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progadicto 
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 Posted: August 22 2007 at 22:37 |
Most (maybe all!) of my favourite live albums was mentioned in previous posts, so I pick some of them to make my list.
From BaldJean list: HAWKWIND / SPACE RITUAL a classic! Maybe the best psych rock album live ever!
From Febus list: GROBSCHNITT / SOLAR MUSIC Powerfull, raw, epical... it contains everything you want to hear in a prog live album...
From Dargdean list: AYERS, CALE, NICO & ENO / JUNE 1st 1972 A very weird masterpiece!
From Dargdean list: PORCUPINE TREE / COMA DIVINE An amazing journey thru the psych stuff made by PT... Great sound, long compositions, Wilson guitars and vocals sounds amazing... a great album!
From Rodrigogc list: JEFF BECK AND THE JAN HAMMER GROUP / LIVE No comments... Simply a live masterpice totally underrated...
From Honganji list: ANEKDOTEN / WAKING THE DEAD (LIVE IN JAPAN 2005) Awsome sound! Every song makes me feel goosebumps!
From Erik N. list: YES / YESSONGS Yes is my favourite band and this album is the probe of the real skills of the band. An album that sounds better year after year...
From Richardh list: TANGERINE DREAM / POLAND Just amazing! It will be hard to find best athmospheres in any other space rock album...
From Memowakeman list: DFA /WORK IN PROGRESS Another album that makes me feel in other planet... Its hard to believe that these guys are playing live!
From Rolling Ronnie list: SUPERTRAMP / PARIS MAybe an emotional choice but the albums sounds great and it has teh perfect mixture between som art rock and poppish and nice songs...
Special mention: FULANO / VIVO!
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dwill123
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Posted: August 22 2007 at 08:47 |
Welcome to the Canteen - Traffic
Rock of Ages - The Band
Band of Gypsys - Band of Gypsys
Between Nothingness and Eternity - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Live - Genesis
8:30 - Weather Report
Cirkus - King Crimson
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Live Around the World - Miles Davis (contains a track from Miles' very last performance ever)
Babylon by Bus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Sacred Fire - Santana
Live in L.A. - Rippingtons
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Posted: August 22 2007 at 08:43 |
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No particular order...
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out (the classic lineup in top form, full of Anderson's ascerbic wit on between song banter.
Uriah Heep - Live (rough sound quality, but Heep on storming form - just skip the rock'n'roll medley)
Steve Hillage - Live Herald (as Jean says, better without the studio side, but the rest of the album showcases not only Hillages guitar work, but also the superb band he had with him in those days)
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine (very tight high quality set from a band on the up; get the double CD version if possible)
Genesis - Live & Archives Vol 1 (the great early Genesis double live album that never was; great playing, great band interplay, enthusiastic audience - the consumate prog-rock live album)
Yes - Yessongs (a little marred by sound quality, but a good snapshot of one of prog's true greats on top of their game in 1972)
King Crimson - Earthbound (raw & visceral - an often forgotten classic with a rare outing for the full version of 'Groon')
Allman Brothers - Filmore East (get the expanded luxury version; little to be said that hasn't been said before - an absolute classic blues rock album)
Deep Purple - Made In Japan (faultless - DP Mk II at the peak of their powers)
Rush - All The Worlds A Stage (Rush as young hungry rockers taking their first steps into prog-rock "we'd like to do for you side 1 from our latest album" - raw and worthy)
Also -
My tuppence worth on the subject of overdubs; of course you want the most honest live recording possible from your favorite band, but do you really want to hear them fluffing lines & solos? Virtually every live album ever released has had some kind of after recording tampering; Zappa's a famous example in that he mixes & matches performances from different shows (sometimes several times in one song), and either corrects, substitutes or removes whole sections...
...doesn't mean to say I love Broadway The Hard Way, or any other of his live albums any less.
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ian picken
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Posted: August 22 2007 at 07:25 |
Rush, Exit Stage Left. Yes, Yessongs. Porcupine Tree, Rockpalast. Pallas, Blinding Darkness. Genesis, Seconds Out. Dream Theater, Livetime. Supertramp Paris. All brilliant. 
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Posted: August 22 2007 at 05:57 |
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But, the audience on Pompei theatre was full of goasts of past. |
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Posted: August 22 2007 at 03:38 |
andu wrote:
Dean, did you just say an album is live only when the performance is assisted by an audience?  I ask as that phrase is not very clear. If so, I could never agree on that. Maybe you wanted to say that Live At Pompeii does not qualify as a "live album" because it's more of a film with music in it? I would agree on this tagging issue, but no-one can deny that hour of perfect "less is more" live performance from the Floyd which you get by summing up "Echoes", "Careful...", "Saucerful...", "One of these days", "Set the controls..." and "Nobs" (59 minutes and 9 seconds, actually  ) |
Yes indead. Live at Pompeii is fantastic expirience, and it's more live than live albums with audience. Playing music with such intensity without audience is like playing football on empty stadium.
