[MUSIC] Live performances that are even better than studio versions

So, so many.

For just the emotion of the moment and the cathartic release that is Rock and Roll, here's The Who at the Concert for New York City a few days after 9/11.

 

I love this cover and it’s a classic moment. But what makes it awesome is that Prince looks like a ****ing badass and he owns the performance. Audio only it’s good but not the same. I think Clapton’s solo on the album is both better and more suited to the song. The studio version run through the Beatles machine with a little Clapton is perfect.

 

Live at Leeds is pretty tough to beat. Ferocious.

 

For like 30 years they NEVER played the album version from McCartney on the radio. It was always the live track from Wings Over America.



Also, pretty sure nobody alive has ever heard the studio version of Do You Feel Like We Do by Peter Frampton. Its always the Frampton Comes Alive version:

 

Frampton live is so much better then the studio cut.......................anything by RUSH was better live and David G playing Comfortably Numb is just out of this world, his guitar play live is so dam good

 

For the younger generation

 

Frampton's best known songs are the obvious answer but also anything by the Allman Brothers Band, especially "Whipping Post" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed".