in rock, but I dare you to take your eyes off him when he's on stage. The sound quality is awesome on this one too. It's very well produced and directed. My version has an interview after the main show where Byrne dresses as different characters and interviews himself. Hilarious if it's you kind of humor.

Here's the David Byrne interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-mxVxFXLg

Dream Theater - Live Scenes From NY

Why? It is a nearly flawless live reproduction of one of the greatest albums of all time, plus Metropolis Pt 1, Another Day, A Change of Seasons and more. Mike Portnoy's drum "solo" at the end of Finally Free is worth the price of the DVD alone.

Also of notable mention is Opeth's Lamentations DVD. The entire Damnation setlist and then the brutal crushing heaviness of Master's Apprentices, Deliverence and The Drapery Falls. \m/

iggy Pop Live at avenue "B" . If you have never seen the Ig, do yourself a favor.

Hijokaiden Live - dvd comes with cd Lord Of The Noise.

NOT "classic rawk". :)

tragically chip wrote:

iggy Pop Live at avenue "B" . If you have never seen the Ig, do yourself a favor.

Iggy Pop is also featured on the Coachella DVD (he does "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog"). His performance is pretty lively and he starts the performance by saying "I WANNA F*** SOMETHING UP!" and then points at an audience member and says "CAN I F*** YOU UP?!"....and then jumps off the stage at them. Pretty cool. But what made Iggy Pop and The Stooges great was the fact that they were so counterculture in the 70s (or whenever Funhouse came out). But now, there is nothing really counterculture about the Stooges and all of his ranting and cursing and jumping around like a psycho is pretty irrelavant and pointless. It's still entertaining though, I guess.

It's gotta by The Last Waltz. The Band, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Joplin, Dr. John, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison...all those greats on one stage? How can you get any better I think is the question?!

i will give another vote for stop making sense. The big suit dance is classic. He is an amazing performer.

Stop Making Sense.... another vote here.

Last Waltz...almost as good.

And just to really mix it up, the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert. Go ahead. Flame away.

U2 :-)

Here in the UK they are giving away Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense on DVD free with Sunday's Observer (last week it was Prince's DVD Sign of the Times). Lots of folk rave about the film so I guess it's worth a look.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/observermail/story/0,,2184596,00.html

Midnight Oil - Oils on the Water. On Goat Island in Sydney. Filmed at Twilight, so the city becomes as much a spectacle as the band, which as usual was in tremendous form. Sydney kids were swimming the mile across the water to see the show. Jimmy Sharman's Boxers is one of my favorite pre-race songs.

The Talking Heads DVD comes next for me, followed by the Clash Biography.

Led Zeppelin's double DVD set is outstanding. It offers a bit of everything with great footage, terrific sound quality, and shows just how good this band was at it's peak.

'Frampton Comes Alive'.....the best selling 'live album' of all time.

Dispatch-All Points Bulletin....Dispatch's "last" concert, just awesome. Outside in Boston on the banks of the Charles, just a great atmosphere and awesome music.

stuck in the 70s... wrote:

'Frampton Comes Alive'.....the best selling 'live album' of all time.

I'd wager that my choice is the WORST selling live document of all time, hahahaha....

Why is it that "sales" is important to us? I never understood why "the top grossing movies this week" was meaningful in some way?

But I digress....

yeah, right....multi millions are wrong and you are right