But, the audience on Pompei theatre was full of goasts of past.
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 12:30 |
No particular order:
Yes - Yessongs (basically 3 classic albums in 1 package, and they are performed with more energy, due to Alan White I believe)
Jethro Tull - Live: Bursting Out (once again I seem to like these live performances more than the originals, it was also the album that got me into Jethro)
Jethro Tull - Live in Phoenix' 70 (it was part of some anniversary collection, but it could count because it is the complete show; very energetic early concert)
Led Zep - The Song Remains The Same (brilliant renditions of the Houses of the Holy stuff, Stairway is excellent too; only minor let down for me is that I would have some of the missing songs from the MSG concers, such as Misty Mountain Hop, Over the Hills..., The Ocean, etc. rather than the loooong Dazed and Confused and Moby Dick, but... guess it's just me)
Led Zep - How The West Was Won (brilliant setlist and perfect performance, only a couple of songs are the same as on the Song Remains, so this record could be considered the perfect addition to the former)
Marillion - Curtain Calls (didn't like La Gazza Ladra very much and Real to Reel was too short, this one, however, has three excellent concerts from the band's prime and while it could have done without Misplaced Childhood twice, over all is a fine document of what Marillion once was and will never be again)
Madness - Madstock (I know, It's not prog, but is pure fun and is an almost complete collection of the band's essential songs played in front of a 40 thousand fanatic crowd)
Pantera - Official Live 101 Proof (nowhere near prog, but it defines what a metal concert should be: tight and energetic, 100% pure aggression plus impecable playing)
And now for something completely different: I haven't included 2 of my favourite bands Genesis and Pink Floyd since I really believe that their best performances were not issued officially: any concert from the Animals tour would have been much better than Is There Anybody Out There (as good as it is), Pulse and Delicate... (missing the creative genius of the band and not very inspired efforts); re Genesis - it is true that most of the Selling England setlist was included in the Archives I box set (excellent stuff btw), but it is a shame cenerpieces of the tour such as Cinema Show and Epping Forest are missing (while it is understandable that Watcher of the Skies and Musical Box were omitted because they were on Genesis Live). Same for Genesis live - very good but it is rather short for me, it could have easily been a double lp with Supper, Salmacis and Can Utility.
But... could it be that too many bootlegs have spoilt me?
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 08:36 |
Roy Harper 'Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion'
Throbbing Gristle 'Rafters'
Heldon 'Alive and Well '79'
Motorhead 'No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith'
John Coltrane 'Live! At The Village Vanguard'
Cabaret Voltaire 'Live At The YMCA'
Stockhausen 'Sternklang'
Magma 'BBC Londres '74'
Can 'Peel Sessions'
Miles Davis 'Dark Magus'
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 07:51 |
In no particular order
FZ - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your LifeThe 'Big Band' tour that self-destructed half-way through. Simply sensational.
Gentle Giant - Playing The FoolHow DO they play that stuff live!!
Planet Gong - Floating Anarchy LiveNot really Gong, but Daevid Allen with Here & Now, but it's exceptional.
Supertramp - ParisAll the favorites
Santana - LotusBought it as a triple LP donkeys years ago. World class musicians playing complex rhythms without missing a beat
Peter Gabriel - Secret World
Get the DVD!! David Rhodes and Tony Levin are just having a ball here.
Genesis - Live
That first note of 'Watcher of the Skies' takes me right back
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Saw them at Hammersmith Odean on the Bursting Out tour. My favorite line-up and my favorite songs.
Caravan - & The New Symphonia
Classics and some cracking new pieces written especially for the concert with Simon Jeffes and Martyn Ford.
Procul Harem - Live with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Whaling Stories, A Salty Dog and In Held Twas I - what more could one ask for
That'll do for now 
Edited by Rolling Ronnie - August 21 2007 at 07:52
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 07:19 |
unforgivable74 wrote:
1. Genesis - Seconds Out (The album that got me into pre 80's Genesis)
2. Marillion - Anorak in the UK (All fantastic but worth it just for 'Between You and Me' - it rocks harder than a rocky thing from planet granite!)
3. Steve Hillage - Live Herald (Guitar solo's that are interesting - that key change in the middle of the 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' solo gets me every time!)
4. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Disc 1 (Proof that the Floyd once went out on their own and the four of them were an excellent live band.)
5. Roy Harper - Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion (Flashes of genius and beauty.)
6. Gong - Floating Anarchy (I prefer this to 'Live Etc.' because I like the album tracks for the radio gnome trilogy in their studio form).
7. Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? I waited 20 years for Roger to release these live tapes - i even bought a crappy bootleg. It was well worth waiting for.)
8. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (Maybe not prog but 9000% rock!)
9. Talk Talk - Live In London 1986 (I just wish this live album was recorded after 'Spirit Of Eden' but it is still amazing.)
10. David Bowie - Stage (The live 'Low' and 'Heroes' instrumentals are superb).
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Speaking about studio overdubs on live albums, we got a classic one right there.  
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 05:35 |
My list isn't a very good list because I don't listening more Prog live. Bit I love the Prog live albums and for these reason this is a list based in the moment that I wrote this list.
1) BILL BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS: "Footloose And Fancy Free"
2) DEEP PURPLE: "Made In Japan"
3) PFM & PAGANI: "Piazza Del Campo"
4) PFM: "Live in USA"
5) ANDREA PARODI & AL DI MEOLA: "Midsummer Night In Sardinia- Armentos"
6) ANGRA: "Holy Live"
7) BLIND GUARDIAN: "Tokyo Tales"
8) VENEGONI & CO:: "Live... Somewhere In The Seventies"
9) KANSAS: "Two For The Show"
10) BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST: "A Concert For People (Berlin)"
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(Quando l'Amore Diventa poesia/ Lontano Dagli occhi [Aphrodite's Child)
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 05:01 |
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1. Genesis - Seconds Out (The album that got me into pre 80's Genesis)
2. Marillion - Anorak in the UK (All fantastic but worth it just for 'Between You and Me' - it rocks harder than a rocky thing from planet granite!)
3. Steve Hillage - Live Herald (Guitar solo's that are interesting - that key change in the middle of the 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' solo gets me every time!)
4. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Disc 1 (Proof that the Floyd once went out on their own and the four of them were an excellent live band.)
5. Roy Harper - Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion (Flashes of genius and beauty.)
6. Gong - Floating Anarchy (I prefer this to 'Live Etc.' because I like the album tracks for the radio gnome trilogy in their studio form).
7. Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? I waited 20 years for Roger to release these live tapes - i even bought a crappy bootleg. It was well worth waiting for.)
8. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (Maybe not prog but 9000% rock!)
9. Talk Talk - Live In London 1986 (I just wish this live album was recorded after 'Spirit Of Eden' but it is still amazing.)
10. David Bowie - Stage (The live 'Low' and 'Heroes' instrumentals are superb).
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 04:49 |
Deep Purple - Made in Japan, Live in Stockholm 1970
Black Sabbath - Live at Last
Gong - Live etc.
Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won, BBC Sessions
Gentle Giant - Giant on the Box
Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Yes - Symphonic DVD
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 04:45 |
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Traffic/On the road (best Traffic album)
Sweet smoke/ Live 74'
Agitation free/Last
Agitation free/ At the cliffs
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Posted: August 21 2007 at 04:28 |
TOYAH - Toyah, Toyah, Toyah! and
TOYAH - Warrior Rock are the two live albums that I most frequently return to.
CARDIACS - All that Glitters is a Mare's Nest
JETHRO TULL - Bursting Out
SAVAGE ROSE - Are You Ready
IONA - Heaven's Bright Sun
KING CRIMSON - Absent Lovers
GENTLE GIANT - Playing the Fool
GENESIS - The Way We Walk vol 2 - The Longs
ISILDURS BANE - MIND vol 2
Honorary mentions: VDGG - Real Time; GENESIS - Live, Seconds Out, Three Sides Live; JETHRO TULL - Living with the Past; AMON DÜÜL II - Live in Tokyo, Live in London; KING CRIMSON - Heavy ConstruKction, Ladies of the Road; PETER GABRIEL - Plays Live; CARDIACS - Live; STEVE HACKETT - Tokyo Tapes; JANE SIBERRY - Child; RENAISSANCE - Live at Carnegie Hall, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, In the Land of the Rising Sun; VAN DER GRAAF - Vital; PETER HAMMILL - The Margin; THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Severe Tire Damage
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Posted: August 20 2007 at 21:21 |
Yes, that is what I am saying. For me a live album has to be recorded in front of an audience. The Pompeii 'concert' is not a linear recording that took 59'9" to play and record - I believe that each song was staged and filmed seperately, also because there was no audience and it was a film they could have done several re-takes (I'm not saying they did, I wasn't there, but they could have).
I *love* the Pompeii video/DVD and would like to own a CD of the soundtrack too. Some of the tracks are better than the original studio takes (One Of These Days especially).
When Neurosis record a studio album they record most of the instruments live in the studio and then do over dubs of vocals and a few extra instruments. By the 'pompeii' definition that would make it a Live album, but it is not, it is a studio album.
It's a fine line and probably an argument in semantics.
