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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Ian Price on June 03, 2012, 08:33:14 AM
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Was travelling back from a gig with Dave recently and we had BB King - Live at The Regal on. Such an astonishingly good performance. I'd put it up there with AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It (for different reasons entirely).
I don't really have too many live albums that I'd consider essential. Any others that I should be on the look out for?
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Kiss - Alive 1
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Queensryche - Operation Livecrime
Queen - Live Killers
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Cheers Jon - may well look out for the Kiss and Queen albums. I never really got into Thin Lizzy and Queensryche. Isn't the Thin Lizzy album famous for having overdubs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
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Won't be to everyone's tastes but this album changed my life
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UFO - Strangers in the Night
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
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"Live And Dangerous" is awesome. One of my favourite albums.
I'd also check out:
Black Crowes and Jimmy Page - Live At The Greek
Black Crowes - Live
Joe Bonamassa - Live From Nowhere In Particular
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
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Cheers Jon - may well look out for the Kiss and Queen albums. I never really got into Thin Lizzy and Queensryche. Isn't the Thin Lizzy album famous for having overdubs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
There's controversy surrounding that, but it's still a great live album, and very well produced
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Aah... live albums, mmmm... :D
In no particular order:
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
Rory Gallagher - Stagestruck
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Judy Garland - Live at the Carnegie
Free - Live
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road
Humble Pie - Rocking the Fillmore
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Queen - Live Killers
Queen - Rock Montreal
Queen - Milton Keynes Bowl
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith
Ten Years After - Undead
Blackfoot - Highway Song
Genesis - Seconds Out
Aerosmith - A Little South of Sanity
Dr Feelgood - As It Happens
9 Below Zero - Live at the Marquee
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates (I & II)
Eric Clapton - Just One Night
The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Scorpions - Worldwide Live
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Ozzy Osbourne - Talk of the Devil
Slade - Slade Alive (I & II)
The Who - Live at the Isle of White
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Beginings
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at Montreux
Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same (both versions)
Loudon Wainwright III - A Live One
Robin Trower - Live
Rod Stewart - "double live" (can't remember the name, it's early 80s, brilliant)
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 4 "The Royal Albert Hall"
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 5 "Rolling Thunde Review"
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
... I likes me a live album :lol:
I've got quite a few more than this (eg I have Live At Leeds, both versions, I think, but I much prefer Isle of Wight), but these are the ones off the top of my head that I wouldn't want to part with.
Obviously, If You Want Blood is part of that list. I haven't heard Live At the Regal (not for a long time, anyway). I've got a live BB King double, but it doesn't grab me to much.
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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Live at Fillmore East
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CHeers for the recommendations - might take me years to get through that lot!
I forgot that I bought Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at The Filmore East 1970 recently. It's good!
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Won't be to everyone's tastes but this album changed my life
Yep, this was a life changer for me as well. I guess if you bought into this one, then you ended up a strat-player, not for the look, but for that sound...
Have you got the "mega-set" that has all the nights that were recorded? It needs the right mood to listen to it (and the Made in Japan mix is more to my taste), but it's very instructive hearing how they played on different nights. And also interesting that they pretty much picked the right versions for MIJ, even though Ian Gillan hated his performance on these ones.
Yep MIJ and If You Want Blood are "it".
Live and Dangerous is up there. I've heard about the overdubbing stuff - it's mainly backing vocals. The basic performances are on the live tapes. I think I've even heard a snippet of the "raw" recordings that back this up, not sure where though. I wouldn't worry about it, all "live" albums are doctored in some way.
One that was famous for "no doctoring" is Live Killers - Queen nearly split because of arguments about it, probably the closest they ever came to actually splitting - but I'm not sure I fully believe it is as undoctored as we'd think from that. For a document of what a "complex" band could achieve with just four of them it's a stunner though. Rock Montreal is the same, it's kind of the end of that Queen, and it sounds even better - but Live Killers has this raw but perfect vibe to it (they were getting too good by the Montreal gig a few years later... :lol:).
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Iron Maiden - Live After Death (the reason why I fell in love with music and guitars)
Queensryche - Operation Livecrime (the songs/arrangements are even better live)
Kiss - Alive / II / III (may be "live in a studio" but if you like Kiss still awesome)
Queen - Live at Wembley (Majestic, but I could choose any of the other Queen already mentioned)
I owe a debt to Queen for Live Killers as this was the soundtrack to lots of sex with my first girlfriend when her parents were in another room.. Ahhh the memories.. :o
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Might not be to your taste but I highly rate Dream Theater: Live Scenes from New York. 3 discs! They did a three hour set for that gig.
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Johnny Winter - And Live and Captured live.
Dr Feelgood - Stupidity.
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Oh blimey, most of my favourites mentioned already.
But I must reiterate, Robin Trower LIVE! is my favourite album, ever.
Thumbs up for the Scorpions, Wishbone Ash, Humble Pie and Johnny Winter albums already listed.
And Ozzy's Talk of the Devil is a big favourite because it features Brad Gillis on some really awesome versions of the Sabbath classics.
A few more:
Mountain - Twin Peaks
All the Rush live albums
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush - Live
Various Govt Mule live albums
Molly Hatchet - Double Trouble Live
Santana - Moonflower
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Journey - Captured
Whitesnake - Live in the Heart of the City
Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
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Won't be to everyone's tastes but this album changed my life
I guess if you bought into this one, then you ended up a strat-player, not for the look, but for that sound...
Made In Europe too, probably Blackmore's best playing with Purple. And you get to hear the badly-looped crowd noise at the end of the album!
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From my iTunes library, worthy live albumage:
Alice In Chains - MTV Live Unplugged
Billy Idol - VH1 Storytellers
Black Sabbath - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
Fields of the Nephilim - Earth Inferno
Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
Jorn - Live in America
Judie Tzuke - Over the Moon
Kamelot - One Cold Winter's Night
Kiss - Alive
Marilyn Manson - Last Tour On Earth
Nine Inch Nails - ...And All That Could Have Been
Queensryche - Operation Livecrime
Rainbow - On Stage
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Ted Nugent - Intensities in 10 Cities (here's a new one...)
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Metallica - Live, shite, Binge and Purge
Slipknot - Disasterpiece
G3 w/ Eric Johnson, Satriani and Vai
SRV - Live at Montreux
Pink Floyd - Pulse
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A few that immediately leap to mind that I don't think have already been mentioned:
ZZ Top at Rockpalast (it's on a DVD)
Lonnie Mack - Attack of the Killer V
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
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good, juansolo's put Rainbow on stage in, the greatest live album ever,probably, for blackmore wannabe's. I had this album as a young teen and didn't listen to it from the age of 17 to 30 maybe.I then bought it (on cd!) and after another 15 years can't stop listening to it.
thumbs up also to One more for the road, Skynyrd & Made in Japan.
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FREE-LIVE.....did I send you that one Mr. Price?
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FREE-LIVE.....did I send you that one Mr. Price?
Sh!t - you did! Forgot about that, I've listened it to a number of times as well. Very good indeed!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e3kgSTIQcY&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv4Fd17485o&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8ED6cdNYw
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Neil Young - Weld
Ramones - Its Alive
Slayer - Live Undead
The Who - Live At Leeds
James Brown - Live At The Apollo
Bob Marley - Live
Hendrix - Band Of Gyspys
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Lots of good albums mentioned.
I add just one: Jethro Tull - Bursting Out.
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Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
How could I have forgotten Johnny Cash?! For me it's Live at Folsom - that was the first live album I heard. It's what turned me on to live albums. I have both Folsom and San Quentin in the expanded editions now, and Madison Square Gardens, which is pretty good too. But Folsom is the one that really moves me.
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Only one I can add to the great lists is Little Feat- Waiting for Columbus- though some might argue about the overdubbed parts but hell, it is a great album nonetheless.
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Just listening to Johnny Cash at San Quentin.
I've heard quite a bit of it before - A Boy Named Sue is one of my favourite tracks on that album.
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Just remembered one I taped off an LP borrowed from someone in school (those were the days! :lol: ):
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
I'm not a Seger fan really, but he makes the kind of music which is probably better live. I think that was a pretty good album.
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You'll have to dig it out from under your bed.
If you can find it amongst al those guitar parts of course.
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I do still have the cassette, I'm sure (a TDK AD90, probably, maybe a D90 if I was being cheap)..... I think I even know where it is.
Not sure I have a working cassette player, though. :(
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my favourite live "album" is actually a bootleg of Guns'N'Roses at Hammersmith Odeon in either 1987 or '88. obviously sound quality isn't fantastic, but the performance is! there was also a show from the use your illusion tour from Paris broadcast on MTV. i saw it on video at the time, and recently have seen bits and pieces of it online. those two shows were brilliant, and so much better than the live stuff they actually released. in comparison, the live illusion videos and the live era album are just dreary cr@p! i definitely prefer to see/hear a show warts and all.
similarly, i much prefer Aerosmith's live bootleg album to the more recent little south of sanity one. actually, their Classics: Live! album is very good too
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Deep Purple " Made in Japan " my first album..
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Cheers Jon - may well look out for the Kiss and Queen albums. I never really got into Thin Lizzy and Queensryche. Isn't the Thin Lizzy album famous for having overdubs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
There's controversy surrounding that, but it's still a great live album, and very well produced
I have it good authority that the overdubbing was mainly tidying up the BVs (not Lizzy's strong point......).
Much of the controversy about "Live and Dangerous" was caused by the band booking a load of studio time in Paris for "post production". This was done for tax reasons (the top rate of UK income tax was 83% with a 15 surcharge for "unearned income", which royalties were classified as), and the band most of the time getting wrecked, as the photo of the turn table on the inner sleeve implies.....
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Clapton MTV Unplugged.
Sounds beautiful
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Cheers Jon - may well look out for the Kiss and Queen albums. I never really got into Thin Lizzy and Queensryche. Isn't the Thin Lizzy album famous for having overdubs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.
There's controversy surrounding that, but it's still a great live album, and very well produced
I have it good authority that the overdubbing was mainly tidying up the BVs (not Lizzy's strong point......).
And hasn't Robbo gone on record saying he refused to do any guitar overdubs?
(Not that I'd regard him as the most reliable of sources....!)
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If any of you like Coheed and Cambria, their Neverender box set is INCREDIBLE. They are definitely a live band, Claudio's voice is a bit much on some studio recordings but like it sounds great. It's every song they've ever written played over 4 nights, very very good, worth checking out.