Though we’re waiting before declaring definitively, this Interwebs thing might catch on in a couple of years.  Providing the best support (we are a tad myopic) for this theory are the cathartic, awe-inspiring live musical performances that you can find thereon.  These videos/streams will oft-times leave your face hurting from smiling and your cares dramatically drained.  Check out a few such performances below.

Naturally, first up is Bob Marley giving us a slow, but incendiary live reading of his great No Woman, No Cry from 1979. Oh how we miss Mr. Marley and lament his premature departure.

And then we have The National‘s standard show-stopper, Mr. November (which has been known to induce labor).  Below is a particularly great version that reminds us there can be no better place to be on 9/11 this year than at the Hollywood Bowl when they will appear with Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28DMYdfdDwM&feature=player_embedded

Next up is The Flaming Lips and their prize-winning performance of Race for the Prize in Japan.

Then we have My Morning Jacket delivering a revenantial Dondante from Okonokos.

And how could we leave out the best live band on the current planet (no contest), Radiohead. Check out the band killing its song, 15 Step, in Prague.

And then we head into the gleaming Glastonbury shows.  Pilgrimage; we need a pilgrimage.  For the last decade Glastonbury has drawn the best artists, the best audiences, and the best performances of any festival on the planet.  Don’t believe us?  Check these out.  We need to go to there.

Check out Radiohead from 2003 Glastonbury killing Paranoid Android.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIklhgI-m2s&feature=related

Then there’s this epic 2008 Glastonbury performance by Elbow of their life-affirming One Day Like This. Strings and audience attached.

And then we have the re-grouped Blur from 2009 Glastonbury, doing their great Tender. “Loves the greatest thing that we have, I’m waiting for that feeling to come!!”  And the crowd!!  Oh my.

And finally, for one of those goosebump, take-over-the-world moments that only live music can provide, check out Arcade Fire‘s set-ending mega-anthem, Wake Up, as done at the 2010 Reading Festival (once again, the Brit audiences out-perform their counterparts throughout the world).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmMPaLmxKg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL