Greatest Accoustic Performance

[Doogie]

Sure many a people from this board are all from the MTV unplugged generation and what not. But I ask now, what is the greatest accoustic performance that you ever heard. For me it is John Lennon doing "Watching the Wheels" acoustically. I say this cause he recorded this song in 1978 before he died, and before he refined it, etc. When he dien Yoko released it as something of a slow song, in 1984 on that travesty of an album. The acoustic version of "Watching the wheels" still makes my hair stand on end cause of how good it is, and so forth.

So, whats others fave for accoustic performance?

[west milly Tom]

I saw so many good ones, my passion is for the singer/songwriter stuff so I see lots of acoustic acts.

The best one I have seen recently was Ray Lamontagne performing Jolene at Roseland. Totally fantastic.

[bobrobot]

I've been on a big Gypsy kick recently and super obsessing on Gogol Bordello. I don't know about "greatest" cuz there's too much stuff out there in the world. But I really like this particular version of this song, "Supertheory of Supereverything," it's got power & Eugene, amazingly, remains seated for the duration, HA HA HA!!! (alas, it is an electric violin tho, just being honest...)

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sing~a~long

Gogol Bordello
Supertheory Of Supereverything

First time I had read the Bible
It had stroke me as unwitty
I think it may started rumor
That the Lord ain't got no humor

Put me inside SSC
Let's test superstring theory
Oh yoi yoi accelerate the protons
stir it twice and then just add me, 'cause

I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

From the maelstrom of the knowledge
Into the labyrinth of doubt
Frozed underground ocean
melting - nuking on my mind

Yes give me Everything Theory
Without Nazi uniformity
My brothers are protons
My sisters are neurons
Stir it twice, it's instant family!

I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

My brothers are protons
My sisters are neurons
Stir it twice dlja prekrastnih dam...

Do you have sex maniacs
Or schizophrenics
Or astrophysicists in your family
Was my grandma anti anti
Was my grandpa bounty bounty
Hek-o-hek-o-hej-o
They ask me in embassy!

'Cause I don't read the Bible
I don't trust disciple
Even if they're made of marble
Or Canal Street bling

And my grandma she was anti!
And my grandpa he was bounty!
And stir it twice
And then just add me!
Partypartypartypartypartyparty
now afterparty...

[Gvac]

I've seen and heard a lot of great acoustic music, but when the Allman Brothers did an all-acoustic set the time I saw them at the Beacon around 10 years ago it blew me away. One of those performances where the hair on your arms stands up and you just feel it.

I also saw the Stones on their "Steel Wheels" tour do an all-acoustic set and it was fantastic, too.

[Doogie]

I've seen and heard a lot of great acoustic music, but when the Allman Brothers did an all-acoustic set the time I saw them at the Beacon around 10 years ago it blew me away. One of those performances where the hair on your arms stands up and you just feel it.

I also saw the Stones on their "Steel Wheels" tour do an all-acoustic set and it was fantastic, too.

Dude, I love the Allmans too..but they arent the bothers since Duane died...and he died 6 years before I was born. I know Lennon recorded my fave song 2 years after my birth, but if you ever heard the finished product next to the original...a shame.

You can hear the difference in the Allman's too pre-and post Duane.

Yet this thread is about great accoustic performances...

[MacVittie]

When I think of great acoustic, I think of Nirvana Unplugged in New York.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p7-NfMxCL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[west milly Tom]

When I think of great acoustic, I think of Nirvana Unplugged in New York.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p7-NfMxCL._SL500_AA240_.jpg



Qft. You could hear the pain in his voice. Twas melancholy and great.

[A.J.]

One of the first Unpluggeds and one of the best.

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A great arrangement of one of the best Zep tunes

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[realmenhatelife]

[COLOR="Navy"][B]I've been on a big Gypsy kick recently and super obsessing on Gogol Bordello. I don't know about "greatest" cuz there's too much stuff out there in the world. But I really like this particular version of this song, "Supertheory of Supereverything," it's got power & Eugene, amazingly, remains seated for the duration, HA HA HA!!! (alas, it is an electric violin tho, just being honest...)



According to Pepper Bobo is a hipster.

[nate1000]

http://www.nearfantastica.com/videos/tv/girl-in-the-war.html

Can't listen to it without tearing up- got some family over there.

[yojimbo7248]

Qft. You could hear the pain in his voice. Twas melancholy and great.

Absolutely. It was also a nice surprise to see him bring the Kirkwood brothers out and play a couple of songs off of one of the best albums of the 80's, Meat Puppets II.

[DarkHippie]

http://www.nearfantastica.com/videos/tv/girl-in-the-war.html

Can't listen to it without tearing up- got some family over there.

Josh Ritter is the greatest singer songwriter of our time.

http://folkmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/musicians_spotlight_josh_ritter (my article for suite101 on him)

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and the greatest panty peeling song EVAR . . .

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[Freakshow]

I actually prefer the Alice in Chains unplugged to the Nirvana one. Both are quite good, of course.

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[bobrobot]

According to Pepper, Bobo is a hipster.


Not everyone in the world is, or even wants 2 B, a fucking Pop Tart!!!

Oh, this is good too, lotta feeling, real bluesy & fragile & honest...

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[Bob Weir]

My performance of Cassidy on "Reckoning" is other-worldly.

Actually, I sound great on the whole album
and old heroin head doesn't sound too bad either.

[drjoek]

5/15/70
Capitol Theater. Grateful Dead

[DarkHippie]

My performance of Cassidy on "Reckoning" is other-worldly.

Actually, I sound great on the whole album
and old heroin head doesn't sound too bad either.

Grooviest board character EVAR!

[moochcassidy]

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[JDE]

Not sure how to put the video on here, but for me personally it's Pearl Jam's unplugged, and since this is my favorite song, it's Black.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxlhznY-fOA&feature=related


Also their version of Porch is an amazing accoustic performance.


Jason

[stinkbud]

The acoustic version of Thunder Road at the beginning of the Springsteen Live '75-'85 set always gives me chills.

[donnie_darko]

i liked nirvana a lot more the first time around when they were called the meat puppets.

[A.J.]

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Mooch doesn't read my posts. :down: