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11:44 AM GMT 05/12/2008
Excitement, hits, bum notes, heckling: the spirit of rock’n’roll is alive and well in the grooves of the live album, says MOJO’s Stevie Chick.
IT WAS A TIME BEFORE the Internet – before file-sharing and downloading left much of the rock discography only a mouse-click away – and I was a budding rock obsessive, haunting the racks of Big Star Records, my local second-hand vinyl emporium, poring over sleevenotes and tracklistings, planning a voyage of discovery across a mysterious classic rock canon.
My preferred point-of-entry was the Live Album, a strategy inspired by a summer spent obsessing over my dad’s battered copy of The Who’s Live At Leeds: a scrappy faux-bootleg housing a sheaf of photocopied Who memorabilia and six sonic monsters that the band struggled to control. It was the epic, excursive My Generation that really sent me, Pete Townshend’s riffs leading the group through a series of high-drama instrumental vignettes the studio version had never even hinted at.
Live At Leeds convinced me of this: a Greatest Hits compilation might contain a group’s most famous tracks, but Live Albums delivered the same, only louder, wilder, and with longer solos. Ergo, Live Albums were objectively, unquestionably better.
At their best, Live Albums freeze the moments we all wish we’d witnessed: unexpected cover versions, guest appearances, performances that utterly eclipse the studio originals. Moments like Nina Simone and a gospel choir re-interpreting My Sweet Lord as a twenty-minute anti-war hymn before an audience of GIs at Fort Dix military base on 1972’s Emergency Ward; like the feverish interplay between drummers Clyde Stubblefield and Nate Jones throughout a thirteen-minute Cold Sweat off James Brown’s Say It Live And Loud: Live In Dallas 1968; like Aretha Franklin walking Ray Charles onstage for her encore on At The Fillmore West, trading verses with him throughout the sinfully funky gospel of Spirit In The Dark.
Live Albums possess an unguarded intimacy, the warts’n’all the studio aims to airbrush away. The Rolling Stones of 1970’s Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out played loose and dropped plenty of bum notes, but there’s a ragged violence to Jumpin’ Jack Flash that punches harder than the chart-topping studio take. Candid between-song banter is always a highlight, be it Lou Reed excoriating rock critic Robert Christgau on his Take No Prisoners set ("What does Robert Christgau do in bed? Is he a toe f****r?"), or George Clinton’s confession that he’s “higher than a motherf****r” on Funkadelic’s Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan.
The greatest Live Albums feel like key scenes from a Rockumentary; their performances aren’t just another night on the tour, but landmarks, milestones, moments that illuminate the artist’s legend somehow. The revolutionary chaos of MC5’s Kick Out The Jams – and the frenzied parties at Detroit’s Old Grande Ballroom that the album documents – was so crucial to the mythos of the group that it remains the definitive MC5 album – detuned guitars, feedback and all.
In the hilarious music video for Yo La Tengo’s Sugarcube, Bob Odenkirk (playing headmaster of an imaginary School Of Rock) lectures his students on the ‘Foghat Principle’, that your every fourth album must be “Double Live”. While Foghat Live was, in fact, the blues-rockers’ seventh release, and a single disk at that, the Foghat Principle seemed to rule the Classic Rock era, when cutting concert albums was a staple of a touring rock band’s career. Today, groups like Pearl Jam and The Who sell soundboard recordings from every concert via their fanclubs, while British company Concertlive have hooked up with artists like The Raconteurs, Brett Anderson and Roots Manuva to sell recordings of that evening’s performance at the merchandise desk minutes after the gig’s finished. The Live Album as we once knew it, however, now seems a rarity, and recent efforts by multi-platinum rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers and Oasis are little better than tepid Greatest Hits packages with crowd noise tacked on.
Illicit live recording, however, still thrives, with modern technology offering digital recording devices that are easily hidden from venue security; indeed, most of us could adequately bootleg a concert ourselves on a mobile phone. The advent of the internet, however, means these modern bootleggers are more likely to be sharing their recordings with fellow fans for free, rather than trying to turn a sneaky profit on a stack of Xerox-inlaid C90s down the local flea market.
Not so the mysterious collector who, earlier this year, pressed up 100 copies of a previously uncirculated Velvet Underground show at New York City Gymnasium, 1967, and sold them on ebay. Claimed to be John Cale’s final gig with the band, its authenticity has been questioned by fans, with one web site suggesting the tape might be the work of an imaginative Velvets covers band; but the searing 19-minute Sister Ray sounds like the real thing to me.
To some, the interest stirred by the discovery of a 40-year-old recording of a pop concert might seem puzzling. But for those of us with a fascination for rock’s evolution, such recordings are precious relics, offering the invaluable opportunity to listen in on history being made. There’s very few of us who could claim of such epochal gigs, “I was there”; but at least, sometimes, we can better imagine how it must have sounded.
Stevie Chick
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Live Albums can really weird your idea of what certain songs "should" sound like. On the principle of hits per shekel, the first Jam album I bought was Dig The New Breed, and so I’ve always preferred those versions of The Dreams Of Children and Ghosts. Ditto Joy Division: every time I hear Transmission or Isolation I expect it them at the tempos of the live versions off Still.
Posted by Clothears at 12:41 PM GMT 05/12/2008 Report Abuse
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1 - At Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
2 - Live At Leeds - The Who
3 - Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4 - The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966 - Bob Dylan
5 - Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Bruce Springsteen
6 - Rockin' The Fillmore - Humble Pie
7 - Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
8 - Live! - Kiss
9 - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - Motörhead
10 - If You Want Blood You've Got It - AC/DC
At Budokan - Cheap Thrill
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star club 64-jerry lee lewis
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1. At Fillmore East - Allman Bros. Band; The live album by which to judge all other live albums, to this day unimpeachable from it's lofty spot at No.1.
2. Not a specific album but a recorded perfromance; Otis Redding at Monterrey. The tochstone for a million funk bands.
3. Lotus - Santana.
4. Delaney & Bonnie and Friends w/Eric Clapton - On The Road; also features an uncredited (by name) George Harrison.
5. George Harrison & Friends - Concert For Bangla Desh; Live Aid starts here.
6. Live At Leeds - The Who; showed the uninitiated hitherto unknown heights to where the Who could go. The original edit is definitive. Later expanded issues also show how low live recording can go.
7. James Brown - At The Apollo. Original volume is a marker. Same comments for the recent Vol.2 as per Live At Leeds.
8. Live At Georgia Theatre - Derek Trucks Band. A sublime contemporary live recording of sublime musicians playing sublime music. Live recording at the peak of it's craft. Includes a killer 'Freddie's Dead' alone worth the price of admission.
9. Concert For George.......
10. Concert For George, natch.
Posted by 'arry Krishner at 2:12 PM GMT 08/12/2008 Report Abuse
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Hot Snakes - "Thunder Down Under"
Crowd noise is overrated.
Posted by Stella at 10:14 PM GMT 08/12/2008 Report Abuse
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1. Slade: Alive !
2. Cheap Trick: At Budokan
3. AWB: Person to Person
4. MCartney: Wings over America
5. The Who: Live at Leeds
6. Joe Cocker: Mad dogs & Englishman
7. Peter Gabriel: Plays Live
8. Jethro Tull: A little light music
9. Queen: Queen on fire: Live at the Bowl
10.Various: Concert for George
Posted by Martin Engel at 11:35 AM GMT 09/12/2008 Report Abuse
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1.At Fillmore East/Allman Brothers Band
2.Live Rust/Neil Young
3.Waiting For Columbus/Little Feat
4.Live At Blues Alley/Eva Cassidy
5.Live At Leeds/The Who
6.Fragments Of A Rainy Season/John Cale
7.Spread Your Wings And Fly/Laura Nyro
8.Woodstock
9.Live 1975/Bob Dylan
10.Donovan In Concert/Donovan
Posted by Tak at 2:51 AM GMT 11/12/2008 Report Abuse
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Live albums, when recorded under the right conditions with the band in top form, are must haves. The best live albums have always been the ones which have captured an artist or band just as they were reaching their peak or about to go 'massive'! Examples of this would be the afore mentioned 'Live At Leeds'; Elton John's '17 11 70'; Neil Diamond's 'Hot August Night'; Motorhead's 'No Sleep...' and Kiss' 'Alive!'
Here are a few more that are rated very highly round my parts.
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Tom Petty - Pack Up The Plantation
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills - Super Session
Marley & The Wailers - Live
Gary Numan - Living Ornaments 79
Whitesnake - Live...In The Heart Of The City
Santana - Lotus
Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now
Posted by Space Is Deep at 5:45 AM GMT 16/12/2008 Report Abuse
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Not in Any particular order, but these Live albums were crucial to my developing my musical taste at an early age:
1. Foghat - Live
2. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
3. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
4. Sammy Hagar - All Night Long
5. Derringer - Live
6. UFO - Strangers in the Night
7. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
8. Uriah Heep - Live
9. Black Sabbath - Live at Last
10. Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Posted by Dan Reed at 3:15 PM GMT 16/12/2008 Report Abuse
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Rush - Exit Stage Left
Husker Du - The Living End
Guided by Voices - Jellyfish Reflector
Neil Young - Live Rust
Rain Parade - Beyond the Sunset
Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening
and the best of all...
Galaxie 500 - Copenhagen
Plenty of bands have, as yet, to release a decent live album - Mogwai, Jesus & Mary Chain, Yes,
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Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Weather Report - 8:30
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Rock of Ages - The Band
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RAMONES "It's Alive!"
Deep Purple "Made in Japan"
Rolling Stones "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out"
Bob Dylan "The Bootleg Series Vol. 4"
David Bowie "BBC Radio Theatre, June 27th 2000"
Otis Redding "Live In Europe"
Motorhead "No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith"
The Who "Live At Leeds"
Led Zeppelin "How The West Was Won"
"Frank Sinatra At The Sands"
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1. PiL - Paris Au Printemps
2. Joy Division - Preston Warehouse
3. Elvis - That's The Way It Is
4. Serge Gainsbourg - Au Palace
5. The Fall - The 27 Points
6. Masters Of Reality - Flak 'N' Flight
7. Bob Dylan - Live '75 (Bootleg Vol. 5)
8. Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall
9. The Clash - Live At Shea
10.Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
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1. PiL - Paris Au Printemps
2. Joy Division - Preston Warehouse
3. Elvis - That's The Way It Is
4. Serge Gainsbourg - Au Palace
5. The Fall - The 27 Points
6. Masters Of Reality - Flak 'N' Flight
7. Bob Dylan - Live '75 (Bootleg Vol. 5)
8. Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall
9. The Clash - Live At Shea
10.Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
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1. Live At Leeds - The Who
2. Made In Japan - Deep Purple
3. Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones
4. Viva! - Roxy Music
5. Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
6. On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult
7. Rock n' Roll Animal - Lou Reed
8. At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band
9. One More From The Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. It's Alive - Ramones
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Favourite Live Albums - no particular order.
"Live at the Sahara Taho" - Isaac Hayes.
"Live at the Bitter End" - Curtis Mayfield.
"Live at the Apollo - Volume 2 - Deluxe Edition - James Brown.
"Live at the Sex Machine" - Kool & The Gang.
"Alive" Terry Callier.
"It's Your World" - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
"Love, Power & Peace" - James Brown
"Live at the Filmore West" - Aretha Franklin & King Curtis.
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Favourite Live Albums - no particular order.
"Live at the Sahara Taho" - Isaac Hayes.
"Live at the Bitter End" - Curtis Mayfield.
"Live at the Apollo - Volume 2 - Deluxe Edition - James Brown.
"Live at the Sex Machine" - Kool & The Gang.
"Alive" Terry Callier.
"It's Your World" - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
"Love, Power & Peace" - James Brown
"Live at the Filmore West" - Aretha Franklin & King Curtis.
Posted by David Lees at 4:50 PM GMT 22/01/2009 Report Abuse
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How about;
The Kinks, "One for the road"
The Ramones, "It's alive"
Ted Nugent, "Double(of course)Live Gonzo"
Talking Heads,"Stop making sense"
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1 LIVE AT FILLMORE EAST THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
2 LOVE POWER & PEACE JAMES BROWN
3 ELVIS LIVE AT THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL
4 THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS
5 EUROPE 72 THE GRATEFUL DEAD
6 ROCK OF AGES THE BAND
7 DYLAN LIVE 1966 ROYAL ALBERT HALL
8 OLYMPIA 1967 THE ROLLING STONES
9 ALABAMA SHOW JERRY LEE LEWIS
10 ROCK N ROLL ANIMAL LOU REED
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1 live at pompeii: pink floyd
2 band of gipsy: hendrix
3 made in japan: deep purple
4 live at filmore east: tha allman brothers
5 how the west was won: led zeppelin
Posted by Anonymous at 6:32 PM GMT 16/02/2009 Report Abuse
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On a slightly different tack; the Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Live at Slane Castle" DVD is one of the best records of a band in peak form that I've come across in ages.
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I have to agree with Steve Chick's article. I always found the live album to be an exciting and powerful example of bands doing what they do best. I have many live albums in my collection and when buying an album by a band for the first time, invariably, it would be their live album that I would choose. Here are ten live albums which had a real impact on me over the years (in no particular order):
1. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
2. Rockin' the Filmore - Humble Pie
3. Live at Filmore East - Allman Brothers
4. Frampton comes Alive - Peter Frampton
5. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
6. The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
7. Rock'n'Roll Animal - Lou Reed
8. Live Rust - Neil Young
9. Live Dates - Wishbone Ash
10. Free Live - Free
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1. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Yas Yas Out
2. The Allman Bros. Band - Live At Fillmore East
3. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
4. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live at Fillmore East
5. Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
6. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
7. B.B. King - Live at Cook County Jail
8. Nirvana - Unplugged
9. Bob Dylan - "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
10. The Who - Live at Leeds
Posted by Al at 11:56 PM GMT 11/03/2009 Report Abuse
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Off the top of my head - Rolling Stones - 'Love You Live' - One of the best live album I've heard - If you turn it up loud enough - You can easily get the mental image -
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Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool
Rush - In Rio
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Colosseum - Live
Little Feat - Wating For Columbus
Robin Trower - Live
Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out
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Zappa in New York is seriously impressive, really good improvisation stuff, better than ridiculously long jams on thigns like Live in Japan.
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1.- Queen: Live Killers
2.- The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out
3.- UFO: Strangers in the Night
4.- Tesla: Five Man Acooustical Jam
5.- Thin Lizzy: Live and DAngerous
6.- The Who: Live at Leeds
7.- The Rolling Stones: Love You Live
8.- Aerosmith: Live Bootleg
9.- Rainbow: On Stage
10.- Johnny Cash: At Folson Prison / At San Quentin
11.- Curtis Mayfield: Curtis Live
12.- Parlamient: Live
13.- Neil Young: Live Rust
14.- Bruce Springsteen: Live 1975-1985
15.- Scorpions: World Wide Live
16.- Scorpions: Tokyo Tapes
17.- Rush: All the World's a Stage
18.-´Whitesnake: Live...in the Heart of the City
19.- Hanoi Rocks: All Those Waisted Years
20.- Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour
p.s. dependig on the day, change the order of the list
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'All That Glitters Is A Maresnest' by Cardiacs, is a fantastic live album that really captures the live atmosphere and sound of the band.
