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Your favorite live recordings?

Mumbles said:
Dang, you beat me to it!

I was going to say the Allman Bros and Peter Frampton to. I saw the Allmans live in Vancouver, 1973, and Frampton in Toronto, 1976. Both of these shows were outstanding!
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75 Frampton and 76 A Bros for us.


I know any J Tull, Stones and Fleetwood Mac show has to rank up pretty high on anyone lucky to be alive in the 70's. Well any really they all were great! Average price ~$6 for festival seating with the lights out.......
Yea!:rockon:
 
I really have no fav live recordings and typically avoid them but the first time I heard electrostatic speakers at a high end shop where I was placing an order on a Mirage 5.1 set. They had 2 huge monolithic looking speakers sitting in the center of the 25'+ x 40" room with a one step up stage at one end like a church, I'm pretty sure it was a church at some time. I'm not really a fan of the Eagles and never owned anything of theirs or any band members recordings but when I heard the Eagles Live (it was new then) it sounded like I was right there and was ready to cancel my order and spend the $8k for them since that was a deal at half price the typical $16k sale price since this was the last set and the demo set.

My GF talked me out of it by using common sense at that moment but it set me on a quest to someday get me a good set of electrostatics, and just like that, only 20 years later, I had a bunch of them, so the Eagles Live has a memory that lead to my understanding that there are good speakers if you can afford them or willing to make your own. The difference between $1k speakers and $15k speakers is so vast that they can't be compared on any level except for the price paid. If it was any other speakers I probably would never have remembered the Eagles live was playing.

Otherwise I would have said Peter Frampton Live, it's unusual that a live album propelled him into a rock star, I can't think of any other band that became popular from a live recording and I never heard studio recordings.

Kiss Alive always delivers no matter which country they may have been while recording. Kiss always made clean recordings with perfect production.

Other live recordings are always messed up in some way and the bands sound like they're having a hard time playing their own songs.
 
Rickie Lee Jones' live recording of 'Walk Away Renee' on the 10" mini-LP 'Girl at Her Volcano' really brings out the meloncholy of the lyrics.
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I suppose it was there in The Left Banke's version too, but I wasn't aware of it until I heard her version
 
I have many but the two standouts that came up first to mind is "Rare Earth in Concert" from about 1971. I've had that album a very long time. The other is Les Mcann and Eddie Harris' live album from the Montreaux Jazz Festival, "Swiss Movement." That one I've had since 1969. Both have a LOT of time on the various turntables I've had over the years and both are still in very good shape (the records themselves).

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Oerets said:
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii [Director's Cut] Full 3hours
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I just picked up the recent relase of that one and really love it. I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of that era of the band, one which was really low key, atmospheric and much more improvised than what they did either earlier or later, but that music just has a certain vibe that draws me to it and that live album really captures the magic well.
mbz said:
Already mentioned a few times, Lou Reed, Rock n Roll animal.
Best intro track ever??
"Hair.... row....in"
Best guitar riff??? "Rock and Roll"
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I dig that album and agree that it's a great performance and great recording. Still, as a Lou Reed fan, I look at it as kind of an odd one-off kind of thing and is one of those albums that for better or for worse, appeals to people who aren't even particularly into the artist. It has a jammy, almost Allman Brothers feel that little of his other stuff has. He apparently was pretty strung out at the time it was made and I have to wonder if he simply went along with decisions that other people made for him, which ended up really shaping the music. None of that makes it bad, but it's interesting to me that sometimes when the artist themselves seem to have less input, interesting things can happen... though more often than not it ends up being a mistake that the artist doesn't have more creative control.
 
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Mad Season - "Live at the Moore"

Pearl Jam - "Benaroya Hall"

Ben Harper and Relentless 7 - "Live From the Montreal International Jazz Festival"

Earthless - " Live in the Mojave Desert - Vol. 1"

Local H - "Live in Europe"

Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - "Live Frogs Set 2"

Buddy Guy - "Live at Legends"

Pearl Jam - "Live at the Gorge"

Glen Hansard "Don't Settle" Transmissions East and Transmissions West Vols. 1&2

I also agree with many classic live albums mentioned above being great. Massey Hall, Live at Leeds, Pulse, Fillmore East, Live at Pompeii etc.....all terrific!
 
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