Favorite Concert/Music DVDs

[Crystal Plumage]

Alamaailman Vasarat

THAT!

[progman1975]

Steve Hackett - Live 78
Steve Hillage - Live Germany '77
Steve Hackett - (Bootleg) Live Montreaux '80
Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes

[proggy_jazzer]

Great reccomendations here so far. Some that I haven't seen mentioned yet that I continue to come back to again and again:

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Snarky Puppy - We Like it Here
Sting - All This Time and Soul Cages Live

Probably more...

[Wah3]

Steve Hackett - Live 78
Steve Hillage - Live Germany '77

Is one of these different from the official Live in Bremen release titled Spectral Mornings?

[progman1975]

Is one of these different from the official Live in Bremen release titled Spectral Mornings?

No...Same one

[JJ88]

Talking of Steve Hackett, his Once Above A Time is excellent- a great set-list with many of his best solo songs. The band is excellent; I note he's kept basically the same musicians ever since, the bass players change but that's it.

[Spiral]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. That one's iconic and unimpeachable. There are so few that really justify the visual aspect that way.... the only other ones I can think of are Secret World Live (Peter Gabriel) and Minimum-Maximum (Kraftwerk).

Otherwise there are some nice ones, but it's down to how much I love the band & material already.

James - Getting Away With It
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open
Marillion - Live from Cadogan Hall

Good call on those Jazz Icons earlier in the thread. The Mingus and Monk entries are definitely worthwhile.

[Rufus]

The UTOPIA box set has some excellent concert and studio footage!

[Man In The Mountain]

Was this really digitally restored with 5.1 sound?? I had never heard about this before. A quick look on Amazon shows only available in region 2 Blu-ray.

[Adm.Kirk]

Dammit, how the frell did I forget Hail! Hail! Rock And Roll! ?! I saw that in the movie theater when it first came out. GREAT film. Love the bit where Chuck throws a shit fit about someone messing with his amp settings, and Keith's trying to explain they just want him to sound good in the film, both of them looking they're about to tear each other's heads off. Then there's the bit where they rehearsing, I think Carol, and they keep going over the intro again and again and again, with Chuck starting over right about where the vocal starts each time. Keith telling the story about the time Chuck punched him in the face (apparently, Chuck's the only person besides Mick whose done that and gotten away with it).

You should see the expanded DVD version. There's some terrific extra stuff on that.

Bill

[Buddhabreath]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. That one's iconic and unimpeachable. .

That is a great, great performance. I can't impeach it but I can certainly knock it for having that stupid "Go Go Club" or whatever that stupid Tina Weymouth thing was smeared like a feces in what was otherwise a flawless set...

[Trane]

Stop Making Sense
Live At Pompeii
Rust Never Sleeps
Colosseum Lives (reunion 94)
Tull- Isle Of Wight
Who - Isle of Wight
Song Remains The Same
the whole Belgian TV Pop shop series
Irish Tour
Weather Report Germany 71
Solar Music Live @Rockpalast
Cream Farewell Concert
Rattle & Hum
No Quarter - Unleaded

I have the first Jazz Icons one you mentioned, but didn't know about the Love Supreme one. I have that recording on the two disc "A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition" set, but didn't know there was a DVD of it. Cool!

didn"t know this myself

This will be ordered ASAP

[No Pride]

What's the great Coltrane DVD that's out? All I've ever seen of Coltrane was a couple VHS releases that came out in the 80's, that played more like documetnaries on Trane, with short clips that appeared to be taken from TV broadcasts (and thus, one imagines, probably even in full length, are probably significantly shorter than what he'd actually do in concert).

The great, great Jazz Icons series has two Coltrane releases. One is a compilation of three European TV appearances in 1960, '61, & '65. The '61 lineup is with Dolphy and the '65 is the classic quartet. If you buy only one, go with this! The other is the legendary '65 Antibes show where the classic quartet gave A Love Supreme its one and only live performance.

I have the first Jazz Icons one you mentioned, but didn't know about the Love Supreme one. I have that recording on the two disc "A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition" set, but didn't know there was a DVD of it. Cool!

There's a nice Jazz Icons Wes Montgomery DVD, I only wish there was live footage of him with The Wynton Kelly Trio.

I have at least a dozen of ones that have been mentioned; Giant on the Box, Baby Snakes, Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts; 9012 Live, etc.

One I haven't seen mentioned that I love is the Holdsworth/Pasqua Band Live at Yoshi's.

[Shadow]

I have so many I can't even remember them all, and half I probably have never watched yet. Some I do remember:

Kenso - Nearfest
Jeff Beck - Ronnie Scott's
Tetsuo Sakurai - Gentle Hearts tour
UZEB - World Tour or 90 Tour?
Prism - One of the couple that I have
John McLaughlin - Some jazz/fest in Europe pro shot I grabbed off Dime
Nils Petter Molvaer - One in a cathedral and one outside pro shots off Dime

[yoyiceu]

Pink Floyd 'Pompeii'
Jeff Beck 'Live in Tokyo' (from 1999 with Jennifer Batten)
SBB 'Follow my Dream'
Gentle Giant 'Box'
Rolling Stones 'Gimme Shelter'
Rory Gallagher 'Rockpalast'
The Who 'Isle of Wight'
Woodstock
Monterey
Focus 'Masters From the Vault'
Nektar 'Live' (2002)

[arturs]

I have so many I can't even remember them all, and half I probably have never watched yet.

LOL! I know what you mean. There are so many great ones and not all that much time to watch!

Some that I have watched a lot and still can't get enough of...
Soft Machine Switzerland '74 & NDR '73. The latter is such perfect picture quality you would almost swear it was Bluray.
Caravan Live in Nottingham 1990. The original lineup returns + Jimmy Hastings. This has been repackaged a lot. Currently available as "Access all Areas" I believe.
Gong 2006 Unconvention. This has most of the classic members: Blake, Hillage, Malherbe. They really whip up the energy of the "old days".
Jack Bruce 50th Birthday. Not every minute of this is great, but still it is almost 4 hours, so a lot is.
Cream Farewell Concert. Rightly criticized for horrible sound and picture. Who cares...

and a bunch of stuff that has been mentioned alot already (Magma, KC, Yes, etc).

[progeezer's ghost]

DT- Scenes from New York & Score
Nightwish- End of an Era
PT- Arriving Somewhere... & Anesthetize
Marillion- From Stoke Row to Ipanema & Brave
Pink Floyd- The Wall (if it counts)
Queensryche- The Art of Live (Especially their covers with DT of Comfortably Numb and Won't Get Fooled Again.)
Neal Morse- Testimony Live
Pallas- This Blinding Darkness (Especially the 2002 version of "The Ripper".)
Spock's Beard- Don't Try This at Home
Stream of Passion featuring Ayreon- Live in the Real World
Transatlantic- Live in America & Live in Europe
Within Temptation- Black Symphony

[cazz]

UK- Reunion
Jack DeJohnette w Hancock, Holland and Metheny- Mellon Jazz Festival
Rypdal, Vitous, Gurtu- Live in Stuttgart