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1 'Live at Leeds': The Who
2 'Live 1975' Bob Dylan
3 'Live Rust' Neil Young
4 'It's Too Late to Stop Now' Van Morrison
5 'Made in Japan' Deep Purple
5 'Live in Europe' Rory Gallagher
6 'Colosseum Live' Colosseum
7 'Live and Dangerous 'Thin Lizzy
8 'Live 1966' Bob Dylan
9 'Live at Massey Hall' Neil Young
10 'Unplugged' Nirvana
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10. Nektar - Unidentified Flying Abstract (Live at Chipping Norton 1974)
9. Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal
8. Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Live at the Fillmore East
7. Galactic- Live at Tipitina's
6. Frank Zappa- Zappa in New York
5. The Band- The Last Waltz
4. Derek & The Dominos- Live at the Fillmore
3. Various- Bill Graham Presents Fillmore: The Last Days Soundtrack
2. King Crimson- USA
1. Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsys
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1. RAH-Bob Dylan 1966 (BS)
2. IT´S ALIVE-Ramones 1978
3. GY YA YA´S OUT-R.Stones 1970
4. LIVE RUST-Neil Young 1979
5. ALIVE-Kiss 1975
6. R´N´R ANIMAL-Lou Reed 1974
7. HARD RAIN-Bob Dylan 1976
8. LA LEEDS-Who 1971
9. LOVE YOU LIVE (side 3 only)-R.Stones
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Pezband- 30 Seconds Over Shaumburg
Pezband-Too Old Too Soon (Live at Dingwalls)
Donny Hathaway Live
Tom Jones Live At Ceasar's Palace
Curtis Mayfield Live
Cannonball Adderly Live At Operation Breadbasket
Savoy Brown- A Step Further (side two is live)
Traffic Live At The Canteen
Shadows Of Knight Live At The Cellar
Neil Young- A Young Man's Fancy
Off Broadway Live At Fitzgerald's
Concert For Kampechea (various artists)
Revolting Cocks- You Goddam Son Of A Bitch Live At Metro
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Spacemen 3-Performance
Velvet Underground-Live 69
The Heads-At Last/Tilburg
Loop-Live 90
Pretty Things-Amsterdam 69
Electric Prunes-Stockholm 67
Seeds-Raw & Alive (well live in the studio!)
White Heaven-Electric Cool Acid (87/88)
Yardbirds-Anderson Theatre
The Who-Fillmore 68
Them live tracks from the simply saucer lp
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Big Star Records! What a great shop RIP.
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1. Queen - Live Killers
2. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
3. Wings - Wings over America
4. Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now
5. Tom Petty - Pack Up The Plantation
6. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
7. Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out
8. Donny Hathaway - Live
9. Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
10. Aretha Franklin - Live at the Filmore West
11. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
12. Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall
13. The Band - Rock of Ages
14. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Live
15. Mott The Hoople - Live
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One of the first records I ever got to hear was "Beach Boys Concert" released by Capitol Records in 1964. My older cousin owned it and would let me play it whenever we visited.
My favorites include:
Beach Boys-Concert (1964)
Beatles- Live at The Hollywood Bowl (1977)
Elvis Costello & The Attraction- Live at The El-Mocombo (1979)
Marshall Crenshaw- "I've Suffered For My Art.." (2001)
The Who-Live At Leeds
Creedence Clearwater Revival- The Royal Albert Hall Concert
Ramones- It's Alive
Toad The Wet Sprocket- Acoustic Dance Party (1994)
Blue Rodeo- Blue Road (2008)
Beat Farmers- Loud & Plowed & Live! (1990)
Richard Barone- Cool Blue Halo (1987)
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THE WHO- Live at Leeds (of course)
QUEEN- Live at Wembly Stadium '86
LED ZEPPLIN- How The West Was Won
PINK FLOYD- Delicate Sound of Thunder
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Great points you make, Stevie. But what we really need is some new, fresh marketeers who get the kick on the heels of nowadays record company people. And then make work of releasing the real golden bootlegs that have been hidden in the grey are for many years.
So, I'm thinking of the following ten must be releases:
1. The Rolling Stones: "Brussels Affair" (definitively the best Stones live album ever, Brussels 1973, with devellish versions of Midnight Rambler -fifteen glorious minutes and Rip This Joint, less than two punky minutes)
2. Bruce Springsteen: any recorded gig of the Darkness tour, so votes go for Winterland, Roxy, Agora or Passaic.
3. Bob Dylan: the late 1980 gospel shows (half of that stuff being unreleased, traditionals and Hallelujah, the lord himself on the other haof of the tracks)
4. Neil Young: Tonight's The Night Tour, Manchester 1973. Out there for many years on hissy cds, now the real stuff
5. Tom Petty: Fillmore East 1997. A nearly four hour journey through Petty's career, including his own basement tapes and a dozen covers being his favourites
6. Paul Weller: Shepperd's Bush 1996, club show promoting Stanley Road, but most of all showcasing the guts, genius and huge f***ya's to record company idiots.
