Best Concert Movie?

[Khephra]

For me it's a tie. Either "Stop Making Sense: The Talking Heads" or "Home of the Brave: Laurie Anderson (is that out on DVD yet?)".

[FlashHarry]

1. Gimme Shelter and The Last Waltz.

!

[mr_hat]

2. Most agree that it's "Last Waltz."

[mac56]

11. I certainly agree.

"The Last Waltz" is a classic of any genre.

[Rooktoven]

16. Yep, The Last Waltz

The Band (and friends) at the top of their game, going out (at the time) in style...

[OneBlueSky]

19. absolutely . . . amazing array of artists in their prime . . .

and directed by Martin Scorcese . . . no other concert film comes close . . .

[Servo300]

3. Fleetwood Mac - "The Dance"

[belladonna]

23. Same here, Fleetwood Mac

The Dance. I only wish they'd do one of the concert I went to Thursday night so that I could drool over Lindsey anytime I feel like it. :D

[rucky]

4. Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll

Chuck Berry

or

URRGH! A music war.

[arwalden]

5. ABBA: The Movie (1977)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075617/

[FlashHarry]

6. AC/DC: Let there be Rock!

Oh, how I wish that were available on DVD... Sigh.

[-..__...]

10. Another vote for AC/DC

I have it in VHS ('m really kind of surprised that it's not on DVD).

Saw it in a theater when it first came out; a mid-night show.
There wasn't a sober person in the audience. When the movie started, the sound was at "normal" theater volume. After about 5 minutes of the crowd screaming and protesting to "turn up the fucking volume", management got the clue and cranked up the sound a notch or two. That still wasn't nearly enough; again another 5 minutes or so of "turn up the fucking volume. This time the projectionist wisely turned it up as much as those poor old pre-Dolby speakers and sound system would allow.

I think they got the hint when the empty beer bottles were being thrown at the screen :evilgrin: :headbang:

[NightTrain]

7. Jimi Hendrix: Live at Monterey

Particularly because they also included Otis Redding's show-stopping performance! :headbang:

[DancingBear]

15. Check out the original "Monterey Pop" movie

it's even better.

[Webster Green]

8. Stop Making Sense is awesome...

I've seen it a hundred times and its still great.

I saw them on that tour when they played Berkeley. There wasn't a dry seat in the house.

Won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1983, directed by Jonathon Demme.

[proud patriot]

9. Song Remains The Same IMHO

:hi:

[skjpm]

12. Rockshow-Wings

Just a lot of fun.

[skjpm]

13. Oh, and Sign O The Times--Prince

This blew me away in the theater

[Archae]

14. Woodstock

Jimi and the Who were sublime.

[DancingBear]

17. I missed Hendrix, but I thought The Who were terrible

Daltry's voice was wretched - but almost everyone else tells me I'm wrong - that they indeed were very good. Granted I didn't get much sleep that weekend.... :)

[david_vincent]

18. I can tell you what the best one of them all is

but you haven't seen it.
"The MC5: A True Testimonial"
spliced together from reels and reels of film shot by Rob Tyner's wife. It's now finished and advance copies were actually sent to reviewers and writers, but tragically, its market release has now been halted by litigation that looks like it could last for years.
Those who have seen it say that it's unbelievably great.
And no, I haven't seen it but just knowing that it's the MC5 means that it has to be the best, as far as I'm concerned.

[Ramsey]

20. Gotham

I am partial to Gotham, from the Bauhaus Resurrection tour, but that's because I was there!!

Then of course, there's the classic Ziggy Stardust film from Bowie's last concert as Ziggy.

[mitchum]

21. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones

Home Of The Brave
Pink Floyd at Pompeii

[TheWizardOfMudd]

22. Yessongs

Yessongs.

[southpaw]

25. Either Yessongs or...

Pink Floyd at Pompeii



*sigh*
...i'm nothing of not predictable...

[livetohike]

24. Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge

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