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Cream.
I assume they must have been brilliant live, from their reputation - although I'm far too young to have seen them. For many years I've had 'Strange Brew - The Very Best Of Cream' and like most of it, but even on that there are a couple of duff tracks. I found Disraeli Gears in a charity shop a couple of weeks ago... and it's going back. Apart from the four tracks that are on Strange Brew (and one of those is a slightly duff one, SWLABR), the rest of it is total drivel - it sounds like a band trying to come up with something worth recording, failing and releasing the result anyway.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
UFO and Thin Lizzy.
Both best known for classic live albums which sound way, way better than the studio versions of those songs (even if there's debate about how live the live stuff actually is).
Both also had a severe lack of good material outside their better known songs. Some killer, lots of filler.
And one band that caught me by surprise was Shed Seven. I saw them at T in the park one year opening the stage for the day. I was never a big fan although they have some decent songs. They absolutely kick arse live.
I saw the Alarm a week or two ago. Never really been into them, but I went with a friend who is a huge fan. Definitely better live than the studio stuff.
They had Then Jerico supporting them. Their frontman pranced onto the stage at the beginning of their set and fell over. Seriously funny. No-one had posted in on Youtube when I looked though.
I've got the bootleg from the film reels (so have a lot of others!), they played for way longer than shown on "Let it Be" doing a couple of versions of the songs and it's all great