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[primroseburrows]

A bunch of live performances I wish I could have seen, erm. Live:

• U2 at Obama's inauguration concert, January, 2009:
  
  



• The Tragically Hip at the PinkPop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands, June 5, 1995. Guh? Guh.:
  
  



• Thomas Dolby and Natalie MacMaster, Ted Talks, Monterey, CA, 2002:
  
  
  
  This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, full stop.
  
  Basically Thomas wrote it about Natalie's ancestors who came to the New World after being forced from their home during the Clearances. Lyrics and history (and it's actual History) behind the song are at Thomas's Blog. Well worth a look.




• Nirvana, unplugged in New York, 1993:
  
  



• Neil Young with about a zillion of his countrymen, Live 8, Jul 2, 2005, Park Place, Barrie, Ontario. asdlfadshadsf:
  
  



• Elton John, BBC Studios, 1971:
  
  



• Jimmy Rankin, Savoy Theatre, Glace Bay, N.S. November 30th,2007:
  
  
  
  MARRY ME, JIMMY. MARRY ME NOW.



• Paul Simon and Miriam Makeba, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1987:
  
  



• Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1987 (same concert as above--actually, I'd like to have been at this entire concert):
  
  



• George Harrison, Concert for Bangladesh, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1971:
  
  



• Johnny Cash, San Quentin prison, January 13, 1968:
  
  
  
  
  
  ...and okay, I don't really wish I'd been at that last one, because then I'd have been a PRISON INMATE, and all. But erm. Maybe as an invisible person.

These take way too much time for one sitting, but really, try to watch some of them, because OMG.

Comments

[peacey.livejournal.com]

Shut.Up. You were at Live Aid? Me too!!! You must've been at Wembley, yes? What was it like there? It was so hot in Philly. I believe they announced at one point that it the temperature was 114 degrees on the field. Firemen were brought in to soak the crowd with high pressure hoses, but never got to where we sat. Instead, two guys sitting behind us kept taking their empty jugs (once filled with who knows what) to the bathroom, filling them with water, bringing them back, and dumping them on everyone. People asked them to. They doused me three times.

U2 were definitely number two at the end of the day. Oh, and Queen? Gods. Best.Live.Performance.EVAH. Freddie Mercury? Best.Voice.EVAH. *misses* *cries*

Unforgettable Fire - my (overall) favorite too!!! *whispers* Actually, I listened to the songs again. It's more like they tossed Unforgettable, Achtung, and Atomic Bomb in a blender, lobbing in a dash of War for good measure. All in all, it's easily their best stuff of the decade, imho. Rivals Achtung; could even be better. I can't even chose a favorite (though it's surely not their first single.)

FYI, they're still sexy. And Edge is my brother-in-law's long lost twin. Just sayin'. :)