Re: Favorite Live Albums???

Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Johnny Winter - Live in NYC
James Taylor - His double live cd
Indigenous - Live at Pachyderm Studios
Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes - Live at the Greek
Maynard Ferguson - Live from San Francisco
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

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the dude wrote:

Larry Carlton & Steve Lukather - No Substitutions: Live in Osaka
Johnny Winter - Live in NYC
James Taylor - His double live cd
Indigenous - Live at Pachyderm Studios
Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes - Live at the Greek
Maynard Ferguson - Live from San Francisco
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

That Live in NYC '97 CD by Johnny Winter features Mark Epstein on bass. I really enjoyed his playing on that record.

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James McMurtry-Live In Aught Three
The Hoax-Live Forever

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fCdNsm7gvu8

If wine and pills were hundred dollar bills
I might keep you satisfied

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Just One Night by EC

never give up, never slow down
never grow old, never ever die young

23 (edited by TieDyeVikki 2008-02-27 01:24:21)

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Almost ALL my favorite albums are live albums... for instance...

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live Alive
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Grateful Dead - Dead Set AND Dead Reckoning (sister shows, one electric & one accoustic)
Dire Straits - Alchemy (especially disc 1)
Neil Young - Weld AND Live Rust
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
Rush - Exit Stage Left AND All the World's a Stage
Tom Petty - Pack Up the Plantation (great DVD too)
The Band - Stage Fright
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

... just to name a few off the top of my head... there's lots more...

Edited to add:
Supertramp - Paris
Pink Floyd - P.U.L.S.E. AND Delicate Sound of Thunder
The Machine - Two Nights at the Keswick AND Unplugged AND many boots of shows

--Vik cool

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I am not a huge Nuge fan BUT Double Live Gonzo did kick, Ted's best material, St. Holmes at his peak and awesome performance.....

Did anyone mention BOC On your feet???

To me tho, nothing will ever top Live at Leeds as an example of what a live album ought to be.....

You Can Do Anything You Want To Do

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Live albums.  A mostly lost art I'm afraid.  What an incredible vehicle it was for bands back in the 70's.  Here's my top 5 based on sheer number of times played:

#1)  Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
#2)  UFO - Strangers In The Night
#3)  Rush - All The World's A Stage
#4)  Foghat - Live (curse the record label for never making it a double live LP)
#5)  Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East


Here are my other honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):

Joe Bonamassa - Live At Rockpalast (DVD rip)
The Cult - Live Cult
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
HSAS - Through The Fire
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Real Live!
Gary Moore - We Want Moore!
Gary Moore - Blues Alive
Motorhead - No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Rainbow - On Stage
Michael Schenker Group - One Night At Budokan
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Robin Trower - Live
The White Stripes - Under Blackpool Lights (DVD rip)

Gibson 60th Anniversary 1959 Les Paul Reissue, Gibson LP Standard Faded CSB, Gibson Gary Moore LP Standard, Epi Joe Bonamassa GT LP, Epi Zakk Wylde LP, Dean Michael Schenker Flying V, Jackson Randy Rhoads V, ESP/LTD George Lynch Kamikaze, EVH Striped Series R/B/W, Fender/Squire John 5 Telecaster, Fender Joe Strummer Relic Telecaster

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No list is complete without AC/DC - IF YOU WANT BLOOD YOU'VE GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shot Down In Flames Rand Man!!!!!!! Keep that BDS gig in mind brotha', it's been awhile.

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Joe Bonamassa has done an amazing job of pulling you hard rockers into his blues.  It's good!

Luther Allison in Paradise
ABB at Fillmore East
Otis Rush So Many Roads

theresmore
realblues

Rock On & Keep the FAITH
             It is
Blues From the Bottoms

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andre wittebroek wrote:

I add:

UFO                    - Strangers in the Night
Thin Lizzy            - Live and Dangerous
Lou Reed             - Rock and Roll Animal
Rob Orlemans      - Live in Chicago
Lynyrd Skynyrd    - Southern by the Grace of God           
Johnny Winter And- Live
Stan Webb's Cicken Shack- Simply Live
Molly Hatchet        - Double/Trouble live

Yes, I like live record mostly!!

The others mentioned before I all have too, except The Who- Live at Leeds. The Who isn't my thing.

Andre Wittebroek.

Wow, I almost forgot about Reed's Rock and Roll Animal. The last time I listened to that, it was on vinyl...must be at least 10 years. Thanks for the reminder.

"Rock ON & Keep the Faith"

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I’m a live album fan too and my list off the top of my head, in no particular order is:

•    Allman Brothers Band – The Fillmore Concerts – classic, even if it’s in its heavily edited format.
•    Allman Brothers Band – Second Set
•    Free Live  -  One of Mr B’s biggest influences by his own admission and one of Britain’s finest bands.
•    Lou Reed – Rock & Roll Animal – Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter’s guitars are well to the fore and Lou’s voice is at it’s peak. Beats me why this album hasn’t been released in a package with its sister album “Lou Reed Live” recorded at the same gig.
•    Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes – Live at The Greek – Personally, I think Mr Page has lost it but the musicianship from The Crowes and Chris Robinson’s voice more than make up.
•    Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same – even better in its new remastered format with extra tracks. “Since I’ve Loving you, yeah, I’m about to lose my worried mind.”
•    The Eagles – Hell Freezes Over – for when I’m feeling a little mellow.
•    Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson & Steve Vai – G3 in Concert – Nice contrast and the finale of the classic Going Down, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama and Red House are great.
•    Wishbone Ash – Timeline Live & Live Dates – One of the great bands from the early 70s who, I believe, are still going. The twin lead never sounded better.

I’m sure there are some I’ve missed, so I may be back.

This a great thread for ideas and reminders.

Phil

LOL - This software won't let me post "D i c k", hence the hieroglyphics. wink

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“The guy who has helped the blues industry the most is Joe Bonamassa and I would say he is more rock than some rock stuff, so to me blues is whatever you want it to be!”
Simon McBride in my interview with him in Blues Matters! Issue #56

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Two...

The best live record I have ever heard was Frank Sinatra "The Main Event".  It had Howard Cosell do the intro.  Amazing.  Recorded in the roung, and MSG.

If I had to pick a blues record...Bill Perry "Live at Manny's Car Wash"

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The Doors, Absolutley Live.

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rpic wrote:

No list is complete without AC/DC - IF YOU WANT BLOOD YOU'VE GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats exactly what i was thinking myself as i was reading through the other ones listed. So much energy on that album, one of my favourite AC/DC albums.

Matt

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Jane H. wrote:
bigjeffjones wrote:

Joe Bonamassa has done an amazing job of pulling you hard rockers into his blues.  It's good!



theresmore
realblues

Joe rocked pretty damn hard first time i saw him
and heavily

he still does but i guess what i am saying is he pulled me into his hard rock and i learned to like some of his blues.....thats the way i see it anyway

YES and I'm happy about that.  He rocks hard awright, even now...I am also loving it because I smell where it came from.  There's a certain funk in this universe that will not be denied.

Rock On & Keep the FAITH
             It is
Blues From the Bottoms

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Don't know if this has been mentioned but CSN&Y Four Way Street. One other that I can't believe Stu hasn't mentioned is Grand Funk, Live.

Bob Lefsetz comments on Grand Funk

That's how you judged someone's record collection.  By whether it contained Grand Funk Railroad or not.  If it did, they obviously hadn't gotten the memo, that Grand Funk SUCKED!



I don't know how the word spread, but I do remember a one sentence review in "Rolling Stone".  The critical backlash was close to immediate.  A reaction to both the music and Terry Knight's overhype.  But, "Rolling Stone" wasn't ubiquitous in 1970.  And neither was FM radio.  If you lived in the hinterlands, you might believe the hype.



But not me.



I even saw them in February of '70.  Opening for Sly Stone at Madison Square Garden.  Right after the red album's release, when they changed their name to Grand Funk.  And by time summer hit, there was a new album, "Closer To Home".  Which I had no problem ignoring until I heard "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" on a Sailfish, in the murky waters of Long Island Sound.  Someone was blasting the record from the lighthouse...and under the bright sun, skimming along the nearly placid water, I realized I liked this record.



How could I square it?  How could I admit it to myself?  Did I have to keep cover it up?



Well, not if I went to someone's house and they had the record.  I'd drop the needle on the track.



Then Grand Funk faded away.  And didn't radiate.  Needing to pull a rabbit from the hat, do something to keep their career alive, they enlisted Todd Rundgren to produce.  And ended up with a masterpiece, "We're An American Band".



You had to understand that Todd had cut it.  It was thin and compressed on PURPOSE!  This record was one step removed from "Todd", if not "Something/Anything".  In the days before FM in the car, when this came over the AM radio you pounded the dash in time with the music pounding out of the speaker.



"We're an American band

We're an American band

We come into your town

We help you party it down

We're an American band"



Suddenly, you could no longer hate Mark Farner, the shrimp with the endless hair.  He was smart enough to work with Todd.  Now I could let my secret out of the box.  That I thought "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" was GOOD!



Grand Funk ultimately disappeared.  They worked with a true hero of mine, Frank Zappa, had no hits and retired from the national stage.  All that remained was the music.  Well, three cuts.  "We're An American Band", their cover of "Loco-Motion" and "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home".



Why does "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" work?  Maybe it's the simplicity.  You can hear the drums.  The bass is prominent.  Sure, Mark Farner is over-singing, but his guitar playing makes up for his over-emoting.  "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" was American stoner music.  A ten minute track, based in the blues, when the Englishmen owned this format.  "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" was about driving around in your Camaro drinking Budweiser.  It wasn't music for mingling with the opposite sex, it was about getting drunk with your buddies.  Until half way through.  When they broke into "Closer To Home".  When these bashers suddenly got SUBTLE!  It was like the second half of "Layla", months before.  What was a rocker became an ambling jam that set your mind adrift.  By time you hit the end of the track, there were even strings.  The guys had softened, the girls had come to the party and the lights were out and everybody was necking.



It might still be winter on the east coast.  When I fired up the Bromley Website this morning, it was -2.  But in Los Angeles, spring has truly sprung.  And with the bright sun shining, I was driving in my automobile listening to XM's Deep Tracks and I heard a live version of "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home".



Stripped down, far from Terry Knight's controlling hand, the band SMOKED!



"Everybody listen to me

And return me to my ship"



I wonder what a fifteen year old would say about this.  It's absent Jimmy Page's pyrotechnics, Farner doesn't possess Robert Plant's wail.  There's not the dreaminess of Pink Floyd.  At least not until the end.  But the playing, it sounds kind of pedestrian...



The synthetic drums of the Top Forty are absent.  There's a beat you don't find in indie rock.  There actually seems to be a story, a message, the song is personal, not universal...but maybe that's why everybody can relate to it.



Tell you what.  You sit behind the drums, you play Don's part.  I'm sure someone can sing along with the streaming words.  And you don't need to be a wizard to play Mark's leads.  I'm saving Mel's bass part for myself.  Yes, "I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home" is a perfect ROCK BAND song!



You can't play along to Alicia Keys.  Nothing Timbaland does.  But you become positively enmeshed and ultimately enraptured by this song by these journeymen rockers.  Even the least classic of classic rock possesses a magic that can't be denied.  It's good to go back to the garden.

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I couldn't even finish your post Jim w/o pickin'up my acoustic and bangin' out some Capt. I've been a Funk fan since they hit the scene when I was in high school, but they lost me when they joined forces with Rundgren. Yes I have the Live album on vinyl as well as the eponymous red album, On Time, their first effort Survival, their weakest effort, and Closer To Home. I got a hold of Closer To Home on CD awhile back just so I could crank it on the road once again. By the way that post was like being put in the wayback machine, loved it. How'd you get the f-word in there?

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What is success? Is it do yo' own thang, or is it to join the rest?   -Allen Toussaint