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In total agreement about Richard Thompson - have seen him numerous times, and he is always engaging, changes the shows enough even on the same tour, and just flat-out great.
The thing for me is I like the shows that are just insane - A concert is theater, and if the performance isn't bigger than life, it just disappears. So the best things I have seen are
(this list quite clearly dates me)
The Cramps - Lux in a lace g-string, swallowing the microphone.
The Circle Jerks - part of that was the venue - a little rathole in atlanta where the whole theater was the pit with a balcony above that looked down on both the stage and the bodies.
Ani DiFranco - probably the most sexually tense crowd I have ever seen. Women were going crazy like in those old Beatles newsreels.
Southern Culture - throws fried chicken at the crowd, what is not to love.
The Beat Farmers - Country Dick Montana, God Rest His Soul
Just saw The Fiery Furnaces last week, and that show was great - they just played, not a lot of shenanigans, but they flat out rock and Eleanor is really intense and pretty damn cool.