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Posted: August 20 2007 at 21:06 |
Dean, did you just say an album is live only when the performance is assisted by an audience? I ask as that phrase is not very clear. If so, I could never agree on that. Maybe you wanted to say that Live At Pompeii does not qualify as a "live album" because it's more of a film with music in it? I would agree on this tagging issue, but no-one can deny that hour of perfect "less is more" live performance from the Floyd which you get by summing up "Echoes", "Careful...", "Saucerful...", "One of these days", "Set the controls..." and "Nobs" (59 minutes and 9 seconds, actually )
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Posted: August 20 2007 at 20:47 |
el böthy wrote:
BaldJean wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
1. Deep Purple - Made in Japan. Great performances, classic live album showcases the band at the top of their game.
2. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same. Zeppelin's answer to all those poor bootlegs, stunning version of "No Quarter".
3. Argent - Encore. Overlooked double live masterpiece, one of my all time faves.
4. Genesis - Genesis Live . Definitive line up, an honest recording.
5. Hawkwind - Space Ritual. Legendary live performances, many live recordings exist but this is the best.
6. The Who - Live at Leeds. Classic show, raw and powerful.
7. Yes - Yessongs. Sprawling triple album set.
8. Pink Floyd - Pulse. Spacious sound and great performances.
9. Wishbone Ash - Almighty Blues. Great versions of old and new songs.
10. Peter Gabriel - Plays Live. Very entertaining album, includes non-album "Swimming". |
I respect other people's opinions; however, I had to make a face at the mentioning of "Pulse". that's not a live album, in my opinion; what Pink Floyd actuially did here was putting their studio on stage 
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Jean, you are being to nice, tell it as it is. Pulse is not only the studio played live, its the sutdio played live by three Pink Floyd musicians and a thousand extras. Where is the less is more feeling that characterized Floyd? mmm? ... I guess it left with Waters...
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*walking were Angels fear to tread Darq leaps to the defence of the Floyd*
How much does it really matter how many live musicians were on stage and how much live on stage technology was used to create the real live experience? Yes, it's done to recreate the studio sound on stage, and not many bands can afford to do that - Floyd don't need to do it, they do it because they can and because they want too - David Gilmour does it because that's what he likes to hear - a two hour moment of (near) perfection. Surely that's better than dozens of after the event studio overdubs.
And you cannot let Roger Waters off the hook - using extra live musicians started during The Wall when he was still with the Floyd, (listen to the Is There Anybody Out There live album). And just look at the entourage he takes on stage with him for a solo tour...
When was this magical less is more Floydian characteristic? I've seen them on every major tour since 1972 and can honestly say that I cannot recall a such time (and don't say Live in Pompeii because there is no audience present during the recording and does not qualify as a live album).
People seem to be impossible to please, there will be one group of people deriding Live albums for being not like the studio; another that whinges on about them not being improvised enough; another bemoaning overdubbing and another decrying fluffed notes and poor performances. Take them for what they are - a record of a moment in time (or a tour souvenir if you happened to have been in the audience at the time).
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Posted: August 20 2007 at 19:52 |
BaldJean wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
1. Deep Purple - Made in Japan. Great performances, classic live album showcases the band at the top of their game.
2. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same. Zeppelin's answer to all those poor bootlegs, stunning version of "No Quarter".
3. Argent - Encore. Overlooked double live masterpiece, one of my all time faves.
4. Genesis - Genesis Live . Definitive line up, an honest recording.
5. Hawkwind - Space Ritual. Legendary live performances, many live recordings exist but this is the best.
6. The Who - Live at Leeds. Classic show, raw and powerful.
7. Yes - Yessongs. Sprawling triple album set.
8. Pink Floyd - Pulse. Spacious sound and great performances.
9. Wishbone Ash - Almighty Blues. Great versions of old and new songs.
10. Peter Gabriel - Plays Live. Very entertaining album, includes non-album "Swimming". |
I respect other people's opinions; however, I had to make a face at the mentioning of "Pulse". that's not a live album, in my opinion; what Pink Floyd actuially did here was putting their studio on stage
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Jean, you are being to nice, tell it as it is. Pulse is not only the studio played live, its the sutdio played live by three Pink Floyd musicians and a thousand extras. Where is the less is more feeling that characterized Floyd? mmm? ... I guess it left with Waters... as for me... I don´t think I can name 10 or 5 even. It´s not that I havent heard live albums, its just that I cant think of many that I would rank that highly... witht the exception of Deep Purple´s Made in Japan and Led Zeppelin´s How the west was won. Now, once I get my hands on Yessongs, any Zappa live work and maybe some Crimson (I only have USA, which I dont feel is that spectacular anyways) I might change my opinion on live albums...
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Posted: August 20 2007 at 08:52 |
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Yesshows (I prefer it than Yessongs)
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same here..
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