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What Are Some of Your Favorite Live Albums
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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
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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.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live at the Fillmore East
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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
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
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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-Eas...1537658313&sr=8-4&keywords=allman+brothers+cd
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-Eas...1537658313&sr=8-4&keywords=allman+brothers+cd
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What live album list would be complete without this?
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
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A couple of great ones from Jeff Beck:
Live at Ronnie Scott's
Rock and Roll Party
Live at Ronnie Scott's
Rock and Roll Party
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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!