The Best "Live" Album????
So many released but my favourites are:
Hot August Night, Neil Diamond
Live and Dangerous, Thin Lizzy
Live at Cork Opera House, Rory Gallagher [DVD]
Live in Europe, Rory Gallagher
Get Yer Ya-Ya's out!, The Rolling Stones
Live at Leeds, The Who
What are your favourites and suggestions.
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Get Yer Ya-Ya's out!, The Rolling Stones
100% thank you kindly - look out for the later one "Ladies and Gentlemen" on DVD later this year from the 1972 US Tour.
Live at Leeds, The Who
100% - the double CD with the Tommy set though
Allman Brothers - "Eat a Peach"
Lynyrd Skynrd - "One more from the Road", if only for the cover of "Crossroads" and nothing else
Focus - Live at the Rainbow (apparently they are doing this set at some venues on tour)
Stax Volt Revue 1967 Tour DVD - everyone backed by the MG's
Beatles 1969 Savile Row Rooftop set (the complete set, available on many boots)
The Faces - Sounds on Saturday 1971 - 100% live TV broadcast (broadcast a while back on BBC4 but the DVD has been around for ages.
I can't think of any more that are more up to date and "honest" unless they are boots I've recorded myself (!!!!)
EDIT - forgot the mighty PIE as others have added on. Rockin the Fillmore indeed "we go 'ome on monday but we ain't arf had a gas this time...". I have a version of some of these tracks from a compilation CD with the later line-up (including the Blackberries on BV's) with Marriott playing Hammond on "Hot'n''Nasty" but also some covers like C'mon everybody, Roadrunner & Jumpin Jack Flash showing the change in the band towards the end...
Last edited by ZenOvertone; 9th August 2010 at 10:33 PM.
Humble Pie > Rockin' the Filmore
Slade > Slade Alive
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
...the bluebird can sing but the crows got the soul...
Live at Leeds, The Who
100% - the double CD with the Tommy set though
thats the one, oh yes baby!
ZenOvertone has given me loads of stuff to check out (e.g. Faces) and useful reminders (not heard the Focus for years and I didn't know the Stones' 72 tour DVD was coming out this year!).
I grew up probably liking Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" best of all but I also loved Jethero Tull "Bursting Out" and I've probably played the Allman Brothers "Live at the Fillmore" most in recent years.
And while I love "How the West Was Won", I think the nearest we're going to get to an "honest" live Zeppelin recording is the BBC Sessions double CD.
It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life, when one morning he awakes, and quite reasonably says to himself: "I will never play the Dane"
Hendrix - Live at Filmore East
Roundhouse tapes or maybe a real live/dead one.
No Forbidding Allowed
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UFO -- "Strangers in the Night"
Still my favourite live album.
Lots of my faves will get mentioned by others - such as Live and Dangerous - but one I don't expect many to mention is Depeche Mode's 101, which is just sublime.
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