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Best Live Recording on LP

Someone started an interesting thread about generating a list of great live recordings on CD. However, that is the wrong type of media for my system. (My turntable sounds much better than my CD player).

Therefore, please suggest some really great live recordings on LP. (I listen to Rock mostly and some Jazz.)

Here are a couple of recordings (on LP) that did not appear on that list in the above mentioned thread, that I think have merit.

"Jazz at the Pawnshop" on the Propious (sic) label.

Louis Armstrong's "St. James Infirmary" on 12"/45rpm reissue on the Classic label (I think).

Neil Young's "Live Rust" on Japanese import.

Also, Guys (and Gals), here is a question for you: Is it worth paying the extra money for the 12"/45rpm version of Bill Evans "Waltz for Debbie"? Or does the 180g version sound nearly as good?
kurt_tank
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atmasphere
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The BBC recorded the Pink Floyd back in the early 70s, with a 2-mike Decca stereo tree. The recording is a spectacular documentation of a band playing- a band that happens to be Pink Floyd at (IMO) the peak of their creative career.

Finding the original BBC LPs is challenging, to say the least. It was reissued as a bootleg, under the name 'Screaming Pink Abdabs', The BBC Sessions.

The album is live as there is no over-dubbing or effects added later, but there is not a live audience. IMO easily the best sounding Pink Floyd out there, if realism has anything to do with it...
madfloyd
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Another vote for Live in Gdansk.
maineiac
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Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6znd7ud6Cw8
12ax7_2008
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Frampton Comes Alive
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Haven't heard the vinyl version of Dylan's "Bootleg Series Vol. 5 Bob Dylan 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue" but the CD version is electrifying. There is a vinyl version. Can't imagine it would lose any of the electricity of the CD.

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/B/BO/Bob_Dylan/
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