Your favorite performance video...

[gearHed289]

A performance video that knocks my socks off? I've posted this before but time for it again. And I don't think I need to explain why. 

Still in love with the fiddle player.

A little baby fat ain't a bad thang, ya'll!

And Debbie Harry - the face that launched a thousand... never mind... 

[uwe]

Belly-button free, alas!, and perhaps too obvious a choice, I can't rule out that the split screen has something to do with it too, but if I had to explain to a Martian what rock music is, this is what I'd show him.



I was never a TYA/Alvin Lee diehard, but the sheer physicality of those 11 minutes never fails to grip me.

[nofi]

they had a couple albums i liked, cricklewood green was one. this was one band that was better in the studio than live. i saw them in 1973 and they were stupid loud. 2 full marshall stacks for each player and a monster p.a. which is still the biggest i've seen.

[uwe]

They had a lot more variation, subtlety and nuances in the studio. "I'm going home" became the millstone around their neck. Doesn't change the fact that the Woodstock performance that created the millstone was iconic. By today's standards, Alivin was all too often a blues shredder, but I thought he always had feel.

[Highlander]

This just does not sound right...

The Country Sisters - been going since the seventies and have had lots and lots of members...

Oh yes, and you'd never guess they are Checz from the shirts - Dave's fave, Linda, left in 2011 - quite a bit of material to be found online...

[Dave W]

Yes, Linda Jarošová left the group, but she's still fiddling around.

[pilgrim9]

And now for something completely different.
 
Wendy O Williams and Lemmy at 28:00 playing Jailbait.

[Highlander]

Now there was a Lady that knew how to get down... rip

[drummer5359]

Here is another cool video. By a band out of England that I really like, the James Hunter Six.

[Dave W]

I wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that I dig fiddle music. 

Doug may have slowed down by now but he's got a hell of a lot of energy considering he was in his mid-50s when this was filmed (1990).

[pilgrim9]

Doug is a heck of a player and a really nice guy, lives a few miles up the road from me.

[Pilgrim]

They had a lot more variation, subtlety and nuances in the studio. "I'm going home" became the millstone around their neck. Doesn't change the fact that the Woodstock performance that created the millstone was iconic. By today's standards, Alivin was all too often a blues shredder, but I thought he always had feel.

When I remember the movie Woodstock, that particular performance is always right at the top.  I agree that it was iconic.  Memorable is perhaps not quite enough to describe it.

That video also shows one of the things which impressed me about the movie - the multiple screens used to portray the performances.  At the time, that was one of the most innovative and creative film editing techniques I had ever seen.  It still outstrips a lot of film making more than 40 years later.

Pilgrim9 - you probably already know this, but Kershaw had a decent restaurant on Highway 85 near Greeley for some years - I think he sold it about a year ago.