Led Zeppelin, anyone? Now that was a live band, in my opinion the best. Especially if your talking about improvising, they never played the same song the same way twice. Pink Floyd was great live too along with Kiss. For a metal band, pantera was really good live. Metallica was cool but I wouldn't care to see them live now, back in the day he(( yeah. ACDC would be cool cause those guys are only like 5 feet tall. LOL I'd definitely like to see them. The G3 tour was a great show from what I heard, missed it cause I was out of town. :( and yeah, I defintely dig any live recording over a studio one. That is if the band is good. A good punk one is face to face, great live cd.