My Picks:
1. Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East
2. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies
3. Velvet Undergrounf Live 1969
4. Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Review 1975
5. Phish Live One

Live At Leeds The Who

Live albums are rarely to me very good music..more of a "mood" experience. One of my favorite "moods" in Live albums is rollin on the big Akai reel to reel right now though:

Frampton Comes Alive

What was it about this album that hits such a nerve? Unreal how many copies of this album, tape, and discs have been sold.

Some other favs..not great sound perhaps but Great moods :)

Foghat LIVE
Grand Funk Live
Around The World with Three Dog Night....don't laugh, if you grew up in the early 70's this was about the hottest make out band around..oh yea :banana:

And a defining classic of live rock albums:


Deep Purple Made in Japan

I vote for:
1. Made in Japan- Deep Purple, remasted edition
2. Live at Fillmore East- Ten Years After
3. Complex concert- Blue Man Group, rock?
4. Caught in the Act- Grand Funk
5. Live from San Francisco- Joe Satriani
6. 'Show that Never Ends- Emerson Lake and Palmer

FRIDAY NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - DiMeola, McGlaughlin, and DeLucia

Hmmmm, it's late but I'll give 'er the old college try.

Ramones - It's Alive
Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore East
Little Feat - Waiting For Colombus
The Doors - Alive
Iggy & the Stooges - Metallic K.O.
Blue Oyster Cult - On your Feet or on your Knees
The live side of the Byrds Untitled LP
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
Rollin' Stones - Get yer Ya Ya's Out
The Kinks - At the Kelvin Hall
Beatles - At the Beeb
Yardbirds - At the BBC
The Who - Live at Leeds (remastered)
Cream - Live
Jimi Hendrix - In the West

And many more I'm forgetting....

Hmmmm, it's late but I'll give 'er the old college try.

Ramones - It's Alive
Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore East
Little Feat - Waiting For Colombus
The Doors - Alive
Iggy & the Stooges - Metallic K.O.
Blue Oyster Cult - On your Feet or on your Knees
The live side of the Byrds Untitled LP
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
Rollin' Stones - Get yer Ya Ya's Out
The Kinks - At the Kelvin Hall
Beatles - At the Beeb
Yardbirds - At the BBC
The Who - Live at Leeds (remastered)
Cream - Live
Jimi Hendrix - In the West

And many more I'm forgetting....

Its Alive!That was the first Ramones album I bought,and it was an import.After that one,I was hooked for life.
Jimmy

In no particular order

The Who - Live at Leeds
Grand Funk - Caught in the Act
Frampton - Comes Alive
The Doors - Live in Detroit
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

... I think we did this before... maybe the old BB software/old server ate the thread.

Anyway, IMO, it's no contest, especially for audiophiles. The finest live R&R recording of all time is...

(drum roll)

Little Feat: "Waiting for Columbus"

The fairly recent Rhino 2-CD set with the obligatory "bonus material" is great, as is the MoFi half-speed mastered 2-LP set. The original issue LP wasn't bad either. Avoid the early, single-CD release, though... it was edited rather extensively to fit onto one disc.


Runner up would be "Live at Leeds", especially the expanded CD version.

Man, what a dumbass I am, I forgot about:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road!!! :thmbsp:

and the forementioned:

The Who - Live at Leeds
Grand Funk - Caught in the Act
Frampton - Comes Alive
The Doors - Live in Detroit (from the Door's website)
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

Bad Companies' first has to be named here!

And Abbey Road.

Pete

Oh and Zeps' first.

Bad Companies' first has to be named here!

And Abbey Road.

Pete

Oh and Zeps' first.

Umm... I thought we were talkin' about live albums, Pete?

Heck, even Paul was dead when Abbey Road was recorded :-)


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What about Creedence Clearwater Revival's live album from tapes they thought were made at Royal Albert Hall but a year or so after the album came out discovered was actually recorded at Filmore West or someother place? Stunningly tight playing, though not much improvising. But of course if you want improvising, why are you listening to CCR?
The bootleg from Springsteen's tour in the Darkness on the Edge of Town period is also just wonderful. Great songs, great playing
And though none of the albums/cds of early Fleetwood Mac live are as transcendent as they ought to be, its impossible to have too much Pete Green. Merely a Portmanteau maybe my favorite, even though, since I haven't seen a copy in twenty years, I can't remember everything on it. But the Rattlesnake Shake/Underway jam is one of my alltime faves.

In no particular order:

1. J. Geils Band - Full House
2. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
3. The Who - Live at Leeds
4. The Kinks - Album Two of Everybody's in ShowBiz

I'm going to stick with Vintage vinyl since I think that is the point of the thread, however the best live recording (R&R????) that exists is the Steely Dan Two against Nature DVD, the audio quality surpasses most studio releases that I have heard. Good ol'fashioned live albums are about conveying the mood (I agree with Mobydud) and there are three that are special to me

1. Todd Rundgren - Back to the bars (1978)

2. The Michael Stanley Band - Stage Pass (1977)

3. Neil Young - Live Rust (1979)

Sorry, Most anybody outside of NE Ohio has never heard of The Michael Stanley Band, those with an open mind I urge to look them up, just great 70's Rock with spirit and soul.

Honorable mention
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial LIVE !

Just mentioning this stuff causes me to say, Rock bands will never be what they were, and we'll cherish these recordings as long as we are around.

