The best live records/cd's

bluespckr · Post by **bluespckr** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:20 am

Whew - this list sure brought some memories. Here are some of my favorites, starting with one I haven't seen listed:
1. Ten Years After Recorded Live - around 1973, I think. I always thought Alvin Lee and company were a bit stilted in the studio, but they were a great "live" band. Saw them about eight times over the years, and Alvin never used a pedal effect on stage "live" -- at least when I saw him.
2. Live At Leeds - The Who.
3. Loved the Beatles' Hollywood Bowl album.
4. EC Was Here - damn near wore that booger out.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:39 am

Another one: Hail, Hail Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry, actually was a documentary of one of his birthdays in St Louis, Keith Richard produced it and put together the band, was really great, I don't know if the sound track is available however.
Live at Leeds, yeah that was a great one also.

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:27 am

My favorites are:
Live at Leeds - Love that opening guitar in Young Man Blues.
Get Yer YaYa's Out - The Stones were never better than with Mick Taylor in. I do have a bootleg from when "Exile" came out, that's great. I wish the sound quality was a little better though.
Ten Year's After Recorded Live.
Allman's Live at the Fillmore.
Zep's How the west was won.
Yes songs.
Humble Pie's Fillmore performance.
Wings over America.

Um, I really don't know what you guys are talking about doing with the open album covers. wink wink!

philco · Post by **philco** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:23 pm

Hopefully I won't repeat what has already been mentioned. The Who's first farewell concert in Toronto in '82 is really good if you can find a copy. A guy who owned a video store sold me my VHS copy for the price of a new movie rental. "Concert For George" is about the best DVD you will ever find of a live performance. EC and crew give it all they've got. "Live Aus Berlin" by Rammstein will entertain the younger crowd with their pyrotechnics and techno industrial teutonic goth sex metal music. "Sacred Fire-Live in Mexico" and "Supernatural Live" are a couple of good Santana live albums. The Sacred Fire performance is out on CD as well. U2's "Under a Blood Red Sky" is a good performance in their young and raw days. Prefer it to their latest live video. Don't laugh, but some people prefer "ABBA Live" to their studio albums because of the extra zing in the performances. Some of the songs really sparkle. This is classical music, but I saw a performance of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" conducted by Seiji Ozawa on PBS that had me glued to the screen until it was over. I think the video is out on Sony Classical. The Eagles' "Hell Freezes Over" is a great video or CD, as is Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance". Lindsey Buckingham gives an outstanding solo performance on "Big Love", and the whole concert rocks.

lowendbob · Post by **lowendbob** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:44 pm

J. Geils Band "Full House"
Wet Willie "Drippin Wet"
Tower of Power "Soul Vaccination Live"
Grand Funk "Live Album"
Wings Over America
Jimi Hendrix "Band of Gypsies"
Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Sting "Bring on the Night"

apollo11 · Post by **apollo11** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:56 am

Philip,
The Who in Toronto is a great video. In 82 it was live on pay-per-view. I was 16 at the time and got a bunch of friends to chip in to watch it. Some time after this Toronto show, they released it on video, which I still have. They played in Buffalo earlier on in the 82 tour, which I attended. They still rank about the best rock concert I've seen.

Another great Who DVD is the recent Live at the Royal Albert Hall, from a couple years ago. They are hard rocking in this video, plus it features the greatest bass solo I've ever seen, during 5:15.

Also, Concert for George is absolutely fantastic. I've never seen such a good concert featuring multiple stars. If you are a Beatle or Harrison fan, this is the ultimate post-Beatle video to watch. You won't watch it once, either!

philco · Post by **philco** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:06 pm

Andrew, I own the Who at Royal Albert Hall also. It's a great concert as well. Entwistle was in good form........as usual. Wish he had willed me one of his Buzzard basses after he died. Might look weird at first, but that is one well designed bass.

Get this, I heard that the former ABBA members were offered 1 billion dollars to reunite and go on a world tour. Might be a ray of truth in it, as a measly million each wouldn't even get them out of bed early, I suppose.

apollo11 · Post by **apollo11** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:32 pm

There was an old concert of ABBA on TV a few nights ago, and it was excellent. If they toured, I'd love to see them, although it would probably be extremely hard to get tickets.

Last year I went to see Mamma Mia, and it was one heck of a good play. The music was excellent; it was basically a greatest hits soundtrack, so a real ABBA concert would be great, I'm sure.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:38 pm

I have a bootleg of Dancing Queen, paid $10,000 for it. Worth every penny.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:10 am

I offer you.....(putting pinky to mouth) One BILLLLLLION dollars....(in best Dr. Evil voice).

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:54 pm

For my Abba bootleg? Not on your life!!! I'm going to sell it to Phil for ten billion!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:41 pm

Hi all!

Totally agree with 'Pulse' (will they ever release the DVD? Video quality is ****!)

There's a tribute band called 'The Australian Pink Floyd Show' (funnily enough based in England) who are brilliant! They released a DVD of a live show they did in Liverpool last year. It's great - almost got the whole lot (all of Dark Side of the Moon and bits of The Wall, Wish You Were Here, etc.) note for note.

I imported it from England and I have to say it's one of the best live shows I've ever seen (apart from REAL live ones). Do yourself a favour and check it out if you can.

Check them out at www.aussiefloyd.com

Other great live albums (vinyl & CD) and DVDs:

Concerto for Group and Orchestra - Deep Purple
Santana live in Mexico
Live Adventures of Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield
Live at Leeds - the Who (of course!!)
Hell Freezes Over - Eagles (of course!!)
Band Aid & Live Aid (the new 3 DVD set)
Dave Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall
Goodbye - Cream
Sunbury '73 - Aussie rock festival which only lasted 3 years - I was there in '73. Featured a great blues band called 'Carson'.

That'll do for now. I'll go home and revisit my collection - haven't touched the vinyl for a long, long time!!!!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:48 am

Found another.

Any of you Aussies remember Spectrum, Indelible Murtceps and Ariel (can you pick the common denominator?).

Ariel's last gig was at the Dallas Brooks Hall in Melbourne and it was recorded and released as 'Aloha'. Great album!

Cheers

raider · Post by **raider** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:51 am

Guess Who Running Back Thru Canada and
Al Jardine Family & Friends Live in Las Vegas.

bluespckr · Post by **bluespckr** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:08 am

I just picked up a turntable and have been reacquainting myself with some of my old vinyl friends. Among the live LPs I've alway liked is something called "Survival Of The Fittest" by Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes. It was recorded live over two nights in a theater in Detroit in 1970, and predates all that "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" stuff he did later. It has a great, and very tight, live band sound and some pretty good songs. The thing culminates with a 22-minute song called "Prodigal Man" in which everyone takes a solo, amid some interesting time changes. I dusted it off and played it yesterday for the first time in about 12 years, and the thing still gets my juices going. Can't find it on CD, though.