Best Live Band of all time?

Echo & the Bunnymen at the Brighton Centre in 1987. A lesson in less-is-more. When Pete de Frietas hit the cymbal at the end of the Killing Moon guitar solo it made me want to cry.

pistinator was physicaly into juniors whilst watching the adult counterparts

agree with Dancing James, MBV Loveless was the best....Beastie boys and Jane's addiction up there for me too.....
YouTube - Beastie Boys - SABOTAGE (Live, awesome!!)

YouTube - Janes Addiction Been Caught Stealing Live 10-11-1990 Italy

I saw The Jennifers(they later became Supergrass) at The Jericho Tavern, Oxford '90/'91. Surprise guests: Echo & The Bunnymen, opening track 'The Killing Moon'...ace!

Also saw Radiohead there, pre Pablo Honey

It's a fuckin gastropub now :-(

Kid Creole & The Coconuts @ The Jazz Cafe. Jeffrey Daniel made an appearance too :-)

My favourite ever gig was Acid Mother's Gong. Bizarre and amazing.

You saw Acid Mothers Gong? lucky git! bet they were truly mindbending :)

for me, best gig was probably the last Tour Bauhaus ever did a few years ago, I have a bit of a thing for Peter Murphy (which always helps) but they were generally all round fantastic.

most recent band to make my jaw hit the floor though is ISIS, i was dumbstruck for 2 and half hours, they didnt miss a beat, impossibly tight yet effortless. fucking ace.

hard to say best ever really but...in recent times lightning bolt, shellac, f£cked up

also why? the other week were great

Went to see Lightning Bolt support Shellac in Birmingham last year, Shellac were totally amazing. Lightning Bolt were strangely subdued, you could say even, quiet.

All these bands played Planet X in Liverpool and each gig was incredible, the likes of which will never happen again; Fugazi, Gorilla Biscuits and Nation of Ulysses.

Midnight Oil at The Forum, October 1996. Fucking awesome.

(vid not from said show)

YouTube - MIDNIGHT OIL - Stand In Line (Live)

has anyone seen hawkwind ? i haven't but i wonder what they were like ?

although as the old saying goes if you remember the 60's you weren't really there !!
ditto for hawkwind i think acid casualties all over ther place

surprised eddie hazel has been mentioned. a somewhat underrated musician. love his playing
i say zeppelin
saw them at the reunion show at the o2. that was incredible lol
also saw roger waters and nick mason do dark side of the moon at earls court which was amazing too

Antony and the Johnsons, Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Gig this year, One Dove was superb in that set, cant see a recording anywhere online :(

You saw Acid Mothers Gong? lucky git! bet they were truly mindbending :)

most recent band to make my jaw hit the floor though is ISIS, i was dumbstruck for 2 and half hours, they didnt miss a beat, impossibly tight yet effortless. fucking ace.

Yeah, the Royal Festival Hall show in 03... it was awesome, I think my brain broke.

I saw Isis at Primavera a couple of years ago... which was really good but I bet they sound a hundred times better with non-festival sound. Wanted to go to that Scala gig last year but missed it.

Final Fantasy. He was incredible. Created his entire sound with one violin and loop pedals while a diminutive native american woman created stories using some cut outs and a old school type projector.

Another vote for Fucked Up, Pink Eyes crowd jumped and broke some dudes leg when I saw them.

Lots of stoner-metal bands are fucking awesome too, I saw Church of Misery and they LITERALLY blew me away. So loud and mental that my chest hurt from bass and I had to get air due to extreme metalness.

YouTube - The Stone Roses (Live in Blackpool) Where Angels Play

First and still the best.

Also Neds atomic dustbin with Baby Chaos94/95.

YouTube - Ride - Vapour Trail live Brixton 1992

Saw them at The Jericho, Oxford too

Most skullfuckingly great live sound I ever heard was Daft Punk @ Astoria (96?) when they borrowed Leftfield's tour soundsystem. SPL.

Prince at the 02 on a night when he rinsed the classics was good to finally see.

Black (motherfucking) Sabbath.

Machine (motherfucking) Head!

Mission of Burma. Ok, maybe not all time...

Rein Sanction

Final Fantasy. He was incredible. Created his entire sound with one violin and loop pedals while a diminutive native american woman created stories using some cut outs and a old school type projector.

Another vote for Fucked Up, Pink Eyes crowd jumped and broke some dudes leg when I saw them.

Lots of stoner-metal bands are fucking awesome too, I saw Church of Misery and they LITERALLY blew me away. So loud and mental that my chest hurt from bass and I had to get air due to extreme metalness.

Wow, you really ARE a hipster :P

Machine (motherfucking) Head!

YouTube - machine head-aesthetics of hate live @ download fest.07

Kid Creole & The Coconuts @ The Jazz Cafe. Jeffrey Daniel made an appearance too :-)

Slight off topic, I know Kid Creole's son. He's a nice guy. Bit camp.