Things we know:

Not all recorded songs work live at 30,000 watts.
Each band has at least one song that works so well live, a 'definitive' musical experience, maybe a song that defines the band or just blew you away.

Below are my favorite live songs, one per band, roughly in order of overall preference:

RS - Gimme Shelter (glad to see the poll backed me on this one, of course MR is close)
CSN - Suite Judy Blue Eyes (back in the day when Steven could pull this off flawlessly)
The Who - We Won't Get Fooled Again (easy one)
Allman Brothers - Jessica (funny but was it not that dredded Chuck L. at the keyboards?)
CCR - It Came Out of the Sky (possibly the cleanest use of rock guitar licks and rythem)
John Prine with Steve Goodman - Souveniers (best guitar duet of our time)
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
Paul Simon - Late In The Evening (did you catch that reunion tour, arrogant SOB played the song twice, good thing I love it)
J. Geils - Whammer Jammer
Jonel Mosser - not sure of title but I wept along with the rest of the audience

Funny though, there are some bands for which nothing stands out for me, Springstein, Greatfull Dead amonst others.

So what has impressed you?

Little Richard - Lucille
Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential
Chuck Berry - Reelin' & Rockin'

Elliott Murphy

Never say never again
Ground Zero - Live at Helibrohn, Deutschland

Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind - Live in New York City

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

Polk Salad Annie - Elvis

I actualy saw Tony Joe White do Polk Salad Annie, now there is a flashback. He backed CCR.

A few I've seen that stand out in memory...

The Clash - London Calling, White Riot
Charlatans UK - Forever
Pink Floyd - the entire WALL album
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
X - Los Angeles
Devo - Satisfaction
Smokey Robinson - Tears Of A Clown

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I actualy saw Tony Joe White do Polk Salad Annie, now there is a flashback. He backed CCR.

He wrote it

Deep Purple: Burn

London Calling is hard to resist and impossible to forget, talk about an opener.

Marley and the Wailers was an amazing concert, hard to pick just one tune.

Ten Years After, I'm Going Home

and pretty much any Buddy Guy song you happen to hear at Legends, it's a nice way to spend a cold night in January; I'll pick Feels Like Rain.

The Cult: Love Removal Machine

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Des
I actualy saw Tony Joe White do Polk Salad Annie, now there is a flashback. He backed CCR.

He wrote it

Yeah, and he wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," too. There's some variety for you...

I actualy saw Tony Joe White do Polk Salad Annie, now there is a flashback. He backed CCR.[/quote]

He wrote it [/quote]

Yeah, and he wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," too. There's some variety for you...[/quote]

DES....when I said 'actualy' it meant a reference to him writing it and how many could say they actualy saw him. Next to Jerry Reed he was quite adept at the SE swamp guitar style and knocked off a mean ballad on his 'white' baby grand, great vioce, very tallented. And he played RNIG during that CCR gig, quite correct on variety.

Neil Young - Powder Finger
Dead - U.S. Blues

Midnight Rambler (Stones)
FreeBird (Lynyrd Skynyd)
Bull Frog Blues (Rory Gallagher)
Run (Pink Floyd)
BaBa Orielly (The Who)
Tusk (Fleetwood Mac with marching band)

There must be others.



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"Mother Orielly (The Who)"

Eh? Irish folk or something?

Faces -- Twistin the NIght Away
Chuck Berry -- Johnny b goode
Macca -- I saw her standing there

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I actualy saw Tony Joe White do Polk Salad Annie, now there is a flashback. He backed CCR.

thats amazing........had a beer with TJW only 10 days ago........

Just have been to a Coldplay gig a few days ago. And I can say that one of those great live songs is going to be their latest single "Viva la Vida". I don't like this song on the record, but when you hear this one live it's a totally different experience. Awesome sing along chorus at the end.

So I go for Coldplay's "Viva la Vida"

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Hound Dog
Neil Young - Powder Finger
Dead - U.S. Blues

Neil, yup. Cowgirl in the Sand,

Makes me lumpy just thinking about it. Okay, gotta go play me guitar.

"Midnight Rambler"; "Gimme Shelter" -Stones
"No Quarter"- Led Zeppelin
"Cortez The Killer"- Neil Young (preferably w/ Crazy Horse)
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"- CSNY (agreed- when Stills could still pull it off vocally)

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"Mother Orielly (The Who)"

Eh? Irish folk or something?

Sorry, I Mean't BaBa ORielly, but I'm sure you new that anyway and was just trying to make me look stupid (which I do now)

I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse do Like a Hurricane at the Palladium in NYC in November '76, about eight months before it was released on American Stars and Bars and long before that song turned into a total feedback assault. That was pretty amazing!

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers- just saw them back in June and they did 'Don't Come Around Here No More' and the ending was just bananas with Mike Campbells' wah-wah solo and Petty moving around the stage with this stobe light flashing.
Clapton/Cray-87' with Phil Collins on drums, it was the encore song of Further On Up The Road that pulled this otherwise slick show off its' ass with Clapton and Robert Cray trading some really fine licks. I got a copy of the show just for this song. Cray had just broken open with 'Strong Persuder'
Allman Brothers-2007 Boston second show with Mountain Jam>Dazed and Confused>Mountain Jam how's that for a twenty minute encore.

'Born to be Wild' from Slade Alive. Whole album in general.

chuck leavell had dreads?