7. Lou Reed: Bottom Line, NYC 1983, with the crazy talented late Robert Quine in guitar, Velvet revisited
8. Oasis: Knebworth and Maine Road 1996, the boys' greatest live hours before they delved into the white swimming pool.
9. The Clash: Palladium, NYC 1981 Police and fans and... Strummer in between them.
10. John Cale's Carribean Sunset 1984 tour and forget about the half cooked official Comes Alive album.
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Live at Leeds and Get yer ya-ya's out should be high on any music lovers top list. My personal favorites would include:
Complete concerts:
Live Dead and Complete Fillmore West recordings - Grateful Dead (and a few Dick's Picks: most notably February 13/14 and May 2 1970): acid rock composed on the spot
Hampton comes alive - Phish: funky, bluesy, imprvational and funny, they can do it all
Live at Massy Hall - Neil Young: where would we be without vault releases?
Concerts compiled from various concerts:
Weld - Neil Young: it oozes atmosphere, both in the ballads and in the rockers
Roxy and Elsewhere - Zappa: some of the best musicians playing some of the most coplicated music
Live at the Roxy - Brian Wilson: the most anticipated return to the stage
Live 1975 - Dylan: the album Hard rain should have been
Live at the Fillmore - Derek & the Dominoes: ultimate guitar solo album
Live at Fillmore east - Allman Brothers: the other ultimate guitar solo album, with better singers
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Without a doubt, the best live album I've ever heard - I still get goose-bumps and the hair on the back of my neck stands on end everytime I play it - is 'Strangers In The Night' from UFO.
Also a good live album that is often overlooked is Grand Funk Railroad's "Live Album", which was also incidentally the very same album I got for my eighth birthday, forever solidifying what would eventually become a life long love affair with rock & roll/heavy metal. Then KISS' 'Alive' took it to a whole other level and it's interesting none of these three were even given honorable mention.
For me, the cool thing about live albums is that in a dark room with your eyes closed, if you try half way hard, you can almost transport yourself there.
Cheers!
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RE: Rogerio
the best live album are.
1. Allman Brothers live at Fillmore East
2. Van Morrison It's too late to stop now
3. Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
4. Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous
5. Who Live at Leeds
6. Return to Forever live at Montreux 2009
7. Talking Heads stop making sense
8. Lou Reed Rock'n'Roll Animal
9. Frank Zappa Roxy & elsewere
10.Gabriel plays live
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1. Bob Marley Live at the lyceum
2. johnny Cash at San Quentin
3. The Who Live at Leeds
4. Deep Purple made in Japan
5.Unplugged Neil Young
6.Pulse Pink Floyd
7. David Gilmour live in Gdansk
8. Paul Weller Days of speed
9.Wings over America
10.The Beatles live at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted by steve park in poole at 8:55 PM GMT 27/10/2009 Report Abuse
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Админ, обнови вордпресс, нашли уязвимость хаккеры в предыдущих версиях.
По теме-не плохо написал, но как-то поверхностно.
Posted by Alxei at 10:38 AM GMT 30/10/2009 Report Abuse
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live albums begin and end with 'secons out' - genesis
Posted by chris at 6:33 AM GMT 31/10/2009 Report Abuse
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Rock and Roll Animal by Lou Reed fits the songs far better than in the studio and contains some great guitar.
Electric Lycanthrope is Little Feat's almost official bootleg and really illustrates what a strength their live performances were.
Hendrix in the West is a blitz and every Richard Thompson live track I have I love. Bob Marley's live music bristles with atmosphere and emotion.
My sister played an Amen Corner live album to death was I was younger which had a strange name something like The National Welsh Live Explosion Company and that didn't put me off.
Good live tracks are always exciting and immediate.
Posted by Steve Jowett at 6:43 PM GMT 31/10/2009 Report Abuse
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Rock and Roll Animal by Lou Reed fits the songs far better than in the studio and contains some great guitar.
Electric Lycanthrope is Little Feat's almost official bootleg and really illustrates what a strength their live performances were.
Hendrix in the West is a blitz and every Richard Thompson live track I have I love. Bob Marley's live music bristles with atmosphere and emotion.
My sister played an Amen Corner live album to death was I was younger which had a strange name something like The National Welsh Live Explosion Company and that didn't put me off.
Good live tracks are always exciting and immediate.
Posted by Steve Jowett at 6:46 PM GMT 31/10/2009 Report Abuse
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"Live" albums can cheat. Consider "Live and Dangerous" by Thin Lizzy, most of which was re-recorded.
Posted by thegenuineseer at 8:52 PM GMT 31/10/2009 Report Abuse
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Allmans: Live at Fillmore East
Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus
Rory Gallagher: Irish and Europe tours
Dead: Europe 72, Fillmore East April 71
Who: Live at Leeds
Stones: Get Yer Ya-Yas
Bob Marley: Live
Wishbone Ash: Live dates
Renaissance: Live at Carnegie Hall
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Animal
B.B. King: live at the Regal (this is the one all the white blues players learned from..)
Posted by EdM at 10:33 PM GMT 09/11/2009 Report Abuse
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Хех, понравился пост. Так держать-успехов в дальнейшем развитии блога.
