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

thecolourbox

Black Math (Live from Blackpool Tower) - The White Stripes. Everything I love about that band is in that track.

Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down (Live from Wolves Civic) - the Raconteurs. I was at the gig

Dink's Song (Live from Sine) - Jeff Buckley. Just on another planet, one man and a guitar made that noise. BAsically anything off that album though

Brighton Rock, live from anywhere, always amazing - Brian May

White Sumer/Black Mountain Slide, live from Royal Albert Hall - Jimmy Page

Funkfingers

HarrySeven said:

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

I see your MC5 reference and raise you Sonic’s Rendezvous Band. (Still need time to single out the most representative song.)

Other nominations under consideration:

Zappa, Rory, Talking Heads (1980/81 tour 10-piece line-up), Primus, Thommo, Allmans or Mule, the less sloppy moments of The Rolling Stones and the Coda LP version of “I Can’t Quit You Babe” by Led Zeppelin.

inthesky729

Telegraph Road off of Dire Straits' Alchemy album has to be up there for me - peak DS before they went too far down the 'how many synths, pedal steels and saxophones can we shoehorn in to every song' excess of Brothers in Arms onwards 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI

HAL9000

https://youtu.be/JWu6N6joIUg

veldt666

Live in the air age: Be Bop Deluxe. 1977.

HarrySeven

veldt666 said:

Live in the air age: Be Bop Deluxe. 1977.

Spot-on!

mikem8634

The Sound - In The Hothouse

David Bowie ~ Panic In Detroit (Live - 1974)  - love the Earl Slick guitar solo

The Chameleons - Live Nov 1984 London, Camden Palace

donbot

Think I’ll drop a couple in here...
Yngwie’s Live in Leningrad
The live half of Pink Floyd’s Pulse
SRV Live Alive.
Oh and the already mentioned Live after Death.
No individual tracks, they’re all just bloody good albums IMO.

I forgot Devin! Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Outstanding! 

downbytheriver

maltingsaudio said:

Runrig Loch Lomond from BBC Sessions

Malcolm Jones - best guitarist that no one has heard of. 

p90fool

Jimi Hendrix - Who Knows, from Band of Gypsys

The Ramones - Pinhead, from It's Alive. 

There are obviously loads of others in between those two extremes, but those are two where I definitely kept lifting the needle and played them over and over again.

english_bob

p90fool said:

Jimi Hendrix - Who Knows, from Band of Gypsys

Doodle-oodle doodle doodle-oodle doo doo.

Nope.

HarrySeven

mikem8634 said:

The Chameleons - Live Nov 1984 London, Camden Palace

Oh, yes!

Criminally underrated, brilliant band.

mikem8634

Portishead - Glory box (Roseland NYC) - Beautiful even though the solo is apparently ironic

The Byrds - Lover of the Bayou - Clarence White is amazing! His timing. His tone - just wow

Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (Live Session) - Wow but not sure about the solo

Lenny Kravitz, Always On The Run - That riff! That other riff! That band! Damn!

bbill335

White Denim In Person. A band that simply do not let up.

Mr_Claw

Pink Floyd Echoes at Pompeii. If an alien came down from space and asked what electric guitar was, I'd say: it's *this* (after they got their hearing back).

Also this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCpUZVyXgg

mikem8634

HarrySeven said:

mikem8634 said:

The Chameleons - Live Nov 1984 London, Camden Palace

Oh, yes!

Criminally underrated, brilliant band.

So true.

I read this description of Joy Division yesterday -

“To me, the best bands make a single noise and it’s not about slickness or tightness per se, it’s a unified feeling, a oneness"

And it struck me as a very apt description of The Chameleons, even though offstage it was quite the opposite.

mikem8634

maltingsaudio said:

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

Have a wiz for that.

And anything from Stop Making Sense

mikem8634

Prince and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"  - just Prince

mikem8634

Houndmouth - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - Sedona is a great song and their version of Runaround Sue is just joyous

english_bob

bbill335 said:

White Denim In Person. A band that simply do not let up.

I really like White Denim. I kinda miss the more proggy stuff they did around the time of D and Corsicana Lemonade, before Austin Jenkins and Josh Block left, but they're still sofuckinggood.