What Are Some of Your Favorite Live Albums

[Audiophilehi]

Hi All,


What are some of your favorite live albums? Some of mine are below and do change a bit. They are in no particular order.


Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive!
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, ‘Live/1975-85’
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York
Bob Dylan, ‘The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966: The “Royal Albert Hall Concert
Kiss, ‘Alive!’
The Allman Brothers Band, ‘At Fillmore East’

[bikeman71]

Nils Lofgren - Live
Railroad Earth - Elko
Hugh Masekela - Hope
Band of Horses - Acoustic at the Ryman
The Guitar Trio -Friday Night in SF
Jazz at the Pawnshop
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
Jaco Pastoriius - Truth, Liberty, & Soul

[BlueFox]

Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

[NorthStar]

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii - 1973

[Audiophilehi]

Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

One of my favorites as well. It should have been on my original post.

[RickS]

The Who - Live at Leeds
J. Geils - Full House
Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
10,000 Maniacs - Unplugged

[Spock]

Deep Purple – Made in Japan
Barclay James Harvest – Live Tapes
Dire Straits – Alchemy
Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Sessions
Wim Mertens – Epic that never was
Renaud Garcia Fons – Arcoluz

[Spock]

There is another that needs to be mentioned




Supertramp - Paris

[Mike]

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[NorthStar]

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[NorthStar]

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii - 1973

[UltraFast69]

‘73 or ‘71?


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[Shadowfax]

Quidam - Strong Together
Quidam - Half Plugged
Jeff Kollman - Guitar Screams Live
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Luther Allison - Live in Chicago

Others have already been listed

[rbbert]

What exactly do you mean by a "live album"? Many so-called "live" albums have extensive studio over-dubs. OTOH, over the last 15-20 years, there have been increasing numbers of concert recordings released, often available primarily or exclusively by download, in digital formats from 128k mp3 to 24/192 PCM, MQA and DSD. These typically have minimal mastering and editing, and no over-dubs. Are you including this type of recording in your question? Are you excluding "live albums" that aren't, really?

[Audiophilehi]

What exactly do you mean by a "live album"? Many so-called "live" albums have extensive studio over-dubs. OTOH, over the last 15-20 years, there have been increasing numbers of concert recordings released, often available primarily or exclusively by download, in digital formats from 128k mp3 to 24/192 PCM, MQA and DSD. These typically have minimal mastering and editing, and no over-dubs. Are you including this type of recording in your question? Are you excluding "live albums" that aren't, really?

Sure we can include digital downloads. There are a number of them that are very good.

[asindc]

Hugh Masekela - Hope
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Live at Fillmore West
Kenny Loggins - Alive
Kenny Loggins - Outside: From the Redwoods
Earth, Wind & Fire - Gratitude
Miles Davis - ...at the Blackhawk
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Live in Stockholm

[Spock]

What exactly do you mean by a "live album"?

Personally, i´m not talking about the source or record quality.
I mentioned those in which live performance clearly exceeds studio versions and make me "sweat" when i listen to them. Most of them are from my youth, while Wim Mertens and Garcia Fons are from latest times, the age of pure audiophile passion...

[mauidan]

[rbbert]

Personally, i´m not talking about the source or record quality.
I mentioned those in which live performance clearly exceeds studio versions and make me "sweat" when i listen to them. Most of them are from my youth, while Wim Mertens and Garcia Fons are from latest times, the age of pure audiophile passion...

But I think this description applies to live albums/performances by almost any talented musician. I don't there are any recordings by Sergiu Celibidache that aren't live. No more than 2 or 3 studio albums by the Grateful Dead compare to any of their more than 200 live releases. As Bob (Northstar) has already posted, live albums by many if not most jazz artists surpass their studio work for musical excitement, and occasionally for sound quality (at least as we audiophiles define sound quality).

[NorthStar]

‘73 or ‘71?

Performed in 71, released in 73.
There is a fascinating history behind this live concert. The video is electrifying. This one is for memorable impact back in 1973.

Others like Nirvana, Cowboy Junkies, Keith Jarrett, Frank Sinatra, ...are some of the quality live music recordings.

There are many live classical music recordings; operas, orchestral, symphonic, chorales, chamber music, ... this thread can go on forever and attract billions more members from all over the world.
We are only scratching some of the classics in Rock, Jazz, Psychedelic, ...

Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Is it me or is it Memorex.

[Dth31]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live at the Fillmore East

[laynesaddiction]

Some might argue that the Priest album should be called "Unleashed in the Studio", but whatever.

[Mike B.]

Early Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac at the Boston Tea party. Gregg Allman back live in Macon. The Rolling Stones, get your YaYa's.....

[Priaptor]

If ONLY the recording was better, but Allman Brothers Stony Brook 9/19/71. My best buddy had been to the Fillmore East several months earlier for 3 shows and believed the Stony Brook concert “blew it away”.

Little history. The Allman Brothers loved playing at Stony Brook. The coordinators of the concert scheduled them for Rosh Hashanah weekend unknowingly so the campus was virtually empty for both shows. My parents weren’t happy but there was no way I was missing my favorite band. The gym where they gave the concert was basically empty except for a several hundred of us. It was one of Duane’s last (if not his last) and it was truly an amazing concert. The only live recording of Duane doing Blue Sky

Bought the CD but with few exceptions not great but worth it for hard core AB lovers especially to hear Duane do Blue Sky

[Jack]

Priaptor

If you haven't heard it already, check out this recently released date from February 1970 recorded by the Dead's sound man Bear (Owsley Stanley) on a night they opened for the Dead. Very good remastering job from his original tapes.

https://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-East...an+brothers+cd

[nc42acc]

What live album list would be complete without this?

[Priaptor]

Priaptor

If you haven't heard it already, check out this recently released date from February 1970 recorded by the Dead's sound man Bear (Owsley Stanley) on a night they opened for the Dead. Very good remastering job from his original tapes.

https://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-East...an+brothers+cd

Thanks Jack,

Just ordered it.

Saw the ABs 13 times as a kid, 4 before Duane died. In my neighborhood we had "rules". You either had to like/love the Allman Brothers or The Dead. You "weren't allowed" to love both although, we would break the rules.

I saw what I think was the first concert after Duane died at CW Post. Between the crowd and the band being so down it was horrible.

Thanks for the recommendation. Look forward to it.

[Jack]

It's also on Tidal and Qobuz if you want to get a preview though it does sound better straight from the CD. Hope maybe Bear had some more "jewels" in his possession that we will see in the future. So far just the ABB and a Doc and Merle Watson show.

You've got me beat on number of times as I only saw them five times. Twice with Duane, once with just Dickey and twice after the addition of Chuck. In the early days Jimmy Hall and Wet Willie were the opening act. I got to know Butch a bit after he moved back to Tallahassee to get his Masters degree and then built and opened Pegasus Studios which is now a part of the FSU School of Music. Even saw Derek a couple of times when he was playing locally as a teenager. For some reason never went to Suwanee or Jax to hear them after Derek and Warren joined.

[laynesaddiction]

Peter Green was Fleetwood Mac and it is so sad to see what a shell of himself he became after Munich. Great live pick with the Boston shows.

[NorthStar]

‘73 or ‘71?

"Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert documentary film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew. The main footage in and around the amphitheatre was filmed over four days in October 1971, using the band's regular touring equipment, including a mobile 8-track recorder from Paris (before being bumped up to 16-track in post-production). Additional footage filmed in a Paris television studio the following December was added for the original 1972 release. The film was then re-released in 1974 with additional studio material of the band working on The Dark Side of the Moon, and interviews at Abbey Road Studios.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Directed by Adrian Maben
Cinematography: Willy Kurant, Gábor Pogány
Edited by José Pinheiro
Release date: 2 September 1972
Running time: 64 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, France, Belgium, West Germany
Language: English

The film has subsequently been released on video numerous times, and in 2002, a Director's cut DVD appeared which combined the original footage from 1971 with more contemporary shots of space and the area around Pompeii, assembled by Maben. A number of bands have taken inspiration from the film in creating their own videos, or filming concerts without an audience.

The performances of "Echoes", "A Saucerful of Secrets", and "One of These Days" were filmed from 4 to 7 October 1971."

That's what it is.

[JCS123]

A couple of great ones from Jeff Beck:

Live at Ronnie Scott's
Rock and Roll Party

[JCS123]

Deep Purple – Made in Japan
Barclay James Harvest – Live Tapes
Dire Straits – Alchemy
Cowboy Junkies – Trinity Sessions
Wim Mertens – Epic that never was
Renaud Garcia Fons – Arcoluz

Made in Japan! One of my favorites for over four decades. The Mule drum solo is still the best that I've ever heard.

The others besides Dire Straits are new to me, and I will be checking them out. Thanks!