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Yes - Yessongs.   Great album if your a fan of Yes' early years (The Yes Album - Close to the Edge) 


Genesis - Live


And for some non-prog -

You don't want to miss out The Who's "Live at the Leeds."



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As for krautrock:
   Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of the River Rhine
   Amon Duul II - Live in London
   these seem to me to be superlative live krautrock though many bands in this genre seem to have been recorded in such primitive conditions as to perhaps be labeled 'live in the studio'. examples being:

Ash Ra Tempel- 1st
Gila - st
German Oak-st (recorded in a German underground bunker!)
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Jethru Tull - Bursting Out

Iona- Woven Cord (very pretty music)
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  1. Genesis: Archives 1
  2. Renaissance: Live at Carneggie Hall
  3. Kansas: Two for the Show
  4. Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  5. Uriah Heep: Live 73
  6. Deep Purple: Made in Japan
  7. Yes: Yessongs
  8. ELP: Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that Never Ends....
  9. Kansas: Device Voice Drums (DVD)
  10. PFM: Live in Japan 2002 (DVD)

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Gnidrolog - Live 1972
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Four of my favorites:

King Crimson - The Night Watch or USA (its a tie)

Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool

St. Elmo's Fire - Splitting Ions In The Ether

The Who - Live At Leeds

 
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ELP-----Welcome Back My Friends.............

Rush-----Exit...Stage Left

Yes----Extended Versions----I think this one is pretty unkown, but it has a sweet version Starship Trooper with Howe and Wakeman soloing back and forth for five minutes instead of their typical one after the other like on most other versions of the song.  It also has a great version of Awaken.
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Fates Warning - Still Life


Excellent quality
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Grobschnitt - Solar  Music Live
Grobschnitt - All the history of solar music
Agitation Free - Last
Agitation Free - At the cliffs of river rhine
Hawkwind - Space ritual
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii
Novalis - Live
Deep Purple : Concerto for group and orchestra
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Non prog: Grateful dead : Live/dead
love these ones!
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Kansas - Two For The Show  , its how Kansas were ment to sound  

 
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Originally posted by wooty wooty wrote:

      Amon Duul II - Live in London

couldn't agreee more, this album smokes like a tightly rolled spliff
  

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Some of my absolute favourites:

Gong - Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong
Guru Guru - Live
Hawkwind - Live Chronicles
Magma - Live
Kraan - Live 75
Van der Graaf Generator - Vital
Planet Gong - Live Floating Anarchy
801 - Live
Embryo - Live with the Karnataka College of Percussion

Not prog, but excellent nevertheless:
Frumpy - Live

And the upcoming live album of Van der Graaf Generator, which probably will be named "Live at the Royal Festival Hall", of which I have a bootleg on the computer already (but will of course buy the real thing as soon as it is out). Best concert I ever attended (yes, Jean and I were there).
Most of these albums (even Magma) should be something that someone who is interested in space-rock will appreciate.


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My favourites are:

  • Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
  • Camel - A Live Record
  • Kansas - Two For The Show
  • Deep Purple - Made In Japan
  • Yes - Yessongs
  • Uriah Heep - Live 1973

I'm not really a huge fan of Live recordings but the sound quality is generally much better now. Most Bootlegs still leave a lot to be desired!


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a) Ten great live prog albums:

Live Etc. - GONG

Playing the Fool - GENTLE GIANT

Welcome to the Canteen - TRAFFIC

Yessongs - YES

Live Herald - STEVE HILLAGE

B'Boom - KING CRIMSON

Welcome Back My Friends... - ELP

Two for the Show - KANSAS

Live in Concert with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - PROCOL HARUM

Nothing is Easy: Live on the Isle of Wight 1970 - JETHRO TULL

b) Ten great live non-prog albums:

Undead - TEN YEARS AFTER

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - THE ROLLING STONES

Performance - HUMBLE PIE

Mad Dogs & Englishmen - JOE COCKER

Strangers in the Night - UFO

Live & Dangerous - THIN LIZZY

Before the Flood - BOB DYLAN & THE BAND

Rock of Ages - THE BAND

At Fillmore East - ALLMAN BROS. BAND

Alive! - SLADE
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My favourites:

Camel - A Live Record
BJH - Live
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool
Horslips - Live
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
Rush - All the World's a Stage

and one non-prog one which is breathtaking

Runrig - Once in a Lifetime
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Lots of good ones out there, my picks include:

  1. Magma - Live-Hhai (any Magma Live album is worth hearing, but this is the one to start with)
  2. King Crimson - The Night Watch (also Absent Lovers and Vroom Vroom)
  3. Henry Cow - Concerts
  4. Chris Cutler/Fred Frith - Live in Washington, Prague and Moscow
  5. Charles Hayward - Escape From Europe Vols 1 and 3
  6. 801 - 801 Live
  7. David Sylvain/Robert Fripp - Damage
  8. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma disc 1
  9. Zammla Mammaz Manna - For Aldre Nybegynnare
  10. Steve Hillage - Live Herald
  11. Gong - Live etc
  12. Robert Wyatt - Live At Drury Lane
  13. The Residents - Cube-Eze Live In Holland
  14. Frank Zappa - YCDTOSA Vol 2 (also Make A Jazz Noise Here)
  15. Brand X - Livestock

Some non prog faves:

  1. Neil Young - Weld
  2. The Who - Live At Leeds
  3. Pere Ubu - Apocalypse Now
  4. David Thomas - Mirror Man
  5. The Ramones - It's Alive
  6. Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison/San Quentin
  7. NIck Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds
  8. Bob Dylan - Live 1966 (Bootleg Series)
  9. Dr Feelgood - Stupidity
  10. Tom Lehrer - In Concert
  11. Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault


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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:


Chris Cutler/Fred Frith - Live in Washington, Prague and Moscow



Oooooh!
 
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Forgot to mention some others:

Any live album of Peter Hammill; since you are more into the psychedelic, "There Goes the Daylight" might be something for you (has some psychedelic jamming). But any Hammill live album is excellent, so "The Margin +", "Veracious", "Room Temperature", "The Union Chapel Concert" and "Typical" are also recommended.
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live


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Dream Theater- Live At  Budokan
Queensryche- Operation:Livecrime
Marillion- Real To Real/ Brief Encounter
Marillion- Marbles Live
Pain Of Salvation- Be Live (comes with the DVD of the same show)
Pink Floyd- PULSE
Pain Of Salvation- 12:5 (excellent acoustic show)
Threshold- Critical Energy (2CD)
Genesis- Live
An Evening With John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess

 

 



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its not prog at all, its acutally the exact opposite, but i really like 'Kick Out the Jams' by MC5.

but my favorite live album ever is 'Happy Trails' by the QUicksilver MEssenger Service.
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