Best Live Albums Ever (2 Viewers)

I can tell I already like you. LOL. :9: :plus-un2:

FREE RANDY BLYTHE!

I've been lucky enough to see them a few times around when Ashes and Sacrament came out. Sweet shows. Getting too old now it seems though as the kids on the floor no longer know proper concert/mosh etiquette.
 
Check last page. Randy Rhoads was the man! Zakk Wylde isn't too far behind. Live and Loud for Zakk, Tribute for Randy. Both Mr Crowley's are goosebump inducing. And Rhoads on Believer rocks!

I haven't listened to that one, but thanks for that recommendation, will remember it if I see that record in store:9:
 
Not really adding anything new, just seconding the motions on Thin Lizzy, Allman Brothers at Filmore East, Genesis: Live, and The Who: Live at Leeds.

On second thought, I will add one, though I know many Yes fans who complain about some of the performances on it as somewhat sloppy. Yessongs has been one of my favorite albums since I was very young. There are a few of their songs (Siberian Khatru comes to mind right away) where I prefer the Yessongs version to the studio one.

And just to throw it out there, switching genres wildly, the live performance of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" from the mid 60's with Tebaldi, Corelli, and Bastianini is better than any studio recording of it I've ever heard. Just blows me away when I hear it.
 
Ozzy- Speak of the Devil. I forgot just how killer this album was. Rudy Sarzo absolutely kills the bass on this CD. Ozzy in his prime, imo.

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Maiden Japan. Another great live album! One of my favorites.

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More I forgot on first post

My first James Brown record, and mods forgive me if you're offended by the name, I apologize.
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I found this old BB King cd for 5 dollars a while back, that was well spent as this is classic King. He always sounded better live anyway, lots of power in this recording
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The Stones only good live album. Such a shame they refuse to release any live shows from the 69-71 tours, Mick Taylor made a world of difference in that band.
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Forget Bowie's "Motion Picture" Ziggy live album, this is all you need, and sounds way better.
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I can't believe no one mentioned this either, not a big fan of Ozzy but this record is amazing
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I love live albums to death. If I had to pick between a live album or a greatest hits, I'd get the live record any day of the week cause that's how you judge a band, and sometimes more often than not; the live album is better than the studio recording.
Thats how you USED to judge a band. Now a days with ProTools, and engineering, it doesnt matter how bad it is, they can still make it sound great or flawless in the mix. used to, bands would plug and play. Thats no longer the norm. They plug into a PA and a sound engineer does the work. SO in actuality, you dont even know if they lipsync the notes. Because they very well could and no one would know. Ozzy live playing "the wizard" is so fake its pathetic. Hes not even blowing into the harmonica. otherwise youd see him worn out. Half what you think you see and hear is not real. or not in real-time I should say.Unless its an up and coming band. Thats different. Established though? Well.....
 
IIRC, wasn't Speak of the Devil quickly recorded in NY at the Ritz as apart of some deal Ozzy made with old Black Sabbath manager and -current father and father-in-law Don Alden that ended their partnership? (I've heard Don Alden never was really fond of Ozzy's musical abilities as far back as mid-70's after becoming Sabbath's manager after endless lawsuits from former management groups and I've heard rumors Alden was connected to some pretty shady London underworld types like Kray Brothers, and NY's Gambino crime family in the 60's like when he threatened Robert Stigwood, Cream's manager, by dangling him from a 4-story building for trying to lure Small Faces away from one of his labels.

I hate to be a year and half late mentioning this, but original Live at Leeds didn't include any songs from Tommy, other then Townshend introducing songs like A Quick One While He's Away as "Tommy's Parents" and maybe Sparks. The band,by then had grown tired of touring Tommy for over a year and wanted to showcase songs they hadn't played live for years and were as completely separate from Tommy because Townsend's concepts were getting bigger, deeper and more complex philosophically as he began toying with enormous multi-media concept Lifehouse that he labeled "Brave New World in rock terms"---a future dystopian society where people live in collective communities called "Grids" wore plastic lifesuits and were force-fed music and entertainment intravenously similar to massive Matrix-hard drive except for scattered few who lived outside grid range, including a farmer-***-roadie named Bobby, who discovers outlawed rock music can be heard at a place called the "Lifehouse". Townshend's ultimate aim in Lifehouse was to say that whatever happens, rock n' roll will save the world.
 
Here's my list of top live rock albums:
Allman Brothers-Live At The Fillmore (enough said)
Fleetwood Mac-Live At the Boston Tea Party (3 CD set with some repetition of songs; great jamming, just skip the Jeremy Spencer covers of Elmore James and 50s songs)
Deep Purple-In Concert 1970-1972 Part One features great jams of Child In Time and Hard Road, Disc 2 is essentially Machine Head live)

Others that I enjoy:
Ten Years After-Undead Great work by Alvin Lee & co.
Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club 1963 His only live performance playing at a black club and avoiding pop standards. With King Curtis on sax.
The Who-Live At Leeds
Cream-Live, Vol. 1 Clapton lets loose on Sweet Wine
Humble Pie-Rockin' The Fillmore Peter Frampton & Steve Marriott
Lynyrd Skynyrd-One More From The Road
Pink Floyd
Any of the various bootlegs predating Dark Side Of The Moon (Roger Waters with a gong)


 
Obviously, I love Tribute, but I think Speak of the Devil was a very under appreciated album. Brad Gillis completely melts my face and gives me goosebumps with his Snowblind and NIB renditions. Highly underrated IMO...Ozzy has actually had this album removed from his North American catalog (factoid courtesy of Wikipedia)
 

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