Great live albums

[Philly Q]

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.  :(

[blue]

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

[lulusg]

Deep Purple " Made in Japan " my first album..

[jpfamps]

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.....

[clyde billt]

Clapton MTV Unplugged.
Sounds beautiful

[Philly Q]

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....!)

[TheyCallMeVolume]

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.