My favourite live intro.

[AudiOhm]

What is your favourite live intro?

Ohms

 

[Chrispy]

David Bowie and Queen doing Under Pressure comes to mind.

 

[shuppatsu]

Not sure if this can be beat:

I love the Allman-style twin lead intro of this live version of Sweet Jane.

 

[Bleib]

Favorite is impossible as it would be rather easy to find 50 good ones.
But, one example:

 

[Robin L]

 

[janny88]

I also want to share my favorite intro. but I do not know how they are sharing YouTube videos on this site. Can anyone please guide me? thanks in advance

 

[diddley]

 

[diddley]

I also want to share my favorite intro. but I do not know how they are sharing YouTube videos on this site. Can anyone please guide me? thanks in advance

copy the youtube adres in your post message box and then choose paste

 

[JSmith]

JSmith

 

[shuppatsu]

Tape, as an extended intro to Open. Bonus points because the opening montage is what all the kids looked like at my liberal arts college in the 90s.

I was never a goth kid, and didn’t have much exposure to a lot of subcultures living as the child of expats in Japan. I got into the Cure by accident. Tower Records or HMV put the double album version of Show on clearance, 500 yen. This was back when official CDs were 3000 yen and imports were like 2000 yen. So I bought it because it was cheap and the cover art was really good. The Tape collage blending into Open had me under its spell from the very first listen.

It’s a great live album from a great band near their creative and commercial apex. Just not big in Japan, apparently!

 

[shuppatsu]

@JSmith, have you heard this version? So much energy.

 

[janny88]

copy the youtube adres in your post message box and then choose paste

Thanks for your assistance.

 

[vco1]

What is your favourite live intro?

Ohms

First and foremost, what great musicians.
And next: the audience is truly enjoying the performance instead of desperately pointing their mobile phones in the air. (I know, this was 1982 and mobile phones were not a thing)

 

[JSmith]

JSmith

 

[AaronJ]

Thunderstruck

 

[richard12511]

What is your favourite live intro?

Ohms

My favorite band, and my favorite vocalist ever . Such a powerful voice. This is the version I always sing in my head when I think of the song, and it's definitely the best version IMO. It's rare that I prefer the live version of a song over the studio version, but this is one rare case that I do.

Another great version(probably more people have seen this one)

I actually found this version when trying to show the version you posted to some of my friends(and failing to find it). The opening is not quite as good, but I like some parts of it a bit better, for example, the acapella solo intro after the percussive section.

 

[richard12511]

First and foremost, what great musicians.
And next: the audience is truly enjoying the performance instead of desperately pointing their mobile phones in the air. (I know, this was 1982 and mobile phones were not a thing)

I've never understood this. I can kind of understand taking a few second clip to post on instagram or something to show you're friends where you are, but often times I see people recording the entire performance this way.You're essentially compromising your present selfs own enjoyment of the moment so that your future self can go back and watch a far inferior playback of that moment. If I want to ever go back and rewatch the performance, there's likely a much better recording(with professional mics and cameras) available on Youtube.

I'd much rather be fully present in the moment and creating a much better overall memory.

 

[AudiOhm]

I saw Queen at Maple Leaf Gardens in Aug of 1982 (with Billy Squire), the Milton Keys video is as close as I could find to the Toronto concert, Somebody to Love...

Ohms

 

[IXOYE]

This still gives me goosebumps, incredible intro.