It's interesting that so many people are saying The Who Live at Leeds because one of my old school-friends is a massive massive Who fan and he says that the sound on that album doesn't reflect the sound they typically got at gigs at that time.
My favorite: Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Ken mentioned Free Live - I feel that this was a "contractual obligations" album - All Right Now is very poor - you can hear that Koss is having trouble with a duff lead.
There are a few others I like but I can't think of them at the moment.
Ken mentioned Free Live - I feel that this was a "contractual obligations" album - All Right Now is very poor - you can hear that Koss is having trouble with a duff lead........
Yes quite a raw album, but it did capture the spirit of the times, and subsequent other live albums did suffer from overdubbed and editing. I started to get bootlegs from 1970-1978, and although the sound quality was pretty poor, it is amazing how the record companies edited and segmented the tracks. Performances also became longer with bands playing bigger venues etc. We do not hear too many LP's from the Beatles and the stones prior to 1970, and Live at Shea was released years after. As a collector of Hendrix concerts, he played pretty much a set list up until 1969. Tuning up beetween songs and sometimes during them!. Of course the songs themselves were sometimes rather extended jams, with tracks like 'tax free', and 'hear my train a coming'. Improvisation was an important element, it always amazes me that some record executive decided to edit out whole sections of songs of jimi to release them. In my opinion it is a bit like cutting a painting in half and airbrushing elements out to 'improve the song' Hendrix's performance at the Isle of Wight is a good example. As Jimi Page once stated he found this 'ghastly' , no wonder he took control of his own productions.
Live and Dangerous, excellent album, and captures an excellent feeing of a live performance.
The Byrds Live at the Fillmore 1969 - fairly recently released, Clarence White featuring heavily....a really good live album if you are into the late 60's Byrds sound - as I am.
Deep Purple - Nobody's Perfect Magnum - The Spirit. Their studio albums were, IMO, poorly produced but this live album is excellent. AC/DC - If You Want Blood Tesla - 5 Man Acoustical Jam Nirvana - Unplugged Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil
Great call Bing Just dug out my Be Bop Deluxe Live and it really is perfect! Thanks
Some years ago I was given the idea of listening to my vinyl collection in alphabetical order... I survived ABBA and the Average White Band, but I just could not face Be Bop Deluxe! Maybe I could now...
Some great ones on here ... would also add Glastonbury Fayre, triple album from 1972 (which I still have) ... Bowie, Townsend, Bolan, Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, etc
David Live is awful, even Bowie said that. He said it should have been renamed David is actually still alive and not as dead as he sounds on this LP!
Elvis 1968 Comeback Special - Hmmmm not strictly speaking a "Live " album. It wasn't a concert as such it was a TV show. Ok he did sing live but some of the songs, If I Can Dream for example, was sung against a backing track rather than live instruments.
I'd replace those two albums with Stage (1978) Bowie at his absolute peak and Elvis Live at Madison Square Gardens (1974 I think), again an artist (THE artist?) at the height of his powers.
Eddie and Hot Rods Live at the Marquee. Only an EP but that was great.
Get out of Denver - storming number!
Saw E&THRs at the marquee just after the EP came out, cracking gig
Great ep - I was at the gig - disappointed that I wasn't in the picture on the sleeve! I think that was the gig which was incredibly hot - the sweat was pouring off me. Chanting for the encore was brought to an end by the announcement that 2 of the band had collapsed!
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Genuinely amazing album.
Yep and I add,
Five Live Yardbirds - The Yardbirds
Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore - Humble Pie
Just dug out my Be Bop Deluxe Live and it really is perfect! Thanks
Magnum - The Spirit. Their studio albums were, IMO, poorly produced but this live album is excellent.
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Tesla - 5 Man Acoustical Jam
Nirvana - Unplugged
Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil
Also Black Sabbath live in Paris '74.
Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith
Iron Maiden - Live after Death
Marillion - Real to Reel
and the timeless classic that is.......
Somewhere in England - Dumpy's Rusty Nuts
Yep, same for me.
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"If you want blood..." AC/DC with the classic version of Whole lotta Rosie
Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
David Live is awful, even Bowie said that. He said it should have been renamed David is actually still alive and not as dead as he sounds on this LP!
Elvis 1968 Comeback Special - Hmmmm not strictly speaking a "Live " album. It wasn't a concert as such it was a TV show. Ok he did sing live but some of the songs, If I Can Dream for example, was sung against a backing track rather than live instruments.
I'd replace those two albums with Stage (1978) Bowie at his absolute peak and Elvis Live at Madison Square Gardens (1974 I think), again an artist (THE artist?) at the height of his powers.
Eddie and Hot Rods Live at the Marquee. Only an EP but that was great.