
Genesis- Mama- Knebworth 6-30-90
Here is Genesis 30 June 1990 performing "Mama" to over 100,000 on one humid, rainy day at that year's annual Knebworth Festival outside London.

Doors- Back Door Man medley- Pittsburgh 5-2-70
Just before The Doors withdrew from live concert touring to record the now-iconic LA Woman album, the band performed at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena to "get together one more time..." . The Doors opened with a medley of Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", "Love Hides", and their own "Five to One".

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Don’t Bring Me Down- Boston 1978
When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers only had two albums of material from which to draw for their club sets (which often meant several sets a night), the band would reach down at just the right time and throw a change up cover song such as "Don't…

Aerosmith- Last Child- Brussels 10-31-93
Originally found on Aerosmith “Rocks” fifty years ago, this little mid-tempo song was performed in concert on Halloween in Belgium in 1993. "Last Child" is proof that Aerosmith rocks in any language, on any continent, in any decade.

Van Halen- So This is Love- Oakland- June 1981
Here's Van Halen ripping through the rock rhetorical, "So This is Love?", while playing Oakland in June 1981 on the "Fair Warning" tour. Crank it up!

Rush- 2112- Dallas 2012
In 2012 Rush projected exactly one hundred years into a most uncertain future with this performance of the "2112 Overture/ Temples of Syrinx" medley during what sadly turned out to be one of their last concerts there.

U2- Until the End of the World- NYC Yankee Stadium 1992
U2's "Until the End of the World", it is imperative that the listener understand that the singers' (plural) perspectives change every time the stanzas do. The singer in the first stanza is Jesus Christ; the singer in the second stanza is Judas; and in the final stanza, it's you and me.

Led Zeppelin- For Your Life- London 12-10-07
In the December 2007 reunion concert at London's O2 Arena to pay tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, Led Zeppelin trotted out "For Your Life", a song which lead singer Robert Plant informs us that the original band with the late drummer John Bonham had never performed in concert.

Jethro Tull- Locomotive Breath- Philadelphia 1987
Fall 1987 in Philly found Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull never sounding better, as you can hear from this live performance of "Locomotive Breath" from the perennially evergreen classic "Aqualung" on its 55th anniversary.

Jethro Tull-“Cheap Day Return/Mother Goose”- Zurich Switzerland dressing room 1989
With the tile walls and concrete floor of their backstage dressing room providing a natural reverberant ambience, here are the members of Jethro Tull prior to their 1989 Zurich Switzerland concert, performing an acoustic medley of Aqualung-era…
