Pullin' 'Tubes: Scouser Edition

Tuesday begets YouTubes, and lots of ’em. Here’s 45 minutes worth of cool shit to shepherd your boredom while the cowboy earns his wages…

Let’s start things off with a video my buddy John sent me of Slash and Jeff Beck dueling on stage at a Guns N’ Roses soundcheck in Paris from 1992. Interestingly enough, Jeff never made it to the actual show due to ear problems. Oh, and check out Steven Tyler and Joe Perry admiring the duel from offstage:

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Allright, ramblers, let’s get ramblin’ on the rest of these fuckers:

One of the best gifts I ever received was a random disc in a package full of Phish bootleg DVDs. Along with the Island Tour and Halloween 1996, there it was, The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert in its entirety. I’m a little surprised nobody’s posted the full show on YouTube, but one of the three versions of Get Back is on there (I’m 99.44% sure this is the final one.) Poor Billy Preston, he’s gotta feel like the only black guy in England…
This video has absolutely nothing to do with music, other than it features music in the background. Still, as long as we’re talking about the boys from Liverpool, I figured I’d take this opportunity to introduce most of you to one of soccer’s best midfielders, Steven Gerrard. I’ve watched this Top Ten Goals clip about 50 times, and it gets better with every viewing. Number 2 is the best goal you’ll ever see.
There’s no easy segue between Liverpool and Pearl Jam, but if I were truly good at making smooth segues out of disjointed material I’d probably work in local news. So let’s just get down to brass tacks — here’s Corduroy from the Marcus Amphitheatre on July 9, 1995 (also the day of the Grateful Dead’s last ever concert, home of this here Shakedown Street)
I implore you, kind sirs or madams, to watch the following video at all costs. And prepare to be awed, prepare to wonder why the fuck we don’t see unbelievable performances like this on late-night television more often. Of course, nobody quite brings it like Sly & The Family Stone to begin with, but that’s a different story. Sly meets Ed, 1968. Hey, wait, is Sly’s drummer Andy Samberg? That’s craisins.
Lastly, everyone’s talking about when that special reunion show is finally going to take place, when the group that entertained us so much throughout our lives will eschew retirement and climb back onto the stage. The reunion will happen when it happens, but here’s quite possibly the best clip you’ll see of these guys until they make some new music.