| If you're into the West Coast music scene from today | | | | then here are five different videos of California |
| and years back, you know that there is an incredibly | | | | bands--or of bands performing live in California--that will |
| different vibe that happens in California when it comes | | | | have you feeling inspired and ready to dig out some |
| to making music. A bevy of different musicians from | | | | old vinyl for a listening party. |
| other states and countries alike have flocked to that | | | | 1. The Rolling Stones San Francisco 1981 ( If you need |
| golden state on the west coast, where dreams are | | | | to see one of the biggest bands in the world, what |
| made and others are shattered. And when it comes to | | | | better place to see them than outside in San Francisco |
| some of the best music of the last half-century, it is | | | | in front of tens of thousands? Back during this 1981 |
| California that ends up on the map more than many | | | | show, Mick still had all of the swagger needed to woo |
| other places out there. | | | | the women, and the band was surprisingly on-point, |
| Thankfully, the internet is around today so that there is | | | | considering that it was the middle of the excess of the |
| less of a need to spend time finding someone with | | | | end of the 1970s and the beginning of the |
| bootlegs of the concert where you had the best night | | | | money-grubbing 80s. A great moment in California |
| of your life and more time spent reliving the magic | | | | concerts for sure. |
| thanks to YouTube, where live concert footage often | | | | 2. Joni Mitchell in Big Sur 1969 ( Surrounded by |
| finds itself a home. And for those who have been | | | | admirers and holding her own at the piano rather than |
| trying to watch their favorite performances in | | | | at a guitar or dulcimer, this consummate California girl |
| California through the tediously slow dial-up option, it's | | | | by way of Canada gives one of her best |
| definitely time to get on board with satellite internet, | | | | performances yet of the famous song "Woodstock." |
| which is also available everywhere but which moves | | | | Though the five-minute performance would take hours |
| at the pace of something entirely different. | | | | to load on dial-up, it can be yours to watch in just |
| If you're going to go the direction of satellite internet, | | | | seconds on a faster connection like satellite internet. |