Here is a collection of special live moments by great performers.

Funkadelic & RHCP - Cosmic Slop

Wow! Great 1985 footage of Funkadelic with the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing Cosmic Slop. This was the same year that Funkadelic's leader George Clinton produced Freaky Style - the Red Hot Chili Pepper's second album.

Pavarotti & Barry White - You're My First

This is a great duet version of one of Barry White's greatest hits performed with Pavarotti - the 1974 disco classic You're My First, My Last, My Everything. The song was written by Peter Radcliff as a country song called My First, My Last, And My In-Between, and it sat unrecorded for twenty years until White produced this disco hit.

Mandrill - Fencewalk

This very short 1973 clip is rare footage of the legendary Mandrill performing Fencewalk at the opening of a TV special. The 1970's New York funk rock band have been sampled many times from Public Enemy, Big L, Kanye West, Eminem & more. Between 1970 and 2008 Mandrill has put out a steady flow of albums.

Gil Scott-Heron - live on German TV

This 58 minute clip features the brilliant jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron from March 1984 on a German TV show called Ohne Filter. Gil Scott-Heron's 1970's recording were very influential, and have made him come to be considered one of hip-hops founding fathers. After recording 1982's Moving Target, the singer continued to tour, but other than a couple singles, he only released Spirits in 1994, and I'm New Here in 2010.

Albert King - I'll Play The Blues For You

Here is a clip from 1989 of the legendary blues guitarist Albert King performing his signature tune in Tokyo, Japan. The song is from his 1972 album of the same title, released on Stax records, featuring The Memphis Horns and with The Bar-Kays & The Movement as his rhythm section. He released this album with the hip and funky backing in an attempt to remain relevant after almost 20 years recording. The very recognizable intro was sampled by DMX for Where's The Hood At, and it's been used by Big Daddy Kane, Angie Stone, Masta Killa and others.

Muddy Waters ft The Rolling Stones - 1981

This clip was from a Muddy Waters show the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago, a famous 1950's lounge that was owned by Buddy Guy at the time. The touring Rolling Stones were stopping in Chicago for three-nights at Rosemont Horizon, and to everyone's surprise Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart all end up on stage for a legendary performance.

Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy

This 1984 song written and performed by Jocelyn Brown was a garage classic and club scorcher in the eighties and throughout the nineties. The strung out vocal intro of this track would create unbelievable explosive energy in a room. This 2005 clip was from a BBC TV show called "All-Time Greatest Party Songs," which appropriately featured this nice performance.

James Brown ft MJ - It's A Man's World

This 1983 live performance of It's A Man's World is spectacular, and it features the King Of Pop - Michael Jackson. This song from 1966 was ranked number 123 in Rolling Stone's list of the best 500 songs of all-time. Years after this performance Michael Jackson sampled the brass introduction of this for his 1988 song "Bad."  

Jackson 5 featuring Cher

This clip from the 1975 Cher Show is a rare performance of the Jackson 6 singing a medley their hits. This number one watched variety show only lasted a year, during that same year Cher divorced Sonny AND remarried to Greg Allman. (She also filed for divorce from Greg that year, but they remained married till 1979) The year before Cher's show premiered Sonny had left her, and he renamed his Sonny & Cher Show - Sonny's Comedy Revue - which only lasted six weeks. 

Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra - 1966

This very playful Frank Sinatra enjoys a fun duet with his 26-year old daughter. This TV clip is from 1966, the year Nancy Sinatra's released her first record, which included the songs "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and "Bang Bang."

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte

This 1972 funk track was the biggest hit from the heavily sampled Jimmy Castor Bunch. Known as the E-Man, the late Jimmy Castor was born and raised in Harlem's Sugar Hill. Castor's sound grew out of the 1950's R&B sound of groups like Franke Lyman & The Teenagers, in 1957 he was actually subbing for Frankie in the popular group. Currently. Ariana Grande is being sued over illegally using this song's often sampled phrase "let's go way, way back in time" in her song "The Way." 

Bootsy - I'd Rather Be With You

Ahhh! Bootsy Baby. This funktabolous Bootsy's Rubber Band clip is from the 1976 Stretchin Out Tour in Houston, TX. Like many P-Funk tracks you need to relax and be patient with this stretched out groove. This was one of three charting singles from the bands first album, which was co-produced and co-written by George Clinton in the same year as Clinton's other stellar albums: Parliament's Mothership Connection AND Funkadelic's Let's Take It To The Stage.

Bad Brains - Right Brigade

This rare clip of Bad Brains appears to be from the original 9:30 Club in Washington DC. In fact, I am quite certain it was, and that I was even at this show. You can tell it is the 9:30 from the above the crowd shots that were shot from a crow's nest that perched just over your heads in this little dance hall. This is a very clean example of the early Bad Brains shows that inspired and influenced countless icons from The Beastie Boys to Dave Grohl.

Michael Jackson - Super Bowl XXVII

Michael Jackson's half-time show from 1993's Super Bowl XXVII is considered to be one of the greatest intermission extravaganzas of all-time. This 3:25 pm show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California was at the last Super Bowl to have ever been played entirely in daylight.

The Parliaments with Funkadelic - 1969

Time to go to church with this truly amazing video of early P-Funk madness. This 1969 televised performance features a very young George Clinton with the incredible Eddie Hazel on guitar, and a funked entourage that also includes Fuzzy Haskins. Although they had a hit single in 1967 with "I Wanna Testify," Clinton struggled with the success of Parliment and Funkadelic until the mid-1970's.