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How ya'll like that?

It's a great song, but flav just goes off.

Other nominations off the top of my head are Elvis Costello, The Specials, Nirvana and The Pogues.

Others?

Tuco.

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Sinead O'Connor ripping that pic of the pope. Probably doesn't qualify as 'best' but certainly is up there as momorable.

The Replacements were pretty awesome too.

Patti Smith doing Gloria is way way up there. Great great performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIsN2JHPds

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a couple not so well ones that blew me away back when I first saw them. I'm pretty sure both of these were SNL:

Adam Ant performing Strip
Dream Academy doing Life in a Northern Town

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Prince was sick when he was on a couple years ago, I'll try to find a video.

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Isn't this a little like being the world's tallest midget?

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I am no fan of his and the song was pretty blasphemous, but for some reason when I saw P Diddy perform "Come With Me" from the Godzilla soundtrack with Jimmy Page on the guitar and a full orchestra behind them, I was pretty impressed. It was quite intense, but I'm a sucker for a symphonic backing.

If anyone could find a video of that performance, I'd be grateful... I've searched for it a bunch and have never found it.

Idioteque from Radiohead was also outstanding, but that song kicks ass live no matter where it is performed.

Edit: Ahhh... someone recently added the P Diddy performance to YouTube... here ya go. I realize it wasn't necessarily a full orchestra either, but whatever. The strings still sound pretty good.

"Come With Me" featuring Jimmy Page from SNL

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Huh? I can't think of a major music act in the past 20 years that hasn't appeared on SNL.

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I am no fan of his and the song was pretty blasphemous, but for some reason when I saw P Diddy perform "Come With Me" from the Godzilla soundtrack with Jimmy Page on the guitar and a full orchestra behind them, I was pretty impressed. It was quite intense, but I'm a sucker for a symphonic backing.

If anyone could find a video of that performance, I'd be grateful... I've searched for it a bunch and have never found it.

Idioteque from Radiohead was also outstanding, but that song kicks ass live no matter where it is performed.

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Page/Puffy

Agreed, this song kicks ass, I don't care what anyone says.

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Damnit Patton, you edited your post just when I made mine. Are you still grateful? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I like how at the end Diddy does the "we're not worthy" bow to Jimmy, at least he knows the legend that is Jimmy Page.

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Couldn't find a video of it in my 5 seconds of searching, but one of my favorite performances was Pearl Jam - Daughter.

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Beastie Boys doing Three MCs and One DJ leading into Intergalactic (as impressive as this was, though, they did the same setup on MTV awards that year even better)

Also, Vanilla Ice doing Ice Ice Baby, obv

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I also loved the "Come With Me" performance.

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just to clarify, are you criticizing prince?

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Rage Against the Machine doing Bulls on Parade, and then being told to leave. Awesome-ness.

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A solid contender.

I've given serious thought to commencing my wedding vows with "Girl, you know we've been together such a long, long time, and now I'm ready to lay it on the line . . . " EDIT: Clearly I will need to get my best man to bust out with the falsetto "WELLLLLLLLLLLLL" at that point.

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Faith No More - "Epic" FTW

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Blind Melon's No Rain with Chris Farley in the bee costume.

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Steve Martin doing "King Tut" (sorry, couldn't find video)

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Beastie Boys doing Three MCs and One DJ leading into Intergalactic (as impressive as this was, though, they did the same setup on MTV awards that year even better)

Also, Vanilla Ice doing Ice Ice Baby, obv

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The Beastie Boys did 3MCs on SNL, but it didn't lead into Intergalactic, it stood alone. They did Sabotage later that same show. Trust me.

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Pearl Jam's Alive/Porch performances have always stood out to me.

Beck had a great performance this past season where his band stood around a kitchen table using various utensils for a crazy percussion jam.

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Captain Beefheart was always great for a big WTF? I'm not sure whether they actually stopped the song or the mics were shut off.

Ashtray Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vIDdtztGVM

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Maybe not the best of all time, but the old man still had it at this point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02z3gIg9lcQ

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Prince was sick when he was on a couple years ago, I'll try to find a video.

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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oID=2031851360

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Talking Heads - Take me to the River
Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Cars - Strap Me In

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U2 was pretty awesome the last time they were there.

The worst ever has to be Dieon Sanders.

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Clearly, FEAR on SNL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0tA2R12OBY

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Not close y'all


Dang mikey beat me ^^^edited link [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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LOL beat ya to it.

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This one is sick too, He didnt want to play the hit, so changed his mind mid-song. Badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuknbvu21Q

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Patti Smith doing Gloria is way way up there. Great great performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIsN2JHPds

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This was going to be my vote.

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Elvis Costello was the first that came to mind, but the Ornette Coleman stuff is sick.

Elvis got kicked off the show forever for that, but they brought him back for the 25th anniversary: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XDNDqYl65sU . Did the same shtick with the Beastie Boys. It'd be better if Mike D didn't look completely bored the whole time.

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best performance by a castmember should go to



John Belushi - Little Help from My Friends

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Becks first performance of "Where it's at" was awesome.

So was Kid Rock's performance of "American Bad-ass"

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i think the coolest performance was elvis costello being on their anniversary show, after being banned for a number of years, for performaing radio radio.

the beastie boys were on stage, and started playing, then elvis costellor runs out on stage, and stops them, then then bust into radio radio.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDNDqYl65sU

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Beck had a great performance this past season where his band stood around a kitchen table using various utensils for a crazy percussion jam.

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http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ideoid=3873471

Tuco.

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This one is sick too, He didnt want to play the hit, so changed his mind mid-song. Badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuknbvu21Q

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I'm glad this thread pointed me to that video. That's good stuff. EDIT: Also, the Ornette Coleman link, at least for the first couple of minutes, sounds like it would be badass chase music.