Favorite Prog Related/Proto-Prog Live Album

Toss up between Queen and BOC.  Went with Queen. 

Edited by The Doctor - December 29 2011 at 11:51

I'm not head over heels in love with any of the choices, though I consider at least half of them to be very good.

My favorite prog-related/proto-prog live album (or just favorite live album, period) is Golden Earring Live, from 1977. 

Candy's Going Bad
She Flies on Strange Wings
Mad Love Comin'
Radar Love
Just Like Vince Taylor
Eight Miles High
Vanilla Queen
To the Hilt
Fightin' Windmills
Con Man

Perfect.

How the West Was Won, no contest.

Where's "Live Dates" by WIshbone Ash?

That album is better than "Made in Japan" (IMHO).

Especially crank up "Lady Whiskey" and "Phoenix" and be amazed.

My vote gets Blue Oyster Cult's ETL off the mark!  The tracks 'Black Blade' and 'Veteran of the Psychic Wars' are especially good.

Gawd, Live At Last is more bootleg and more or less disowned by Sabbath who were a bit rough around the edges live (I've a fair amount of the boots..)

Song Remains should be there, Live At Leeds is great, Made In Japan also top notch (although the guitarless jam at the end of Space Truckin' leaves me a tad cold...). Do wonder if the different releases of all these albums are blurring their identity... Go for Killers over Wembley but that's (not) just me...

On Stage is good but Live In Germany is better just for Stargazer alone - a glaring ommission from On Stage.

Bowie's Stage I always rated highly, the BOC is also fine.... Band of Gypsies (spelt correctly unlike the title) a very cool album with Who Knows and Machine Gun as the evident high points... I think the Doors might have a superior upgraded and more fuller recent version.

Amusing notes dept. I was "listening" to this once, more or less asleep (emotional exhaustion you understand). Then came that monotonous keyboard bass one note bit Jim threatened the audience with if they didn't behave. When he yelled out "SHUT UP" you've never seen anyone (me) go from snooze to outright fright.

Back to the albums, the Iron Maiden seems to best represent Maiden, so much so they repeated it...

I think How The West Was Won wins this time. Oddly I was behind the Iron Curtain in Warszawa when that finally emerged. Heavy rock, rock and roll, blues of quite some variety, folk (and a complete Black Dog!)

I really like some of these albums, in fact, most of them; my favourites are Live at Leeds, and the Doors, but the trouble is, I don't consider any of these as prog-related or proto-prog. My favourite live early prog track is 1-2-3 at the Marquee - now that really IS prog before its time.

Out of those I know in this list, Muse's H.A.A.R.P is my favorite.

I voted for the Who because it's a great live lp. Made In Japan is good but I never really thought their work was consistent and DP wrote some really medicore stuff over the years. The Doors were a sloppy band at times but fans thought they were entertaining live. Zep and Talking Heads are 2 good choices also.

Where is the "Other"?