Your Favourite (Guitar-Driven) Live Recording(s)

HarrySeven

A post elsewhere re. MC5 made me think about my fave guitar-driven live tracks, whether obscure or thoroughly mainstream.

My top 10 (well, 11 actually, because I couldn’t narrow it down) would be (in no particular order):

*Motorhead: Bomber - No Sleep ‘Till Hammersmith, 1981

*MC5: Looking At You - Tartar Field, Detroit, 1970

*Neil Young: Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - Weld, 1991

*Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love - RAH, 1970

*Free: All Right Now - Doing Their Thing, 1970

*The Who: Can’t Explain - Live At Leeds, 1970

*The Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop - It’s Alive, 1977 (1979)

*The Wasps: Can’t Wait For ‘78 - Live At The Vortex, 1977

*The Art Attacks: Animal Bondage - Live At The Vortex, 1977

*Ultravox!: Young Savage - Live Retro (EP), The Marquee, 1977 (1978)

*U2: Cry/The Electric Co. - (Fire 7” double pack) Live in Boston, 06.03.81

RandallFlagg

• The Cult - 83rd Dream (Live at the Lyceum 1984)
• New Model Army - Whirlwind (Live 1991 from Raw Melody Men)
• The Jam - Back In My Arms Again (Live at the 100 Club 1977 B-Side to Modern World single)
• Sex Pistols - Belsen Was A Gas (Live Winterland Ballroom San Francisco 1977)
• Neil Young - Cortez The Killer (Live 1991 Weld album)
• U2 - Fire/I Threw A Brick Threw A Window/A Day Without Me (Live in Werchter 1982 New Year's Day EP single B sides)
• Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song [Live 1972 from How The West Was Won)

Great live guitar tracks appear to have finished being recorded in the early 90s for me! There must be something since but nothing springs to mind instantly.

RandallFlagg

Here's a later one:

Prince - Te Amo Corazon/Fury/Purple Rain/Let's Go Crazy (Live at The Brits 2006)

Treewig1

Ten Years After - Slow Blues in C, I’m Going Home, Classical Thing
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Brian Setzer - Hepcat Gets the Blues
Marty McFly - Johnny B Goode

TTBZ

RATM live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. Bulls on Parade starts so heavy on that recording

downbytheriver

Made in Japan. Thank you for listening

andy1839

I don't know whether it qualifies as live, but the Albert King with SRV In Session album is something I can listen to again and again from start to finish.

tone1

If you want blood... AC/DC 

richardhomer

John Martyn - Philentropy (pretty much the whole album)

Eric Clapton - Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright from Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary concert

Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like I Do? (FCA)

Santana - Europa (Moonflower album)

Jeff Beck - Cause We Ended as Lovers (Secret Policeman’s Ball)

TheBigDipper

This is going to take some thought, but off the top of my head, Richie Blackmores playing on Made In Japan is up there, as is Steve Howes playing all over Yessongs. The one that really sticks in my head (turned up, obv.) is Robert Fripp and John Wetton on the USA album - esp. Larks Tongues In Aspic Part 2 at the start.

maltingsaudio

Jan Ackerman Focus Live at the Rainbow bum note in Sylvia is glorious!
Runrig Loch Lomond from BBC Sessions
Any track from the Last Waltz

Flanging_Fred

Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Cardiacs - All that glitters is a mares nest
Iron Maiden - Live after Death
ACDC - If you want Blood
UFO - Strangers in the Night

SPECTRUM001

Hmmm...a nice way to start the day !

Pink Floyd - Tour 72 (1972 bootleg unveiling DSOTM; with the guitar version of On The Run)

The Spacemen 3 - Performance (Amsterdam 1988)

The Wooden Shjips - Shjips in the Night (San Francisco 2018)

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (one of the best LPs from 1979)

The MC5 - Tartar Field (1970)

Fairport Convention - House Full (LA, 1970)

Joy Division - Still (from 1980, their final show)

Devo - Paris 1978 (for French TV - a particularly good recording, and especially the human metronome - Alan Myers)

stickyfiddle

U2 Live at Slane Castle in 2001

Stuckfast

SPECTRUM001 said:

Devo - Paris 1978 (for French TV - a particularly good recording, and especially the human metronome - Alan Myers)

Good choice -- there was briefly an amazing Devo show from Bristol on Youtube but I can't find it.

Also:

The Only Ones Live (the one on Mau Mau Records with the big photo of Peter Perrett's face) -- just awesome. John Perry sounds like his amp is actually on fire.



The Byrds Live At The Fillmore 1969 (with Clarence White on top form)

blobb

There's a brilliant Ozrics video on youtube. It was filmed for Italian TV but was lost and turned up when a copy of it was found via a home video recording. They are on a stage in front of an old castle in Rome and as night falls the light show starts up and bingo! Anyway, Ozric Tentacles at Forte Prenestino....

blobb

and (as far away from space rock as possible really) this little obscure gem, if you just want one live track.

SPUD Live in Dublin, support for Thin Lizzy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXOp4vmczM4

Redlester

Anything with Bert Jansch really, but there's a BBC live 60th Birthday session on YT and his playing and singing was really effective and emotive around that time. Defiitely riding the crest of a popularity wave at that time, and it showed.  

guitars4you

Treewig1 said:

Ten Years After - Slow Blues in C, I’m Going Home, Classical Thing

good call on TYA - I have a bootleg live album from Holland and it has been played many many times - Great band behind him as well 

EricTheWeary

The one that always comes to mind is ACDC Live From the Atlantic Studios. But almost any live Scott era ACDC works for me although I'm not normally a huge accadacca fanboy. 

 

When I was in my teens my brother gave me a compilation guitar album, I think this was the only live track and I just thought it was stunning. Probably about another ten years before I realised it was slide.    




And although I listen to a lot of reggae the live album was never a really big thing in that genre although his Bobness left us with some very fine examples:



 

Philly_Q

I can't really pick out individual tracks (without poring over track listings), but album-wise:

Robin Trower - Live

Good Rats - Live at Last

Mountain - Twin Peaks

Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore

Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes and World Wide Live

Wishbone Ash - many of their many live albums

Rush - nearly all of their many live albums

Kansas - Two for the Show