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moshkito 
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 Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:14 |
Hi, This one deserves a mention just by the ending of one piece ... where your ears get blown out ... even DD (never Deputy Dan!) got wow'd by it and surprised.
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Lewian
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 06:13 |
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Live albums are hard to cover by a list these days as so many shows have been published, but most of these were only bought by the most committed fans of the band. I see a distinction between "big" live albums (mostly from the past) which were put out by bands pretty much like a regular release and appreciated by many, and the releases just targeted at a small audience that were put out because you can do that cheaply even if only a few people buy it. Still some of these can be quite good. Of course it isn't black and white like that and what I just write will not allow for a sharp classification, still Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall is a mightily good album and has 266 ratings on PA whereas Day of the Dreamer has 15 and I've never heard of "King Biscuit Flower Hour", which I don't even find on PA, but this is highest on the list followed by Day of the Dreamer, whereas Carnegie Hall isn't on there. Weird! (Obviously the two listed ones may be great, what do I know?) For Tangerine Dream on the other hand they just list "regular" live albums, chances are they didn't even know that Ricochet is live (seen as better than Poland, Encore, and Logos by maybe most), and of course TD has hundreds of "fan-targeted" live albums, but the list makers apparently don't know them and for Renaissance they do. I shouldn't be very suspicious of nationalism but it also jumps at me that great German live albums such as Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live, Kraan Live, Hoelderlin Live Traumstadt are missing. But then, as I wrote, putting together a meaningful live albums list is super hard, they can try, I can disagree, but I guess not much harm is done...
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Posted: September 09 2023 at 05:47 |
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In no particular order, and sticking to one per band:
Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall BJH - BJH Live Camel - A Live Record Wishbone Ash - Live Dates Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool Rush - Exit Stage Left IQ - Subterranea Live Marillion - Real to Reel Genesis - Seconds Out |
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 15:15 |
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In no special order, no box set issued 20 , 30 or 40 years later, no hard rock ( DP, LZ, UH, ..) juste prog
Genesis Live Genesis Seconds Out PFM Cook Grobschnitt : Solar Music Live Yes : Yessongs (not yesshows :-) BJH : Live (1974) Zappa in NY Zappa Roxy and elsewhere Jeff Beck and The Jan Hammer Goup Magma Live (aka Hhai) King Crimson : USA ELP : Welcome back Caravan and The New symphony .... |
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 14:08 |
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^Yes it is in order, but the last update was 2017.
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 13:56 |
I don't think so...
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 13:43 |
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You think that list is in any particular order?
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 11:52 |
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Henry Cow - Concerts
Hawkwind - Space Ritual King Crimson - Great Deceiver Magma - Hhai Deep Purple - Made In Japan
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 09:57 |
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Well, the top ten includes two from Rush, Dixie Dregs, Zappa, and Dream Theater. Nice list in my eyes.
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 09:49 |
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ELP - WBMFTTSTNE I would also suggest ... PFM - COOK
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 09:41 |
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There are soooooo many lists to debate on that site!😳🤣
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 07:10 |
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One of these days I'm going to spend some time deep-diving into my live album collection. I've never really evaluated it to determine which is the greatest in my collection, but growing up in the 1980s I played Seconds Out and Three Sides Live more than any other live album I owned. Whether or not either of them is the greatest prog rock live album, they were at least my favorites during an impressionable time of my life. So, there's that.
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 06:51 |
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Hi,
In the old days of the late 60's and early 70's it was the advent of the bootlegs that told you how good, or bad, a band was in concert. The best seller of them all was Bob Dylan, and it was a series of tapes that had different lyrics for many songs, that was interesting. The other great seller was Led Zeppelin, that showed what a magnificent band they were for about 4 to 5 years ... their "Live on Blueberry Hill" boot is excellent as are the series of albums around Bonzo's birthday party around LA as far as I know ... some of which Jimmy has updated (and changed badly!!!!) in "How The West Was Won" ... even the concert film they did was not even close or as tight as these early boots showed, which helped LZ become the hottest act on stage for several years. The Rolling Stones, were not very good in concert, and I walked out of a show ... too loud, and out of tune, it seemed. I guess you could say it was "rock'n'roll" in that it was good one night and bad the next and then half way the next night! Not for me ... ciao baby! The other massive bootleg was the LET IT BE stuff from the Beatles, of which there were at least 10 different bootlegs showing different material than what ended up on the album, and some fun stuff along the way, that was "hidden" for a long time by EMI ... to keep the Beatles legacy clean and special. Some of the material in the Beatles Christmas Shows is actually a part of this scam, since in some places it does/says things that could be considered inappropriate. I have not seen the Peter Jackson special, though I would think that the special might have some of this fun stuff from the bootlegs and allow the members to be themselves as the bootlegs did so well. Frank Zappa had a lot of boots from many of his California shows. They showed, right at the start, that this was not a fool around band ... it was serious. The greatest seller of bootlegs, however, was The Grateful Dead, and though it is thought that they were not "great" all the time, the way that their folks went after so many of these shows to the point that the band opened up their SOUND BOARD to anyone that wanted to record anything. Even if the material is not fantastic or great, it is unlikely and unreal to think that there was nothing of interest in the material ... and how so many fans trade the stuff STILL into this day! To the point that this list is almost ridiculous without The Grateful Dead. Edited by moshkito - September 08 2023 at 06:58 |
