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I'm sure we've all had them, thru movies, shows, or music. This being a music forum, I decided to share mine, as I was recently reminded of it just now......

These are the moments that make the hair stand on the back of your neck, the moments that make time seem meaningless, that make the current second stretch out to the left and right, seemingly to infinity. All conciousness, or at least self conciousness is lost, and you become a part of a symbiotic being, "the crowd", or perhaps you are alone listening, and you are taken away, away from the current moment, and into somehere else.....

wow.... that was deep, and all I'm drinking is diet pepsi!

Anyway, onto my examples!

During the U2 show at Red Rocks that's on "Under a Blood Red Sky", they play 40. If you listen on CD (which is what reminded me of this), they fade out with the crowd singing "how long, to sing this song" after the band has left the stage.

If you watch the tape, after a few minutes of crowd singing, the Edge comes back out solo, with a huge smile on his face, plugs his guitar back in, and plays that awesome rolling bassy guitar part of 40, while the crowd keeps singing......... I get chills every time I think of this, (and remembering when U2 was just a band, not a corporation)


I also remember seeing Radiohead in Montreal on the island outdoors. It was a rather depressing period in my life for several reasons, but during that show, nothing mattered. It all went away as we danced, jumped, and sang along to Street Spirit and Idioteuqe and You and Who's Army and Karma Police. That night cemented to me that yes.... music can actually take you away, and take away your pain, without alcohol, without chemicals of any kind, just simple vibrations in the air that get receieved by your eardrums, who then pass the message to your brain...... and the rest is magic.

Every time I hear The Ecstacy of Gold my hair stands on end anticipating a live Metallica experience. The same thing happens to a lesser extent when I hear "It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll" by AC/DC because Metallica used that as a lead in to Ecstacy of Gold on their last tour (and I saw 6 shows on that tour.)

There are a bunch of other songs make my hair stand on end, with most of them being live versions of songs. Last week I heard a live version of Peral Jam's Black and it did it to me and I'm not even much of a Pearl Jam fan.

The part at the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again" gave me goosebumps when The Who did it at live 8 in London last year. Theres that awesome keyboard leadup that sort of builds into a cresendo culminating with a few short hard beats of the drum and then Daltry does that awesome scream/yell. Even in his sixties, Daltry's yell was still spot on, and you could tell he was getting ready for it and didnt want his voice to crack in front of all those people. That was an aweosme moment. And right after that it was aweosme how Townshend did his trademark windmill arm while playing the guitar.

The opening to Grace, and The oooooh's in Pearl Jam's Oceans

In particular, when Pearl Jam opened with Oceans at the Saddledome.

MountainHip Wrote:The opening to Grace, and The oooooh's in Pearl Jam's Oceans

In particular, when Pearl Jam opened with Oceans at the Saddledome.

Arc by Pearl Jam

The opening to Nautical Disaster.
The opening to Thunder Road.
The extended versions of Rosalita and Growin' Up.

-Jenna

the last verse of goodnight josephine
when the drums kick in on Stairway
the keyboard solo on Crazy Mary from "live at benroya(spelling??) hall.
when the crowd sings during Black from same CD

Jenna_Bird Wrote:The opening to Nautical Disaster.
The opening to Thunder Road.
The extended versions of Rosalita and Growin' Up.

-Jenna

Good ones, I completely forgot about live versions of the Boss..... The River from the old Live Box set still makes me chilled.......

I've been pimping them out a lot lately, but on The New Pornographers' The Bleeding Heart Show, at the 2:30 mark, the drumming picks up and leads into a last 1:50 of the song that is unfathomably excellent.

As well, Pearl Jam's Release. "I'll ride the wave where it takes me. I'll hold the pain, release me." The definition of emotion.

Also, when the bass kicks in after about a minute during Lets Stay Engaged.

The last verse of Courage and the applause leading into Long Time Running from Dec 3/2000. Thinking about it sends tingles down my spine.

Realizing that Eddie Vedder was singing Brass In Pocket during Daughter at the Amp a couple of years ago.

Usually one song per Hip show will give me this feeling.

Cheers

Pat

Whenever Rob Baker peels off during "Summer is Killing Us" on That Night in Toronto.

Or Chalkdust Torture by Phish. In particular the version on their "A Live One" album. My favorite guitar solo ever.

Probably a little cliched... but when Gord got to the line "That night in Toronto..." during that concert which is now part of the DVD, I got big-time chills.

Jeff Tweedy playing a solo-acoustic version of "Sunken Treasure" at last summer's Calgary Folkfest on a beautiful Alberta night, underneath a blanket of stars (the constellations revealing themselves one star at a time, haha).

Now THAT was a truly goosebump-inducing moment. I'll never forget it.

...Oh, and seeing Daniel Lanois at the same festival in 2004. Absolutely mindblowing.

As for the Hip, I have many great memories. But my faovorite Hip moment of all time was an incredibly transcendental version of Grace, Too at the High Sierra Festival just outside of San Francisco in the fall of '98. To this day that's the most mesmerized I've ever been at a Hip show. Come to think of it, the entire show was amazing.