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My top 5 live albums.
1. The Song Remains the Same Soundtrack ~ Led Zeppelin
2. At Fillmore East ~ The Allman Brothers Band
3. Performance Rockin' the Fillmore ~ Humble Pie
4. 17-11-70 ~ Elton John
5. Way Down In the Rust Bucket ~ Neil Young & Crazy Horse
There are others, but I never grow tired of these 5.
Yesshows - Yes
All the World's a Stage - Rush
Double Live Gonzo - Ted Nugent
Made in Japan - Deep Purple
Band of Gypsys - Hendrix
Yep all 70s albums . I believe the Hendrix album was 1970 . To me the studio stuff from that era sounded weak in comparison. I didn't like the production . There are exceptions of course . Queen for instance , I love their studio stuff but I didn't think Live Killers was a very good live album . I also did like Rush and Yes' studio albums .
Frampton.
He’s the one guy that made everything sound better…
Live.
Maybe it’s because he’d finally broke free of his Humble days. But, he made “Live” better than studio.
In all Honesty and as a guy that’s not quite qualified to call himself “A Dead Head”…The Dead were all about The Live Experience.
Another honest to God live ass kicking was Tom Petty.
Hot August Night ~ Neil Diamond
Frampton Comes Alive ~ Peter Frampton
Live at Madison Square Garden ~ Elvis Presley
One More From the Road ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
ALIVE! ~ KISS
Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
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I guess it depends on the definition of “live”. Kiss “Alive” and “Unleashed” are great but are slathered in studio overdubs. Meanwhile. AC/DC’s “If You Want Blood” sounds like it was recorded with a reel-to-reel at the mixing board.
Ted Nugent - Great Gonzos!
Kiss - Alive
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Scorpions - Live Bites
Johnny Rivers Live at The Roxy
Grand Funk Live Album was a compilation.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Four Way Street
I think what makes these live albums so good is that all the artists pulled it off back in the day on pure talent, no auto tune. It just took a good sound guy to make it all work.
Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged.
Lots of other good albums but for me that's it..
- UFO : Strangers in the Night
- Judas Priest : Unleashed in the East
- Kiss : Alive II
- Scorpions : Tokyo Tapes
- Slayer : Decade of Aggression
How could I forget Strangers in the Night . About wore that album out back then .
Allman brother's live at filmore.
Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott's.
Santana live at filmore 68.
SRV at Carnegie hall.
Pink floyd pulse.
KISS Alive
Cheap Trick Live at Budakon
How have we not mentioned “Live After Death”?
Social Distortion live at the Roxy
While its true that thing is a slice & dice of studio inserts, it still was a big part of my life when it came out and it single handidly saved the band and the fledging record label. Still enjoy spinning my old scratchy Bogey label LP to this very day.
Agreed . It was my first Kiss album and when I eventually got the studio albums I was like wtf .
Plus it’s a cool story. Kiss’ studio releases didn’t set the world on fire, so they thought “we’re great live; why not a live album?” And the rest is history.
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Picture's only begun
Got you under their thumb…
Yep . And sure they weren't great musicians but check out some of their early concert footage on YouTube. They were a pretty damn good raunchy hard rock band before letting their on stage personas basically become cartoon characters.
Pit Row
Quicksilver Messenger Service -Happy Trails. 90% live Filmore East and West.
Pink Floyd live at Pompeii 71 edition
Band of Gypsies
Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts
Joe Bonamassa - Live from Nowhere in Particular
He's released loads of live albums.
Any of Gov't Mules live releases.
Dire Straits - Alchemy
Queensryche.... Operation LiveCrime. Saw them perform Operation MindCrime in person. Freaking amazing. The pinnacle of Rock Opera.
Particularly: Suite Sister Mary and Eyes of a Stranger.
Rush - Exit, Stage Left
Genesis - Three Sides Live
A lot of great albums already mentioned
Led Zeppelin - how the west was won
kinks - one for the road
talking heads - stop making sense
super tramp - Paris
queen - live killers
J Geils - blow your face out
Not an album, but if we are talking live performances..
The Mothers Fillmore East - June 1971.
Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads- Tribute
I know the tracks are taken from different shows but never less it's all live and pretty amazing.
Like mentioned above...pretty much all 70's stuff.
Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal.
It's Alive - Ramones
Live at Leeds - The Who
Unplugged - Nirvana
Under a Blood Red Sky - U2 and er
Hot August Night - Neil Diamond
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