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 06:23 |
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I like Amon Duul 2's LIVE IN LONDON ... as the one live concert of theirs that is monumental, considering the difficulty in their music at the time, and how they responded. Rehearsed and ready for London. Probably the only time in their life that they rehearsed a concert and were ready to play. Other later concerts of the band had a feeling of disjointed and not ready to be where they were, or they simply did not feel inspired to play right and well. The Italian concert in 2010 (I think it was) seems to be fairly good, but compared to the actual stuff on the albums, it really could have used another rehearsal or two. Aside from Cris Karrer having sound issues, of course! PF's Live in Pompeii is very good and it shows in the film ... but no "audience" takes away an element of the performance, and there appears to be cuts in between suggesting that these were not the "same day/night" at all. Nektar's two well known live albums showed how great the band were ... that we don't talk about. "Live in NY" and "Sunday Night at the Roundhouse" showed that this band was for real in concert and that they gave it all, just like they did in the albums. It's a shame they are not listed. "Sounds Like This" is a LIVE album if EVER there was one, but I'm not sure it will be thought as that in the long run! Le Orme's "In Concerto" is really good. And deserving a mention. I would love to see Tangerine Dream added here as their concert series with the ladies, is fantastic and has produced many outstanding shows. Let Edgar whip that piano into shape!!!!!! Tangerine Dream - Poland (don't forget it was freezing for everyone, not enough electricity to heat the place up and the equipment according to the book!) Klaus Schulze, though not exactly prog rock, also deserves a mention, since his work is always right up front and impossible to duplicate the regular albums. He was "always" live and this is something that we can not quite see. His series with Lisa are totally out of this world though I'm not sure this will be ever recognized, since they don't quite fit here, but the guts it takes to do what they did ... is phenomenal and one of the greatest achievements of the rock era, something that came from rock music ... the beauty and possibility of the live material, even when not exactly pre-thought or designed. ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition Magma - Live at Reims 1976 Gong - Live, etc (though the Floating Anarchy is the best ever) Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere Caravan - And the Symphonia ... is one of the best live orchestra albums ever. Hawkwind - Space Ritual Grobschnitt - Solar Music Live (specially the remastered series) Guru Guru -- The early tapes stuff is fantastic trip stuff. Essen 1970 is out there! Edited by moshkito - September 08 2023 at 07:09 |
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 05:04 |
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^ thanks for the link
Nice to see Savatage and Marillion in there, I didn't expect it.
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 05:04 |
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 04:29 |
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The https://digitaldreamdoor.com/mobile/rock/albums-progressive-rock-live.html url in the OP works fine if you just copy paste it, but it turned into this as a link: https://digitaldreamdoor.com/mobile/rock/albums-progressive-rock-live.htmlhttps:/digitaldreamdoor.com/mobile/rock/albums-progressive-rock-live.html
Try this link:: https://digitaldreamdoor.com/mobile/rock/albums-progressive-rock-live.html Anyway, according to my tastes and collections the rankings would be very different. I would put Magma and Tangerine Dream lives higher. What struck me of the top 100 was Depeche Mode's 101 at 75. Not because I would expect a 101 inside a top 100 rather than just out of it, that's the album title, but because I thought of it as more SynthPop/ New Romantic than what I would put under the Prog label. Can't say I have listened to much of it, but it stuck out. I wonder how many people contributed to the list? Edited by Logan - September 08 2023 at 04:32 |
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 03:07 |
![Review] Genesis: Live (1973) - Progrography](https://progrography.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/genesislive.jpg "Review] Genesis: Live (1973) - Progrography")
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Posted: September 08 2023 at 02:54 |
the link does not work for me.
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I enjoy live King Crimson, and it always blew me away to learn that large parts of "Starless and Bible Black" were recorded live, and then mixed down in the studio! From DGM Live:
Released in March 1974, the bulk of Starless And Bible Black is a live album with all traces of the audience skilfully removed. Coming between the startling inventions of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, and the far-reaching repercussions of Red, Starless And Bible Black is a powerful and experimental album mingling live recordings with stand-alone studio tracks. Brimming with a confidence borne out of the band’s increasing mastery of the concert platform as a basis for inspired improvisations, the sparse, pastoral beauty of Trio, the impressionistic, sombre moods of the title track, and the complex, cross-picking rhythmic brilliance of Fracture all stand testimony to the musical ESP that existed between Cross, Fripp, Wetton and Bruford. A classic and compelling blast of King Crimson as you’re likely to hear. |
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