Posted by Dmitry at 12:15 PM GMT 10/11/2009 Report Abuse
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Agree about most of them especially Live at Leeds, Rock of Ages, Band of Gypsies and Europe 72 but Absolutely Live was for a long time in my youth my favourite Doors album
Posted by herdie at 10:26 AM GMT 13/11/2009 Report Abuse
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Get yer ya ya's out
blessed its little pointed head
live at leeds
happy trails
live @ the deaf club
Still
absolutely live
live 1966 (dylan)
live dead
live @ fillmore (allman bros)
live@fillmore east (neil young)
live @ cow palace (neil young)
Donny Hathaway live
Woodstock
Posted by psyk at 10:57 AM GMT 27/11/2009 Report Abuse
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Get yer ya ya's out
blessed its little pointed head
live at leeds
Band of gypsies
happy trails
live @ the deaf club
Still
absolutely live
live 1966 (dylan)
live dead
live @ fillmore (allman bros)
live@fillmore east (neil young)
live @ cow palace (neil young)
Donny Hathaway live
Woodstock
Posted by psyk at 10:58 AM GMT 27/11/2009 Report Abuse
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От души желаю автору успешного развития блога. Почитал-посмотрел, очень всё понравилось. Побольше бы таких ресурсов в сети и не пришлось бы перебирать тонны никчёмных сайтов, а порой и с вирусами что бы найти нужную информацию. Удачи, бро :)
Posted by Zoojelegreest at 11:47 AM GMT 27/11/2009 Report Abuse
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1-At Fillmore West-Allman B.B.
2-Live Bullet-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
3-Rust Never Sleep-Neil Young
4-Live Johnny Winter And
6-Live At Leeds-The Who
7-Irish Tour 74-Rory Gallagher
8-Live At Regal-B.B.King
9-Get Yer Yas-Ya's Out?-The Rolling Stones
10-Live At The Harlem Square-Sam Cooke
Posted by Roque Soto at 8:01 PM GMT 02/12/2009 Report Abuse
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nice site ^) good gob
Posted by Zoojelegreest at 10:51 AM GMT 19/12/2009 Report Abuse
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Привет! С удовольствием почитал Ваш блог. Хочу также поздравить Вас и всех читателей этого блога с новым 2010 годом. Удачи всем, новых жизненных побед и исполнения всех ваших замыслов. :)
Posted by grinnapotbarp at 9:11 AM GMT 28/12/2009 Report Abuse
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Three great live albums people have missed:
Thin White Rope: The one that got away
My Morning Jacket: Okonokos
Television: The Blow Up
In one word: Guitars!!!
Posted by Grandbraquet at 10:25 PM GMT 28/01/2010 Report Abuse
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I've noticed that this thread has been running for a while and nobody has mentioned the still underrated 'king of song noir" WARREN ZEVON one of the top three singer/songwriters of the 20th century.
Top 10 Live Albums
1. WARREN ZEVON - STAND IN THE FIRE
"Get up an' dance or I'll kill ya. An' I have the means..." Classic Warren.
2. The Who - Live at Leeds
3.The Rolling Stones - Get yer Ya-yas Out
"Charlie's good tonight, in 'e?"
4. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
5. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Volume 4
6. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East
7. WARREN ZEVON - LEARNING TO FLINCH
8. Motorhead - No Sleep 'till Hammersmith
9. Grateful Dead - Skulls & Roses
10. Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
Posted by Ritchie Bowen at 10:35 AM GMT 30/01/2010 Report Abuse
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All time favourite ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
followed by, in no particular order;
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the live sides, natch)
Bob Marley & the wailers - Live
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Doors - Absolutely Live
CSN&Y - For Way Street
JA - Bless It's Pointed Little Head
Elton John - 17-11-1970
Lou Reed - Live
Bob Dylan - 1975 live
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Genesis - Seconds Out
The Band - The Last Waltz
I could go on, but you get the picture.
Posted by Bernard Knight at 5:59 PM GMT 07/02/2010 Report Abuse
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All time favourite ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
followed by, in no particular order;
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the live sides, natch)
Bob Marley & the wailers - Live
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Doors - Absolutely Live
CSN&Y - For Way Street
JA - Bless It's Pointed Little Head
Elton John - 17-11-1970
Lou Reed - Live
Bob Dylan - 1975 live
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Genesis - Seconds Out
The Band - The Last Waltz
I could go on, but you get the picture.
Posted by Bernard Knight at 6:05 PM GMT 07/02/2010 Report Abuse
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All time favourite ...
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity
followed by, in no particular order;
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Gotta Let This Hen Out!
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (the live sides, natch)
Bob Marley & the wailers - Live
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Doors - Absolutely Live
CSN&Y - For Way Street
JA - Bless It's Pointed Little Head
Elton John - 17-11-1970
Lou Reed - Live
Bob Dylan - 1975 live
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Genesis - Seconds Out
The Band - The Last Waltz
I could go on, but you get the picture.
Posted by Bernard Knight at 6:18 PM GMT 07/02/2010 Report Abuse
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Good to see 'Love you live' getting a few mentions - you can really feel the atmosphere, smell the drugs and booze. Another live album that often gets a bit of a slagging is 'David Live', definately my favourite live Bowie. Other top live albums are Quo 'Live' from 77 which has a 16 minute 45 second version of Forty five hundred times, Bruce at Hammersmith, UFO 'strangers in the night' Sammy Hagar 'Live, loud and clear' and Slade 'Alive'. And a couple of the obvious ones would be 'Live at Leeds' and 'Live and dangerous'. My all time winner has to be 'Back to the bars' by Todd Rundgren though.