And though none of the albums/cds of early Fleetwood Mac live are as transcendent as they ought to be, its impossible to have too much Pete Green.
Have you heard the Boston Tea Party remastered 3 cd's? The have excellent
sound, 24 bit hdcd encoded. Also issued as a set for a short while.
No comparison to the old single British lp I have which is a very bootleggy
sounding album of the same material.

Carl

2. The Michael Stanley Band - Stage Pass (1977)


Dude, MSB!! THIS IS MY TOWN!!!

Dave Mason - Certified Live
Humble Pie - Live at the Filmore

It occurs to me that no one has listed Johnny Rivers 'Live at the Whiskey A Go Go', which is an outstanding album. Very good performance and excellent sound.

CarlV -- the thing that disappoints me about early Fleetwood Mac live albums is not the sound (I have various of the Boston Tea Party stuff on both record and CD) but the amount of the Jeremy Spencer 50's rockabilly stuff. I like it fine, but in small doses. The same thing is true, but to a lesser degree with their covers of blues. What I want is Pete Green originals. And some Danny Kirwan stuff.

Umm... I thought we were talkin' about live albums, Pete?

Heck, even Paul was dead when Abbey Road was recorded :-)


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D'oh!!

I suppose I should actually READ the thread title once in a while :rolleyes: !

Pete

Never been very big on live albums, but it's either

Lou Reed ~Rock N' Roll Animal~ or
Van Morrison ~Too Late To Stop Now~

depending on what kind of mood I'm in.

How about - Peter Gabriel 'Secret World - Live' Fantastic sound!! Another one that no one mentioned is Joe Jackson's 'Big World' which was recorded live and direct to digital.

Dave

LOU REED ROCK N ROLL ANIMAL is in my top 3! good choice tentoze
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No way somebody came up with MSB! I saw them about a million times. Strike it up! Strike it up! The album has not stood the test of time for me, however. I'll second Two Against Nature, Song Remains the Same and Complex Rock Tour. Oh, and Big World as well, though I only have the 7" laserdisc. But THE BEST EVER is Paul Simon Concert in the Park.

I have been listening to Yanni ..Live At The Acropolis lately ...and I have to admit ..the sound quality..and the dynamics..are just amazing...

It sounds like sittin'.. center.. in the mezzenine section at the show!!....

Here are a few of my faves.

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (3 CDs). Incredible, bombastic, brilliant stuff. The Song Remains the Same sounds pretty boring compared to this one. "Since I've Been Loving You" never sounded better. :guitar:

The Byrds - Live at the Fillmore, February 1969. I listen to this just to hear Clarence White's guitar playing.

The Band - Rock of Ages. Well, it's the Band, right?

Kiss - Alive!. It's Cold Gin time again... :rockon:

CSNY - 4 Way Street. Not my favorite by them but nice to listen to every once in a while.

And now for something completely different:

Gordon Lightfoot - Sunday Concert. A sprinkling of familiar "hits," but also contains some new songs that are as fine as anything the man wrote.

An Evening with John Denver. A totally fun album full of great songs and incredible performances. I don't care what you think about John Denver, he was a fine entertainer at his peak and this is a good album.

The next three are not "rock" per se but are still incredible live albums, and represent the kind of music I probably most like to listen to these days.

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live. If you can't appreciate this band, you must not like music at all.

Lyle Lovett - Live in Texas. The Large Band live is really something to see and hear.

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Live at the Charleston Music Hall. I wonder if Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs ever thought their mountain hillbilly music would be taken as far as people like Ricky Skaggs and Alison Krauss have gone with it?

THE Woodstock Album
Ten Years After Recorded Live
Janis Joplin In concert
Mountain Live
Gold Stars for Humble Pie,Dave Mason,Allman Bros,The who,Not that the others arent as good Or part of my list, But the Humble Pie Live Has A very Young Peter Frampton. I was suprised Nobody Mentioned Woodstock.

Paul McCartney - Wings Over America

Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out.

B/F

Odd to think about, with my normal ambivalence to live recordings, but I came up with another one that contains a cut I've used as a system demonstration for years:

Fairport Convention ~In Real Time- Live '87~ cut #3: The Hiring Fair.

My Picks

Frampton Comes Alive (I'm on it!) :banana:
Who Live at Leeds
Johnny Winter Live And

My Picks

Frampton Comes Alive (I'm on it!) :banana:


Do tell! Was it you who got off the firecracker blast during that acoustic number (can't remember the name, something about "take me away, fakin' my way through" or something like that).

Blue Oyster Cult - On your Feet or on your Knees
J Giles Band- Full House
The doors-Alive
Tower of Power-Live
Uriah Heep-live 1973

There's more but right off the top of my head... :banana:

Kiss Alive I & II :rockon:

I agree with a couple below...Lou Reed's "Rock 'n Roll Animal" at least the first 10 minutes, intro to Sweet Jane...is electrifying.

If any of you are Elvis Costello fans, the "live at the El Mocambo" bootleg from about '79 is an incredibly energetic live album. The sound isn't great but the performance is awesome.

Pickoid:
No, that wasn't me. I saw him twice that summer. Once in Ottawa then I flew to San Fran for a holiday and he was at the Fillmore West, and saw him there. Some of the cuts were recorded there.

PS. The first act was Santana!

Jace

Eric Claptons "One more car, One more rider"

I still need to get the DVD :yes: