Videos #85 & #86 added to the channel. I still need time to watch the entire Chick Corea concert, but it's already clear how great it is (musically, sonically, and visually). Both it and the Iron Butterfly are top notch.
The Best Live Recordings on Youtube
Hi folks, I’m in the middle of moving and needed something to do to explore music while my system is in storage (might be up to a year). Started streaming live recordings on youtube on my laptop and decided it would be worth it to make a list/channel.
In case anyone likes watching such content, the link is below. I only add quality recordings (both visually and sonically) of quality performances. No real genre restrictions, so maybe you can find something you like...
Please post or send any suggestions for growing the resource. Hopefully it helps spread high quality music to more people...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTpjNA4kJHQNaoKPrv0XvTQ
In case anyone likes watching such content, the link is below. I only add quality recordings (both visually and sonically) of quality performances. No real genre restrictions, so maybe you can find something you like...
Please post or send any suggestions for growing the resource. Hopefully it helps spread high quality music to more people...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTpjNA4kJHQNaoKPrv0XvTQ
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Great work, all new except for the Suki Suki Suki performance! That one's really something else, huh?? I'll start watching today and get the list updated. Thanks for contributing. https://www.youtube.com/user/cal3713 |
@frogman Playlist updated with your wonderful jazz selections. I'm still finishing the final Michael Brecker show. They're all just great. Thanks so much. @dweller Looking forward to processing yours next! Please keep them coming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS |
@noromance If you're a tiny desk regular, you'll probably also like kexp if you haven't already found them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3I2GFN_F8WudD_2jUZbojA |
Wonderful suggestions people. I updated the youtube list, provided credit in the channel's discussion section (along with links to your system if you have one), and added two featured channel sections. The first has links to every artist's youtube channel. The second provides links to channels that regulalry publish high quality content from such artists. Hopefully the channel becomes a useful resource for people over time. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTpjNA4kJHQNaoKPrv0XvTQ |
Thanks to some of the jazz suggestions, youtube directed my channel to the Hiromi Uehara Trio Project. Holy s**t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJExqsrZzeA |
List updated. Thanks! And not that it matters to anyone here, but I found a better url to link: https://youtube.com/user/cal3713 |
Man, y'all are giving me a lot of work to do! Had to send my laptop in for repair yesterday, so giving credit and getting artists into the channel list is a bit of a slog on the phone. Love the suggestions though. Having this many people contribute really helps keep the playlist variability up. Thanks so much. And I'll note that I've only posted one of the 80ish performances in the list to this thread, so there's a lot to browse that's not here for interested parties. |
In the end it‘s all about discovering great music. I would much rather listen to that youtube clip of in a gadda da vda on my ipad than my vinyl copy of the original on any megabubuck audio system Agreed. So many people in this hobby lose sight of the most important part. It all should be in service of the music. If you can't enjoy these performances, you're lost. Hopefully a few people have the ability to pipe them into the big system. They may not be master pressings, but a lot of these are spectacularly recorded. Thanks again for all the recommendations. They're just great. Still adding to the list as I listen to them... Keep them coming. https://youtube.com/user/cal3713 |
List updated with these great suggestions. I particularly liked the King Gizzard. I’d actually never heard them before, thanks. Give me raw emotion and creativity over technical perfection any time... Here’s a re-link to it for anyone coming in to the end of the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHgpVU3UuU&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=2&t=7s |
Thanks @schubert Takes me a bit more time to work through the classical recommendations, but I'll have a listen. No doubt that there's a huge amount of worthy, top notch music in that genre. And as you can tell, I'm unfairly biased against it. As a poor white guy from farm country in Kansas, I just have an anti-elitism, anti-upper class trigger. No good letting such biases get in the way of appreciating music though. Thanks for sharing. |
I'll submit three videos from the channel that haven't been discussed in the thread for consideration. In all cases, I'd argue the performers perfectly bottle a specific human emotion and transmit it via their music. And I'll agree with you in this regard... like you said, "all I have is real music, you won't like it." Scary Pockets cover Ummbop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiShsfvbFUA&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=102 Idles at a NPR Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMehItNQKAA&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=127 Rhye, live on KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8g8l3m8ig&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=104 The brilliance isn't in the technical proficiency, it's in the artists' ability to transmit their emotional experience to listeners. |
