It happens when singer and band are just so tight and you've got a pulsating, rhythmic repeating figure that's so right you just want it to keep on going. I can't think of any better examples than two performances featured before on THC, both of which are superior to the recorded versions.
Use Me by Bill Withers, from a TV show sometime in the mid-70s. Slower than the hit record and so delicious. Concentrate on the instrumentation when listening. The guitarist is doing some amazing work and as for the drummer, when the first comment on the video is "that drummer is possibly the coolest guy to have ever lived", all I can add, in the words of Mona Lisa Vito, is "it's a fact!".
Next up is I Can't Go For That, a decade old live performance by Ceelo Green and Daryl Hall (with Daryl's crack band). A remake of the Hall & Oates 80s hit, this version is so smooth and groovy. Every instrument is precisely right - guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and Ceelo's seemingly effortless vocal.
I wouldn't mind if both of these were twice as long.
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