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Some of the first that came to (my) mind :

Grobschnitt : Solar Music Live
Deep Purple : Made in Japan
Thin Lizzy : Live and Dangerous
Genesis : Live (would have been the perfect live record (o me) had it been a double LP)
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how about a band that never made a studio album, only a live album?


this is top Canterbury royalty, so no wonder this is an excellent live album


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^The last one goes somewhat against the idea of the thread, however I'm grateful because I didn't know about that album and am very keen to hear it, loving Didier Malherbe's work in particular but also the rest make a great lineup.

This one is just to agree with some of those posted, so Space Ritual, Live in Japan, Stop Making Sense, Barclay James Harvest Live are on my own list for sure. I had thought about Amon Düül II Live in London before posting this thread. They are indeed in great form there and the rendition of the tracks from Yeti and Tanz der Lemminge is wonderful, however I feel let down a bit by the Improvisation (only original track there), not because it's bad but rather it was cut short before taking off, which I think wasn't a good decision. It doesn't really come to life like this, and it's a wasted opportunity to showcase their free flying spontaneous side live.


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You're certainly fond of live albums, Grumpy. Concerning Kraan, my fave album is their debut. Smile







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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


You're certainly fond of live albums, Grumpy. Concerning Kraan, my fave album is their debut. Smile
Yep. Enjoy
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I guess the first one that comes to mind is...



Followed by...



And maybe...




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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:


He was even better live in person, especially around '83/'84.   One of the great blues performers ever, up there with Jimi himself.   And his Double Trouble were off the charts.
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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

I guess the first one that comes to mind is...



great one, thanks for mentioning it. Smile
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I got into Mostly Autumn towards the end of the Heather Findlay era. I have since bought the Live 2009 and the live recording of Heather's last show, and I consider both to be better than any of the studio albums that I've heard. Maybe it's down to the setlist, the albums I've heard have been a mixture of really good songs and filler, and the live shows have picked the former.
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Tangerine Dream, Ricochet -- even though it was not 100% live.
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I'm a big live album fan, have been all my music listening life. I'm not sure it's because the ones I enjoy are better than the studio albums, but it's more that it puts you in the crowd.
Back in the day it was a real treat to get a well recorded live album that gave you all that feeling and ambiance of the live setting, remember these live shows were recorded LIVE on tape and only select cities. Compared to today where essentially you can record all shows to a hard drive and then sit back and pick out the "best" shows to release and edit the living daylights out of them, back in the day they were works of art from an engineering view.

UFO~Strangers In the Night (such a tight performance)
Rush~AtWAS (the rawness added such life to the show)
AC/DC~If You Want Blood....
Scorpions~Tokyo Tapes
Iron Maiden~Life After Death (saw that tour in New Orleans....brilliant!!)
Talking Heads~Stop Making Sense
Saga~In Transit (saw that tour in Baton Rouge)
PG~Secret World Live
Genesis~Seconds Out
Earth, Wind & Fire~Gratitude (the funk power is awesome live)
Pink Floyd~Pulse
David Gilmour~Live at Pompeii (absolutely sublime recording)
Diana Krall~Live in Paris
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I'm a big live album fan, have been all my music listening life.
...

Hi,

Of all the things I would love to hear, would be the "pre-show" warmups by Frank Zappa. Guy Guden caught him (either SB or LA, not sure which), and he got to sit through the warm up and he says it was some 30 or 40 minutes of non stop anything, all instrumental I think he said that was absolutely the best thing he ever did ... and then FZ went on stage and became someone else!

Now I want to hear what has never been shared, that one twit won't share, because he is from the rock/pop era of things and he can not relate to the rest of the music. I don't want rehashes. I want the fresh stuff that no one has heard, and even according to Stevie Vai, there is a lot more that will likely never be heard at all. And Stevie introduces what he says is the most phenomenal solo he has ever heard to end the segment, and it is indeed fantastic.

I'm not aware, of any other examples to tell you, although many of the films on The Grateful Dead, are really open to anything they do or don't do, and even catching Bob telling Jerry he missed the chord (played the wrong one!) ... which got everyone laughing, including me ... mistakes from those guys ... it was their living!


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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

If the question was a little less absolute than "better than all", but rather "as great as any studio album, I'd include: Can - The Peel Sessions and Tangerine Dream - Ricochet, Encore... some Magma...
Cardiacs fall in that category for me, both "Live" and "Mare's Nest" are up with their three best studio albums (hard to differentiate between them).

Got to listen to some of your jazz nominations; I don't listen to jazz that often but in the right hour I can be very keen on it. And yeah, it's a live thing - jazz has a much higher percentage of my gig experience than of my listening at home.
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Listening to lo-fi bootlegs of Pink Floyd live performances was elemental in my development as a prog fan, and I turn to them nowadays moreso than their studio counterparts (especially shows from 1969-1973, 1975 and 1977).

And 4 Way Street by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (with Live at Massey Hall 1971 close behind) completely ruined Neil Young for me, as I can't listen to his studio versions compared to the delicacy and power of his solo acoustic renditions.
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Magma's "Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie" is better than all their studio albums together


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Originally posted by Gordy Gordy wrote:

Listening to lo-fi bootlegs of Pink Floyd live performances was elemental in my development as a prog fan, and I turn to them nowadays moreso than their studio counterparts (especially shows from 1969-1973, 1975 and 1977).

I've got a show from '75--  great tour impressively reproducing WYWH.   Of course that was a more straightforward rock album than either Dark Side or the Wall so a bit simpler to recreate, but the band sounds well-rehearsed, at least on the performance I've got (can't remember what city but I think in the US somewhere).
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Deep Purple's Made In Japan. It's really not worth listening to the studio versions of the songs thereafter.
The Allman Brother's At Fillmore East. Some bands aspire to sound that good live. But very few can. 
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Gordy Gordy wrote:

Listening to lo-fi bootlegs of Pink Floyd live performances was elemental in my development as a prog fan, and I turn to them nowadays moreso than their studio counterparts (especially shows from 1969-1973, 1975 and 1977).

I've got a show from '75--  great tour impressively reproducing WYWH.   Of course that was a more straightforward rock album than either Dark Side or the Wall so a bit simpler to recreate, but the band sounds well-rehearsed, at least on the performance I've got (can't remember what city but I think in the US somewhere).



I wonder if it was Los Angeles from April or Boston from June.
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