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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A few more....

ROME: THE NATIONAL LIVE IN ROME

LUCINDA WILLIAMS LIVE AT THE FILLMORE

DIANE KRALL LIVE IN PARIS

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: BLAZING AWAY

RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO LIVE AT THE BOHEMIAN CAVERNS

and yes...

the usual suspects: THE ALLMAN BROS. LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST;

THE TALKING HEADS: STOP MAKING SENSE;

THE ROLLING STONES: GET YER YA-YAS OUT!

Is that ten? Oh well...

Derek and the Dominoes Live. Amazing musicianship from all but Clapton really shines.

Lots of great albums! The sicko in me wants to add Mothers of Invention Fillmore East - June 1971. 

So it's 3am and I'm compiling this list for you.  Using Amazon Music I have this playlist called "Bad Ass Rock n Roll"  Listening to some of my favorite Live tracks on my Sony MDR-1000X wireless headphones so as to not wake-up you-know-who....

UFO - Strangers in the Night (2008 Remaster)= If you just want to p-off the neighbors and/or blow-up your speakers.devil  Purest form of freakin' loud hard rock concert.  This is the definition of Head Banging music.  Take a couple bong hitssurprise and crank up those Klipsh Heritage speakers.  I can't begin to tell you how many times I've air-guitar'd to this album...

"they're changin' the mic, can I fill-in..."  Turn UP the volume and then skip to "this is something called 'Let it Roll"...then "Too Hot to Handle followed by "Shoot Shoot"

Check this album out on Wiki....Michael Shenker, opening for Kiss, pretty interesting history to this album.

Led Zeppelin (duh, see the shirt) The Song Remains the Same -  (this movie is why I bought a Sony A9G) some of the coolest behind the scenes clips ever!  I love that dude running from security and the 2 guys who snuck in the loading dock.  But my personal fave is "Since I've Been Loving You"

Tom Petty Pack Up the Plantatio - "Breakdown" - "your gonna put me out of a job!" This song always gives me goosebumps.  I think about what it must be, as a musician/songwriter, to play a concert and have the crowd sing your song back to you. 

Kiss Alive - "I Wanna Rock n Roll all Night and Party Every Day" it's the kegger party anthem!

Bob Seger Live Bullet If you don't know the the words to "Turn the Page" there's something wrong with you.  "with the echo from the amplifiers ringing in your head"

Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced 'Leh-'Nerd 'Skin-'Nerd has some good live tracks like 19 minute "Free Bird".  I'm partial to "Simple Man".

AC/DC Live at River Plate test your subs with "Thunderstruck".

Queen On Fire: Live at the Bowl - personally I prefer "Fat Bottom Girls" 

just sayin...wink

and lastly because it's now 4:41am and I'm going back to bed...

The J. Geils Band Live: Blow Your Face Out "Love comes once and you better grab it fast because some times the love you grab ain't gonna last"