@schubert I'll agree with your steps, but not that they're at all related to the "realness" of the music. They are simply related to complexity and the technical proficiency and expertise needed to create the end product. Like I said, the accomplishments of classical musicians and composers are stunning and worthy of praise. They're just not more musical than anything else. It's just as much music when it's made by a group of people sitting around a campfire as when it's made by an orchestra in the Sydney opera house. To deny that is to deny classical music's genesis story... |
@schubert Thanks for posting. I’m open to every genre, although you’re correct that classical is not in my normal wheelhouse. I’d already put all of your suggestions on the list, regardless. I’d argue with the "real" label though. I find it very unnatural how the genre works to remove dancing and movement from the musical situation. It is amazing what classical composers and musicians accomplish, but physical entrainment to musical content is a basic human trait. I’ve never understood its removal from an audience... aside from religion-related social control, of course. |
@pesky_wabbit In large part due to your help! Thanks. Perhaps there's not much more YouTube experience to tap on Audiogon, but hopefully we can get some more people weighing in this week. Please send in some more suggestions folks! http://youtube.com/user/cal3713 |
@schubert You're really just talking about a very narrow slice of the rock concert world. I personally prefer $5-20 at the door and also don't care much for the mass produced shows that often get retreaded over and over at the large sheds. Give me a place like this any day over a big production: http://lionslairco.com/about. |
A few new ones I ran into today: Daniel Norgren Live at AB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHe0MQ-o6Ng&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=7 Paco De Lucia - Live At 31st Leverkusener Jazztage 2010 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYYDdn1rRKs&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=1 OSEES - LEVITATION Sessions (Full Set) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQeHu-4e94&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=9 |
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look. Please keep the hate out of the thread though. I know I'm guilty too, but it seems like every thread on Audiogon ends up with meaningless hateful bickering. I'd like to keep this one focused on music appreciation. Thanks. Here's my favorite quote about the importance of music and its relevance to every human on the planet, regardless of race, class, or musical preferences: Perhaps the safest thing to do [in contacting alien life] at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. — Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) |
@maholl50 Thanks for the suggestion! I hadn’t heard of her. I like it. Always happy to learn about new music. Maybe you’d appreciate this Man In The Mirror cover by Rozzi (another female vocalist doing pop really well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv9RpfoByUA&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=16 |
@jeecc Great that that performance was captured, but a shame its quality isn't better. You inspired me to create a second playlist for performances like this that aren't recorded as well as stuff on the primary list. The obvious criteria being that the performance is just totally committed like this one. Gave me a good place to put some Rage against the machine and the little richard recommendations from @pesky_wabbit too. Dropped it on the homepage with the other playlist... https://youtube.com/user/cal3713 |
I actually had a different version of Suki Suki Suki up... if you haven't seen it, it's also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5ztTz1564&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=77 |
@audiodelusion Great. And damn, everything on House of Strombo is the real s**t. What a great channel. Not a traditional Audiogon one, but these guys are certainly committed to the music: Power Trip - House of Strombo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fV0Wdjxyis&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=1 |
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. The list has been updated: https://www.youtube.com/user/cal3713/ |
A few suggested viewings I ran across today: A creative dj set with great sound and spectacular videography: Innellea live at Jaisalmer fort in India for Cercle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H318p92hfFI&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=3&t=485s A classic Allman Brothers Band Show: The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert - 01/16/82 - University Of Florida Bandshell (OFFICIAL) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=4&t=1503s A nice little 6 minutes of Sturgill: Sturgill Simpson - "You Can Have The Crown / Some Days" (Live at Sun King Brewery) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV16tz1NK0&list=PLtQPqEWF2cIU787UucIe2jkQ5wi7kk2SS&index=1 |