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Top five live Rock And Roll Albums

This has probably been done done before but here goes my top five
1 The Allman Brothers Band Fillmore East
2 Derek and the Dominos Live at The Filmore East
3 Humble Pie Live at The Fillmore East
4 The Who Live At Leeds
5 The Rolling Stones Get Your Ya Ya's Out
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tedag
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Iron Maiden - Live after death
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore East

Deep Purple - Made in Japan
The Micheal Schenker Group - One Night in Budokan
Little Feat - Waiting on Columbus
Todays favorite isThe J Geils Band - Live Full House.
Probably really in my top 10 but it is the release date anniversary today so it makes my top"5"


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Lots of great nominees, some of which will be duplicated here. I don't know that these are "the" best live R & R albums, but they'll do for starters.

- The Band: Live At The Academy Of Music 1971. A great boxset.

- Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood. Dylan is on fire (his first tour in eight years), absolutely spitting out the lyrics. NO band other than The Band could keep up with him. Petty & The Heartbreakers? Weak. The Grateful Dead? Lame. One show I really regret missing was Dylan & The Hawks at The San Jose Civic Auditorium in late '65. I have two friends who were there, the rat b*st*ards. The little I had then heard from him left me bewildered.

- Dave Edmunds: I Hear You Rockin'. For my money, just about the best practitioner of pure American Rock 'n' Roll there has ever been.

- Rockpile: any of their bootlegged recordings. For my money (what I have left from above ;-), just about the best pure American Rock 'n' Roll band there has ever been. Not "American" Rock 'n' Roll band, "American Rock 'n' Roll" band.

- Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks: Where's The Money?".

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Average White Band - Person to Person - wow that is a great live set. The band were at their best and Steve Ferrone was grooving. I saw them on that tour.

Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination Live (incredible energy)

Rush Exit Stage Left (at their peak)

J.J. Cale Live

Huey Lewis & the News Live at 25

Muddy Waters Live Newport

Police Certifiable

ACDC Live at River Plate

Tom Petty &HB Live Soundstage Chicago

B B King Live at Regal

John Lee Hooker Cafe am go go

SRV Live at Carnegie Hall

RHCP Live at Slane Castle

Maceo Parker Roots & Grooves 

Frank Sinatra Live at the Sands

James Brown Live at the Apollo
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gosta
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Some more

Beck, Bogert & Appice - Live in Japan
Amazing Rythm Aces - Live in America
Jackson Browne - Running on empty
Roger Waters - In the flesh
David Bowie - A reality tour
Alice in Chains - MTV acoustic
Muse - H.A.R.P.  

Nice to find lots of votes for Free and Little Feat!
Thanks to MTV for all the classics.

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Waiting for Columbus   In terms of sound quality and performance this  
  the best Live R+R album ever made IMHO
Live at Leeds  (RT's Favorite band, "now they were art!")
Allmans live at the Fillmore East  The best Live documentary of Duane's 
  magical slide technique.
Live at the Roxy and Elsewhere (the best Zappa band IMHO)
At Folsum Prison (the sparks fly!)
Massey Hall 1971 
Rank  (  Morrissey and Marr would never reach these heights on their 
  own.)
RT Live at the Rockpalast.  (The greatest living songwriter at the height 
  of his career.)
Live Rust  (played very very loud, 105 db anyway.) 
Shadows and Light. What can you say about this band, Pat and Jaco!!
The High Road. (Someone finally recorded Roxy Music correctly, WOW)
David Live (The Thin White Duke strikes back!)
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