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Five Great California Band Youtube Videos Best Seen With Satellite Internet

If you’re into the West Coast music scene from today and years back, you know that there is an incredibly different vibe that happens in California when it comes to making music. A bevy of different musicians from other states and countries alike have flocked to that golden state on the west coast, where dreams are made and others are shattered. And when it comes to some of the best music of the last half-century, it is California that ends up on the map more than many other places out there.Thankfully, the internet is around today so that there is less of a need to spend time finding someone with bootlegs of the concert where you had the best night of your life and more time spent reliving the magic thanks to YouTube, where live concert footage often finds itself a home. And for those who have been trying to watch their favorite performances in California through the tediously slow dial-up option, it’s definitely time to get on board with satellite internet, which is also available everywhere but which moves at the pace of something entirely different.If you’re going to go the direction of satellite internet, then here are five different videos of California bands–or of bands performing live in California–that will have you feeling inspired and ready to dig out some old vinyl for a listening party. 1. The Rolling Stones San Francisco 1981 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsv836JB4E) If you need to see one of the biggest bands in the world, what better place to see them than outside in San Francisco in front of tens of thousands? Back during this 1981 show, Mick still had all of the swagger needed to woo the women, and the band was surprisingly on-point, considering that it was the middle of the excess of the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the money-grubbing 80s. A great moment in California concerts for sure. 2. Joni Mitchell in Big Sur 1969 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBqodL2OJ1A) Surrounded by admirers and holding her own at the piano rather than at a guitar or dulcimer, this consummate California girl by way of Canada gives one of her best performances yet of the famous song “Woodstock.” Though the five-minute performance would take hours to load on dial-up, it can be yours to watch in just seconds on a faster connection like satellite internet.3. The Grateful Dead Playing Sugaree in San Francisco 1971 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tuX1k6UZYs) -  there was ever a band that embodied what was happening in San Francisco, it might have been the Dead, with their interest in slowing things down and having a groovy time. This performance on Youtube is sound only, but with all of the Dead bootlegs out there, this is still definitely worth listening to.4. Guns and Roses at the Los Angeles Coliseum 1989 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw94xZHwfZw) – Metalheads should jump on board the satellite internet train just to get the shot at listening to and watching some of the best performances from the LA 80s hair metal scene, including this incredible footage from when Guns N Roses played the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1989. Gritty and energetic, you can feel the audience’s enthusiasm. 5. M.I.A. at Coachella 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rh0U_EWuWo&feature=related) – Because there’s more to California’s world of music than just what happened in the past, it’s definitely worthwhile to point your browser towards any one of the videos that features one of the performances from the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. Here’s one of M.I.A., whose performance n the main stage with materials usually meant for smaller tents was a hugely talked about thing in 2009.


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