Top 10 Live Albums


What are your top 10 live albums?

Mine in no particular order are:

1.  Live at the Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers

2. Band of Gypsies - Jimi Hendrix 

3.  Live at Leeds - The Who

4.  Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that Never Ends - Emerson, Lake and Palmer 

5.  Skull and Roses - the Grateful Dead 

6. Live Rust - Neil Young

7. Listener Supported - Dave Matthews Band

8. Live in Japan - Deep Purple

9.  Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live - Jeff Beck

10.  The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin 

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I have 2 I listen to regularly as I am not a live album aficionado- sinatra at the sands and rust never sleeps.

Joan Baez in Concert, V1 and V2

And on a completely different note, the first full length stereo recording still extant:

Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto, The Emperor, performed in Berlin during an air raid, by Gieseking and conducted by Artur Rother, or Varese Sarband.

An historical note: I understand that the Telefunken tape recorder was ’liberated’ and shipped to the USA for reverse engineering, which formed the backbone of the modern recording industry. But I could be wrong.

2 live sides of Eat a Peach, my favorite Duane solos, phenomenal range and emotion