fave live albums and recommendations

english_bob

bingefeller said:

Miles Davis - Live Evil

Seems odd to make the distinction between live jazz albums and studio jazz albums, since jazz has almost always been recorded live, and some albums that aren't sold as live albums are anyway- you can hear background chatter and cutlery clinking on Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby album for instance, recorded live at the Village Vanguard.

I guess it makes more sense when you're considering Miles' electric stuff, since that wasn't the case- the studio recordings are edited together from different performances to create music that was never actually played live, although I think that's also the case with Live Evil (which also has studio recordings on it). 

Which is not to say that it isn't a really good album

RocknRollDave

breakstuff said:

U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky.

Many of my favourite live releases are actually DVD's - including the extended version of the Red Rocks show, which appeared on the reissue of Under a Blood Red Sky. IIRC it includes the whole show except for Fire, which was played whilst they were changing film reels, whereas the VHS was edited down.

Winny_Pooh

proggy said:

Winny_Pooh said:

Little Feat - live at Supersonic studios
Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys
Joe Walsh - You can't argue with a sick mind (underrated gem, pm me for a copy)
Peter Gabriel - Secret World 
Sade Live (1993 DVD)

I don't know that Little Feat album. Is it post Lowell George? I'll have to check this out.

And yes, that Joe Walsh album is class, Turn To Stone, absolute classic version.

@proggy OOPs its actually "live at Ultrasonic studios" was originally done for a radio broadcast and bootlegged since

axisus

Probably no one here has ever heard it, but my favourite live album is Pendragon Concerto Maximo. Prog rock with sublime melodic guitar solos.

Big shout as well for Steve Vai's Alive in an ultra world

From the 70s I love Rainbow On stage

not_the_dj

Lots of ones I could repeat from previous post, so I'll go with:

Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (captures a great period her career)
Dylan - '66 Manchester Freetrade Hall (the Judas show just for the legend it became)
Springsteen - Hammersmith Odeon '75 (for years he thought the gig was rubbish, but no, it captures him right at that point where he's about to make it big, and that show backs up why he and that band became the greatest). 

Jalapeno

Page & Plant UnLedded from Unplugged is a tour-de-force - the north African backing band is brilliant.

english_bob

Jalapeno said:

Page & Plant UnLedded from Unplugged is a tour-de-force - the north African backing band is brilliant.

The version of Kashmir on that album is awesome.

bigjon

The death of John Wetton has just reminded me - John Wetton Live in Poland. Dave Kilminster awesome on guitar.

ICBM

Actually I'm going to remove my recommendation for The Song Remains The Same. I listened to it this morning for the first time in a long time, and it's a bit crap really… I had it on cassette back in the 80s and listened to it a lot, which I think made me think it was better than it is.

axisus

ICBM said:

Actually I'm going to remove my recommendation for The Song Remains The Same. I listened to it this morning for the first time in a long time, and it's a bit crap really… I had it on cassette back in the 80s and listened to it a lot, which I think made me think it was better than it is.

I always thought that a poor album. Horribly indulgent in places. 

I was a massive Queen fan as well, but I never liked Queen live killers. I had much better bootlegs back in the day.

Philly_Q

I love the film of The Song Remains The Same, but without the visuals the musical performances really aren't great.  That's what I thought back in the '80s, too - unusually discerning of me.

mburekenge

Band of gypsies
bb king live at the regal.
i love the live at Hyde park peppers album, despite Frusciantes awful fuzz factory tone for the version of 'I feel love' lol

ICBM

mburekenge said:

i love the live at Hyde park peppers album, despite Frusciantes awful fuzz factory tone for the version of 'I feel love' lol

I love the Frusciante-era Chili Peppers but I thought that was a dreadful album… I purposely didn't mention it even though I owned it for a while! On the subject of ones I *don't* recommend I would add Sheryl Crow Live From Central Park. Awful, overplayed crap.

On the other hand Simon & Garfunkel's Concert In Central Park is excellent.

mburekenge

@icbm yeah, it's awful on the whole, but that frusciante/flea version of I feel love fills me with joy for some reason lol

strumjoughlamps

not_the_dj said:

Lots of ones I could repeat from previous post, so I'll go with:

Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (captures a great period her career)
 

I have this its a great album although I cannot listen to it all in one go

RocknRollDave

How The West Was Won is WAY better than The Song Remains The Same

english_bob

strumjoughlamps said:

not_the_dj said:

Lots of ones I could repeat from previous post, so I'll go with:

Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (captures a great period her career)
 

I have this its a great album although I cannot listen to it all in one go

I've never heard it, but I do have So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter which is also excellent, if a little dated with the post-9/11, anti-Bush protest song "Self-Evident". My ex-wife bought it, having liked the earlier punk-folk stuff and hated it- the songs have all been reworked by the band- keys, sax, trumpet, upright bass etc, and it's pretty jazzy.

english_bob

axisus said:

ICBM said:

Actually I'm going to remove my recommendation for The Song Remains The Same. I listened to it this morning for the first time in a long time, and it's a bit crap really… I had it on cassette back in the 80s and listened to it a lot, which I think made me think it was better than it is.

I always thought that a poor album. Horribly indulgent in places. 

That's my issue with Purple's Made In Japan. Everything goes on forfuckingever, and there's so much squealing and soloing and general self-love set to music. It's possible to make long improvisations interesting (see previous recommendation of At Fillmore East), but few of the bands who thought they could back in the 70s were actually right.

not_the_dj

english_bob said:

strumjoughlamps said:

not_the_dj said:

Lots of ones I could repeat from previous post, so I'll go with:

Ani DiFranco - Living in Clip (captures a great period her career)
 

I have this its a great album although I cannot listen to it all in one go

I've never heard it, but I do have So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter which is also excellent, if a little dated with the post-9/11, anti-Bush protest song "Self-Evident". My ex-wife bought it, having liked the earlier punk-folk stuff and hated it- the songs have all been reworked by the band- keys, sax, trumpet, upright bass etc, and it's pretty jazzy.

Living in Clip features mostly just the guitar/bass/drums touring line-ups, before the horns and stuff. Much better IMO. 

And certainly no annoying xylophone like on 'live at babeville'

rlw

JoBo - Live at the Greek

Rolling Stones - Get yer ya ya's out