Posted by Tont Smith at 5:03 PM GMT 12/02/2010 Report Abuse
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1. Slade Alive
2. Black Crowes - live
3. Kiss Alive (1)
4. Song remains the same - Led Zeppelin
5. How the west was won - Led Zeppelin
6. Reading Festival UK 1981 - Rose Tattoo (unofficial)
7. Get yer ya yas out - Stones
8. Made in Japan - Deep Purple
9. NY 1982 - Joan Jett (unofficial)
10. It's Alive - Ramones
Posted by Dave Australia at 9:11 PM GMT 28/02/2010 Report Abuse
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Picking ten great live albums is a tough call, so here goes :-
1- Metallic K.O :- Iggy And The Stooges
2- Space Ritual :- Hawkwind
3- Live At The Village Vanguard :- Sonny Rollins
4- Kick Out The Jams :- MC5
5- Live At The Apollo Vol 1 :- James Brown
6- Live At Leeds :- The Who
7- Live In Paris 1962 :- Frank Sinatra
8- My Funny Valentine :- Miles Davis
9- Down In The Village :- Tubby Hayes
10- Sabotage :- John Cale
There are loads more, but this will have to do. Can I go now ?
Posted by Rob J at 12:13 PM GMT 21/03/2010 Report Abuse
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and what about the Modern Lovers Live...JJ (Jimmy Jazz?) from Belgium. And Farewell To The World by Crowded House
Posted by JJ at 3:03 PM GMT 25/03/2010 Report Abuse
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Best live albums top ten
1 live and dangerous -thin lizzy
2 made in japan-deep purple
3 the song remains the same(exp.rem.)-led zeppelin
4 live-free
5 band of gypsies- jimi hendrix
6 rock ,n roll animal-lou reed
7 on your feet or on your knees-blue oyster cult
8 live without a net-angel
9 david live(74)-david bowie
10how the west was won- led zeppelin
Posted by gert-jan wassink at 2:20 PM GMT 31/03/2010 Report Abuse
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01 Dave Mason - Certified Live
02 801 - Live
03.Be Bop DeLuxe - Live in the airage
04 Mothers Finest - Live
05 James Taylor - One Man Band
06 Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall
07 Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
08 Doobie Brothers - Farewell Tour
09 Deep Purple - Made in Japan
10 Japan - Oil on Canvas
Posted by Florian / Germany at 3:37 AM GMT 01/04/2010 Report Abuse
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1 The Rolling Stones "Get yer Ya Ya's Out"
2 Elvis Presley "Live at the international hotel"
3 Neil Young "Live At Massey Hall"
4 Bob Dylan "Bootleg serie 1966"
5 Led Zeppelin "Don't mess with texas"
Posted by Goba at 1:08 PM GMT 01/04/2010 Report Abuse
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My favorite live albums: Not in any order..
The Who - Live At Leeds
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
KISS - Alive! and Alive II
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Foghat - Live
Humble Pie - Live at the Fillmore
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Rush - Exit.. Stage Left
Clapton - 24 Nights
HSAS - Through the Fire
Journey - Captured
These are some of my favorites.. and helped shape me as a guitar player..
Posted by FrianBonJoster at 6:02 PM GMT 19/04/2010 Report Abuse
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Nice to read about people who have the same view in discovering new and exciting music, even when it's way old....
I started loving live albums when I was a wee heavy metal fan:
Thin Lizzy - life live
MSG - One night in Budokan
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the east
UFO - Strangers in the night
Rush - Exit stage left (0r any other, I think rush is the only band who actually stuck to the Foghat rule until recently)
Iron Maiden - Live after death
Later on I discovered some brilliant classic rock through live albums
Jethro Tull - Bursting out
Allman Brothers Band - at Fillmore East
Gov't Mule - at rosewood ballroom
Wishbone Ash - Stages
Rory Gallagher - Stage struck
Posted by Leen van Velzen at 4:00 PM GMT 20/04/2010 Report Abuse
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1.Bruce Springsteen - Live 75/85
2.Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now
3.The Who - Live At Leed
4.Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
5.Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills - Super Session
6.Woodstock
7.Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangrous
8.Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
9.Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
10.Peter Frampton - Frampton comes Alive
Posted by Mycall at 7:09 AM GMT 23/04/2010 Report Abuse
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1.Bruce Springsteen - Live 75/85
2.Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now
3.The Who - Live At Leed
4.Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
5.Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills - Super Session
6.Woodstock
7.Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangrous
8.Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
9.Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
10.Peter Frampton - Frampton comes Alive
Posted by mycall at 7:11 AM GMT 23/04/2010 Report Abuse
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The Talking Heads - The name of this band is Talking Heads
The Ramones- It´s alive
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club
The Rolling Stones - Brussels affair
Bruce Springsteen - Prodigal son at Wintrland
Lou Reed - Rock and roll animal
Television - Double exposure
The Kinks - Dancing with Sleepwalker
The Who - Live at Leeds
Bruce Springsteen - Agora night
Posted by An at 10:00 AM GMT 10/05/2010 Report Abuse
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RE: Rogerio Moraes Forgot a very important one.Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same.
