When McKernan was alive and healthy.
the band “Leftover Salmon” has an enormous amount of energy.
I cooked for them before a show in Carbondale Illinois once and was up with them until sunrise. They went from house party to house party…pickin and grinning’ and smoking’ and jokin’
The front man Vince Herman is an absolute NUT…in a good way!
Fishbone still crank out super high energy shows, been going since the early 80’s
Well the OP didn’t specify current bands so you are not wrong but Rush is now in semi-retirement. Those years of playing have taken a physical toll.
Tina Turner is now 76. Last time I saw her she was still wearing high heels and dancing with her back-up dancers the whole time.
Oh believe me, I know. I was there for their last tour. About a three hour affair and they sounded great.
Wayne Newton had a reputation for giving huge efforts at this shows even after his voice had pretty much gone.
I suspect if he doesn’t explode first, Weird Al will eventually have this in the bag.
I’ve seen both Springsteen and the Dead in this past year, and they’ve definitely both still “got it”. The only real difference between the energy they put into their performances is the pacing.
Springsteen does one set that’s about 3 1/2 hours long. His songs are typically only in the 4-6 minute range, though, and he lays out the set so that for every two or three fast songs there’s a slower song that gives the boys a chance to relax and rest up. He’s got a big band with a lot of doubling-up - including himself, there’s five guitars, bass, piano, keyboard, saxophone, and drums, and not every song calls for every instrument.
The Dead also play for about 3 1/2 hours, but they do it in two sets with an hour intermission in between. Their songs are longer, though - there’s rarely one shorter than 8-10 minutes, and they tend to string them together into jams that run as much as 45 minutes long. They also have a more consistent tempo - they’re not as fast as Bruce’s fast songs and not as slow as his slow songs, and they tend to focus more on technical guitar work and soloing than Bruce’s Wall-of-Sound approach, and a smaller band (two guitars, bass, keyboard, and two drummers) that means the entire band is usually active all the time. It also doesn’t hurt that the Dead’s current frontman, John Mayer, is about 30 years younger than the veterans.
I saw the reunited Van Halen about 10 years ago, David Lee Roth was still "Jump"ing around, and the drummer was like Animal from the Muppets. They impressed me a lot for old guys.
I saw the Pet Shop Boys last time they came to L.A. - about a year ago? They’re still putting on a damn good show. (Still releasing new material, too.)
This. The man runs around like he’s on fire. Stage props, costume changes, no inane banter that takes away from the show and pretty much 2 to 2 1/2 hours of non-stop singing. And he’s actually two years from 70 with absolutely no plans of slowing down. Plus, now he has a second gig with The Hollywood Vampires and says that as long as Mick is still going (at five years older), he’ll always be recording and performing. He’s the ultimate showman badass.
I just went to Weird Al the other afternoon/evening. It was warm outside, but he did bring his A game of energy and was sprinting on and off stage. The way his show works is that there is a media break between many songs which enable his costume changes and set up the next song or two so he gets some rest. But when he put on the Fat and was jumping and stomping around in the suit, he got the audience pumped up.
Thank you for mentioning Koko Taylor. Her “Wang Dang Doodle” was my radio theme song in Chicago for about 8 years … early 1970’s. I first interviewed her in 1971 (?) when she was still doing shows on Chicago’s West Side for DJ Arkansas Big Bill Hill. Well before Alligator Records signed her 
And I got to see Koko Taylor again in Anchorage, AK c. 2000 … met her backstage. What a trouper. I really DO think she remembered me!
How about Iron Maiden, particularly Bruce Dickinson. He’s my age, 57, and runs around like a wild man during their concerts.
Mick Jaggers mom lived to be in her 80’s and his father lived to be in his 90’s. If family history and living an active life have anything to do with it, I believe he will easily live 100 years or more. The man is has an amazing cardio system dancing, running and singing for 2 hours straight.
A friend said there was a guy on the Jersey shore I had to see name of… Sprongstein? Springsteel? Kid had it! When I got engaged, I told my fiancée she had to see him live before we could get married. Fifteen years had passed, but he had just as much energy.
Runners up for me: Squeeze (Difford and Tilbrook are in their 60s, but never stopped playing, they just changed beats and keys and kept going, for hours!), Al Cooper, Weird Al, Green Day (had to keep up with the middle-school boys that filled most of the seats), Al Green and Neil Finn (in the Been Doing It Forever category, but seems to GET energy from performing instead of using it up).