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Best Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed with “Daft Punk is Playing..” and Daft P
by cognaitiv 6y ago
Best Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed with “Daft Punk is Playing..” and Daft Punk emerged in a pyramid and absolutely melted our faces.
- fc373745 6y ago2007 alive was my personal favorite set from them. They mashed up quite a bit of their all time tracks into absolute bangers.
- ethbr0 6y agoI happened to catch them both in Madrid (Summercase) and Miami (Bang) in 2006. It's not often I'd travel to watch the "same" show twice. That was a nuts setlist and show period. Especially since my going to Madrid was via hearing about it from a hotel concierge and "Hey dad, I know we're here for your business, but can I go to this music festival, across a city neither of us know, that speaks a language I can maybe passably bang out?" Bless non-helicopter parents. :)
- imwillofficial 6y agoWill your dad adopt me?
- ethbr0 6y agoUnfortunately, I think he's happily retired from child rearing duties, and I know he happily spends most of his time fly fishing in Wyoming. ;)
- BLKNSLVR 6y ago"Fly Fishing in Wyoming" should be the title of Daft Punk's retirement album. It's such an evocative phrase. (although it would cause confusion with the band "Trout Fishing in Quebec").
- emptyparadise 6y agoI really wish there was a studio version of Alive 2007.
- cauthon 6y agoI've thought that myself before, but having listened to it so many times I think the audience cheers are as much as a part of the album now
- jakemauer 6y agoTotally agree. There are two or three distinct shouts from someone in the audience at the beginning of Around the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that are now part of my experience of listening to it. The audience is absolutely part of the energy of the album.
- suyula 6y agoAll I would want out of a studio version is it panned to centre so that I could listen to it through headphones.
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- selectodude 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvYSd2TIkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvYSd2TIkg It's so good.
- tomputer 6y agoI agree, went to the Alive 2007 show in Amsterdam. Fantastic!
- sorum 6y agoI'd argue that it's one of the best live albums of all time. These songs transcend what I'd consider mashups, it's like they treated all of their olds songs as samples, rebuilding entirely new songs out of them. It took some of the more obscure songs and made them "whole"; take Steam Machine, which in of itself wasn't that great of a song...a bit boring if you will. Combined with Too Long and it's now a song full of energy and tempo. There are many others like it. What they mostly have in common is taking the best ingredients from the fringy Human After All and the glitzy Discovery, finding a very interesting common ground.
- brandrick 6y agoIt was amazing to see them live. Caught the London show. Here's my video from the night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLA7L60sCr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLA7L60sCr0 (the shaky blurry videocamera footage ages it).
- geek_at 6y agowait Lollapalooza is a real event? I honestly thought the simpsons episode made fun of the music event scene
- strictnein 6y agoYep. Used to have some pretty awesome lineups too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_by_year#Line-ups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_b...
- dylan604 6y agoWow. You must be really young, or from a sheltered lifestyle. I remember skipping school to attend the first couple of shows, and then continued in college. Seems to my memory that the 'palooza festivals re-energized the whole music festival concept, as there were many more annual festivals that came through town after. I still have the t-shirts that I can't wear, but refuse to throw out.
- jerrre 6y agoOr maybe not living geographically and/or culturally close? Or does that fall under sheltered lifestyle.
- dylan604 6y agoI don't live anywhere near Glastonbury, but I'm fully aware that it is a real event. I'm at least in the same country as Miami, but have never attended the WMC, or the Grammys, or iHate Radio events in Vegas. I was a wee lad when Farm Aid occurred, but I was aware that it was more than a reference in an animated TV show. I've also been able to read music 'zines and websites without being geographically near any of them. So yeah, sheltered or at the least, thoroughly uninterested in music as anything more than just something in the background. Willing to admit, I have a much more intense interest in music, so I do read/listen to things that would be considered history to something compared to anything performed before Taylor Swift.
- chadlavi 6y agoI see that you also went to college somewhere between 2004 and 2008
- Benjammer 6y agoI went to a Phoenix show at Madison Square Garden last-minute with a friend in 2011. After Phoenix played a 3 song encore, the stage went dark and then a DJ booth lit up in the back, way above the stage, and Daft Punk walked out and they did an ~8 minute remix/mashup of Harder Better Faster and Phoenix's 1901. One of my favorite concert memories ever.
- alex_duf 6y agoI'm extremely jealous of that show, both Phoenix and Daft Punks are my favourite bands, it must have been something.
- maxmcd 6y agoI was working at a startup on 7th ave and 30th st at the time. Big fan of Phoenix and Daft Punk. Found out the next day I was merely hundreds of feet away from that beautiful surprise.
- lupin3ken 6y agoI saw that at Lollapalooza and it one of the best shows I have ever seen. I thought it was so cool afterwards to see a bunch of people covered head to toe in blue body paint like the aliens from Interstella 5555.
- pmarreck 6y agoDo you know what year and/or city this was? I would like to look this up
- latortuga 6y agoDon't know year but lolla is always in grant park, Chicago.
- zeruch 6y agoIt is now, but wasn't originally. It was a touring show the first half dozen years until it went on hiatus. When it was revived in the (mid?) 2000s, it became a solo Chicago event.
- coldsmoke 6y agoIt's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was supposed to come back last year, but you know...