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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2017 at 13:01
God..... The best live album ever, and I completely forgot to post it! Irish Tour '74 by Rory Gallagher! Apologies, Rory!

I know it isn't prog, but......

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2017 at 15:04
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A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2017 at 15:10
Deep Purple- Made in Japan

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 16 2017 at 04:10
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

After reading many opinions, I have been reminded of two live albums that I do think are the best those bands have released: "Live at Carnegie Hall" by Renaissance, and "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple.

Definitely those two. Add to the list, Curved Air Live, Jimi Hendix Band of Gypsys and the Colosseum Live. While Pink Floyd, Yes , Genesis and Camel made some great live albums they don't qualify as favourite in my mind over their best studio albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2017 at 12:58
third with Curved Air - Live and second with
Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

I will add Barclay James Harvest - Live


^this is basically BJH's the-best-of played live
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2017 at 21:59
Made in Japan.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2017 at 12:49
Ted Nugent- Double Live Gonzo
King Crimson- "Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind" DVD
Marillion -Live at Loreley DVD
Arena-  Caught in the Act DVD
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 18 2017 at 16:17
Ahh my kind of thread. I tend to prefer live albums as I love the raw and unfiltered - the small improvs and different shadings to otherwise classic tunes...heh some times I go back and hear the studio cut and it feels tame and far too polite. Some bands are far superior in a live setting - others not so much. Yeah I caught Red Hot Chili Peppers on two different occasions and they sucked big time. I dig the studio albums.

Anyways erm listing albums that were the pinaccle of said band's oevre:

The Doors - Absolutely Live
Magma - Live Hhaï
Jimi/Band of Gypsys - Live at the Fillmore
Floyd - Pompeii (not sure that counts)
Cream - Live
Colosseum - Live!
Lou Reed - Rock n Roll Animal
Kiss - Alive
SBB - Karlstad
The Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks vol errmm....can't decide.
Metallica - Binge & Purge
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Duke Ellington - Newport 56
The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (tied with a few other seminal studio albums)
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within (ditto the above)
Santana - Lotus
King Crimson - The Night Shift (among many others)
Kraan - Live
Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live
Floating Points - Mojave Desert (from 2017. Folks who dig Pompeii should immediately look this thing up on jootoob)
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Allman Bros - Live at the Fillmore
Derek & the Dominos - Live at the Fillmore
The Who - Live at Leeds
Jethro Tull - Isle of Wight
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture (tied with a bunch of studio albums no less...though not the original studio album which is dull compared to this baby. You can feel the intensity of the room - fans thinking this will be the last ever Bowie show...which again fuels the, granted high af, musicians.)
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Area - Are(A)zione (tied a couple of studio ones)
Caravan - Live at the Fairfield Flats (ditto the above)

I am forgetting so many right now but I am not home, so can't flip through my collection. Safe to say there are many many more.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2017 at 07:11
^ Absolutely love Lour Reed's - Rock and Roll Animal.  Also like the 1975 Lou Reed Live album.
^ That Duke Ellington - At Newport is also a winner (I think that lady dancing the isles is still going :) )

Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore
Uriah Heep - Live (January 1973)
Ten Years After - Recorded Live (1973)

Hope to add this one after Christmas, should be getting King Crimson's - Official Bootleg, Live in Chicago 2017.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2017 at 09:19
Oh yeah I love that Ten Years After album! I am also quite partial to the earlier Undead offering. I really dig the intimacy of the whole thing and it's as if you can reach out and touch the sweaty smokestained walls. Heh when I think of Alvin I always envision this speedmouthing chipmunk up on the Woodstock stageLOL
Kinda reminds me of Lou completely off his noggin trying to sing Kicks:

Damn I love that clipLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 19 2017 at 10:01
Sweet Smoke - Just a Poke
Embryo - Live


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2018 at 00:27
Brand X - Livestock

Great choice of tunes frim their studio albums and a fantastic capture of the live performance. By far my favorite Brand X.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2018 at 10:47
Originally posted by ALotOfBottle ALotOfBottle wrote:

ELP with Pictures at an Exhibition popped to mind right away.

Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

After reading many opinions, I have been reminded of two live albums that I do think are the best those bands have released: "Live at Carnegie Hall" by Renaissance, and "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple.
I agree. I will add Barclay James Harvest - Live and Camel - A Live Record.

These are the 5 albums from 5 bands that came to mind right away.
I tend to like live albums more than studio albums, but if the criteria is, that the live album is better than anything else the artist did, I can only think of those 5 albums at the moment. I often have the feeling, especially with Renaissance and BJH, who I like very much,  that the studio albums are kind of 'over-produced', too much of 'this and that', while live they sound more 'pure'.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2018 at 04:32
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2018 at 10:25
Hi,

As you can see by a previously mentioned piece, Pink Floyd's Live in Pompeii was a magnificent example of what Pink Floyd was like in concert way before the big fame hit them with DSOTM, when the shows became more mechanized and choreographed and the moments that were different than the album kinda dropped to none throughout any concert.

This, was one of the reasons why the early days, had so many Pink Floyd bootlegs, since they were all different, even though one fan or another might say that the differences were minor and no big deal, but hearing 10 different versions of "Set the Controls of the Heart of the Sun", or 10 different versions of "Echoes", or even better, 5 different versions of "Atom Heart Mother", up to and including the Ballet version that rock critics just plastered because they hated ballet and could not bed the dancers after the show because they were not groupies!

One might say that this is subtle, but it is one of the main reasons why so much of the early days of PF survive so strongly, and not only the days of Syd Barrett, but also the time right after it, which is only a couple/three years, but they are magnificent and it was during that time that they were doing their shows in QUADRAPHONIC SOUND, and they were, to my knowledge, the first one to do it, and turn their experiments into a sound experience ... that eventually developed into DSOTM and then TW.

However, by that time, the charm of the original creativity had been destroyed by the fanatic and sadistic fame that followed it and still lives!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 17:39
For me, it's unusual that I'd prefer a live album to a studio effort.  There are only two I can think of:

Magma's Trilogie au Trianon, and Marillion's Thieving Magpie
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 19:33
Many of Frank Zappa's best albums were recorded live

'Roxy and Elsewhere is (to my mind) his best album, although he overdubbed background vocals and horns onto some of the live tracks

'The Helsinki Concert' is close too...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 19:59
^As near as I can tell, most of his albums have at least some live material.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2018 at 02:32
Originally posted by Walkscore Walkscore wrote:

Many of Frank Zappa's best albums were recorded live

'Roxy and Elsewhere is (to my mind) his best album, although he overdubbed background vocals and horns onto some of the live tracks

'The Helsinki Concert' is close too...



While I love me some studio Frank, you're not wrong.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2018 at 06:57
not surprisingly since they are 1a and 1b of the greatest live rock albums ever made... and two of my absolute favorite bands as well as being considered the greatest live bands ever...

At Fillmore East and Live at Leeds
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