Posted by STV at 12:50 PM GMT 14/05/2010 Report Abuse
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These are the worst:
Led Zeppelin - The song remains the same
Tom Petty - Pack up the plantation
The Rolling Stones - Love you live
Peter Frampton - Frampton comes alive
Queen - Live killers
Dire Straits - alchemy
Yes - Yesshows
Deep Purple -Made in Europe
Van der Graaf - vital
The Jam - Dig the new breed
Posted by Anonymous at 8:58 AM GMT 21/05/2010 Report Abuse
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ten more
Van Morrison - Too Late To Stop Now
Bob Dylan - Royal Albert Hall
Bruce Springsteen - Passaic night
Television - Waldorf Moon
Patti Smith- I never talked to Bob Dylan
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
MC5 - Kick out the jams
Bruce Springsteen - No private party
The Plimsouls - Lie, beg, borrow & steal
Bruce Springsteen - Hammersmith Odeon
Posted by An at 9:15 AM GMT 21/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:19 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:20 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:21 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:21 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:21 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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Here are my choices:
1) King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
2) Live At Leeds - The Who
3) Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones
4) If You Want Blood... - AC DC
5) Live At Berkeley - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6) Live At the Fillmore West - Aretha Franklin
7) Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
8) How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
9) The Bootleg Series Volume 4 - Bob Dylan
10) Ellington At Newport 56 - Duke Ellington
Posted by Anthony Kerr at 9:21 PM GMT 24/05/2010 Report Abuse
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My Favorite all time Live record is Live Transmissions From Uranus by Man... Or Astroman? a perfect example of the excitment of that bands shows.
Other ones I like include:
Humble Pie - Perfomance Rockin the Filmore
The Who - Live at Leeds (I like the full double CD entire concert)
Cheap Trick - Budokan (again the double CD full concert is my fave)
MC5 - Kick out The Jams
Grand Funk - Live Album
Posted by Atomic at 11:46 PM GMT 04/06/2010 Report Abuse
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Jerry Lee Lewis. Star Club Hamburg. Apocalyptical rock,n,roll. Frighteningly intense stuff. It just doesn,t get any better.
Posted by Paul Bonner at 9:11 AM GMT 11/06/2010 Report Abuse
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Van der graaf - Vital.
Frightening in its intensity.
Posted by Anonymous at 2:07 PM GMT 07/07/2010 Report Abuse
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Van der graaf - Vital.
Frightening in its intensity.
Posted by znpnine at 2:07 PM GMT 07/07/2010 Report Abuse
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Whammer jammer, Dicko! J. Geils Band's Full House!
Posted by labaliverne at 2:04 AM GMT 11/07/2010 Report Abuse
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Whammer jammer, Dicko! J. Geils Band's Full House.
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RE: PeterVanRock
Peter, anybody who claims On Your Feet and Live in Japan and Ramones in the same has a leg up on the rest of the world. Good job!
Posted by Doug at 2:44 AM GMT 13/08/2010 Report Abuse
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Some great vinyl live albums, in no particular order:
King Crimson: USA
Jimi Hendrix: At Fillmore East (the extended variant, not Band of Gypsies)
Genesis: Live
Uriah Heep: Live
Gentle Giant: Playing the Fool
The Band: The Last Waltz
Bob Dylan and the Band: Before the Flood
Posted by Lasse Stenman at 1:12 PM GMT 30/08/2010 Report Abuse
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Here's my favorite " live sides".
1)Iggy & The Stooges-"Metallic KO" The last Stooges show from 1974.Raw,sloppy,dangerous.You can hear the audience pelt the stage with bottles,eggs etc while Iggy taunts them and ask for more.
2)The Decline Of Western Civilization-OST
This where Punk Rock started for me.Great live cuts from Black Flag,Germs,X,Circle Jerks & the ultra funny Fear.
3)Butthole Surfers-Double Live
The Buttholes "beat the boots" with their own dodgy sounding live album.A bad acid trip never rocked soooo hard
4)Zappa/Mothers-Fillmore East
Flo & Eddie era Mothers.Mud Sharks,groupies & Happy Together?!
5)Ministry-In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
From their New Year's show in Chicago('89-'90).Ferociously slamming.A who's who of the Industrial,punk & metal underground players.
6)Bobby Conn & The Glass Gypsys-Live Classics Vol 1
Recorded live in an old school '70's recording studio in downtown Chicago.I was one of 50 lucky folks to be at the tapings for this album.Majestic,sick,insane & drunk are the words that come to mind.Do yourself a favor.
7)The Frogs-CBGayB
Self-released live album.Ripping through their classics "So Right & Natural" & "Racially Yours" albums.And yes,they will play "Freebird" if you ask them.
8)Grateful Dead-Live/Dead
This era of the Dead sends shivers down my spine."Dark Star" & St. Stephens are here.
9)The Ramones-It's Alive
Last time I heard this,I was pissed and dancing around in a kiddie pool.
10)Black Flag-Live 1984
Special mention goes to Bill Stevenson & Kira Roessler.The best damn rhythm section in the world.
Posted by The Angel Gabriel at 6:03 PM GMT 02/09/2010 Report Abuse
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too late to stop now/ van morrison
absolutely live/ doors
made in japan/ deep purple
Posted by okey dokey at 10:48 PM GMT 09/09/2010 Report Abuse
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13th Floor Elevators "Live In San Francisco"
Townes Van Zandt- "Live at The Old Quarter"
Buck Owens- "Live In Japan"
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