Some Weekend Music – Live Performances On Video

https://youtu.be/vaXwGALpR9A

and

https://youtu.be/yO_-pi2JBRo

Amazing Grace by the Blind Boys of Alabama

Loved all the videos above. A thread with such a raison d’etre could extend for hundreds. But I just wanted to promote one of my favourite vocalists, Yukimi Nagano, who has sung with various groups. (“Little Dragon” is her nom de guerre.)

Saw the Blind Boys back in December. Still going strong, Still gloriously good. My girlfriend had never seen them and had no idea what to expect. To say she was blown away is to understate.

Oh, I love that Lianna La Havas video.

Here’s some of my favourites. I like to put these on when I’m working:

Nils Frahm
Composer/pianist Nils Frahm has some awesome performances up on youtube.

An awesome and serene performance of More and ‘Said and Done’

For more just click through @ the related videos.

Since I love ‘More’ so much, here’s another rendition that has me marveling at his technique.

And an electronic performance of his.

Finally, cover of Hammers on strings.

Bootsy / Parliament
There’s some old recordings of live Bootsy Collins and live Parliament concerts on youtube. Lovely funk.
1976 (my fav, it’s so tight, altho the middle is a bit meh): Bootsy & His Rubber Band, 1976 (my fav; it’s so tight, even though the middle is kind of ‘meh)
Bootsy & His Rubber Band in Madrid, 1978
A three hour long Parliament concert from 1978
BONUS: A totally crazy & wacky Bootsy bass solo (…really, it’s kind of weird. But an awesome kind of weird.)

Some other lovely funk/jazz/soul performances
This is an awesomely energtic performance by the late Sharon Jones (RIP), playing together with Daryl Hall & Co

Marcus Miller with a nice cover of the Beatles’ Come Together, with an organ solo that I can’t stop listening to (it just goes on and on, and keeps getting better).

Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed together with Daryl Hall & co (the band’s enjoying it so much, it’s nice to watch.) (Alternative take with Reed & a gospel choir)

Misc
They’re not *that* amazing, but I somehow just really like this performance by Drangar, an oddball Icelandic rock band.

A full concert by the Talking Heads (1980)

A serene and melodious live session, in a chapel, by dutch singer-songwriter Eefje de Visser

This epic performance by The Heavy on David Letterman

It’s no longer on YouTube, and the actual site currently hosting it is so dodgy that FB won’t even let me link to it, but here, via the safe (?) intermediary of Yahoo video search, is probably my favorite performance footage ever: ELO in 1973, on a small stage in a low-ceilinged room at Brunel University—no horseplay, no gorilla masks, no spaceships, just a seven-piece band absolutely nailing one of Jeff Lynne’s loveliest compositions. RIYL: dynamics, great singing, guitar-volume-knob adjustments on the fly.

https://yhoo.it/2nw6s6A